Josh Reviews Three Thousand Years of Longing
In Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, a British academic. She’s a “narratologist,” someone who has devoted her life to the study of stories. Her solitary life is interrupted when she encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba), who offers her three
Josh Reviews Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death in 2020 at only 43 years old was a tremendous loss. A loss for his family and friends. And a loss to the world for all the art that he could have, and should have, had an opportunity to create. Far down the list of aspects of the tragedy of
Josh Reviews Battle of the Super Sons
The latest DC direct-to-blu-ray/DVD animated film, Battle of the Super Sons, is a surprisingly entertaining action/adventure yarn with solid animation and fun, interesting characters. It’s one of the best DC animated films in years. I would not have guessed that I would hav
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights
After rewatching Barry Levinson’s Diner (1982) and Avalon (1990), I couldn’t resist moving on to rewatch Mr. Levinson’s 1999 film Liberty Heights. Written and directed by Mr. Levinson, Liberty Heights is another semi-autobiographical look back at his youth in Balti
Josh Reviews Black Adam
Black Adam is the latest DC universe movie to hit the screens, starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular villain/anti-hero. In the fictional nation of Kahndaq, a woman and her friends wake up the superpowered Black Adam from the tomb in which he’s been trapped for thousands of ye
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Avalon
Barry Levinson’s Avalon charts the journey of a Jewish immigrant family, the Krichinskys, in Baltimore throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Sam Krichinsky, who immigrates from Poland to Baltimore in 1941. We follow Sam and his extended family, es
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