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
Josh Reviews Oxygen
In the film Oxygen (available to view on Netflix), Mélanie Laurent plays the main character (whose name we don’t at first know), who wakes up trapped in some sort of futuristic medical pod. She doesn’t know who she is or how she got there. The pod has an A.I. called
Josh Reviews The Eternals
The latest MCU film, The Eternals, brings Jack Kirby’s cosmic creations to the big screen for the first time. The film introduces audiences to the Eternals, a group of immortals who have been living on Earth for around seven thousand years. They were planted on Earth by giga
Josh Reviews A Simple Favor
In Paul Feig’s 2018 film, A Simple Favor, we follow the unlikely friendship between tight-laced, goody-two-shoes single mom Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) and the mysterious, dynamic, sexy Emily (Blake Lively). When Emily disappears one day without a trace, the determined Stephanie
Josh Reviews Batman: The Long Halloween Parts One & Two!
The latest direct-to-DVD/blu-ray DC animated film is a two-part adaptation of Batman: The Long Halloween. This comic book story was originally published as a 13-issue mini-series back in 1996-1997, written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Tim Sale. The story is set soon after the ev
Josh Reviews Dune
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my very favorite novels. I adore it and have read it many times. (Each time I read it, I feel like I inch closer to full comprehension.) I have a soft spot in my heart for David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune; it’s a terrible mov
Josh Reviews Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and his best friend Katy (Awkwafina) are happy working go-nowhere jobs together, parking cars as hotel valets. But when Shang is attacked on a bus, the past he’d tried to bury comes rushing back. It turns out his father is Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), a crime