This is not a joke! One week after Joker: Folie à Deux shimmies into the box office, audiences are asking, “What the hell happened?” Is this highly anticipated sequel the victim of directorial injustice? Are jaded, unimaginative audiences becoming harder to please? Or is something more sinister to blame? The original Joker (2019), on a $65 million budget, became the highest-grossing R-rated movie in history. Earning over $1 billion worldwide and solidifying Joaquin Phoenix’s character as the most beloved since Heath Ledger’s in The Dark Knight. With the bar set that high, what could possibly go wrong with a sequel?… Read more »
I get it, if you’re just watching it for the spectacle or you’re purely enamored with how different it is from other superhero movies then…nuh uh…still NO.
This is a film about how a supervillain becomes one with no superhero involved. Oh yeah, it’s R rated.
Despite recent box office duds from Mariah Carey (Glitter) and ‘NSync’s Lance Bass and Joey Fatone (On the Line), musicians are continuing to pile up the film roles. Rapper Snoop Dogg, who most recently starred in Bones and The Wash (with Dr. Dre), has signed on to appear in the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the classic ’70s police-action series Starsky and Hutch, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, according to Australia’s News Interactive (www.news.com.au). The Warner Bros. film is being directed by Todd Phillips (Road Trip) and is due next year. Snoop Dogg will also appear as himself, along with… Read more »
‘Love & Death’ is a seven-episode miniseries based on the true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore.
Today we talk about Bridgerton season 3, Panic! at the Disco’s new single, and Justin Bieber heading back out on tour. Bridgerton Season 3 Shondaland and Netflix officially have season 3 of Bridgerton moving full steam ahead. Production has begun in London and it looks like we’re in for a classic “will they, won’t they” situation as Penelope Featherington has given up on her love for Colin Bridgerton. She begins to distance herself from him, while searching for a husband but her insecurities get in her way and she isn’t finding success. Colin feels the distance between them and offers… Read more »
This week: Lucifer, Supergirl, This Is Us, Damnation, Riverdale, Gotham, How to Get Away with Murder, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Marvel’s Inhumans, Dirk Gently.
