“I Don’t Understand the Play” — Josh Reviews Asteroid City
Asteroid City is the latest wonderful film from Wes Anderson. (Mr. Anderson wrote and directed the film; the story is credited to Mr. Anderson and Roman Coppola.) The film is set in a stylized version of the 1950’s, in a little town in the middle of nowhere called Asteroid C
Josh Reviews The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is a salute to a very specific (and mostly vanished) type of journalism: the heyday of The New Yorker magazine and its writers. The film itself is an anthology of several vignettes, beautifully structured to resemble the differe
Josh Reviews What If…? Season One!
What If…? is the latest Marvel TV series on Disney+, and the first animated one. The show is an anthology, with each half-hour episode exploring an alternate timeline in which events from the MCU movies unfolded in a different way. As with all of the other recent Disney+ Mar
Josh Reviews No Time to Die
No Time To Die is the fifth and final film starring Daniel Craig as James Bond. The film is excellent, with some terrific action set-pieces and also some lovely moments of emotional depth (something the series rarely saw before Mr. Craig took on the role). While the film is not ev
Josh Reviews Westworld Season One!
I’m a little bit behind on all of my TV watching. In this era of Peak TV, there is so much great television to watch that I find it hard to keep up! Being a fan both of sci-fi and HBO, I was of course hugely excited last year as I read about the development […]
Josh Reviews HBO’s Confirmation
HBO’s movie Confirmation brings to life the story of Clarence Thomas’ 1991 confirmation hearings to replace Thurgood Marshall on the U.S. Supreme Court, and Anita Hill’s allegations that Judge Thomas had sexually harassed her when they worked together at the departme
Josh Reviews Spectre
Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Ian Flemming’s James Bond, is not a completely terrible film but it’s a huge missed opportunity for the franchise and is probably the worst of Craig’s four Bond films. (That’s right, I think Spectre is weaker tha
Josh Reviews The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
I’ve never read any of the Hunger Games novels, but of course I knew of the phenomenon and so I was curious to see that first Hunger Games film. I found it entertaining but rather mediocre. But I was stunned how much I enjoyed the second film, Catching Fire. I thought that
Josh Reviews The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire improves on the first film in almost every way. I have never read the books, so I am not evaluating these films based on any comparisons to the original novel. I thought the first film, released two years ago, was perfectly adequate, a fine adventur
Fifty Years of 007! Josh Reviews Quantum of Solace (2008)
With Skyfall almost upon us, I’ve re-watched Daniel Craig’s two previous James Bond installments: 2006’s Casino Royale (click here for my review), and now Quantum of Solace. (You can click here to read my original review of the film from when it was released back in