Joker: Folie à Deux: trailer for Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga musical sequel released
The sequel sees Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck in Arkham Asylum and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, who is initially a psychiatrist assigned to treat him
April 2023
Week in geek
Can the Joker musical or Superman save the world from ‘superhero fatigue’?
DC supremo James Gunn has admitted superhero fatigue is ‘very real’ and ‘just watching things bash each other’ is not much fun. What will that mean for his high profile projects?
September 2022
Week in geek
Stop laughing at the back: why shouldn’t Joker 2 be a musical?
With Lady Gaga and Brendon Gleeson in the cast, director Todd Phillips sequel project would sit fine with the nuttiness of the current DC universe
June 2022
Lady Gaga to play Harley Quinn in Joker sequel
Margot Robbie played the character in the Suicide Squad movies, but Gaga’s version is expected to ‘exist in a different universe’
October 2021
TV tonight
TV tonight: Have I Got News for You begins its 62nd series
Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are back, and they will not be short of material. Plus: the finale of The North Water. Here’s what to watch this evening
January 2021
Why a Willy Wonka origins movie could be bad news for children – and Michael Aspel
Will Paul King’s planned prequel follow in the pawprints of Paddington? Or might it stick closer to Warner Bros’ most recent origins hit: Joker?
November 2020
Villains special
Are we the baddies? Pop culture’s grand reckoning with good and evil
Joker 'a betrayal' of mentally ill people, says David Fincher
From first kiss to unfollowing – culture that sums up love in 2020
A book redefining marriage, a riotous show about dating, the secret meanings of breakup songs and a sex show to put your back out … ahead of Valentine’s Day, our critics pick works that sum up love in our turbulent times
Superhero movies have saved Hollywood. And here’s one that features a magnetic star turn, takes mental illness seriously – and wrestles with the collapse of liberalism
