Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2025 — Part Three!
We’re halfway into my list of my favorite movies of 2025! Click here for part one and click here for part two. And now, let’s begin my TOP TEN: 10. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl — One of the great blessings of 2025 was the return of Wallace and Gromit,
Josh Reviews Black Bag
Black Bag stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married spies Kathryn St. Jean & George Woodhouse. Both Kathryn & George are senior officials in the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Center. Kathryn heads up the operations side of things, while George
Josh Reviews Nightmare Alley
As Guillermo del Toro’s film Nightmare Alley opens, we see images of a man apparently hiding a corpse underneath the floorboards and then burning down the isolated house as he walks away. It’s 1939, and that man, Stan (played by Bradley Cooper) winds up finding work in a
Josh Reviews Andy Serkis’ Mowgli
I’ve been following the long path of Andy Serkis’ Mowgli to the screen for years, and I am delighted to have finally seen it via its home on Netflix. Mr. Serkis began developing this adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s stories (collected in the book All the Mowgli stories
Marvel Triumphs Again With Thor: Ragnarok!
Thor: Ragnarok is the third Thor film, but more importantly it is the incredible seventeenth film in the continuing and expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. Looking back over these seventeen films, it is astounding to consider the incredibly high quality that Marvel has been able to
Josh Reviews The Monuments Men
Two of the films George Clooney has directed are among my very favorite films. I think his debut film, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, is probably in my top 20-30 films of all time. It’s a deliriously clever, mind-bending piece of work, with a dynamite script by Charlie Kau
Josh Reviews Blue Jasmine
It was over thirty years ago when Woody Allen himself made reference to fans who preferred his “earlier, funnier movies” (in 1980’s Stardust Memories, to be exact, and holy cow I can’t believe how long ago that movie came out). There are a great many people o
Josh Reviews Hanna!
Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a young girl who has been raised in total isolation in a frigid, rural setting by her father Erik (Eric Bana). When we first meet Hanna, it becomes immediately clear that Erik has been training her to be a fierce warrior — tough, smart, and fearless,
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
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
This is the film I’ve been waiting for. Steph and I took advantage of our vacation to see a LOT of the big Oscar-hopeful films that have been released in the past few weeks. As usual, there has been a crazy end-of-the-year rush of “serious” films, many of which won