Days of De Palma (Part 19): Passion (2012)
I am excited to have finally arrived at the end of my journey through the filmography of master director Brian De Palma. (Well, the end for now – Mr. De Palma is alive and well, and hopefully has additional films in his future!) 2007’s Redacted was a rough watch —
Star Trek Legacies: Purgatory’s Key
The Star Trek 50th anniversary trilogy of novels, titled Legacies, comes to a close with Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore’s Purgatory’s Key. (Click here for my review of book one: Captain to Captain, and click here for my review of book two: Best Defense.) Eighteen years
“Evil Wears Every Possible Mitten” — Josh Reviews Amazon’s The Tick!
I’ve been a fan of Ben Edlund’s wonderful superhero parody, The Tick, since (almost) the very beginning. Friends in high school turned me on to the wonderful black-and-white comic, published by New England Comics, soon after those early issues were published in the late
Josh Reviews Rogue One!
Let me get this out right at the top: Rogue One is better than The Force Awakens. For those looking for a spoiler-free review, there you go. For everyone else, buckle in, let’s go! I have for years been dreaming of seeing a brand new Star Wars film on the big screen that I could
Josh Reviews Office Christmas Party
Josh (Jason Bateman) helps run the Chicago-based branch of a tech company, Zenotech, overseen by his friend Clay (T.J. Miller). The branch is doing OK, but Clay’s rivalry with his sister Carol (Jennifer Aniston), just appointed as the company’s C.E.O., leads her to threa
Josh Reviews Allied
For a long time, Robert Zemeckis was one of my very favorite filmmakers. There was a phenomenal stretch during which I felt that he was making movies that were aimed directly at me, at the exact things that I most loved. Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Contact…
Days of De Palma (Part 18): Redacted (2007)
We’ve arrived at the peunltimate installment of my journey through the films of Brian De Palma! (Links to all of my reviews can be found at the bottom of this post.) Though Mr. De Palma’s output has slowed considerably over the last two decades, he quickly followed up
Josh Reviews Angie Tribeca Season Two!
Last spring I devoured the first ten-episode season of Rashida Jones’ Angie Tribeca, a wonderfully clever, gloriously silly show. In my review of season one I compared Angie Tribeca to a modern-day version of Police Squad. The show follows a team of homicide detectives but i
Josh Reviews Loving
Jeff Nichols’ film Loving tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving. In the nineteen fifties, Richard, a white man, and Mildred, a black woman, fall in love and decide to get married. They get married in Washington, DC, but their home state of Virginia outlaws inter
Josh Reviews Arrival
As the film Arrival opens, we are introduced to Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist living a quiet, solitary life following the death of her daughter. That life is shaken when Earth is visited by extra-terrestrial life, with twelve enormous round objects appearing in different