Josh Reviews Tick, Tick… Boom!
Tick, Tick… Boom! is the feature film directorial debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda. The film was written by Steven Levenson, who won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dear Evan Hansen. It’s an adaptation of the musical by Jonathan Larson, best known as the
Josh Reviews Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home picks up seconds after the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home, with J. Jonah Jameson and Mysterio’s having revealed to the world that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. This brings Peter Parker’s life crashing down around him. Hounded everywhere he goes, a
Josh Reviews Judas and the Black Messiah
Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of the murder of Fred Hampton, the charismatic chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther party in 1969. J. Edgar Hoover and others in the FBI feared Chairman Hampton and saw him as a radical who needed to be eliminated; as such
Josh Reviews The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is a salute to a very specific (and mostly vanished) type of journalism: the heyday of The New Yorker magazine and its writers. The film itself is an anthology of several vignettes, beautifully structured to resemble the differe
Josh Reviews Woman in Motion
Woman in Motion shines a spotlight on Nichelle Nichols, who, of course, played Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek. The documentary film specifically explores Ms. Nichols’ remarkable work, beginning in 1977, to recruit men and women of color to be astronauts, scientists and engineers
Josh Reviews Injustice
Injustice is the latest DC animated movie, based on the videos game Injustice: Gods Among Us, as well as the variety of comic book series that expanded upon those games. (The film’s credits specifically site the comic book series Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year One by Tom Tayl
Josh Reviews The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall is a new Western film, released on Netflix, directed by Jeymes Samuel and written by Mr. Samuel & Boaz Yakin (Now You See Me). As the film opens, a young boy watches his parents murdered at their dinner table by an outlaw with beautiful golden pistols. Ye
Josh Reviews Vivo
In Vivo, the new Netflix animated film, Lin-Manuel Miranda voices the titular Vivo, a singing kinkajou who lives in Havana, Cuba, and performs on the street with his friend, the musician Andrés Hernández. One day,Andrés receives a letter from Marta, the love of his life who wen
Josh Reviews No Sudden Move
The great director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, No Sudden Move, was recently released on HBO Max. The film stars Don Cheadle as Curt Goynes, a man just released from prison. Needing cash, he takes a job along with another criminal named Ronald Russo (Benicio del Toro).
Josh Reviews Ghostbusters: Afterlife
I think the original 1984 Ghostbusters is one of the most perfect movies ever made. I adore that film. It’s a brilliant comedy whose jokes still hold up decades later (and even after so many viewings that I have most of the movie memorized). At the same time, it’s al