Josh Reviews A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown charts the rise of Bob Dylan from 1961-1965. The film opens with Dylan as a nobody, hitchhiking to New York City to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie, who had recently been hospitalized. We follow Dylan’s steps to success — and then stardom — up thr
“I Don’t Understand the Play” — Josh Reviews Asteroid City
Asteroid City is the latest wonderful film from Wes Anderson. (Mr. Anderson wrote and directed the film; the story is credited to Mr. Anderson and Roman Coppola.) The film is set in a stylized version of the 1950’s, in a little town in the middle of nowhere called Asteroid C
Josh Reviews Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
I adored Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, and so I was delighted when I heard he was writing & directing a sequel for Netflix! Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, does not disappoint — it’s a fun, twisty new mystery that tells a fresh story that at the same time feels
Josh Reviews The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is a salute to a very specific (and mostly vanished) type of journalism: the heyday of The New Yorker magazine and its writers. The film itself is an anthology of several vignettes, beautifully structured to resemble the differe
Josh Reviews Isle of Dogs
I adored Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s first foray into stop-motion animation from back in 2010, and so for quite some time I have been anticipating the release of his follow-up, Isle of Dogs, which Mr. Anderson wrote and directed. The film is set in Japan in the near futu
Josh Reviews Birdman
Let me cut right to the chase: this film is phenomenal! In Birdman, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson. Riggan was once a world-famous Hollywood super-star who played the super-hero Birdman in three wildly successful films. But he made waves by refusing to return to the role for
Josh Reviews The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ever since seeing The Royal Tenenbaums in theatres and being absolutely blown away, I’ve been a big fan of Wes Anderson. Over the last few years, the filmmaker has been on a particularly special, can’t-do-any-wrong winning streak. I thought Fantastic Mr. Fox was his st
Josh Reviews Moonrise Kingdom
I know some people who don’t care for the peculiar stylization of Wes Anderson’s films, but I am an enormous fan of his work, and the arrival of a new Wes Anderson film is always a cause for excitement for me. I particularly adored Mr. Anderson’s most recent film,
From the DVD Shelf: Fight Club (1999)
After re-watching David Fincher’s 1995 film Se7en (click here for my review), I couldn’t resist taking another look back at Fight Club. As with Se7en, I had seen Fight Club only once before. I’d really enjoyed it, but because of the violence and the extraordinari
How to edit a movie, starring The Incredible Hulk
In the weeks before Marvel’s The Incredible Hulk opened this summer, there were a lot of stories on-line and in various entertainment magazines about a dispute over the editing of the film between Marvel and star Edward Norton (who played Bruce Banner). As the tale was told, N