Movie Reviews and Previews “Introduce me as Joker” The Venice Film Festival kicks off next week, and with it comes the world premiere of Joker, followed by a North American premiere at TIFF. Ahead of both of those things, we have a new trailer to absorb. The first trailer was promising, though I still have plenty of reservations By Sarah • Aug 28, 2019 02:30 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Smile for Joker Two years ago we learned that cinema’s best misanthropic boy, Todd Phillips, was developing a Joker origins movie no one asked for. Then Joaquin Phoenix was named as the star, and while still totally unnecessary, at least it wasn’t DC Films’ worst idea (that was a Jared Leto By Sarah • Apr 03, 2019 11:14 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Party City Joker On Friday director Todd Phillips released a camera test of Joaquin Phoenix in his Joker makeup and it is certainly a look. My first thought was that he looks like Pogo the Clown, aka John Wayne Gacy. My second thought was that he sort of looks like the mask Heath By Sarah • Sep 24, 2018 10:04 am
TIFF 2008 Red Carpet TIFF Review: The Sisters Brothers Opening this weekend is the latest in the budding sub-genre of sensitive, revisionist Westerns (following on the heels of Slow West and Damsel), The Sisters Brothers, a view on the classic gunslinger trope that allows for existential dilemmas and regret. Adapted by Thomas Bidegain and director Jacques Audiard from Patrick By Sarah • Sep 21, 2018 03:56 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin Phoenix in Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot is Gus Van Sant’s first feature film since 2015’s disastrous Sea of Trees. Three years is not an unreasonable amount of time between features, but given how very, very bad Trees is, Foot can’t help but feel By Sarah • Jul 24, 2018 04:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews One out of two Jokers happening Almost a year ago, we heard that Warner Brothers and DC Films were developing a Joker origin movie with director Todd Phillips and maybe producer Martin Scorsese. No, not the Joker/Harley Quinn spin-off, or the Jared Leto Joker origin movie, this is the other one that would potentially star By Sarah • Jul 11, 2018 03:14 pm
Coincidence or conspiracy Joaquin Phoenix: from Strange to Joker? Joaquin Phoenix was making headlines all over the place yesterday because of reports that he could be the Joker in a new standalone movie. Sarah is our resident comic nerd so I asked her if we needed to talk about this. It’s very confusing. Jared Leto is still the By Lainey • Feb 09, 2018 11:51 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Counterpoint: He Won’t Get Far The first trailer for Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot—maybe the longest title since The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford—was released yesterday. It looks very good. The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as cartoonist John By Sarah • Jan 17, 2018 10:38 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooney & Joaquin in Cannes Joaquin Phoenix was named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday for his performance in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here. It was one of the last films to screen at the festival. And before that point, people were talking about Robert Pattinson and Adam Sandler as By Lainey • May 29, 2017 03:22 pm
Assy Hair Ginger Joaquin There’s not much to say here so I’ll keep it short. Joaquin Phoenix was photographed walking his dogs the other day. The last we heard from Joaquin it was about how he and Rooney Mara are/were “madly in love”. That was three months ago, in January. Since By Lainey • Apr 18, 2017 01:38 pm
Relationship Assumption Kate & Rooney: Mara love updates Kate and Rooney Mara were both papped yesterday. Let’s start with Kate: her reps confirmed yesterday that she and Jamie Bell are engaged. You can see she’s wearing her engagement ring at LAX. They’ve been together since working together on Fantastic Four, a sh-tty movie that was By Lainey • Jan 17, 2017 10:08 am
Hook Ups Rooney & Joaquin See? Gossip is comin’ at us from all over the place this year. Page Six reported that Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, who worked together on Her and, most recently, Mary Magdalene (he plays Jesus), “found love on the set”. They were shooting in the desert, away from the city, By Lainey • Jan 11, 2017 03:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Joaquin & Moby Answer honestly: how curious are you about this conversation? How badly would you have wanted to eavesdrop on Joaquin Phoenix and Moby? Joaquin joined his ma and sisters last night at the PETA 35th anniversary event in honour of River Phoenix. They named an award after him. Joaquin was last By Lainey • Oct 01, 2015 11:57 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, Monday July 27, 2015 This must be the most famous voicemail of all time, right? It’s so quotable. “Rude, thoughtless little pig” is instantly recognizable, it’s the “Show me the money” of voicemails. But it is nice to see Ireland finding the humour in it – it’s never the things that we By Maria • Jul 27, 2015 03:00 pm
Media Manipulation Emma to Cannes The Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup today. Among the films screening out of competition, Woody Allen’s An Irrational Man starring Emma Stone, apparently his new muse, and Joaquin Phoenix. So Emma’s going to Cannes. For the first time, I think. Emma’s dress porn is always first By Lainey • Apr 16, 2015 01:17 pm
Hair Joaquin or Zach? Zach Galifianakis was at the SAGs the other night with the Birdman team and I kept thinking it was Joaquin Phoenix. Doesn't he look like Joaquin Phoenix now? The real Joaquin Phoenix was probably very happy to not be at the SAGs on Sunday but still had to By Lainey • Jan 27, 2015 03:44 pm
