Josh Reviews District 9
How many really great sci-fi films have there been in the last decade? It’s pretty slim, right? OK, J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie was pretty good… but before that? I can think of Cloverfield (2008), Children of Men (2006), Serenity (2005), The Matrix (1999), G
Josh Reviews Inglourious Basterds
I still remember the first time I saw Pulp Fiction. I didn’t know anything about this guy Quentin Tarantino, and I hadn’t yet seen Reservoir Dogs. But in reading about the film in advance of its release, it looked like it had a pretty spectacular cast, and I thought th
Summer Movie Catch-Up: Josh Reviews G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Growing up, my two favorite cartoons, by an order of magnitude, were The Transformers and G.I. Joe. That makes it sort of hard to believe that this summer saw the release of a live-action, big-budget movie version of both of those beloved (by me, at least!) old TV shows. Wish I co
Summer Movie Catch-Up: Josh Reviews The Hangover
Try as I might, I must admit that my expectations do sometimes color my opinions about a movie that I see. Occasionally I go into a film with very low expectations — and even if the movie is mediocre, I come out pleased because it was better than I expected. Conversely, if I
Summer Movie Catch-Up: Josh Reviews Funny People
I read somewhere a reviewer refer to Judd Apatow’s new film, Funny People, as his “James L. Brooks movie.” Well, if James L. Brooks isn’t making James L. Brooks movies anymore (his last film was 2004’s Spanglish, which not coincidentally was also the la
Summer Movie Catch-Up: Josh Reviews Up
I’ve written about a few of the films that I’ve seen this summer (click here for my review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, here for my review of Year One, and here for my review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) but there are a lot more that I’ve s
From the DVD Shelf: Empire of the Sun
Last month I wrote about discovering and really enjoying, in college, some films from what I consider to be Steven Spielberg’s “middle period,” in which he began moving from the crowd-pleasing adventure films that he did so well (epitomized by Raiders of the Lost Ark
From the DVD Shelf: Cloverfield
In one of my very first posts for this site, I mentioned that I’d really enjoyed Cloverfield when I saw it on the big screen, but I wondered how it would hold up to a second viewing (especially on a TV screen as opposed to on an enormous movie theatre screen). I was eager to [&h
Josh Reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Let’s establish right from the get-go that I have not read any of the Harry Potter books. Well, actually, that’s not quite true. The day before the first Harry Potter movie opened, the friends I was going to see the movie with found out that I hadn’t read the book,
Josh Reviews Year One
I love Harold Ramis. For his performance as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (and Ghostbusters 2) alone, the man deserves to be recognized as a comic genius. When you also consider his involvement in films such as Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Groundhog Day, Anaylze This, and so