Josh Reviews One Battle After Another
One Battle After Another stars Leonardo DiCaprio as “Ghetto” Pat, now living in hiding as Bob Ferguson. Bob used to be a left-wing revolutionary, a member of the “French 75”, but now he’s living off the grid and raising his teenage daughter Willa. (Willa’s
Josh Reviews Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest film from director Martin Scorsese. It’s a towering piece of work, rich and devastating. The film was adapted by Mr. Scorsese and co-screenwriter Eric Roth (The Insider, Munich, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dune) from the book
Josh Reviews Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Seeing Pulp Fiction for the first time in the theater back in 1994 made me a Quentin Tarantino fan for life, and so I have been eagerly anticipating the release of his ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. A new Tarantino film as always a cause for excitement! I was not disa
Josh Reviews The Revenant
After falling head over heels in love with Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) last year, I was delighted to discover that he had another film coming out just a year later. The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a fur trapper he
The Top 15 Movies of 2013 — Part Three!
Click here for part one of my list of the Top 15 Movies of 2013, and click here for part two! And now, let’s complete my list: 5. The Wolf of Wall Street — This is a very polarizing film. I’ve had a lot of debates with folks ever since I published my very positiv
Josh Reviews The Wolf of Wall Street
At seventy-one years old, Martin Scorsese has unleashed upon us a work of towering ambition and accomplishment, with a rabble-rousing energy and anger that far outstrips most films made by filmmakers half his age. The Wolf of Wall Street is a three hour epic, fiercely entertaining a
Spielberg in the Aughts: Catch Me If You Can (2002)
When I began this project of rewatching the last decade-and-a-half’s worth of films directed by Steven Spielberg, I was hoping that I’d discover (or rediscover) some great films that I had perhaps dismissed too easily when I originally saw them in theatres. I wondered i
From the DVD Shelf: The Departed
As with Charlie Wilson’s War (which I wrote about on Wednesday), The Departed is a movie whose DVD has been sitting on my shelf for a while now, waiting for me to revisit it (after really enjoying my first viewing when I saw it in theatres). I am pleased to say I enjoyed the f