Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2025 — Part Two!
Thanks for reading my list of my favorite movies of 2025! Yesterday I kicked things off with part 1, listing #s 20-16. Let’s continue…! 15. Caught Stealing — Caught Stealing was directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan) and written by Ch
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2024 — Part Four!
Welcome back to part four of my list of my favorite movies of 2024! Click here to read part one, click here to read part two, and click here to read part three. And now on to my FIVE FAVORITE movies of 2024: 5. A Complete Unknown — James Mangold’s film, based on the book
Josh Reviews A Complete Unknown
A Complete Unknown charts the rise of Bob Dylan from 1961-1965. The film opens with Dylan as a nobody, hitchhiking to New York City to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie, who had recently been hospitalized. We follow Dylan’s steps to success — and then stardom — up thr
Josh Reviews The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is a salute to a very specific (and mostly vanished) type of journalism: the heyday of The New Yorker magazine and its writers. The film itself is an anthology of several vignettes, beautifully structured to resemble the differe
Josh Reviews Dune
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my very favorite novels. I adore it and have read it many times. (Each time I read it, I feel like I inch closer to full comprehension.) I have a soft spot in my heart for David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune; it’s a terrible mov
Josh Reviews Lady Bird
Set in 2002, Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird tells the story of a teenaged girl, Christine (though she prefers to go by “Lady Bird” — her given name in that, as she says in the film, “it was given to me, by me”) growing up in Sacramento. Lady Bird i