Josh Reviews Alex Garland’s Civil War
Alex Garland’s film Civil War is set in the very near future, in a world in which the United States has collapsed into civil war, with several secessionist factions violently battling a central government led by a third-term president (Nick Offerman). Lee (Kirsten Dunst) is a
Josh Reviews Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is set twenty years after the events of Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien film, and 37 years before the events of James Cameron’s sequel, Aliens. Rain is an orphan working in indentured servitude to “the Company” (Weyland-Yutani) on a failing
Josh Reviews Deadpool & Wolverine
After Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, many Marvel fans, like I was, were thrilled that so many of the Marvel characters were finally back under one roof. I was over the moon excited (and I still am!) to see the Fantastic Four and the X-Men brought into the MCU. But fans had ques
Josh Reviews A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the two A Quiet Place films, showing us what happened on the first day when the aliens who menaced John Krasinski & Emily Blunt’s family first arrived on planet Earth. The story focuses on Samira (Lupita Nyong’o), a young woman in hos
Josh Reviews The Naboo Movie
I’ll be back here soon with my detailed thoughts on The Acolyte, the latest Star Wars TV show, which just wrapped up this week. I also still have to finish and post my review of The Bad Batch season three. But the Star Wars thing I’m most excited to tell you all about
Josh Reviews Furiosa
Mad Max: Fury Road is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have a lot of love in my heart for all three original Mad Max films, but Fury Road is true masterpiece, a master-class in how to tell story and create character through action. The film was a visceral action experience, a
Josh Reviews The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat is based on the book by Daniel James Brown and tells the true story of the University of Washington junior rowing team and their eventual triumph at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The film adaptation was written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, The Midnight
Josh Reviews The Saint of Second Chances
I am head over heels in love with the documentary The Saint of Second Chances, directed by Morgan Neville (who directed the wonderful Mister Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) and Jeff Malmberg. The film explores the story of Mike Veeck. His father was Bill Veeck, o
Josh Reviews Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two
DC/Warner Brothers seems to be wrapping up their “Tomorrowverse” continuity of animated films with a three-part adaptation of the seminal 1985-86 mini-series Crisis on Infinite Earths (by Marv Wolfman and George Perez). I was excited by the idea of a three-movie adaptati
Josh Reviews The Fall Guy
In The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling plays stunt man Colt Seavers. We meet him at work on set, doubling for movie-star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and flirting with his girlfriend, camerawoman Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt). But when a stunt goes wrong, Colt is badly injured and retreat