Josh Reviews Confess, Fletch
For something like three decades they’ve been trying to make a Fletch sequel. Lo and behold, Greg Mottola (director of Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul) and Jon Hamm have cracked the code. And yet, weirdly… I feel like very few people know this movie even exists. It
Josh Reviews Clerks III
Back in 1994, Kevin Smith launched his career with the funny and innovative Clerks. Filmed at night in the very same convenience store where Mr. Smith worked, and made for a teensy tiny budget (basically paid for by Mr. Smith’s maxing out his own credit cards), Clerks was a wonde
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Diner
Diner, written and directed by Barry Levinson (who would go on to direct films such as The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and many more) is a semi-autobiographical story set in Baltimore in the closing days of 1959. We follow a group of friends who are tentat
Exploring Ridley Scott’s Legend
I’m a huge Ridley Scott fan. Several of his movies are among my favorite movies of all time (Alien, Blade Runner) and he has a long list of other movies that I love a LOT (The Martian, Gladiator, the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven, etc.). And yet, in Mr. Scott’s
Josh Reviews Green Lantern: Beware My Power
The new DC animated movie, Green Lantern: Beware My Power, introduces John Stewart to the new DC animated continuity. As the film opens, we meet American military veteran John Stewart, who gets in trouble with the cops for violently confronting some ne’er-do-wells who are thre
Josh Reviews Jurassic World: Dominion
Jurassic World: Dominion picks up the story four years after the end of the previous film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Dinosaurs have spread across the world, mixing with our civilization — and other animal species — with often violent results. A genetics company,
Josh Reviews Prey
Did I… did I just actually watch a great Predator sequel?? I almost can’t believe it! Predator is one of several sci-fi franchises for which I have a lot of affection, but which has been floundering for decades with one less-than-successful sequel after another. (IR
Josh Reviews Top Gun: Maverick
Decades after the events of the original Top Gun, Maverick is working as a test pilot and still brazenly disobeying orders he doesn’t agree with. On the verge of being bounced out of the Navy, his old friend Iceman, now an Admiral, tasks Maverick with returning to Top Gun as a
Josh Reviews Revolver
I’m a huge fan of Guy Ritchie’s first two films: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000). Mr. Ritchie followed that up with Swept Away in 2o02, which remains the only film Mr. Ritchie has directed that I haven’t seen. It was brutally panned
Josh Reviews Thor: Love and Thunder
I enjoyed the first two Thor films, though in hindsight I think both count among the weaker of the MCU films. Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi, was a glorious surprise and a thrilling reinvention of the Thor character. It was epic and exciting and also deliriously funny a