Josh Reviews A Wrinkle in Time
I loved A Wrinkle in Time when I was a kid. I remember I had a set of the three (at the time) books in the series by Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. As I recall, I didn’t much care for A Swiftly Tilting […]
Josh Reviews Fury
I missed David Ayer’s film Fury when it came out last year, and I’ve been looking forward to catching up with it. Set in final months of World War II, the film tells the story of a United States tank crew during the Allied invasion of Germany. Brad Pitt plays “Wa
Josh Reviews The Martian
What a refreshing joy it is to get to see an intelligent, original science-fiction story that is also gorgeous to behold and ferociously entertaining. The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Drew Goddard, adapting the book by Andy Weir, is a triumph, a gripping story abou
Josh Reviews Ant Man!
Marvel’s Ant Man seems to have had the most tumultuous development process of any of the Marvel Studios films so far. Or, at least, its behind-the-scenes dirty laundry has been the most public. Edgar Wright spent years developing the film for Marvel, but then when the projec
Josh Reviews 30 Minutes or Less
In the new film 30 Minutes or Less, Jesse Eisenberg plays Nick, an affable though fairly hapless pizza boy. Aziz Ansari plays Chet, Nick’s closest friend. The two have been buddies for years, though Chet seems to have figured out his life (we can see that he has a steady job
Josh Reviews Observe and Report
About two-thirds of the way through Observe and Report, the new film written and directed by Jody Hill (who also wrote & directed the criminally under-seen The Foot-Fist Way), one character observes to another: “I thought this would be funny, but it’s just kinda sad.&#