Vulture recently published an “oral history” of one of the film’s moments, in which The Joker (Heath Ledger) agrees to perform a “magic trick” for a group of Gotham’s mob bosses. A henchman (played by ...

Christopher Nolan creates one of cinema’s most haunting turning points in the Joker’s quiet corruption of Harvey Dent. Heath ...

While the opening bank heist is technically the first scene in which we see him, the Joker’s real introduction in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight comes during the famous pencil trick scene. This ...

Heath Ledger’s version of the Joker was absolutely spellbinding in The Dark Knight. He masterfully captured a kind of sadistic and calculated chaos that never let you know what the villain was going ...

There’s no arguing that the Joker stabbing a pencil into a table and then forcing someone’s head onto the writing instrument with so much force that it disappears would be incredibly painful, yet ...