Jeremy Fassler

2 months ago | vulture.com | Jeremy Fassler

This story was first published on February 21, 2019. It has been updated to include the winner of the 97th Academy Awards. Although animated films are as old as cinema itself, it wasn’t until the fifth Academy Awards ceremony, for films released in 1931–32, that the Academy added a category for animated cartoons.

Jan 21, 2025 | jeremyfassler.medium.com | Jeremy Fassler

Jeremy Fassler·Follow4 min read·--Shortly after President Trump’s swearing-in yesterday, Elon Musk made the Nazi salute (a.k.a. the Fascist salute) in front of a packed audience at Washington D.C.’s Capitol One Arena. Here is the video:This statement should not be controversial. We saw Musk do it before our own eyes. This isn’t the Zapruder film — no detailed analysis is necessary.

Nov 15, 2024 | jeremyfassler.medium.com | Jeremy Fassler

Jeremy Fassler·Follow8 min read·--Dick Goodwin, photograph courtesy of PoliticoI had planned on publishing something earlier this week, but everything I wrote felt too self-pitying to publish. I have no answers to what happened last week — nobody does — other than that the consequences will be dire, and that we have lost the order that has governed the world since the end of WWII, nearly 80 years ago.

Nov 4, 2024 | jeremyfassler.medium.com | Jeremy Fassler

Jeremy Fassler·Follow6 min read·--Photograph courtesy of NYC.euIn the past week and a half since the billionaire owners of The LA Times and The Washington Post stopped their editorial boards from publishing endorsements of Kamala Harris in the presidential election, the fallout from customers has been brutal, particularly at the Post.

Oct 3, 2024 | jeremyfassler.medium.com | Jeremy Fassler

Jeremy Fassler · Follow 5 min read · -- In Joker: Folie à Deux, his follow-up to the smash hit and Academy Award nominee Joker, writer/director Todd Phillips not only critiques his previous film and its “bad fans,” but also turns it into a musical in which Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker (a.k.a. Arthur Fleck) sings his way through Gotham with the biggest, baddest fan of all, Lady Gaga’s Harley Quinn (a.k.a. Lee Quinzel.) I found the first Joker a shallow imitation of Taxi Driver which deliberately...