The film includes visual references to the 1990s animated Batman series, the movies by Schumacher and Tim Burton, as well as to Todd Philips’ explosive 2019 “Joker.” This pastiche of interpretations seems to make a case for Batman as fair game for fair use. Hopefully, legal woes will ...
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If you've seen the smash-hit movie, we want you to vote for the best Joker quotes. This revisionist take on the popular DC villain is filled ...
Using Batman characters and various other Gotham City-related namedrops (within the realm of Fair Use, of course; this is decidedly not an official DC release) to tell the story of a trans awakening and trans visibility, Vera Drew's The People's Joker is a mostly funny movie that also ...
There was concern during the 2019 release of ‘Joker’ that the film would inspire fans to incite violence, which never came to pass. The actual film isn’t particularly shocking or scary, although it does have moments of white-knuckle tension, and Phoenix is excellent at playing a man of...
Even beforeJoaquin Phoenix’s Jokerhit theaters, he’s already captured the public’s imagination. As the only Joker to get a whole movie to himself, no Batmans or Suicide Squads required, Phoenix starred in a deconstructionist piece set in the early 1980s instead of 2019. Retu...
Even still, the movie doesn’t even offer that connective tissue to make Fleck’s inevitable jump from pre-Joker to actual-Joker work. It feels like due to the big IP being handled here, there’s almost a conscious effort by the film’s team to not push things too far with Joker, ...
October 7, 2019 / Leave a comment I don’t even know where to start. Joker absolutely blew me away. This film is unforgettable. Uncompromising. Confronting. It is the only movie I’ve ever seen that made me deeply uncomfortable but still had such a positive effect on me. It is beauti...
Joker: This movie gets too much credence for being a "non-trivial" superhero film. I find it quite derivative of Taxi Driver, and the ending sequence felt like a really cheap tie in to Batman. On the other hand, there were some pretty great monologues and scenes in this film - Joaquin...
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