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What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

Full disclosure: I am a sucker for Parker Posey. There's something about her impish grin and the social ineptitude of her characters that makes me heart everything she's in. So I was psyched to see her in this Zoe Cassavetes film about Nora, an anxiety-riddled 30-ish hotel guest relations expert who has horrible luck with men, until a sexy Parisian comes along and rocks her world. Posey is equal parts funny and vulnerable, and it was great to see her in a role that showed off her acting chops. French actor Melvil Poupaud totally kills it as Julian. He inhabits the role well, oozing that French je ne sais quoi, and it doesn't hurt that the dude is hot. Like "we would've been fine with his scenes if he'd just read the phone book" hot.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend.

After enormous amounts of hype, and a painful development process that lasted years and years, and seemed to involve the hiring and firing of pretty much everybody in Hollywood, the new Superman film is finally here. The creative team who ended up working on it are Bryan Singer as director (who's got the comic-book-to-movie props in his resume - albeit for the other comic company - having directed the first two X-Men movies), "unknown" Brandon Routh as Superman, practically unknown Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane, well-known Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, and a bunch of famous folks rounding out the cast, including Parker Posey, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, and even a computer-resurrected Marlon Brando. I was also pleased to note La Femme Nikita herself, Peta Wilson, in a small role. And hey, is that Cyclops as Lois Lane's boyfriend?! It is! It's James Marsden! That's just wrong. Marvel and DC shouldn't mix like that. It could cause some kind of...crisis.