Posts Tagged ‘Joaquin Phoenix’
Film Review – Cruella
What a strange decision it was to make an origin story about Cruella de Vil. Her first onscreen appearance was in Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), in which she (voiced by Betty Lou Gerson) was a chain smoking, diabolical villain who wanted to murder and…
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Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen’s Picks
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
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Episode 23 – Joker
For this episode of the podcast, we review Joker, the latest film adaptation based on the infamous Batman villain. We discuss the movie’s director Todd Phillips, the controversy surrounding the release, and we open a spoiler zone to dig into the finer details of the…
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Film Review – Joker (Second Take)
Joaquin Phoenix delivers one of the great performances of the year in Joker (2019). It is truly an outstanding piece of work, and another highlight in a career already filled with them. As the deranged protagonist, Phoenix is able to utilize the best of his…
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Film Review – Joker (2019)
Joker is not a film that ever needed to exist. That thought was repeated again and again when the project was first announced. We had gone from the iconic Joker of Heath Ledger to the dismal emo Joker of Jared Leto and throwing another wild card into…
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Film review – The Sisters Brothers
How far would you go to protect your brother? Risk life and limb, you say? What if said brother were a perpetual troublemaker with a fondness for (constant) booze and a dangerous temper? To what lengths do you go? The Sisters Brothers examines this quandary…
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Film Review – You Were Never Really Here
Director Lynn Ramsay‘s output is as challenging as it is sporadic. In 16 years, she has only helmed 4 feature films, all relatively (and deceivingly) minor, while all packing one hell of a wallop. I haven’t seen her debut, Morvern Callar, since its release in…
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Film Review – Irrational Man
Woody Allen’s latest film is Irrational Man. Allen takes a down and out philosophy professor, Abe (Joaquin Phoenix), and places him at a small liberal arts college. There he becomes the talk of the very small college community where rumors run wild about what happened…
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