Mr. Payback’ might not have set the box office alight, but it did at least try to pioneer a new form of entertainment.

Robert Askins’s brilliantly discomfiting comedy about the sordid but humane goings-on in the youth ministry of a suburban ...

Thornton stars as the eccentric political strategist Richard Jemmons, who works alongside the spokeswoman Daisy Green ( Maura Tierney) and the spinster Howard Ferguson ( Paul Guilfoyle) to divert the ...