Josh Reviews Kingsman: The Golden Circle
I loved Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons comic-book mini-series The Secret Service, a delicious send-up of classic sixties-era James Bond spy capers. I was a little less taken with Matthew Vaughn’s film adaptation, Kingsman: The Secret Service. Mr. Vaughn is a terrific director
Josh Reviews It!
Stephen King’s lengthy novel It is a masterpiece, a rich, expansive saga that is horrifying and deeply moving in equal parts. It is one of the finest novels I have ever read. I was dubious that a film adaptation could satisfactorily distill this complex novel into a two-hour
Josh Enjoys Seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind Back on the Big Screen!
About a week after seeing the new 3D release of James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, I got to see one of the 40th anniversary screenings of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I can’t believe this film is forty years old!!! Close Encounters is one of my very fav
Josh Enjoys Seeing Terminator 2: Judgment Day Back on the Big Screen!
As I have written here before, I love the idea of revival showings of great classic movies. It is a special treat to get to see a terrific older movie back on the big screen, where it belongs! I wish this was done more often. It’s a pleasure whenever a studio gets behind t
Josh Reviews The Big Sick
The Big Sick, written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon and directed by Michael Showalter, is based on the true story of Kumail and Emily’s relationship. As the film opens, the two meet at one of Kumail’s shows and begin to date, and while they are clearly compatibl
Josh Reviews Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty is a 2009 documentary film, masterminded by Don Hahn and Peter Schneider, that tells the story of Disney animation’s return to prominence in the late eighties and early nineties with the huge successes of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladd
Josh Reviews The Dark Tower
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is an extraordinary achievement, a work of breathtaking genius that represents one of my absolute favorite fictional sagas of any medium. The series consists of seven main novels plus an eighth follow-up novel (The Wind Through the Keyhole)
Josh Reviews Baby Driver!
I have enormous love for all of writer/director Edgar Wright’s collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, from their fantastic TV show Spaced to their trilogy of films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. Though actually, I have to admit that my absolute
Josh Reviews Dunkirk
In May of 1940, German forces had trapped the British Expeditionary Force, along with French and Belgian soldiers, along the northern French coast. The Allied troops pulled back to Dunkirk, but efforts at evacuation were at first thwarted by the German Luftwaffe. In what came to b
Josh Reviews Spider-Man: Homecoming!
Sam Raimi’s first two Spider-Man movies are fantastic, and they deserve an enormous amount of credit for helping launch our current golden age of super-hero films. So I knew a good Spider-Man movie could be made!! But boy it had been a while. Spider-Man 3 was a huge disapp