Josh Reviews War For the Planet of the Apes!
It is a major cinematic miracle that the rebooted Planet of the Apes series is as great as it is. It would be oh so easy to get this series completely wrong. (See: Tim Burton’s Ape Lincoln.) I remain staggered that someone ever had the idea to basically use the fourth film
Catching Up on 2016: Josh Reviews The Lobster
In Yorgos Lanthimos’ film The Lobster, Colin Farrell stars as David. Upon discovering that his wife has left him for another man, David checks into a hotel where single people have 45 days to find a life partner, or else they will be transformed into an animal of their own ch
Josh Reviews Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four
Back in the early nineties, long before our modern age of high-quality, big-budget, prestigious superhero films, a German film producer named Bernd Eichinger acquired the rights to Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Despite the FF being one of the biggest names in the Marvel Comics sandbo
Josh Reviews Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is the latest DC Animated direct-to-DVD/blu-ray film. It adapts the famous Judas Contract story-line by Marv Wolfman and George Perez from The New Teen Titans in 1984. In the early eighties, Wolfman and Perez’s Teen Titans was an enormous smas
Analyzing the New York Times’ List of the Best 25 Films of the 21st Century
Recently, The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott published their list of the 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far. It’s a fascinating list, and well-worth your checking out. My own list would certainly be very different, but I was surprised and delighted tha
Josh Reviews Wonder Woman
Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman is a delight, a thrilling spectacle whose heart is 100% in the right place, focusing on a hero who is fierce and brave, a skilled warrior, who nevertheless prizes loyalty and love above all else. It’s hard to believe it’s taken so long f
Josh Reviews King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
I’m not sure why Hollywood keeps insisting on making King Arthur movies. Is it the allure of a known name, in the way that studios chase after franchises and keep remaking and rebooting series with a recognizable title? Personally, I have never been all that interested in th
Catching Up on 2016: Josh Reviews Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols, amazingly, wrote and directed not one but two films that were released in 2016. The second was Loving, a magnificent drama about Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple forbidden from marrying in Virginia, whose case eventually came before the Supreme Court i
Catching Up on 2016: Josh Reviews Warcraft
I have no attachment to or even any knowledge of the game Warcraft. I have never played the game, in any of its incarnations. But I was interested in the film version because of the involvement of Duncan Jones at the helm. Mr. Jones directed Moon, a fantastic tiny-budget sci-fi
Josh Reviews Alien: Covenant
Ridley Scott’s Alien (released in 1979 — can you believe it?) is a masterpiece of science fiction/suspense/horror, a near-perfect film that has barely aged a day. James Cameron’s Aliens (released in 1986) is one of the greatest sequels ever made, a spectacular acti