Congratulations, Hollywood, you’ve ruined the Joker for good
Warner Bros. Pictures This weekend, Joaquin Phoenix returns to his Oscar-winning role as Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker, in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. Ostensibly a sequel to Joker,…
Tim Burton’s Batman Is a Cultural Game Changer
Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been riding the high of Batman for decades, both in the comics and expanded media like TV, games, and film. That last one is…
How The Dark Knight Helped Bring Fallout to Life
Besides the name “Nolan,” The Dark Knight and Fallout don’t have much in common. One is based on a comic book, the other a video game. One is set in…
How The Dark Knight ARG Changed Immersive Entertainment
As pioneers at the forefront of immersive storytelling, Animal Repair Shop and its consumer brand Infinite Rabbit Holes are working on next-gen consumer products at the intersection of the physical…
This Week’s Toy News Is Full of Spiders, Grasshoppers, and Miners
Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the coolest toy news around the internet. This week, Hot Toys delves into Kamen Rider, Bandai debuts its chonky new Godzilla,…
7 best performances in Christopher Nolan’s movies, ranked
Christopher Nolan is back on the big screen with the biographical thriller Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who played a key role in developing…
Why The Dark Knight is still the best comic book movie of all time
Warner Bros. Pictures Let’s travel back to 2008 and revisit pop culture, shall we? The most popular TV show in the country was American Idol. Studio comedies like Forgetting Sarah…
Who is the best Joker ever? We rank all the actors who have played Batman’s No. 1 enemy
Eighty years after he debuted in Batman No. 1, the Joker remains one of the most iconic villains in popular culture. The Clown Prince of Crime has long tormented Batman…