Josh Reviews The King’s Man
The King’s Man tells the story of how the Kingsmen — the “independent intelligence service” seen in 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service and 2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle — came to be. It’s 1914, and the world stands on the brink o
Josh Reviews Licorice Pizza
Licorice Pizza, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, The Master, Inherent Vice), is set in 1973 in the San Fernando Valley. When the film opens, we see a line of kids waiting to take their school picture. Among them is 15 year-old Gary Valentine, a confiden
Josh Reviews House of Gucci
Amazingly, Ridley Scott directed two films that were released in 2021: The Last Duel (which I think is a very strong film that was improperly ignored upon its release) and House of Gucci. I missed House of Gucci in theaters when it was first released, so I’m thrilled to have c
Josh Reviews Belfast
Belfast, written and directed by Kenneth Branagh, is set in the titular city during 1969. Based on Mr. Branagh’s own childhood, the film focuses on the experience of a nine-year old boy during “the Troubles” (the violence in Ireland that lasted from the 1960’
Josh Reviews Catwoman: Hunted
In the new animated DC universe movie, Catwoman: Hunted, Selina Kyle steals a priceless gem from the criminal organization called Leviathan. As Leviathan tries to hunt Catwoman down to take revenge, Selina winds up teaming up with Batwoman, Julia Pennyworth, and King Faraday, who ar
Josh Reviews The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar is an adaptation of novelist & journalist J. R. Moehringer’s 2005 memoir. The film chronicles the coming of age of young JR, growing up on Long Island in the seventies. When his parents split up, JR and his mom move back in with his mom’s parents on
Josh Reviews the 4K Restoration of the “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture!
Praise be to the Great Bird of the Galaxy — after two decades of wishing and hoping, I am delighted that a beautiful high-definition 4K version of the “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture now exists!! I watched it streaming on Paramount+, and
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish
Immediately after completing work on The Outsiders, his 1983 adaptation of the novel by S.E. Hinton, Francis Ford Coppola began making an adaptation of another of S.E. Hinton’s novels, Rumble Fish, starring several members of The Outsiders cast. Both The Outsiders and Rumble F
Josh Reviews Nightmare Alley
As Guillermo del Toro’s film Nightmare Alley opens, we see images of a man apparently hiding a corpse underneath the floorboards and then burning down the isolated house as he walks away. It’s 1939, and that man, Stan (played by Bradley Cooper) winds up finding work in a
Josh Reviews CODA
The beautiful, sweet film CODA was written and directed by Sian Heder (based on the French film La Famille Bélier). The CODA of the title — a Child of Deaf Adults — is Ruby Rossi, a high school student living in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ruby is the only