Douglas Hodge

Date of Birth

1960-02-25

Place of Birth

Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

Known for

Robin Hood, Vanity Fair, The Descent: Part 2, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, The Trial

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Joker 2: Todd Phillips reportedly returns to co-write script

Posted 5 years ago

Even close to two years after its release, I'm still a little flabbergasted at just how well Joker performed. The Todd Phillips directed film starred Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, the man who would become the Clown Prince of Crime,...

Quentin Tarantino calls Joker movie “one note” and praises talk show scene

Posted 5 years ago

It's always interesting to hear what great directors have to say about films that have also garnered high praise. Todd Phillips Joker was met with a polarizing response from some critics but that didn't stop the film from scoring big...

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The Best Joker Performances So Far

Posted 5 years ago

With this weekend’s release of Joker, Joaquin Phoenix joins the esteemed list of actors who have played Batman’s nemesis over the years. The Joker is one of the most unique and memorable bad guys in any media and each actor...

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David Fincher believes Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker betrayed the mentally ill

Posted 6 years ago

It's been over a year and Joaquin Phoenix's JOKER is still making headlines. The one-billion-dollar grossing Oscar winner came up as a brief topic of discussion in a recent interview where David Fincher (MINDHUNTER) was discussing his upcoming MANK series....

Joker was the U.K.’s most complained about film of 2019

Posted 6 years ago

It looks like the people of the U.K. were not here for Todd Phillips' 2019 film, JOKER. The film was a bit polarizing in the States but it still proved to be a box office success and earned Joaquin Phoenix...

Top 5 Movie Mistakes – Joker

Posted 6 years ago

This time on Top 5 Movie Mistakes we're taking a look at the controversial, hugely successful and Oscar-winning film: JOKER (buy it here). Our first entire film dedicated wholly to the clown prince of crime gave us what might have...

Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker receives a disturbingly detailed statue

Posted 6 years ago

JOKER made over $1 billion worldwide at the box-office; let that sink in a bit, and now the Clown Prince of Crime is looking to take a few more (to put it mildly) of your hard-earned dollars. Blitzway and Prime...

Russian history gets funny in the trailer for The Great with Elle Fanning

Posted 6 years ago

Ah, there's nothing like the smell of an aristocracy on fire, and thanks to Hulu's THE GREAT, seventeenth century Russia is about to become the subject of a delightfully-clever and biting roast! THE GREAT is a satirical, 10-episode comedic drama about...

Warner Bros. releases new featurette which goes behind-the-scenes of Joker

Posted 6 years ago

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that JOKER would become one of the biggest films of 2019, grossing over $1 billion worldwide – not bad for a film which only cost around $60 million to produce. The...

Darren Aronofsky’s Batman was nixed due to casting of Joaquin Phoenix

Posted 6 years ago

Once upon a time, PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM director Darren Aronofsky was hoping to launch his own superhero spectacle for Warner Bros. and DC titled BATMAN: YEAR ONE, based on the classic comic written by Frank Miller with...

What really happened at the ending of Joker?

Posted 6 years ago

Movie endings, they're usually pretty straight forward right? Everything pays off, the main characters learn something, and our heroes ride off into the sunset. Sometimes though, we don't get the typical ending from a movie, we get something much more...

Todd Phillips’ Joker to go on a concert tour this April

Posted 6 years ago

Concert tours for major tentpole franchises aren't exactly new. Both the HARRY POTTER series and HBO's Game of Thrones have taken their musical stylings on a magical mystery tour. Even various STAR WARS films have been shown publicly with a...

The UnPopular Opinion: Joker

Posted 6 years ago

Alex THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column...

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