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Phone Sex Steve Balderson, director of the luridly peculiar and dreamlike cult masterpiece 'FIRECRACKER' is back, though this couldn't be any more different from that motion picture. Less a movie and more an inspired art instillation riffing on a simple concept, 'Phone Sex' demands you pay attention even when what's on offer is pretty minimalist. The concept is simple but deliciously effective. Balderson contacts actors, acquaintances, friends and people he admires and asks them to do one simple thing for him: call his answer phone and describe what they think sexy is. Over the next 95 minutes you get a host of varied characters (including one Ron Jeremy) going into detail about what turns them on. While that might sound like the perfect excuse for a gratuitous feast of vulgarity, the answers you get are surprisingly illuminating, articulate and thoughtful, some very sweet and some very bizarre. It seems everyone has a take on what they think is sexy, something Balderson has cleverly tapped into. 'Phone Sex' creates an intimate confessional where the protagonists can get whatever it is they want to off their chests, a place where there is no such thing as deviance, just plain honesty and understanding. Everyone old enough to understand should immerse themselves in this movie and relish the glorious diversity of human sexuality. - Jeremy Allen
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