The Worst Movie Endings of All Time
A few days ago, Devin Faraci wrote a great piece over on Badassdigest.com (a really phenomenal site that I can’t recommend highly enough) about the terrible ending of the classic Bill Murray film, Stripes. Mr. Faraci is right on the nose — the last 30 or so minutes of Stri
The Top 10 Movies of 2010 — Part One!
2010 was not a great year for new movies, in my opinion. For the first ten months of the year, I saw far fewer movies in the theatre than I had in years past. Part of that was due to how busy my life has gotten these days, but it was also because there just […]
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews True Grit
This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly features a brief interveiw with the Coen Brothers, in which the writer congratulates Joel & Ethan Coen on True Grit, a “four-quadrant” movie (meaning a flick that appeals to men and women, young and old), and the biggest
News Around the Net!
Lots of great Lost analysis out there. Click here for EW‘s Jeff Jensen’s in-depth write-up of the season 6 premiere. I’m a big fan of “Doc” Jensen’s weekly Lost write-ups — they’re always insightful and ridiculously detailed. Clic
Josh Reviews A Serious Man
This, my friends, is how you follow up a Best Picture Oscar win. After No Country For Old Men, the Coen Brothers released the wonderfully bizarre Burn After Reading (read my review here). Less than a year later, they have bestowed upon us the even more wonderful (and even more bizarre
Three Films by the Coen Brothers
I often get obsessed with watching movies linked by a certain theme — sometimes I like to track down different films featuring a particular actor, or different films by a certain director. A few months ago, for example, I wrote about my exploration of the films of David Mamet
Top 10 Movies of 2008! — Part One!
In case you haven’t figured this out already, I LOVE movies. And in 2009, as usual, I saw a LOT of movies. Today and tomorrow I’d like to celebrate what I feel were the best of the best of the new films released between January 1st and December 31st, 2008. Before we dive
Burn After Reading
There are a few writer/directors whose new films, which we seem to get on a pleasingly regular basis, are always a must-see for me. I’m thinking about talents like Woody Allen, David Mamet, and the Coen Brothers. With artists like that, I know that a new film will always be