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Joker takes the top prize at Venice Film Festival!

Posted 7 years ago

After wowing critics at an early screening in L.A. (myself included), JOKER did the same at the Venice Film Festival, garnering an 8-minute standing ovation and stirring up more buzz for the film, directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin...

Will Smith signs up to hunt down superpowered kids in Brilliance

Posted 7 years ago

Will Smith is going to have trouble finding time to shoot some b-ball outside of school on account of the fact that his Hollywood dance card is overflowing with upcoming projects. In fact, it was just two days ago when...

Night Hunter (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: When a mentally impaired serial abductor/rapist/murderer is caught by a grizzled police detective, his spree of crimes mysteriously continues. Is he receiving help from the outside world or somehow conducting the crimes behind bars himself? REVIEW: It’s never a...

Scorsese recreated a Goodfellas scene to test The Irishman’s de-aging tech

Posted 7 years ago

In about two months audiences will finally get to see THE IRISHMAN, a movie that’s been years in the making from director Martin Scorsese. The filmmaker was able to make this long-gestating project come to life with the use of...

Joaquin Phoenix on how losing weight affected his psychology for Joker

Posted 7 years ago

The reviews for JOKER are in (including our own), and the verdict is that star Joaquin Phoenix gives one of the best performances of the year, and an Oscar nomination is all but assured at this point. It became clear...

TV Review: Godfather of Harlem

Posted 7 years ago

Synopsis: Godfather Of Harlem tells the true story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the...

Edgar Wright wraps principal photography on Last Night in Soho

Posted 7 years ago

An Edgar Wright film is always something to look forward to in my book, and his latest took another step forward as the director announced on Twitter that he has now wrapped main-unit photography on LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. Wright...

Dave Bautista would be game to play Clayface for a Batman movie

Posted 7 years ago

Ever since it was announced that filmmaker Todd Phillips was teaming up with Joaquin Phoenix for a more grounded take on the Joker, I've been busy making a mental list of other DC villains that could benefit from having their own...

Joker director Todd Phillips describes the origin story as a “slow burn”

Posted 7 years ago

Ever since the announcement that it was being made, people knew to expect something different from director Todd Phillips’ unique Joker origin story – which is simply titled, JOKER. Made with a relatively low budget for a comic book movie (a...

New Joker trailer is here to make sure you remember to smile

Posted 7 years ago

Surely no one knew what to think when it was announced that Todd Phillips, the director of THE HANGOVER, was tackling a gritty, standalone origin story of the Joker, which would eventually cast Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role. But...

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