Josh Reviews Play Dirty
Play Dirty is the latest film written and directed by Shane Black. Mr. Black wrote a number of very successful action movies in the eighties and nineties (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero), and in 2005 he wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Dow
Catching up on 2017: Josh Reviews All The Money in the World
In 1973, teenager Paul Getty, grandson of the wealthy J. Paul Getty, was kidnapped in Italy. Paul’s grandfather J. Paul Getty was considered to be not only the richest man on the planet but perhaps the richest man who had ever lived. And so, the kidnappers thought they could get
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2017 — Part One!
I hope you enjoyed my look back at my Favorite Episodes of TV of 2017! And now, let’s turn to my Favorite Movies of 2017… As always, there were far more great movies released this year than I had time to see. Movies that looked great but that I missed include: Three Bi
Josh Reviews Ted
Ted is the live-action, feature-film directorial debut of Seth MacFarlane, the man behind Family Guy and it’s various spin-offs. It’s a triumphant debut film, confidently made. Ted takes a fairy tale premise, that a lonely young boy makes a wish that his teddy bear will
Ape Management Part 6: Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001)
My friends and I discovered the Planet of the Apes films in college. We’d taken to visiting the local rental store, trying to fill in the gaps in our movie-watching histories. Basically, we rented films that we felt we really SHOULD see, since we considered ourselves movie-f
Catching Up on 2010: Josh Reviews The Fighter
When I first heard about The Fighter, I thought “here we go again, yet another boxing movie.” But then I realized that, though I could certainly list a TON of boxing movies, I haven’t actually seen that many of them. I’m not at all interested in the “
Josh Reviews The Other Guys
In this summer of bad movies, I suppose The Other Guys must be considered a great comedic success — and, I will freely admit, there is a lot of fun to be had in this film — but it’s not quite the home run I’d been hoping for from a cast and filmmakers of this [
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