The People's Joker' filmmaker Vera Drew tells IndieWire why mainstream queer representation has gotten 'so stale.' ...
The People’s Joker (now streaming on Mubi) is the most fascinating underground film phenomenon of the last few years. Writer/director/star Vera Drew originally conceived the film as a re-edit of ...
This praise carries a huge weight coming from Drew, as “Joker” was the film that kicked off a journey that resulted in her own creation, “The People’s Joker.” At the time, Phillips had ...
After just one screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, tiny-budget indie movie The People's Joker was pulled from the festival per Warner Bros.' request. It was just the beginning of ...
This is the landscape that welcomes The People’s Joker, a parody film with an LGBTQ+ twist. Written by Vera Drew and Bri LeRose, and directed by and starring Drew in the lead role, it has just ...
“I think it’s caught on with people. I’ll go into gyms, and people will say, ‘You’re not The Joker.’ It’s definitely fun. I ...
Lady Gaga took the opportunity to throw a few jabs at Todd Phillips' Joker sequel - and her own performance as Harley Quinn - ...
This is the landscape that welcomes The People's Joker , a parody film with an LGBTQ+ twist. Written by Vera Drew and Bri LeRose, and directed by and starring Drew in the lead role, it has just ...
If you couldn’t already tell from her gonzo superhero/villain parody “The People Joker,” Vera Drew is done with tamped down queer narratives made by non-LGBTQ+ individuals. And despite the animosity ...
Phoenix’s reappearance in sequel Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) was widely panned, due to an incoherent plot and unusual choice of the jukebox musical genre. This is the landscape that welcomes The People ...