“Joker” Articles

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2019.

Wade and Kevin take a look at Todd Philips’ Joker to see what all the controversy is about. They also offer their review Takashi Miike’s First Love.

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and John Milton’s Satan invite us to view them as the heroes of stories that were never intended to be about them.

What is interesting is how swiftly fanboys turned from demanding everything darker and grittier in the not-terribly-distant days of ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Watchmen’ and even ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ to ridiculing dark’n’gritty right out of the gate.