Josh Reviews Annihilation
I have a huge amount of love for Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex Machina, which he also wrote. If you haven’t seen that film, I exhort you to track it down immediately. It’s a riveting piece of speculative fiction, with extraordinary performances by Alicia V
Josh Reviews Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Perhaps the best movie I saw this past summer was Morgan Neville’s wonderful look at the life and work of Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Like so many of my generation, I grew up watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. The moral and life lessons of Fred Rogers
Josh Reviews The Predator
I’m an optimist, and someday I hope to see a new, truly great Star Trek movie in the theatres. Someday, I hope to see a new, truly great Alien movie in the theatres. And someday, I hope to see a new, truly great Predator movie in the theatres. This sure as heck ain’t i
Josh Reviews The Death of Superman Animated Film
Back in 2007, when DC/Warner Brothers began their series of direct-to-DVD animated films, the first project they tackled was an adaptation of the 1992-93 “Death of Superman” storyline from the comics. That animated film, Superman: Doomsday, was very entertaining and stil
Josh Reviews Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
The new HBO documentary, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, is a fascinating and funny look back at the life and career of Robin Williams. If you’re a fan of comedy, and/or the work of Mr. Williams, I can’t imagine your not enjoying this film from director Marina Zen
Josh Reviews Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
I saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom well over a month ago, but I’ve avoided writing about it until now because my basic reaction to the movie can be boiled down mostly to: Ugh. I had a bad feeling about this film from the very first trailer. I love the original Jurassic Park,
Josh Reviews the HBO Adaptation of Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is one of my very favorite books. The novel, written in 1953, is every bit as relevant today as it was all those decades ago when it was first published. When I first heard that HBO was working on a new adaptation, featuring Michael B. Jordan
Josh Reviews Incredibles 2
Back in 2004, Brad Bird’s The Incredibles was a revelation — an extraordinary animated film that was gorgeous and funny and moving. It was a major change of pace for Pixar (it was their first film with human beings as the main characters), and it was also, in the era bef
Josh Reviews Ant Man and the Wasp
2015’s Ant Man was a delight; a fun, relatively low-stakes romp in which Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios team demonstrated yet again that they could bring an obscure (at least to non-fans) comic book character to gloriously vibrant life on-screen. The new 2018 sequel, Ant Man and t
Josh Reviews Solo!
Solo takes place in the years prior to the original Star Wars, when the galaxy is still under the thumb of the Empire. Young Han and his friend Qi’ra (pronounced like Kira, which makes me think of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) have grown up in the slums of Corellia, scrounging