4 major takeaways from the 2020 Golden Globes nominations
For awards season fanatics, Monday’s nominations provided an early glimpse of what to expect in the upcoming months.
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Tag Archives: Joker
An unsustainable society: In ‘Joker,’ societal influences on violence are brought to light
It draws attention to the fact that, collectively, we have decided that mechanisms that produce extremists such as Joker are sustainable.
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Reel Talk episode 12: Send in the clowns
In this episode of Reel Talk, Daily Cal assistant arts editor, Grace Orriss, and former assistant editor, Jackson Kim Murphy, talk their thoughts on DC’s new “Joker” film! How does it measure up to the past iterations of the character? Should it win Oscars? Listen to find out.
Rogues and riddles
Somewhere in between analyzing every villain’s batshit plots to kill Batman and concluding that The Penguin sucked, we became best friends.
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‘Joker’ is self-serious clownery masquerading as art
And, in its pompous self-seriousness, incoherent narrative and utter lack of depth, the film succeeds — in being tragically bad.
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What majors Batman villains would have if they went to UC Berkeley
The goals of each Batman villain make their story unique and beg the question: How would they achieve their goals if they went to UC Berkeley?
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6 movies to help you procrastinate this fall semester
It may seem silly to go to a movie theater in this age of streaming. Why spend time and money on a movie ticket when you could just watch Netflix in your room? The answer is, it can be a fun way to break up your routine. Here are some movies coming out this semester that should provide a nice distraction.
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Why ‘Venom’ lacks any real bite
Somewhere between witnessing a sweaty Tom Hardy chomp on a live lobster and seeing the character of Venom soulfully tell Eddie Brock that he’d made him change his mind about humanity, I realized that “Venom” was not the version of the story that I’d grown up with.
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Rina Sawayama North American tour comes to explosive close at Rickshaw Stop
Rina Sawayama concluded the North American leg of her “Ordinary Superstar” tour with a blowout performance Thursday night at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco.
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‘Suicide Squad’ falls short of heroic DC comeback
Since “Man of Steel” and “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. have been looking for their franchise starter to rival the yearly additions of well-oiled, if safe, comic book blockbusters from Marvel. Yet, both DC films underwhelmed with the critical and commercial populaces because of
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