Josh Reviews Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham is the latest direct-to-blu-ray DC animated film. It’s based on the three-issue mini-series from 2000/2001, written by Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy) and Richard Pace, penciled by Troy Nixey and inked by Dennis Janke. The story mixes B
Josh Reviews Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 is a magnificent film, fun and funny and thrilling and heartbreaking. I don’t think I could have asked for a better conclusion to writer/director James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy and his association (at least for now) with Marve
Josh Reviews B’Twixt Now and Sunrise: The Authentic Cut
I never saw Francis Ford Coppola’s 2011 horror film Twixt. I remember being intrigued by the idea that Mr. Coppola had written and directed a horror film with some 3D sequences. And I’d read that he had some wild ideas about taking the film on tour and doing a live re-
Josh Reviews A Man Called Otto
Tom Hanks stars as the titular Otto in A Man Called Otto, a film adapted from the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Otto is a grumpy old man, who seems to have taken it upon himself to be the enforcer of all rules and regulations on his gated street. He seems to […
Josh Reviews Air
Air tells the story of the team at Nike who, in 1984, were involved in the creation of the wildly popular Air Jordan sneakers. At the time, Nike was a minor player in the basketball shoe market, lagging far behind Converse and Adidas. But Nike’s talent scout Sonny Vaccaro be
Josh Reviews the Legion of Super-Heroes Animated Movie
Legion of Super-Heroes is the latest direct-to-blu-ray DC animated movie. It’s a well-made depiction of the classic DC team of futuristic super-heroic teens. The story opens with the origin of Kara Zor-El, Supergirl. We see how she survived the destruction of Krypton and t
Josh Reviews Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Two years after the events of the first Shazam! film, we see that Billy Batson and his foster-siblings are continuing to try to use their superpowers to help people. But they don’t work that well as a team, and the individual kids are drifting apart as they get older and live
Josh Reviews In Search of Tomorrow
In Search of Tomorrow is a crowd-funded documentary that takes an in-depth look at the sci-fi movies of the eighties. (I backed this project on Indiegogo back in 2021.) From the huge blockbusters to the low-budget camp-fests, this lengthy film takes a deep dive into the many wonderf
Josh Reviews Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
In Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Scott Lang (Ant Man) and his daughter Cassie, along with Hope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne, and Hank Pym, get sucked back into the Quantum Realm. Janet was trapped for decades in this subatomic realm, and it turns out it’s not nearly as desert
Josh Reviews Strange World
In the prologue of the Disney animated film Strange World, brave adventurer Jaeger Clade and his 15-year-old son Searcher are attempting to cross the seemingly uncrossable mountains that surround their home of Avalonia. Searcher discovers an amazing plant that seems to generate elec