Catching Up With DC Animation: Bad Blood and Justice League vs Teen Titans
OK, quick summary: I fell in love with Batman: The Animated Series when it first premiered back in the nineties. Bruce Timm and Paul Dini forever defined Batman and so many of his supporting characters for me. I believe that Kevin Conroy is the best actor to ever portray Batman on
Josh Reviews 10 Cloverfield Lane
I feel like 2008’s Cloverfield has been somewhat forgotten and/or dismissed in recent years, but I loved that film when it came out. Back in 2008 I wasn’t yet fed up with J.J. Abrams’ “mystery box” schtick and it was fun going into seeing that movie wit
Josh Reviews Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Well, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn’t the catastrophe that I’d thought it would be based on the terrible trailers, but that doesn’t mean it’s anything approaching a good movie. The film is fun to watch, in a brain-dead sort of way. Seeing Batman an
Catching Up on 2015: Josh Reviews The Overnight
In writer/director Patrick Brice’s bizarre 2015 comedy, The Overnight, Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) are a young couple who have just moved to LA. When Alex takes his & Emily’s young son to a local park, he starts chatting with another father, Kurt (
Catching Up on 2015: Josh Reviews The End of the Tour
I missed The End of the Tour when it was first released last summer, but it was a top priority for me to check out when it was released on DVD/blu-ray. I usually watch a ton of films in December, trying to catch up on as many films from the previous year as I can, […]
Catching up on 2015: The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?
Back in the mid-nineties, Tim Burton came very close to directing a Superman movie, to be titled Superman Lives, that would have starred Nicolas Cage in the title role. This is one of the great cinematic what-ifs. What on Earth would a Tim Burton Superman movie have been like? W
Josh Reviews Hail, Caesar!
The Coen Brothers have made some dark, violent films, and they have made some light, funny films, and they have made some films that seem to fall somewhere in between. Their latest, Hail, Caesar!, is for most of it’s run-time one of the Coen Brothers’ lighter, more farci
Josh Reviews Brooklyn
There were so many interesting movies released in the final weeks of 2015 that I couldn’t possible see them all, try as I might. Brooklyn was definitely on my list, but I wasn’t able to get to it before writing my end-of-the-year Best Movies of 2015 list. But it remain
Catching up on 2015: In the Heart of the Sea
The director of Apollo 13 has a fan in me for life, and so a new Ron Howard film is always going to attract my attention. The idea of Mr. Howard directing a film telling the “true” story behind the book Moby Dick is an interesting hook. There are moments of greatness i
Catching Up on 2015: Josh Reviews Slow West
In the last several years, Michael Fassbender has shot right up to the top of the list of the finest actors working today. Like many, I first took notice of Mr. Fassbender in X-Men: First Class. I was blown away by the masterful way in which Mr. Fassbender took complete ownership