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
“I’ve Just Privatized World Peace” — Josh Reviews Iron Man 2!
I’m always chasing after that perfect cinematic experience — the rare movie where everything just seems to magically click, and I walk out of the theatre totally jazzed by what just unspooled before my eyes. I felt that way when I saw the first Iron Man. I was really blo
From the DVD Shelf: Josh reviews The Cat’s Meow (2001)
It’s funny — although I acknowledge that Peter Bogdanovich is a significant, influential director, I must admit with some embarrassment that I’ve seen very few of his films. Many of his ground-breaking films from the ’70s remain, as-yet-unseen, on my lengthy
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews The TV Set (2006)
As with Death at a Funeral (which I reviewed last month), The TV Set is a film that I’ve been wanting to see ever since it was released. It was one of those films that sounded really interesting to me, and was very well-reviewed, but I just never got around to catching it. I