From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Adaptation (2002)
I was extraordinarily taken with Adaptation when I first saw it in theatres back in 2002, but I hadn’t seen it since. I had been waiting for there to be a follow-up to the initial bare-bones DVD with nary a single special feature (save the film’s theatrical trailer) R
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Defending Your Life (1991)
And so at last my little tour through the early films of Albert Brooks concludes. (Feel free to check out my reviews of Real Life (1979), Modern Romance (1981), and Lost in America (1985).) Defending Your Life is probably the Albert Brooks movie that I’ve seen the most 
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Real Life (1979)!
Back in May, after watching Albert Brooks’ 1985 film Lost in America, I wrote that I planned on re-watching his 1991 film Defending Your Life the next week. Well, time got away from me, and I do still hope to find the time to re-watch that great film soon. But a few weeks ag
Josh Reviews Dinner For Schmucks!
Hoo boy, this one was disappointing. I’m a big fan of both Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, and I thought Dinner For Schmucks had a premise that was so weird it seemed to promise good comedy. Rudd plays Tim, who is trying desperately to climb the ladder at the private equity firm a
From The DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews A Few Good Men (1992)
A Few Good Men is one of those movies that I saw countless times in the nineties, to the point that I knew the film so well that it bored me. But then I stopped watching it, and when I decided to pop the film into my DVD player earlier this month, it had been […]
Josh Reviews Inception!
Thank goodness – finally a good movie! I was beginning to think that Toy Story 3 was going to be the only bright spot in this rather dismal summer of movies. With Inception, writer/director Christopher Nolan reunites a great many members of his Batman ensemble (Michael Caine, Cillia
Josh Reviews Toy Story 3!
It’s not that the folks at Pixar are incapable of making a bad movie. (I, for one, never cared for Cars.) It’s just that it’s so very very rare that they do. But after watching the marvelous Toy Story 3, it’s easy to believe that Pixar can do no wrong. It
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies is a French film that lovingly parodies the 1960’s Sean Connery era James Bond films. It got very little play here in the U.S., but if you’re a fan of the Connery Bond films then this movie is not to be missed. OSS 117 actually began as a se
From the DVD Shelf: Josh reviews Let the Right One In (2008)
I’m behind the eight-ball on this one, I know. Movie-related web-sites across the web have been showering praise on this small-budget Swedish vampire film for the past two years, but I only recently got around to seeing it. It’s just as terrific as I’d heard. Osk
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Lost in America (1985)
After re-watching Albert Brooks’ film Modern Romance a few weeks ago (read my review here), I decided the time had come to revisit some of his other films. I started by tracking down Lost in America, his 1985 film that, somehow, I had never seen. Mr. Brooks (who also directed