Josh Reviews Capitalism: A Love Story
Michael Moore’s latest film, Capitalism: A Love Story, starts off strong. The film juxtaposes narration from a movie about the fall of the Roman Empire with images of the United States of America from the last year and a half. Moore’s point is clear. It is hardly surpr
Josh Reviews The Invention of Lying
The story of The Invention of Lying, as you’ve probably figured out from the trailers, unfolds in a universe almost identical to our own. Except that, in this world, no human being has ever told a lie. Ricky Gervais plays a rather Ricky Gervais-like character named Mark Bell
Josh Reviews Where The Wild Things Are!
I’ve been reading about Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s deservedly beloved children’s book Where The Wild Things Are for a long time — years, now — and I am so thrilled to be able to report that the finished film which has finally been
Josh Enjoys a Double-Feature of Toy Story & Toy Story 2 in Glorious 3-D!!
Last week I had the pleasure of taking in a double-feature of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, re-done in beautiful 3-D. What a glorious time in a movie theatre! It seems that 3-D is really starting to be embraced by the studios. There have been a number of big 3-D releases in the past
Josh Reviews Julie and Julia
Here’s how not to get me excited about a film: start it off by trailers for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster flick 2012, Rob Marshall’s latest musical Nine, and about five other movies that you could not pay me enough
From the DVD Shelf: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, and Valkyrie
I know some people who can’t stand to see a movie a second time — they think “been there, done that, I’d rather see something new.” I certainly don’t have anything against seeing something new, but I’m also someone who loves seeing movies fo
Josh Reviews Extract
So let’s get this out of the way: Office Space is one of the greatest films ever made. Just a phenomenal movie. Writer/Director Mike Judge’s second film, Idiocracy, was much, much weaker (although not so horrible that it deserved the way it was basically dumped direc
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Waltz With Bashir
I saw a lot of films in 2008 — but, of course, there were many that I wanted to see but just didn’t get to. (I listed several when I compiled my list of the Best Movies of 2008.) Of the films that I missed, the one I was most bummed about was Waltz With […]
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Diabolique (1954)
My wife borrowed the French movie Diabolique from her step-father, but after reading the description on the back of the case, which described the film as “an acknowledged influence on Psycho,” she decided that it would probably be too scary to watch. I, however, had neve
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Bottle Rocket (1996)
I walked into Wes Anderson’s film The Royal Tenenbaums totally unprepared for the idiosyncratic work of genius I was about to see. I had seen Rushmore on video a year or so earlier, but I’d gone in expecting a goofy Bill Murray comedy and so didn’t quite know what