Review: Joker (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

Read Paul Shirey's take HERE! PLOT: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, often bullied man living in squalor with this mother (Frances Conroy) in Gotham City. As the city’s gulf between the haves and have nots widens, Fleck’s fragile...

Todd Phillips says Joker was written specifically for Joaquin Phoenix

Posted 7 years ago

After premiering at TIFF last week JOKER has certainly caused a lot of conversation online and received a wide array of reactions, but there is one aspect about it that seems to be indisputable: Joaquin Phoenix totally owns in the lead...

Todd Phillips says Phoenix’s Joker won’t crossover with Pattinson’s Batman

Posted 7 years ago

Todd Phillips' JOKER has been receiving some major buzz lately, especially after taking the top prize at the Venice Film Festival where it debuted, and there has been plenty of awards chatter surrounding Joaquin Phoenix's performance. At the end of...

Eddie Redmayne very much wants to play The Riddler on the big screen

Posted 7 years ago

As fun as I’m sure it is getting to don a suit and pretend to fly around punching meteors and bad guys, deep down inside every actor must secretly be itching to play one of the bad guys themselves. In the world...

Christian Bale gives thoughts on Phoenix as Joker and Pattinson as Batman

Posted 7 years ago

Christian Bale had his time with the cape and cowl as Batman from 2005-2012 in Christopher Nolan’s THE DARK KNIGHT trilogy, so he knows just as well as anyone what it’s like to step into both the suit and the...

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...

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...

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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