The Top 15 Movies of 2012 — Part One!
Back in 2010, I had a hard time coming up with ten movies I liked enough to put on my Top 10 Movies of the year list. Last, year, in 2011, I thought there were so many great movies that I had a Top 15 list (and I even squeezed in a few extra movies […]
Josh Reviews Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow has directed some terrific films. I’m a sucker for Strange Days (the futuristic sci-film from 1995, written by James Cameron and starring Ralph Fiennes) and The Hurt Locker (click here for my review) was terrific, but I’d say with Zero Dark Thirty she ha
Catching Up on 2012: Paul Williams Still Alive
As has become my yearly tradition, the past few weeks have seen a mad rush of movie-watching as I have attempted to catch up on many of the previous year’s films that I had missed, as I work to prepare all of my Year-End Best-Of lists. My Best of 2012 lists will be going live
Josh Reviews Jack Reacher
I’ve never read any of the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Childs, so I didn’t come into the film Jack Reacher sharing the pre-conceived upset that many Reacher fans had at the casting of the very short Tom Cruise as the 6’5″ tank of a man described in the books.
Josh Reviews Silver Linings Playbook
Nothing in the plot description of Silver Linings Playbook really caught my attention, but the fact that it was written (adapted from the novel by Matthew Quick) and directed by David O. Russell automatically made the film something I was interested in. I don’t love all of Mr.
Josh Reviews This is 40
I’m an enormous Judd Apatow fan. I’m proud to say that I watched and loved Freaks and Geeks (the criminally cancelled-before-its time TV show created by Paul Feig and executive-produced by Mr. Apatow) back when it originally aired. Same goes with Undeclared, Mr. Apatow
Josh Reviews Django Unchained
Watching Django Unchained, the new film from writer/director Quentin Tarantino, I kept thinking to myself that I can only imagine this must have been what watching Blazing Saddles was like, back in 1974 when it was originally released. Both films deal with slavery and America’
Josh Reviews The Life of Pi (3D)
Directed by Ang Lee, The Life of Pi is an adaptation Yann Martel’s novel (which I will state right here at the beginning I have not read) in which a young boy manages to survive a shipwreck and many months alone at sea on a tiny boat, with only a Bengal tiger for company. Pisc
“Far over the Misty Mountains cold…” Josh Reviews The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
During the buildup towards the release of the first film in Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of The Hobbit, I found myself having a hard time imagining Mr. Jackson and co. being able to top the magnificent achievement that was his Lord of the Rings trilogy. I’m sure
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews American Graffiti (1973)
Hey, anybody remember when George Lucas was a great filmmaker? It’s funny, all the recent hullabaloo over the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney has been treated, by most of fandom, as great news. Can you think of another occasion in which the sale of a beloved property from its creato