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Glenn Kenny. The preternaturally skilled film critic and journalist not only runs a vital movie blog, but he also shows up in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience, a non-porn film featuring porn star Sasha Grey as a modern-day high-priced escort in Manhattan. (I reviewed it here.) Kenny plays a creepy message board writer famous for "reviewing" the escorts he uses, and he's just about the creepiest, most slimy guy imaginable: Considering it's his first movie role, and Soderbergh picked him out specifically, you have to wonder what the director really thinks about the guy. Anyway, he interviewed Grey for The Daily Beast, and it's kind of amazing how every single person who interviews Grey these days comes away completely in love with her. (This is one of the main points of the film, it's worth noting.) I'd never seen a Sasha Grey porn film, so I assumed they were these erudite, somewhat subversive films that displayed her subtle, quiet artistry. This does not turn out to be the case. (Needless to say, NSFW.)