It was October 2008 when Oscar-nominated actor Joaquin Phoenix announced his retirement from acting, but it wasn't until September 2010 that we finally learned the method to his madness. After Phoenix followed-up his initial statement with a decision to try his hand at a career as a rap musician, many of us were left scratching our heads. The plot thickened when we learned that Phoenix's Read more

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We can finally lay the great cinematic mystery of 2010 to bed: Casey Affleck's documentary I'm Still Here, which follows Joaquin Phoenix's attempt to enter hip-hop, is indeed a fake. The director confirmed everyone's suspicions in an interview this morning. While I always had a good degree of skepticism about the truthfulness of the film, the announcement still frustrates me. The charade feels Read more

Taking a trip to the movie theater this weekend? I'm here to offer my services as your resident movie adviser, and this week I have definitive advice about whether you should see this week's new release, the Joaquin Phoenix documentary I'm Still Here. Read more

If you're unfamiliar with the saga that has been Joaquin Phoenix's career for the past two years, let me refresh your memory. In October 2008, he abruptly announced that he was retiring from acting without giving much explanation. A few months later, he revealed that his brother-in-law, Casey Affleck, was directing a documentary chronicling his career change from actor to rapper. The bizarre news Read more

The teaser for Casey Affleck's doc I'm Still Here which follows Joaquin Phoenix as he shuns Hollywood to become a hip-hop artist is, well, here. Part of me still hopes this is a fake project for the actor (you still think he's talented), because this is just...wow. Affleck shows footage of a disheveled Phoenix, paparazzi, and party girls with a hippie-dippy motivational voiceover that compares Read more

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