More Thoughts on Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
Well, my review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens has generated a lot of interesting feedback, and as friends have been seeing the film over the last several days I’ve had a number of fascinating conversations, digging deeply into the film. Sometimes I find that if I write a revie
Josh Reviews Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau
I’m always fascinated by movie “what-if” stories and behind-the-scenes tales. It’s fascinating to discover how a great film got made, and it’s equally if not more fascinating to discover how a terrible film got made. How could so much money be spent,
Josh Reviews Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
I don’t remember a time in my life in which I didn’t know about and love Star Wars. I was a little kid when the original films came out, and by the time I really remember it, Star Wars was already a complete thing. Three films: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and R
Josh Reviews Best of Enemies
Best of Enemies is a fascinating documentary that tells the story of the ten live debates on ABC in 1968 between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal. The film is a riveting examination of this lightning-rod moment in American television and politics, one whose reverberations are s
Josh Reviews Jessica Jones
I was excited when Netflix announced that Daredevil would be the first of their Marvel universe TV shows. But I was even more excited when Netflix announced that Jessica Jones would be their second. I was also somewhat concerned, since as an enormous fan of the character I was wor
New Around the Net!
So, holy shit, I am seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens a week from today! That a new Star Wars film, featuring the cast of the Original Trilogy, is so close to being a real thing that I can see, is incredible. I expected that someday there would be new Star Wars movies, but I [&h
Josh Reviews Master of None: Season One!
I discovered Aziz Ansari on Parks and Rec, and was immediately a big fan. (Moment of somber reflection for Parks and Rec, a wonderful show that I miss terribly!) Parks and Rec led me to his stand-up, which I thoroughly enjoyed. And so I was excited and intrigued when I learned t
Josh Reviews Steve Jobs
The film Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, is divided into three vignettes, each taking place in the moments before Steve Jobs will go on-stage to announce the launch of a new product. The first vignette is in 1984, at the launch of the Macintosh compu
Late to the Party: Josh Reviews The Americans: Season One
I’ve been reading praise for The Americans for several years now, so I’m glad to have finally found the time to dive in myself with their first thirteen-episode season. The Americans stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, a husband-and-wife
Josh Reviews The Night Before
Well, its title is pretty generic and meaningless but other than that I have little bad to say about The Night Before, the fun and funny new raunchy buddy comedy starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Anthony Mackie. Director Jonathan Levine can pretty much do no wrong in my b