Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The Fighter
When I first heard about The Fighter, I thought “here we go again, yet another boxing movie.” But then I realized that, though I could certainly list a TON of boxing movies, I haven’t actually seen that many of them. I’m not at all interested in the “
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The King’s Speech
I really can’t believe how much I enjoyed director Tom Hooper’s new film The King’s Speech! I was a bit dubious going in. I’d heard that the film was good, but it looked like a classic “Oscar-bait” type of movie to me. You know: period setting,
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The Kids Are All Right
In Lisa Cholodenko’s film The Kids Are All Right, we meet Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), a loving lesbian couple who have been raising two kids together: Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson). Their lives aren’t perfect, but over-all it̵
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Flipped
Back in June I posted a trailer for Rob Reiner’s new film, Flipped, and I wondered if, at last, Rob Reiner (the mastermind behind This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men) had broken his long dry streak and fin
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Black Swan
I’m not really sure quite how to put this so I’ll just go ahead and say it: Black Swan freaked me the fuck out. And I pretty much loved every second of it. The one-two punch of The Fountain and The Wrestler have made me a big, big fan of Darren Aronofsky, and with Black [&
Josh Reviews The Green Hornet
Some movies are so bad that they are soul-crushingly painful. It kills me when I sit down in a movie theatre with great hope and anticipation for a new film, only to watch my dreams slowly shatter as the turd-on-film unfolds. I’m not talking about films that disappoint, I