Joker: Folie à Deux
Joker was the surprise hit of 2019. Not only did it crush the box office, it was released to critical acclaim and 11 Oscar nominations. Needless to say, expectations were…
Read MoreJoker was the surprise hit of 2019. Not only did it crush the box office, it was released to critical acclaim and 11 Oscar nominations. Needless to say, expectations were…
Read MoreMarch is a wasteland for film — the place bad movies go to die after being rejected by the Academy and the box office. Every once in a while,…
Read MoreWelcome to part two of our Oscar picks! Here’s part one if you missed it: Oscars 2020 – Who Should Win? (Part One) Remember, these aren’t the movies that will…
Read MoreAs protests spring up worldwide and economic populism becomes the defining politic of the moment, it was only a matter of time before a film tapped into the zeitgeist. That…
Read MoreNo film in recent memory has been as polarizing as Joker. A scroll through Rotten Tomatoes reveals a spectrum of reactions ranging from the highest praise of the year to…
Read MoreWelcome to part two of our Oscar picks! Here’s part one if you missed it: Oscars 2019 – Who Should Win? (Part One) Remember, these aren’t the movies that will…
Read More“I have known this woman all my life,” Diahann Carroll writes in her autobiography.* “We grew up together in the same neighborhood.” Lest someone might interpret that statement as metaphorical,…
Read MoreCould there be a movie more needed in 2018 than Won’t You Be My Neighbor? As fear and tribalism reach fever pitch, we desperately need a mirror held up to…
Read MoreIn America none of us ever feared that our country would be invaded and we would be subjugated to the will of a foreign country. Even in WWII we were…
Read MoreI’ve noticed that, when it comes to any art form, classification and genre are more important that you would think. We might be at a time when people eschew labels…
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