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I saw a matinee of the feverishly hyped film Joker at a megaplex in rural Georgia on the first day of its official release. As we handed our tickets to the small, doughy, middle-aged female theater worker, she demanded to inspect my wife’s purse. (more…)
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A recent viewing of the 2012 movie Maniac remake made me question the unsettling parallels between a man hunting for love and one hunting with murderous intent.
The film is very good if you like a giallo slasher in the style of Dario Argento. Producer of both versions, William Lustig, even worked on the Italian master’s excellent Tenebrae. (more…)
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2019 was the year of the “frustrated-white-loser-living-at-home-with-his-mom” movie. First there was Todd Phillips’ Joker, an origin story of Batman’s most memorable nemesis, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the clown himself. Then came Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, the true story of a Georgia security guard who discovered the Centennial Olympic Park bomb in 1996.
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One of the great things about Heath Ledger’s Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is that he does not have an origin story. (more…)