Josh Reviews Drive Away Dolls
Drive Away Dolls is set in 1999; two lesbian best friends decide to take a road trip from Philadelphia to Tallahassee. Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) is straight-laced and has been having trouble coming out of her shell, while Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is brash and outgoing, though h
Josh Reviews Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three
Crisis on Infinite Earths is one of the most famous storylines in the long history of DC Comics. This twelve-issue mini-series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez and was released in 1985-86, and it ended and then restarted DC’s comic book continuity. T
Josh Reviews The Instigators
In The Instigators, two down on their luck Bostonians — divorced ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon) and motormouthed alcoholic Cobby (Casey Affleck) — are recruited for a heist. On election night, Boston’s incumbent mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) has scheduled a victory par
Josh Reviews Jackpot!
Jackpot! is set in the year 2030; the financially-desperate state of California has created the “Grand Lotto” in which, any time someone wins, anyone else with a losing ticket has until sundown to kill the lottery winner and claim their winnings. The only rules are that
Josh Reviews Alex Garland’s Civil War
Alex Garland’s film Civil War is set in the very near future, in a world in which the United States has collapsed into civil war, with several secessionist factions violently battling a central government led by a third-term president (Nick Offerman). Lee (Kirsten Dunst) is a
Josh Reviews Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is set twenty years after the events of Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien film, and 37 years before the events of James Cameron’s sequel, Aliens. Rain is an orphan working in indentured servitude to “the Company” (Weyland-Yutani) on a failing
Josh Reviews Deadpool & Wolverine
After Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, many Marvel fans, like I was, were thrilled that so many of the Marvel characters were finally back under one roof. I was over the moon excited (and I still am!) to see the Fantastic Four and the X-Men brought into the MCU. But fans had ques
Josh Reviews A Quiet Place: Day One
A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the two A Quiet Place films, showing us what happened on the first day when the aliens who menaced John Krasinski & Emily Blunt’s family first arrived on planet Earth. The story focuses on Samira (Lupita Nyong’o), a young woman in hos
Josh Reviews The Naboo Movie
I’ll be back here soon with my detailed thoughts on The Acolyte, the latest Star Wars TV show, which just wrapped up this week. I also still have to finish and post my review of The Bad Batch season three. But the Star Wars thing I’m most excited to tell you all about
Josh Reviews Furiosa
Mad Max: Fury Road is one of my all-time favorite movies. I have a lot of love in my heart for all three original Mad Max films, but Fury Road is true masterpiece, a master-class in how to tell story and create character through action. The film was a visceral action experience, a