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
Josh Reviews Godzilla vs. Kong
Well, I have to admit to at least being somewhat impressed that the folks at Legendary powered through and made their monster-movie crossover, despite the somewhat lackluster box office performance of the previous movies in the series. For myself, I thought Gareth Edwards’ 201
Josh Reviews On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola’s latest film, On the Rocks, stars Rashida Jones as Laura, a woman who begins to suspect that her husband Dean (Marlon Wayans) is cheating on her. So Laura enlists the aid of her wealthy, playboy-like father, Felix, to track Dean and get to the bottom of what’s goi
Josh Reviews Greyhound
Earlier this week I reviewed News of the World, one of two great Tom Hanks films released in the latter part of 2020. The other was Greyhound. Based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester, the film depicts several terrifying days in the middle of the Atlantic during
Josh Reviews News of the World
In News of the World, Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a veteran of the Civil War who now eeks out a living by traveling from town to town to read from newspapers for the townspeople’s entertainment and edification. Captain Kidd winds up entangled with a young girl n
Josh Reviews The Vast of Night
In a small New Mexico town in the 1950’s, on a night in which most of the town is gathered in the local gymnasium for a basketball game, the young switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick), and her friend, local radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz ), hear a mysterious sound that t
Josh Reviews Palm Springs
In Palm Springs, written by Andy Siara and directed by Max Barbakov, Andy Samberg stars as Nyles, a man who, we quickly discover, has been trapped in a Groundhog Day style time loop. Nyles has been living the same day over and over and over. That day happens to be the wedding of