The Fourth Wall: Deadpool and The Big Short Stanley Murphy-Jones assesses the damage of Deadpool’s surprising, meteoric success on the cinematic fourth wall break and identifies a way forward. We all want to feel like we understand films and it doesn’t get much better as an audience member than when you know you understood all […]
Deadpool
And the Oscar goes to… probably not Deadpool
When Deadpool came out, it received near-universal praise. Critics were satisfied and fans loved it, and this was reflected in the enormous sums of money it accrued at the box office. Deadpool was a fresh experience, a perfectly postmodern subversion of the comic book genre. This has led many to ponder how well the film will fare in the […]