Josh Reviews The Gentlemen
The Gentlemen, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, tells a complicated yarn of the interactions among many different players in the London crime scene, from low-level street toughs to the wealthy masterminds overseeing their empires. Guy Ritchie came onto the scene with two fantast
Josh Reviews The Dark Tower
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is an extraordinary achievement, a work of breathtaking genius that represents one of my absolute favorite fictional sagas of any medium. The series consists of seven main novels plus an eighth follow-up novel (The Wind Through the Keyhole)
Josh Reviews Interstellar
When it was first announced that Christopher Nolan would be making an original science-fiction film as his next project, featuring a top-shelf cast and utilizing a blockbuster-sized budget, I was quickly atwitter with visions of a masterpiece. After much anticipation, Interstellar h
Late to the Party: True Detective Season One
It took me a while to find the time to watch True Detective — I’d been interested in the show ever since I first read about it but was so busy last Winter/Spring that it took me a few months to get to it — but holy cow was it worth the wait. I was […]
Josh Reviews The Wolf of Wall Street
At seventy-one years old, Martin Scorsese has unleashed upon us a work of towering ambition and accomplishment, with a rabble-rousing energy and anger that far outstrips most films made by filmmakers half his age. The Wolf of Wall Street is a three hour epic, fiercely entertaining a
Catching Up on 2012: Killer Joe (Unrated)
I don’t know what exactly I was expecting when I sat down to watch William Friedkin’s latest film, Killer Joe. A violent crime caper, I guess. And that is indeed what I got, though the film is far more twisted and disturbed than I had ever expected. Whether that is a
From the DVD Shelf: Amistad (1997)
My revisitation of the last decade-and-a-half of the films of Steven Spielberg continues! I’ve already looked at Jurassic Park and The Lost World, which brings me now to 1997’s Amistad. In an attempt to recapture the magic of 1993 (in which he released two films in a sin