Josh Reviews Mute, the Second Film in Duncan Jones’ “Moon Trilogy”
I was blown away by Moon, Duncan Jones’ 2009 directorial debut. It’s a fantastic original sci-fi film, featuring Sam Rockwell in a terrific leading performance. (Well, actually multiple terrific leading performances… watch the movie!) Unfortunately, I havenR
Josh Reviews Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Who Are You, Charlie Brown? is a lovely short documentary on Apple TV+, exploring the life of Charles Schultz and the development of his classic Peanuts comic strip and its characters. The documentary was produced by Ron Howard & Brian Grazer’s Imagine Documentaries and di
Josh Reviews Justice Society: World War II
In the latest DC animated direct to DVD/blu-ray film, Justice Society: World War II, the Flash winds up zapped from present day back to World War II. There he encounters the Justice Society, a group of superheroes led by Wonder Woman who are fighting alongside the Allies in Europe. I
Josh Reviews Wrath of Man
Wrath of Man is the latest film directed by Guy Ritchie. Jason Statham stars as the man nicknamed “H,” a security guard for an armored truck company. In the film’s opening sequence, we see a group of armed men attack and rob one of the company’s trucks, lea
Josh Reviews The Suicide Squad
Five years after the first disappointing Suicide Squad film from DC/Warner Brothers comes another attempt at the property, the similarly-titled The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James Gunn. It’s sort of crazy to me that DC/Warner Brothers can’t or won’t ma
Josh Reviews Batman: Soul of the Dragon
Batman: Soul of the Dragon is one of the most interesting DC animated direct-to-DVD/blu-ray films to come down the pike in the past several years. This out of continuity story features Bruce Wayne/Batman and other (relatively obscure) DC characters in a 1970’s style martial a
Josh Reviews Black Widow
The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies have finally returned, after their longest hiatus since the earliest days of the MCU, with Black Widow! I have not yet ventured back into a movie theater, but I was delighted to be able to watch Black Widow on Disney+. Marvel’s Phase 4 wa
Josh Reviews In the Heights
I watched In the Heights on HBO Max and I loved it! The film was directed by John M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), based on the musical by Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda. I’ve never seen the musical on stage, and I have been very excited to see this film version e
Josh Reviews Without Remorse
I was very excited when it was first announced that Michael B. Jordan would be starring in a feature adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel Without Remorse. I recently watched the film, streaming on Amazon Prime. It’s a solid mid-level action movie, but I must confess that I
Josh Reviews The New Mutants
The New Mutants film, directed by Josh Boone and written by Mr. Boone and Knate Lee, was originally filmed back in 2017. It was meant to be a spin-off of Fox’s X-Men film series, telling the story of a group of teenagers trapped in a hospital for young mutants whose powers ar