Josh Reviews Digger
In Digger, Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, an aging multi-gazillionaire oil magnate. After using his wealth and influence to bypass procedures and regulations, a methane leak at one of his oil rigs in Greenland sets off a chain of events that threatens to unleash a global envir
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his allies Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg) and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) find themselves the world’s last hope against an AI system nicknamed “the Entity” that has been spreadi
Exploring Ridley Scott’s Legend
I’m a huge Ridley Scott fan. Several of his movies are among my favorite movies of all time (Alien, Blade Runner) and he has a long list of other movies that I love a LOT (The Martian, Gladiator, the extended version of Kingdom of Heaven, etc.). And yet, in Mr. Scott’s
Josh Reviews Top Gun: Maverick
Decades after the events of the original Top Gun, Maverick is working as a test pilot and still brazenly disobeying orders he doesn’t agree with. On the verge of being bounced out of the Navy, his old friend Iceman, now an Admiral, tasks Maverick with returning to Top Gun as a
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
I’m an enormous fan of Francis Ford Coppola. His films of the seventies, including The Godfather Part I and Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, are among my favorite films of all time. And yet, weirdly, despite my being a huge fan, I’d never seen a number of
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2018 — Part Four!
We’ve reached the end of my list of my Favorite Movies of 2018! Click here for part one of my list, and click here for part two, and click here for part three. 5. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? — Like so many of my generation, I grew up watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighbo
News Around the Net! UPDATED with Avengers 4 Trailer!
UPDATE: The first trailer for Avengers 4 has finally dropped! First off: the title. Endgame. That’s… OK. Not a bad title, but it’s a bit generic. I think the phrase “endgame” is a bit overused in genre circles, and Dr. Strange’s line in Infi
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Fallout
It is astonishing to me that not only does Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible film franchise still exist a whopping twenty-two years after the first movie was made (1996’s Brian DePalma-helmed Mission: Impossible), but that the series has arguably never been better! I real
Josh Reviews Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Recently I reviewed Kingsman: The Golden Circle. I thought the first Kingsman movie was mediocre, and I wasn’t expecting a sequel to ever get made, but when one was, I went to see it because I was curious to see whether they’d done better with a second whack at the mater
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation!
Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible series has always been a somewhat weird franchise. Rather than having tight continuity between films, every film has felt like it’s own unique one-off adventure, usually very driven by the style of the director. And so it’s been s