Josh Reviews Mare of Easttown
Soon after watching The Queen’s Gambit, I moved on to enjoy another magnificent seven-hour TV miniseries: Mare of Easttown. I think I liked this even more than The Queen’s Gambit! The series was written by Brad Ingelsby (who has written the screenplays for a number of
Josh Reviews Without Remorse
I was very excited when it was first announced that Michael B. Jordan would be starring in a feature adaptation of Tom Clancy’s novel Without Remorse. I recently watched the film, streaming on Amazon Prime. It’s a solid mid-level action movie, but I must confess that I
Josh Reviews Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott’s Alien (released in 1979 — can you believe it?) is a masterpiece of science fiction/suspense/horror, a near-perfect film that has barely aged a day. James Cameron’s Aliens (released in 1986) is one of the greatest sequels ever made, a spectacular acti
Josh Reviews Iron Man 3!
Iron Man was a magical film, a movie that caught a very specific, crazy sort of lightning in a bottle. I remember seeing it in a theater that very first time and realizing immediately that it was something special. It was intense and bad-ass but also incredibly funny and light-hea
Josh Reviews Prometheus
Sigh. I guess I’m just never going to see another good Alien movie, am I? Who’d have thought it would be so hard? Ridley Scott’s 1979 original seemed ripe for further exploration, not one of those movies that would be impossible to ever sequelize. And let’s n
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews Animal Kingdom
I noticed the small Australian crime drama, Animal Kingdom, on many critics’ 2010 Top 10 Lists, so I decided to track the film down myself to take a look. Whoa. I was not at all prepared for the level of terrible spirit-crushing oppression contained in this joyless look at a f