Tag: Joaquin Phoenix
Mescal/Pascal: Gladiator II, Or: The Return of the Gladiator Sausage Party Arrives at Yet Another Timely Moment in U.S. Political History
When Gladiator arrived in theaters in May of 2000, there was about to be a changing of the guard in U.S. politics. That is to [Read More…]
On Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn as An Exemplification of Being a Poverty/Mental Illness Tourist
While people have chosen to lambast Joker: Folie à Deux for all the wrong reasons (mainly because it doesn’t fit in any way with the [Read More…]
Bad Romance: Joker: Folie à Deux Shows That Projection in Relationships Always Results in Dashed Expectations
In many ways, the real reason the sequel to Joker is called Joker: Folie à Deux has little to do with a shared delusion between [Read More…]
Joker: Folie à Deux: The Symbol Becomes More Powerful Than the Real Person Behind It
It was Todd Phillips himself who said that Joker was never intended to have a sequel. In many regards, that’s not what Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
Quel Choc: Napoleon Falls Short
Of all the numerous and controversial French political figures, it is Napoleon Bonaparte who remains foremost in the minds of the French and non-French alike. [Read More…]
Don’t Be Afraid of Beau Is Afraid—Unless the Overbearing Jewish Mother Trope Is Your Worst Nightmare
As one of those movies that has so much psychological buildup surrounding it before one even goes into the theater (or rather, if one goes [Read More…]
Writing Is My Erection: Quills
While the Marquis de Sade’s life needs no great embellishment to make it interesting, it certainly benefited from the creative liberties of Philip Kaufman’s 2000 [Read More…]
Joker: The Most Offensive White People Movie at the Oscars Since La La Land
Let us go back to a simpler time. The late summer of 2016. People were still enraged about white male domination, but it hadn’t become [Read More…]
Where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns: Send in Joker
Perhaps because the times of the present are so expectedly nihilistic and void, it only made sense for co-writers Todd Phillips and Scott Silver (who [Read More…]
Woody Allen Explores A Familiar Motif in Irrational Man
While it’s difficult for many to stomach the concept of Woody Allen in the wake of the accusation that wouldn’t go away, those who are [Read More…]
