In Michael Caine's memoir 'Don't Look Back,' the actor recalls filming 'The Dark Knight' and witnessing late costar Heath ...

The People's Joker' filmmaker Vera Drew tells IndieWire why mainstream queer representation has gotten 'so stale.' ...

Lucky for us, then, that there's a trans auteur who is willing to spring the Joker from the prison of canon and send the character on an idol-killing spree. Vera Drew's The People's Joker ...

"The People's Joker," a scandalous IP-on-acid coming-out comic-book psychodrama, is a movie that has all the earmarks of an underground/ midnight/guerrilla-cinema sensation. Vera Drew, who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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