Josh Reviews The Martian
What a refreshing joy it is to get to see an intelligent, original science-fiction story that is also gorgeous to behold and ferociously entertaining. The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Drew Goddard, adapting the book by Andy Weir, is a triumph, a gripping story abou
News Around the Net
“The date is set!” — The X-Files returns to TV on January 24, 2016! Please don’t disappoint me, Chris Carter!! This is a great article listing 10 Making-Of Documentaries That Are Better Than The Actual Movie. In many of these cases I don’t actually ag
News Around the Net!
The great Dick Cavett has a phenomenal piece up at nytimes.com on all of the recent Tonight Show silliness. This is definitely worth a read. Also worth your time: the moving words of tribute posted at AICN in remembrance of the great Roger Ebert. I LOVE LOVE LOVE these Arrested Deve
News Around the Net (and a rant about Prometheus!)
So, OK, bloody disgusting ran an article that Fox doesn’t know what to do with a proposed sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and that the source of the problem is that when Lost’s Damon Lindelof re-wrote Jon Spaihts’ original Alien prequel script into wha
The Top 10 DVDs/Blu-Rays of 2012!
And so, at last, we arrive at my final Best of 2012 list! I hope you enjoyed the rest of my lists. You can follow these links to see my Top 15 Movies of 2012: click here for part one, here for part two, and here for part three. Click here for part one of […]
Josh Reviews Prometheus
Sigh. I guess I’m just never going to see another good Alien movie, am I? Who’d have thought it would be so hard? Ridley Scott’s 1979 original seemed ripe for further exploration, not one of those movies that would be impossible to ever sequelize. And let’s n
Prometheus has Landed
MUST. SEE. NOW. If Hollywood must continue to insist on making prequels, this is the way to do it. I absolutely LOVE the way that trailer mimics the trailer for the original Alien from 1979: I have watched Alien countless times and still find myself dazzled and mystified by all of
In Space, No One Can Hear Anyone Deny that Prometheus is an Alien Prequel
So just a day after I posted a whole bunch of movie trailers last week, Sir Ridley Scott unveiled our first official look at his upcoming film, Prometheus, and it is pretty friggin’ awesome: That’s a pretty spectacular trailer, and in addition to guaranteeing that I will b
News Around the Net!
There’s a great article about Mel Brooks up at Boston.com, because his musical Young Frankenstein is coming to Boston for a two-week run. I was disappointed by Young Frankenstein when I saw it on broadway, but this brief piece about one of our comedic legends is worth a read.
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews the Director’s Cut of American Gangster
Sometimes I get DVDs and I watch them immediately, devouring the movie and the special features within 24 hours. Sometimes I’ll get a DVD and, for one reason or another, it will sit on my shelf for months and months. Such was the case with the Director’s Cut of Ridley