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Joel Schumacher on His Career, His Critics, and Why It's OK to Laugh During Trespass

Joel Schumacher on His Career, His Critics, and Why It's OK to Laugh During Trespass

There's no stopping Joel Schumacher, the 72-year-old filmmaker who returns to screens this week with the thriller Trespass. Though to invoke his name in some circles is to invite wishes he would stop; Schumacher has never been an especially popular director among the critical elite, and his latest film, a wild home-invasion potboiler co-starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman, won't necessarily change things. But you know what? That's a good thing -- at least for Schumacher.

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