“I cannot sanction your buffoonery!” Learning to love Joel Schumacher’s Batman

“I cannot sanction your buffoonery." That’s what Tommy Lee Jones reportedly said to Jim Carrey as they were about to make a Batman film together. It also neatly sums up the critical reaction to Joel Schumacher’s two Batman movies, Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Subversive, camp, kinky - Joel Schumacher queered the... Continue Reading →

April 27, 2020 0

Gray Matters – Film Review: Ad Astra ★★★1/2

Over the past twenty-plus years, James Gray has established himself has a world class filmmaker with such titles as Little Odessa, Two Lovers, The Immigrant and The Lost City of Z in which he has mastered what I like to call the calm, dreamy epic. His latest, Ad Astra, blends the slow, quiet pacing of... Continue Reading →

October 2, 2019 0

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