Josh Reviews Air
Air tells the story of the team at Nike who, in 1984, were involved in the creation of the wildly popular Air Jordan sneakers. At the time, Nike was a minor player in the basketball shoe market, lagging far behind Converse and Adidas. But Nike’s talent scout Sonny Vaccaro be
Josh Reviews the Legion of Super-Heroes Animated Movie
Legion of Super-Heroes is the latest direct-to-blu-ray DC animated movie. It’s a well-made depiction of the classic DC team of futuristic super-heroic teens. The story opens with the origin of Kara Zor-El, Supergirl. We see how she survived the destruction of Krypton and t
Josh Reviews Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Two years after the events of the first Shazam! film, we see that Billy Batson and his foster-siblings are continuing to try to use their superpowers to help people. But they don’t work that well as a team, and the individual kids are drifting apart as they get older and live
Josh Reviews In Search of Tomorrow
In Search of Tomorrow is a crowd-funded documentary that takes an in-depth look at the sci-fi movies of the eighties. (I backed this project on Indiegogo back in 2021.) From the huge blockbusters to the low-budget camp-fests, this lengthy film takes a deep dive into the many wonderf
Josh Reviews Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
In Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Scott Lang (Ant Man) and his daughter Cassie, along with Hope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne, and Hank Pym, get sucked back into the Quantum Realm. Janet was trapped for decades in this subatomic realm, and it turns out it’s not nearly as desert
Josh Reviews Strange World
In the prologue of the Disney animated film Strange World, brave adventurer Jaeger Clade and his 15-year-old son Searcher are attempting to cross the seemingly uncrossable mountains that surround their home of Avalonia. Searcher discovers an amazing plant that seems to generate elec
Josh Reviews Amsterdam
Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt
Josh Reviews Sidney
Sidney is a documentary on Apple TV about the great Sidney Poitier. It’s directed by Reginald Hudlin (who has directed many films including House Party and Boomerang, and who also is a talented comic book writer) and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey. The film traces Mr. Poi
Josh Reviews See How They Run
Set in London in 1953, See How They Run tells the story of a murder that rocks the production of the Agatha Christie murder mystery play The Mousetrap. Grizzled Scotland Yard Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and the young, eager Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) are tasked with in
Josh Reviews Lightyear
In the Pixar film Lightyear, Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear and his partner Alisha Hawthorne are assigned to shepherd a group of colonists to the planet that will serve as their new home. But when their ship crash-lands on an unknown, hostile world, Buzz devotes himself to finding a wa