“I Don’t Understand the Play” — Josh Reviews Asteroid City
Asteroid City is the latest wonderful film from Wes Anderson. (Mr. Anderson wrote and directed the film; the story is credited to Mr. Anderson and Roman Coppola.) The film is set in a stylized version of the 1950’s, in a little town in the middle of nowhere called Asteroid C
Josh Reviews Black Widow
The Marvel Cinematic Universe movies have finally returned, after their longest hiatus since the earliest days of the MCU, with Black Widow! I have not yet ventured back into a movie theater, but I was delighted to be able to watch Black Widow on Disney+. Marvel’s Phase 4 wa
News Around the Net!
I was very sad to read that D.C. Fontana has passed away. Ms. Fontana was one of the key creative voices on Star Trek the Original Series, and also in the early days of The Next Generation (she co-wrote “Encounter at Farpoint”). She wrote 10 of the 79 Original Series e
Josh Reviews Avengers: Endgame!
In yet the latest feat of I-can’t-believe-they-did-it, Kevin Feige and the team at Marvel have stuck the landing. Avengers: Endgame is a deeply satisfying, profoundly moving, and incredibly fun culmination to a decade-plus of movie-making. They have woven together threads an
Josh Reviews Isle of Dogs
I adored Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s first foray into stop-motion animation from back in 2010, and so for quite some time I have been anticipating the release of his follow-up, Isle of Dogs, which Mr. Anderson wrote and directed. The film is set in Japan in the near futu
Days of De Palma (Part 17): The Black Dahlia (2006)
I’m in the home stretch of my project to watch all the films directed by Brian De Palma! Following 2002’s Femme Fatale, Mr. De Palma was off the scene for a while until 2006’s The Black Dahlia. This noir murder-mystery was adapted by Josh Friedman from James Ellr
Josh Reviews The Jungle Book
When Jon Favreau shifted from directing smaller character-based films (like Made) to larger, more special-effects-driven films, he at first did so with a strong attachment to using traditional practical effects over CGI. (I never saw 2005’s Zathura, but I well remember all of
Josh Reviews Hail, Caesar!
The Coen Brothers have made some dark, violent films, and they have made some light, funny films, and they have made some films that seem to fall somewhere in between. Their latest, Hail, Caesar!, is for most of it’s run-time one of the Coen Brothers’ lighter, more farci
Josh Reviews Chef
I’m a big fan of Jon Favreau the actor/performer, and I’ve also become a big fan of Jon Favreau the director. It’s easy to forget, now that the Marvel movies have become such a successful juggernaut, just what a minor miracle the original Iron Man was. That movie
Josh Reviews Her
There’s no doubt in my mind that Spike Jonze is one of the very finest filmmakers working today. Like most of the rest of the world, I was quite taken by his loopy first film, 1999’s Being John Malkovich (I can’t believe it came out so long ago — I need to fi