Tag: Joker

Oscars 2020: The ASBO Awards

Posted in ReviewTagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Here we are, less than twenty four hours until the Oscars and as I write this, I still haven’t seen all best pictures nominees (There is a screening of Ford vs Ferrari I’m going to this afternoon). As is tradition (I did it last year), I’m looking at the nominees and picking my choices to win the Asbo award*. Although I will have seen all best picture nominees, this year has had so many good films that I haven’t had a chance to get to all of the best acting ones. Therefore, I can only judge what I’ve seen. For my own fun, I’ve also stated whether the ASBO winner would beat my Oscar snub ramble choice.

Continue reading “Oscars 2020: The ASBO Awards” →

Review: Joker

Posted in Film, ReviewTagged , , Leave a comment

Spoiler Free

Some of my favourite films have been about people who are on their journey to insanity. Furthermore, the Dark Knight is my favourite super hero film, mainly thanks to Heath Ledger’s incredible performance. Therefore my hopes were high going into Joker. I believed that the divisive film had bad reviews from the pretentious snobs or the “woke snowflakes” who can’t stand any sort of violence that deviates from their hand holding dancing in circle perception of the world. When I came out of the film, three questions went across my mind: Am I pretentious? (Probably) Am I a snowflake? (Possibly) Was the film just not that great? (Yes).

Bring In The Clowns