In one pivotal climactic scene of Todd Phillips’ Joker – likely the most intensely debated film of 2019 – Joaquin Phoenix’s mentally ill Arthur Fleck announces that “this isn’t about politics. I’m not political.”
With the December release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaption of the Thomas Pynchon novel, Inherent Vice, fast approaching, Bryan Grogan looks closer at the factors that are going to make this the film of the year.
