Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights
After rewatching Barry Levinson’s Diner (1982) and Avalon (1990), I couldn’t resist moving on to rewatch Mr. Levinson’s 1999 film Liberty Heights. Written and directed by Mr. Levinson, Liberty Heights is another semi-autobiographical look back at his youth in Balti
Josh Reviews Black Adam
Black Adam is the latest DC universe movie to hit the screens, starring Dwayne Johnson as the titular villain/anti-hero. In the fictional nation of Kahndaq, a woman and her friends wake up the superpowered Black Adam from the tomb in which he’s been trapped for thousands of ye
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Avalon
Barry Levinson’s Avalon charts the journey of a Jewish immigrant family, the Krichinskys, in Baltimore throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Sam Krichinsky, who immigrates from Poland to Baltimore in 1941. We follow Sam and his extended family, es
Josh Reviews Confess, Fletch
For something like three decades they’ve been trying to make a Fletch sequel. Lo and behold, Greg Mottola (director of Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul) and Jon Hamm have cracked the code. And yet, weirdly… I feel like very few people know this movie even exists. It
Josh Reviews Clerks III
Back in 1994, Kevin Smith launched his career with the funny and innovative Clerks. Filmed at night in the very same convenience store where Mr. Smith worked, and made for a teensy tiny budget (basically paid for by Mr. Smith’s maxing out his own credit cards), Clerks was a wonde
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Diner
Diner, written and directed by Barry Levinson (who would go on to direct films such as The Natural, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Wag the Dog, and many more) is a semi-autobiographical story set in Baltimore in the closing days of 1959. We follow a group of friends who are tentat
Exploring Ridley Scott’s Legend
I’m a huge Ridley Scott fan. Several of his movies are among my favorite movies of all time (Alien, Blade Runner) and he has a long list of other movies that I love a LOT (The Martian, Gladiator, the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven, etc.). And yet, in Mr. Scott’s
Josh Reviews Green Lantern: Beware My Power
The new DC animated movie, Green Lantern: Beware My Power, introduces John Stewart to the new DC animated continuity. As the film opens, we meet American military veteran John Stewart, who gets in trouble with the cops for violently confronting some ne’er-do-wells who are thre
Josh Reviews Jurassic World: Dominion
Jurassic World: Dominion picks up the story four years after the end of the previous film, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Dinosaurs have spread across the world, mixing with our civilization — and other animal species — with often violent results. A genetics company,
Josh Reviews Prey
Did I… did I just actually watch a great Predator sequel?? I almost can’t believe it! Predator is one of several sci-fi franchises for which I have a lot of affection, but which has been floundering for decades with one less-than-successful sequel after another. (IR