“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 A Man Called Otto
Tom Hanks stars as the titular Otto in A Man Called Otto, a film adapted from the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Otto is a grumpy old man, who seems to have taken it upon himself to be the enforcer of all rules and regulations on his gated street. He seems to […
Josh Reviews Elvis
Vaz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a rollicking guided tour through the highs and lows of Elvis Presley’s life and career, from his childhood as a poor kid in Mississippi to his extraordinary super-stardom as “the king of rock and roll” to his sad final days as a bloated
News Around the Net!
Let’s kick things off with this spectacular trailer for Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: That trailer is deliriously good. I’ve really loved both the first and second Ant Man films, and I’m so happy to see Paul Rudd & co. back for a third go-round. I love tha
Josh Reviews Finch
The film Finch is set some time in the future. A massive solar flare, combined with other environmental catastrophes, has mostly wiped out mankind. Tom Hanks plays Finch, an engineer who has survived with his dog Goodyear by living mostly in the sheltered, underground lab of the c
Josh Reviews Greyhound
Earlier this week I reviewed News of the World, one of two great Tom Hanks films released in the latter part of 2020. The other was Greyhound. Based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, the film depicts several terrifying days in the middle of the Atlantic during
Josh Reviews News of the World
In News of the World, Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a veteran of the Civil War who now eeks out a living by traveling from town to town to read from newspapers for the townspeople’s entertainment and edification. Captain Kidd winds up entangled with a young girl n
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2020 — Part Three!
Click here for part one of my list of my Favorite Movies of 2020, and click here for part two. And now, let’s dive into my top Five Favorite Movies of 2020! 5. News of the World — I wrestled with which 2020 Tom Hanks film I preferred: News of the World or Greyhound. Ul
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2020 — Part Two!
On Monday I began my list of my favorite movies of 2020! And now, let’s enter my Top Ten: 10. Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary — Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary is exactly what it sounds like — a feature-length look back at the making of 1999’
Josh’s Favorite TV Series of 2019 — Part One!
I am excited to begin my Best of 2019 lists! Let’s kick things off with my list of my favorite TV series of 2019. What a year this was for TV!!! I watched SO MUCH great TV, and even so, there were still so many shows I wanted to see but didn’t get to, including […]