Todd Phillips
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A Joke Too Far? October 25, 2024
Note: The following essay contains spoilers.On 22 December 1984, four teenagers, all of whom had previously been arrested, boarded a New York subway train with the intention of robbing a downtown arcade. Two of them cornered a mild-mannered loner nam...
Is 'Joker: Folie à Deux' Flopping? October 08, 2024
The joke may finally be on the Joker. Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’s highly anticipated musical follow-up to his Oscar-winning Joker film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, did not sing at the box office in its opening weekend, earning a ...
The Flat Provocations of “Joker: Folie à Deux” October 07, 2024
At least the first “Joker” movie, Todd Phillips’s 2019 origin story of the Gotham villain as antihero, had the bravado to take its protagonist’s revolt to noxious extremes. The abused, neglected, and damaged Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix)—accursed as...
Todd Phillips Tells All on Making ‘Joker 2’ August 21, 2024
It all started with Joaquin Phoenix‘s dream.Shortly before shooting wrapped on “Joker,” Phoenix confessed to Todd Phillips, the filmmaker who had reimagined Batman’s greatest enemy as an aspiring stand-up with a Travis Bickle complex, that he wasn’t ...
