From the DVD Shelf: Insomnia (2002)
There’s no question in my mind that Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors working today. There’s only one of his films that I haven’t seen (his first — Following — and I do hope to remedy that situation soon), and I have thoroughly enjoyed ever
News Around the Net!
The casting announcements have been coming fast and furious for the new Spider-Man film, but I just can’t muster up much excitement. I simply think it’s a terrible idea to re-boot the Spider-Man franchise, which felt to me like it still had a ton of gas in the tank (desp
Spielberg in the Aughts: Minority Report (2002)
When I first saw Steven Spielberg’s film Minority Report in theatres back in 2002 (the only time I’d seen the film until I watched it again on DVD last week), I remember it becoming startlingly clear to me that the man has trouble with the endings of his films. I recogn
Josh Reviews Waiting For “Superman”
Director David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) has assembled a powerful new documentary, Waiting for “Superman,” about the deep problems in the United States’ public school system. These problems may seem extraordinary and insurmountable, but Mr. GuggenheimR
Jon Stewart and the Corbomite Maneuver!
Best part of today’s Rally to Restore Sanity (and/or Fear)? Why that would be Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s reference to The Corbomite Maneuver!! Long-time Trekkies like myself know, of course, that The Corbomite Maneuver is a classic episode of the original Star Tre
“No force on Earth or Heaven could get me on that island” — Josh takes a look back at Jurassic Park III
After re-watching Jurassic Park (click here for my review) and The Lost World (click here for my review) last month (as part of my look back at the last decade-and-a-half’s worth of films directed by Steven Spielberg) I figured, what the heck, why not take another look at Jurass
Great Scott!! Josh is Blown Away by the 25th Anniversary Screening of Back to the Future!
In celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary (and also, not coincidentally, to promote yesterday’s release of the trilogy on blu-ray), movie theatres across this great nation of ours screened Back to the Future this past Monday night. I’m thrilled to say that I ha
Ex Machina #50
Yesterday I wrote about the wonderfully intelligent, compelling comic-book series Ex Machina. Last month, series creators Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris unveiled the series’ final issue: number 50. So what did I think of it? (I’ll try to be vague about the details, but
Ex Machina
One of my favorite comic-book series of the last decade, Ex Machina, drew to a close last month. Before reading the 50th and final issue, I decided to go back and re-read the entire run of this extraordinary series. Ex Machina tells the story of Mitchell Hundred. In a world very m