"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three years after Vera Drew’s punk bildungsroman premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, The People’s Joker has emerged as a “fair use film” following a legal challenge from ...

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 ...

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 ...