The secret to the Joker’s pencil trick is that there is no
pencil
While the opening bank heist is technically the first scene in which we see him, the Joker’s real introduction in…
Does the most important year for superhero movies belong to The Dark Knight or Iron Man?
Midway through Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight, the Joker gets himself arrested so that he can then…
It’s 3 p.m., let’s watch the old Tom Waits clip that maybe inspired Heath Ledger’s Joker
It’s 3 p.m.! Let The A.V. Club briefly make use of the waning hours of your productivity with some pop culture ephemera…
The crucial difference between The Dark Knight and Tim Burton's Batman is the Joker
It’s been 10 years since Christopher Nolan unleashed The Dark Knight, which has more or less been praised as the best Ba…
Michael Jai White has finally explained his weird death scene in The Dark Knight
In a memorable early scene from The Dark Knight, Gotham gangster Gambol (played by Michael Jai White) is enjoying a…
Patton Oswalt has a very good take on Heath Ledger's Joker
Pondering the origins of the Batman universe’s Joker has proven to be a fruitful pastime, one that changes and evolves…
Baby welcomed to the world by Heath Ledger's Joker, which seems about right, really
In what can only be considered an appropriate introduction to the current state of our actively on-fire planet, a…
Playing The Joker didn’t lead to Heath Ledger’s death, family says
At the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the documentary I Am Heath Ledger, Kate Ledger, the sister of the late actor,…
A star stares back at us in the I Am Heath Ledger trailer
We’re coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the 2008 death of Heath Ledger, a rapidly rising actor whose sudden loss…
Please enjoy these stories of method actors going to ridiculous extremes
We think of method acting these days normally in terms of its extremes—stories of actors refusing to bathe, destroying…
A dialect coach analyzes 32 of the best and worst movie accents
Creating a convincing accent, be it a Southern drawl or a Scottish burr, is frequently a key component in an actor’s…
Here’s an amusing roundup of terribly translated bootleg DVD covers
Perhaps sensing that the world needs a good guffaw or two after weeks of grim headlines, considerate Imgur user zhuzu20…