Josh Reviews Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
In Guy Ritchie’s latest film, The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Master Sergeant John Kinley, who leads a team of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan in 2018, tasked with finding caches of bomb-making weapons. It’s dangerous work, and in an early sequence we see a truck-bom
Josh Reviews Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle is the newest DC superhero movie released by Warner Brothers Discovery. It’s the third of four DC superhero films that were left in limbo following the announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran would be rebooting the DC film universe, despite these four mostly-
“I Don’t Understand the Play” — Josh Reviews Asteroid City
Asteroid City is the latest wonderful film from Wes Anderson. (Mr. Anderson wrote and directed the film; the story is credited to Mr. Anderson and Roman Coppola.) The film is set in a stylized version of the 1950’s, in a little town in the middle of nowhere called Asteroid C
Josh Reviews the Documentary Howard
Don Hahn’s beautiful documentary Howard is a tribute to the life and work of Howard Ashman, the extraordinarily talented songwriter who wrote the book and lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors and, along with composer Alan Menken, wrote the songs for Disney’s The Little Mermai
Catching up with Creed III
In Creed III, we catch up with Adonis Creed as he’s retiring a champion and settling into a pleasant life being a rich and famous celebrity. He’s enjoying his family life with his wife Bianca and his daughter Amara, and he’s become a successful manager and mentor t
Josh Reviews the Animated Justice League: Warworld
Justice League: Warworld is the latest direct-to-DVD/blu-ray DC animated film. I knew that there was a recent extended storyline in the Superman comics about Superman’s being trapped on Warworld, forced to compete in the gladiatorial games there, in an effort to free the impri
Josh Reviews Babylon 5: The Road Home
I’m a big fan of Babylon 5! While I always was more of a Star Trek fan, and I preferred Deep Space Nine over B5 in the battle of the nineties sci-fi shows set on space stations, I have tremendous respect and affection for what J. Michael Straczynski created with Babylon 5. His “
Josh Reviews Oppenheimer
A new Christopher Nolan movie is always exciting to me. I’ve been a huge fan ever since Memento. Some of his movies rank among my favorite films ever, such as The Prestige and The Dark Knight. I was surprised that I so disliked his most recent film, Tenet. Yet I remained
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his allies Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg) and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) find themselves the world’s last hope against an AI system nicknamed “the Entity” that has been spreadi
Josh Reviews Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Quick run-down of my feelings on the Indiana Jones series: the original Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I also have enormous love for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I have a lot of fondness for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, though I