Recent photos and clips of Joaquin Phoenix’s take on The Joker are a good reminder that the iconic Batman villain is a pretty unnerving character. He’s unpredictable and utterly determined to make his strange visions reality; he’s prone to sudden outbursts yet somehow disturbingly charismatic. He is, in other words,…

The Disaster Artist, James Franco’s adaptation of the book that delved into the making of the infinitely beguiling trainwreck The Room, received a largely positive response from audiences and critics. (We gave it a C.) One fan of the film was Tommy Wiseau, the man behind The Room, who loved the film despite having…

Tommy Wiseau has done the internet a great service once again. After years of delighting the world with the endless riches of The Room, the actor has cannily used his talents to enliven our nightmares by agreeing and committing fully to a few minutes of masterclass acting as the new face of Christopher Nolan’s…

Ever since the release of The Disaster Artist, Tommy Wiseau has engaged in a sort of permanent press tour. There are still mysteries surrounding Wiseau’s origins, but the elusiveness that helped turn The Room into a cult hit has been replaced by a sort of constant deluge of viral Tommy Wiseau content. The movie made…

Tommy Wiseau is on screen for fewer than 10 seconds and utters a single line of dialogue, but he still manages to be completely overwrought in the first trailer for Scary Love.

It’s been 15 years since Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero made The Room together, a bizarre film (and bizarre experience) chronicled in Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book The Disaster Artist. Now—in the wake of James Franco’s well-received film adaptation of the book—the two are working together again, releasing a trailer…

Here’s one for all those The Room fanatics out there who still feel like they’ve never, truly, been close enough to Tommy Wiseau: the actor, auteur, and subject of last year’s The Disaster Artist responded to a recent question about a potential remaster of his beloved cult film by going typically above-and-beyond,…

Whether or not you believe James Franco deserved a Golden Globe for his portrayal of The Room auteur Tommy Wiseau, we can all agree that Wiseau deserved at least a few seconds on the mic himself. There would be no Disaster Artist without Wiseau, after all, and at least a small part of the film’s appeal is watching…

Fourteen years after opening—for two whole weeks—in a handful of very confused Los Angeles theaters, Tommy Wiseau’s cult phenomenon The Room will finally have its day in cinemas nationwide. That’s courtesy of theatrical event programmer Fathom, which announced this week that it’ll be hosting a one-night release of the…

Tommy Wiseau, the star and creator of The Room, has been surprisingly busy in the past couple years, at work writing, producing, and directing his own web sitcom, The Neighbors. Now he’s reuniting with his Room co-star Greg Sestero for a new project, Best F(r)iends. Wiseau stars in the film, while Sestero wrote and…

Now almost 15 years after the release of The Room, Tommy Wiseau is something of a star, complete with a verified Twitter account and a Golden Globe-nominated biopic. The next logical step is, of course, for him to take on the world of video games, which his cultural host-body James Franco has been kind enough to make…

The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of The Room, paints its subject, Tommy Wiseau, in an unexpectedly warm light. Given that The Room has been ridiculed for years and heralded as one of the worst films of all time, it’s a welcome surprise for Wiseau. In the video above,…

Tommy Wiseau got a Twitter account this week to coincide with the release of James Franco’s The Disaster Artist, and while it’s not as filled with the bewildering digressions one might expect from the creator of The Room, it’s still a joy to have him swimming through the digital swamp with us. One post in particular…

The past few years have seen Tommy Wiseau’s opus, The Room, discover unexpected relevancy, culminating in this year’s The Disaster Artist, the film adaptation of Greg Sestero’s memoir about the making of the film. But why did Sestero and Wiseau entrust Franco to earnestly tell the story of making the most famous bad…

The Room director and star Tommy Wiseau’s background has long been shrouded in mystery, from his birthplace to the source of his fortune. James Franco, even after directing and starring in a movie about the man, still sees Wiseau as an enigma. On the red carpet for The Disaster Artist, we spoke with Franco about the…

We’re back with another edition of Film Club. This week, A.V. Club film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss The Disaster Artist, the James Franco-directed tribute to Tommy Wiseau and the most famous bad movie of all time, The Room.

If there was ever a behind-the-scenes story that begged to made into a movie of its own, then it’s the making of the mind-boggling cult classic The Room, a uniquely American accident of money, incompetence, and ego. The magnum opus of Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric and paranoid Polish immigrant with the looks of a B-movie…

Every night, Peter Kuplowsky, the baby-faced new curator of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program, has a wooden hat rack brought out to the stage of the Ryerson Theatre so he can try and land his king-of-the-geeks fedora on one of the hooks. A carnival game to go with the idea that this is the festival’s midway and…