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#97: Himbos Akimbo: Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera

Joel Schumacher should never have made those Batman movies. Not because they’re bad. They’re good/bad, and that’s about as much deference as most comic book franchises deserve. Joel Schumacher shouldn’t have made those movies because of the damage they did to his reputation. The guy that made The Lost Boys and Falling Down should beContinue reading “#97: Himbos Akimbo: Joel Schumacher’s The Phantom of the Opera”

#98: Let’s Have a Toast for the Douchebags – Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal

There’s no Hollywood story quite like that of a director run amok. Francis Ford Coppolla tap dancing on the edge of the abyss while making Apocalypse Now is probably the most famous example of this for Americans, but all of these stories are wild in their own way. Werner Herzog famously came a hair’sContinue reading “#98: Let’s Have a Toast for the Douchebags – Volker Schlöndorff’s Baal”