Camp Ramah Gets Lost!
It’s become a bit of a tradition that, each summer at Camp Ramah in New England, we kick off our Staff Week at the beginning of each summer with a silly video that introduces our first program (which usually involves some sort of elaborate competition between the counselors of e
Three Great New(ish) Works by Alan Moore
Last month I waxed poetic a bit about the groundbreaking comic book work of writer Alan Moore, and I reviewed a recent interview/retrospective of his career, The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore: Indispensible Edition, by George Khoury, published by TwoMorrows Publishing. I commented
Josh Reviews Julie and Julia
Here’s how not to get me excited about a film: start it off by trailers for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster flick 2012, Rob Marshall’s latest musical Nine, and about five other movies that you could not pay me enough
From the DVD Shelf: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, and Valkyrie
I know some people who can’t stand to see a movie a second time — they think “been there, done that, I’d rather see something new.” I certainly don’t have anything against seeing something new, but I’m also someone who loves seeing movies fo
News Around the Net!
Love that photograph. (I first saw it here.) My friend Andy recently pointed me in the direction of a terrific web-comic called XKCD. It’s a self-described web-comic of “romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” My buddies who work in the computer world picked thi
Josh Reviews Extract
So let’s get this out of the way: Office Space is one of the greatest films ever made. Just a phenomenal movie. Writer/Director Mike Judge’s second film, Idiocracy, was much, much weaker (although not so horrible that it deserved the way it was basically dumped direc
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Waltz With Bashir
I saw a lot of films in 2008 — but, of course, there were many that I wanted to see but just didn’t get to. (I listed several when I compiled my list of the Best Movies of 2008.) Of the films that I missed, the one I was most bummed about was Waltz With […]
Another Chance to see Rifftrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space!
At the end of August, I wrote a piece about an amazing event that I had the pleasure of seeing at my local movie theatre: Rifftrax Live: Plan 9 From Outer Space. (Did you miss what I wrote? Check out my description of this phenomenal event here.) Apparently the event was so popular
The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore
Alan Moore is one of the undisputed masters of the comic book form, and that’s putting things mildly. He has authored a quite astounding body of work, including V For Vendetta, From Hell, and, of course, the magnum opus that is Watchmen. TwoMorrows Publishing has, for the past
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Diabolique (1954)
My wife borrowed the French movie Diabolique from her step-father, but after reading the description on the back of the case, which described the film as “an acknowledged influence on Psycho,” she decided that it would probably be too scary to watch. I, however, had neve