Entertainment

DOWN LOW AND DIRTY

YOU could call Bill Duke’s “Cover” sort of a blaxploita tion riff on “Far From Heaven” by way of Tyler Perry, with Aunjanue Ellis accused of murder after she finds her middle-class Philly hubby in the shower with another man.

“I’m a Christian, not a murderer,” she tells detective Louis Gossett Jr., and it’s at a church support group for wives whose husbands on are on the “down low” with other men where she’s informed that HIV is a “white disease.”

Featuring eyeball-rolling performances by Vivica A. Fox, Patti LaBelle, Clifton Davis and the singularly named Leon, “Cover” would be a candidate for the year’s most unintentionally funny movie so far – if it weren’t also the most homophobic.

Running time: 96 minutes. Rated PG-13 (gay themes and sexuality, profanity). At the Empire, West 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue.