Josh Reviews Love & Other Drugs
When we first meet Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Jamie Randall at the start of Edward Zwick’s new film Love & Other Drugs, we learn immediately that Jamie is a fast-talking salesman who seems to be able to convince anyone to buy anything, and also that he is quite a lad
EZ Viewing: Airplane!
The fifth and final film in my EZ Viewing movie marathon is Airplane! (Click here to read about film one: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), here to read about film two: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, here to read about film three: Tropic Thunder, and here
EZ Viewing: Tropic Thunder!
The third film in my EZ Viewing movie marathon is Tropic Thunder! (Click here to read about film one: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and here to read about film two: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.) Tropic Thunder knocked my socks off when I first saw it
EZ Viewing: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
The second film in my EZ Viewing movie marathon is Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country! I respect J.J. Abrams for what he accomplished with his Star Trek reboot. (Click here for my review.) I enjoyed the flick, and am thrilled that Trek is exciting and “cool” again. But T
Josh Reviews Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One!
It is very rare for a film or TV franchise to have an opportunity to craft a finale for its characters and storylines on its own terms. So often these long-form tales are interrupted by cancellation or poor box office, or they just peter out as subsequent sequels drain a once-vibra
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Time After Time (1979)
For years, Star Trek fans spoke of the odd-numbered curse that afflicted the Trek movies. The odd-numbered films (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek V: The Voyage Home) seemed markedly inferior to the even-numbered ones (Star Trek II: T
Josh’s ADVANCE REVIEW of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader!
A friend of mine at Walden Media was kind enough to invite me to last night’s sneak peek at the latest Narnia film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. (Thanks, Evan!) I am happy to report that I quite enjoyed the new film (though I recognize that IR
From the DVD Shelf: Josh reviews Get Him To The Greek
I’m a big, big fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That film really took me by surprise — it’s a very, very funny film, but also one that is remarkably endearing. The breakout star of the film was, of course, Russell Brand’s rock star Aldous Snow. Snow was a
Spielberg In The Aughts: The Terminal (2004)
You might have thought that Tom Hanks had a crazy accent in Catch Me If You Can, but that was merely a prelude to the ludicrously silly sort-of-Slovic voice that Mr. Hanks puts on for his role as Viktor Novorski in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film, The Terminal. Viktor Navorski (To
Spielberg in the Aughts: Catch Me If You Can (2002)
When I began this project of rewatching the last decade-and-a-half’s worth of films directed by Steven Spielberg, I was hoping that I’d discover (or rediscover) some great films that I had perhaps dismissed too easily when I originally saw them in theatres. I wondered i