Joel Schumacher: A Statement of Purpose

Do you want the easy, stupid answer?

Because he’s recent, has movies that people recognize, and he died a few years ago, meaning he’s not going to surprise me with another late career resurgence ala Joe Dante or Clint Eastwood.

Still, he interests me since I’ve seen so few of his movies. Of course, there are his two Batman films, but I remember being obsessed with The Client when I was a kid during my John Grisham phase (okay, kid might be overdoing it, I was in high school and thought...