Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The King’s Speech
I really can’t believe how much I enjoyed director Tom Hooper’s new film The King’s Speech! I was a bit dubious going in. I’d heard that the film was good, but it looked like a classic “Oscar-bait” type of movie to me. You know: period setting,
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The Kids Are All Right
In Lisa Cholodenko’s film The Kids Are All Right, we meet Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), a loving lesbian couple who have been raising two kids together: Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh Hutcherson). Their lives aren’t perfect, but over-all it̵
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Flipped
Back in June I posted a trailer for Rob Reiner’s new film, Flipped, and I wondered if, at last, Rob Reiner (the mastermind behind This is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men) had broken his long dry streak and fin
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Black Swan
I’m not really sure quite how to put this so I’ll just go ahead and say it: Black Swan freaked me the fuck out. And I pretty much loved every second of it. The one-two punch of The Fountain and The Wrestler have made me a big, big fan of Darren Aronofsky, and with Black [&
Josh Reviews The Green Hornet
Some movies are so bad that they are soul-crushingly painful. It kills me when I sit down in a movie theatre with great hope and anticipation for a new film, only to watch my dreams slowly shatter as the turd-on-film unfolds. I’m not talking about films that disappoint, I
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Winter’s Bone
I’m always intrigued by the idea of world-building in film. Whether we’re talking about fantasy worlds a long time ago and far, far away, or the depiction of distinct real-life settings or time-periods, when I watch a movie I love to be immersed in a fully-realized unive
New Look!
Hope everyone is digging the site’s new look! This has been cooking for a while, and I’m really excited to have finally unveiled it this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out our revamped Comics Archive interface. You’ll find an alphabetica
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Easy A
If there was any doubt in your mind that Emma Stone is a bona fide movie star, that should be erased by Easy A. She’s clearly a vibrant, intelligent, beautiful young woman, and she’s very engagingly watchable. She has no trouble carrying this film on her young shoulder
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Despicable Me
Despicable Me seemed like a movie that I’d really dig. It’s an animated film about dueling super-villains, which is a great hook, and it features a spectacular voice cast: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, Jack McBrayer,
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews True Grit
This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features a brief interveiw with the Coen Brothers, in which the writer congratulates Joel & Ethan Coen on True Grit, a “four-quadrant” movie (meaning a flick that appeals to men and women, young and old), and the biggest