Josh Reviews Vengeance
B.J. Novak wrote, directed and stars in Vengeance. He plays Ben, an arrogant, self-absorbed young New York journalist. One night he gets a call from a distraught guy in Texas, telling Ben his girlfriend was murdered. Turns out the young woman, Abilene, was just someone Ben had h
Josh Reviews Elvis
Vaz Luhrmann’s Elvis is a rollicking guided tour through the highs and lows of Elvis Presley’s life and career, from his childhood as a poor kid in Mississippi to his extraordinary super-stardom as “the king of rock and roll” to his sad final days as a bloated
Josh Reviews Three Thousand Years of Longing
In Three Thousand Years of Longing, Tilda Swinton plays Alithea, a British academic. She’s a “narratologist,” someone who has devoted her life to the study of stories. Her solitary life is interrupted when she encounters a Djinn (Idris Elba), who offers her three
Josh Reviews Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Chadwick Boseman’s tragic death in 2020 at only 43 years old was a tremendous loss. A loss for his family and friends. And a loss to the world for all the art that he could have, and should have, had an opportunity to create. Far down the list of aspects of the tragedy of
Josh Reviews Battle of the Super Sons
The latest DC direct-to-blu-ray/DVD animated film, Battle of the Super Sons, is a surprisingly entertaining action/adventure yarn with solid animation and fun, interesting characters. It’s one of the best DC animated films in years. I would not have guessed that I would hav
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights
After rewatching Barry Levinson’s Diner (1982) and Avalon (1990), I couldn’t resist moving on to rewatch Mr. Levinson’s 1999 film Liberty Heights. Written and directed by Mr. Levinson, Liberty Heights is another semi-autobiographical look back at his youth in Balti
Josh Reviews Black Adam
Black Adam is the latest DC universe movie to hit the screens, starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular villain/anti-hero. In the fictional nation of Kahndaq, a woman and her friends wake up the superpowered Black Adam from the tomb in which he’s been trapped for thousands of ye
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Avalon
Barry Levinson’s Avalon charts the journey of a Jewish immigrant family, the Krichinskys, in Baltimore throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Sam Krichinsky, who immigrates from Poland to Baltimore in 1941. We follow Sam and his extended family, es
Josh Reviews Confess, Fletch
For something like three decades they’ve been trying to make a Fletch sequel. Lo and behold, Greg Mottola (director of Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul) and Jon Hamm have cracked the code. And yet, weirdly… I feel like very few people know this movie even exists. It
Josh Reviews Clerks III
Back in 1994, Kevin Smith launched his career with the funny and innovative Clerks. Filmed at night in the very same convenience store where Mr. Smith worked, and made for a teensy tiny budget (basically paid for by Mr. Smith’s maxing out his own credit cards), Clerks was a wonde