Josh Reviews The Barbie Movie
I was blown away by the Barbie movie when I saw it at the end of the summer. I have some friends who thought this movie wouldn’t be in my wheelhouse… but I’m a big believer in the idea that one can craft compelling, entertaining, and moving stories out of corporate
Josh Reviews Babylon
Damien Chazelle’s Babylon depicts the world of Hollywood in the late twenties and early thirties, the time when sound was first introduced into movies. We follow the shifting fortunes of several individuals at different levels of success (or lack thereof) in Hollywood. Manny
“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 Amsterdam
Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt
Josh Reviews The Suicide Squad
Five years after the first disappointing Suicide Squad film from DC/Warner Brothers comes another attempt at the property, the similarly-titled The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James Gunn. It’s sort of crazy to me that DC/Warner Brothers can’t or won’t ma
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2020 — Part One!
I hope you enjoyed my look back at my favorite TV series of 2020! And now, let’s dive into my favorite movies of 2020: 15. Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story — I was a huge fan of The Ren & Stimpy Show back when it first started airing on Nickelodeon
Josh Reviews Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
Despite my having a very negative opinion of most of the recent DC/Warner Brothers films, including the dreadful Suicide Squad (which is where Margot Robbie’s version of Harley Quinn first appeared), I was interested in seeing Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of On
Josh Reviews Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Seeing Pulp Fiction for the first time in the theater back in 1994 made me a Quentin Tarantino fan for life, and so I have been eagerly anticipating the release of his ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. A new Tarantino film as always a cause for excitement! I was not disa
Josh Reviews Suicide Squad
Following the disappointment of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a movie that I found to be overly dour and grim and dull (and, even more problematically, filled with almost nonsensical plotting and paper-thin characters), I thought Suicide Squad looked like a breath of fresh air f
Josh Reviews The Big Short
Back in 2010, Adam McKay wrote and directed the film The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. I found the film to be mediocre, but one of my favorite things in the movie was the end credits, which featured animated graphics presenting many upsetting statistics relate