The Empire Strikes Back in Sixty Seconds
This made me laugh: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (In 60 Seconds) Atom.com: Funny Videos | Spoofs | Star Wars Fan Movie Champions
“I’ve Just Privatized World Peace” — Josh Reviews Iron Man 2!
I’m always chasing after that perfect cinematic experience — the rare movie where everything just seems to magically click, and I walk out of the theatre totally jazzed by what just unspooled before my eyes. I felt that way when I saw the first Iron Man. I was really blo
From the DVD Shelf: Josh reviews The Cat’s Meow (2001)
It’s funny — although I acknowledge that Peter Bogdanovich is a significant, influential director, I must admit with some embarrassment that I’ve seen very few of his films. Many of his ground-breaking films from the ’70s remain, as-yet-unseen, on my lengthy
News Around the Net!
There’s a great article about Mel Brooks up at Boston.com, because his musical Young Frankenstein is coming to Boston for a two-week run. I was disappointed by Young Frankenstein when I saw it on broadway, but this brief piece about one of our comedic legends is worth a read.
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews The TV Set (2006)
As with Death at a Funeral (which I reviewed last month), The TV Set is a film that I’ve been wanting to see ever since it was released. It was one of those films that sounded really interesting to me, and was very well-reviewed, but I just never got around to catching it. I
“She’s always right” — Josh Reviews Modern Romance (1981)
Drew McWeeny (who has a terrific blog over at Hitfix.com) has a series called “The Basics,” in which he writes about a film that he considers one of the “essentials” — a film that anyone who takes film seriously should see — and then another, yo
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story
The new documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story tells two interwoven stories: one is an overview of British comedian Eddie Izzard’s life-story, while the other is a more detailed look at the process by which, in 2003, he crafted an entirely new stand-up routine (that would e
From the DVD Shelf: Josh reviews the original Death at a Funeral (2007)
I’ve been wanting to see Death at a Funeral ever since it was first released (back in 2007), so it’s a funny coincidence that it arrived in my home (via Netflix) the same week that the American remake (featuring a predominantly African-American cast) opened in theatres. Th
Looking for Calvin & Hobbes
It is easy to run short on adjectives when describing Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip, Calvin & Hobbes. Running from 1985-1995, Calvin & Hobbes is undoubtedly one of the triumphs of modern newspaper cartooning, and the strip has lost none of its humor, warmth, or po