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The number one thing many film festival movies struggle with is tone. For whatever reason so many independent movies try to be multiple things at once: a comedy, a drama, an inspirational touching piece of heartfelt humor with sweeping vistas and at least two celebrities you recognize from other things.

Clark Gregg 's 2008 Choke may be the lesser known of the cinematic world's big screen Chuck Palahniuk adaptations , but the multi-hyphenate's directorial debut adeptly translated the author's trademark black humor to the screen without a hitch.

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What It's About: A postgrad poet works at a sex shop and gets mentored by a recluse writer.

On Sunday morning, Joss Whedon and the cast of his Shakespeare adaptation, Much Ado About Nothing , took the stage at WonderCon .