Josh Reviews the Animated Watchmen: Chapter One
I’ll admit it, I was very dubious when I read that DC/Warner Brothers were releasing a two-part animated adaptation of Watchmen. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ seminal series from 1985-86. It was thunderously influ
Josh Reviews Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola has been talking about his dream project, Megalopolis, for decades. I’m always interested in seeing artists given the opportunity to bring a dream project to fruition, and I believe that Francis Ford Coppola is one of the greatest directors of our time.
Josh Reviews The Great Kamino Kaper
Over the summer I wrote a glowing review of The Naboo Movie, a live-reading of the script for Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace by an incredible array of actors and comedians. The event was organized and hosted by the folks behind Star Wars Minute and The George Lucas
Josh Reviews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Decades after the events of the original Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) is the host of a TV show about the supernatural (shades of Pete Venkman hosting World of the Psychic), and is somewhat estranged from her lonely daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega). When Lydia’s father
Josh Reviews Drive Away Dolls
Drive Away Dolls is set in 1999; two lesbian best friends decide to take a road trip from Philadelphia to Tallahassee. Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) is straight-laced and has been having trouble coming out of her shell, while Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is brash and outgoing, though h
Josh Reviews Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three
Crisis on Infinite Earths is one of the most famous storylines in the long history of DC Comics. This twelve-issue mini-series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez and was released in 1985-86, and it ended and then restarted DC’s comic book continuity. T
Josh Reviews The Instigators
In The Instigators, two down on their luck Bostonians — divorced ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon) and motormouthed alcoholic Cobby (Casey Affleck) — are recruited for a heist. On election night, Boston’s incumbent mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) has scheduled a victory par
Josh Reviews Jackpot!
Jackpot! is set in the year 2030; the financially-desperate state of California has created the “Grand Lotto” in which, any time someone wins, anyone else with a losing ticket has until sundown to kill the lottery winner and claim their winnings. The only rules are that
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