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Powered by JustWatch Help keep The Curb independent by joining our Patreon. To risk sounding like a movie trailer cliché: forget what you think you know about the Suicide Squad. Forget the e…
2020 is a landmark year for superhero films, with four of the major superhero film releases being directed by women. Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn kicks off this…
Directed and co-written by Todd Phillips, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a lonely and mentally-ill stand-up comedian struggling to survive in Gotham, a city at its lowest point. When an…
Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a mentally unstable single white guy who is shaped by society into becoming yet another version of the Joker, a comic book villain that has existed for almost eight…
As much as I shouldn’t be, I’m comparing Neil Marshall’s Hellboyto the Guillermo Del Toro efforts of the mid 2000’s. I just can’t help myself. What Del Toro did with those films was create a wonderful…
I’ve often criticised superhero films for resorting to using an ‘end of the world’ scenario as the climactic element of their story, or for including non-sensical elements or characters - and Teenage…