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The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. There will be a quiz later. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “The Wonderful Problem with Terry Gilliam” — Matt Patches at Playboy profiles an outsider who’s ebbed and flowed with the industry while maintaining his own psychotically magical vision. “At once rebellious and classical, vicious and airy, imaginative yet ready to snap his audience back to harsh realities whenever he damn well pleases, Gilliam is a singular stylist who speaks the blockbuster language with a hallucinogenic cadence. Each of his films — including his latest, The Zero Theorem — feels like the pinnacle of his Gilliamness: oppressed commonfolk fighting “the man” in alternate universes filled with doohickies and creepy ideologies. And settled against Hollywood product, each film feels like a revelation. Idiosyncrasy means box office bombs outweigh the successes — yet he’s never really failed. Not at concertizing dreams, the...