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A debilitative cinematic disorder we can call ‘the quirk-riddled indie dramedy’ has gnawed at the edges of America’s alternative filmmaking movement for some time now, buoyed by the dreamy stylings of directors such as Miranda July (Me You and Everyone We Know, The Future), Wes Anderson (The Darjeerling Jimited, The Royal Tenenbaums) and Rian Johnson [...]

Superhero movies have a way of sucking the credibility out of Hollywood actors – even those who didn’t have much to begin with. Brandon Routh’s career stocks plummeted after donning the undies-outside-your-pants-look in the dreadful Superman Returns (2006). Billy Zane is still red in the face from squeezing into the purple suit in The Phantom [...]

Fans of Seth Rogen are likely to be both confounded and morbidly intrigued by his bitterly amusing performance in Observe and Report, which in one fell swoop moves the cuddly actor’s oeuvre from inoffensive stoner shtick to jet-black bad-ass comedy, lugging with it a feeling that things will never be quite the same again. Writer/director [...]