Josh Reviews Louie Season Five!
Last month I had the pleasure of catching up with the fifth season of Louie C.K.’s fantastic FX show, Louie. I’ve been a fan since the beginning of Louie. It’s such a unique show, one that feels like a very personal expression of Louie C.K.’s very particula
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part X: The Black Goddess & The King of Fear
My epic project to re-read Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning rolls on! Click here for part one, in which I discussed the very first Hellboy tale: the four-part mini-series Seed of Destruction. Click here for part two, in which I discussed The
News Around the Net!
#BringBackMST3k!! Joel Hodgman has launched a kickstarter to bring back Mystery Science Theatre 3000!! I’ve backed the project, I hope you all will too! Prepare to lose your afternoon, comic-book fans. Alan Moore (author of Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, and so many
Josh Reviews Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films!
Towards the end of Mark Hartley’s spectacular documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films, Richard Kraft sums up the entire story of the company: “Cannon’s legacy will be the insane stories of how that many movies got made, during a very spe
Josh Reviews Sicario
As Sicario opens, FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) and her partner Reggie Wayne (Daniel Kaluuya) raid a house in Arizona looking for kidnapping victims, only to discover that hidden inside the walls of the house are the gruesome remains of dozens of dead victims of the drug cartels.
Josh Reviews Spectre
Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as Ian Flemming’s James Bond, is not a completely terrible film but it’s a huge missed opportunity for the franchise and is probably the worst of Craig’s four Bond films. (That’s right, I think Spectre is weaker tha
Josh Reviews A Most Violent Year
In the ripping crime yarn A Most Violent Year, Oscar Isaac plays Abel Morales, the owner of a Brooklyn-based oil company. As the film opens, in 1981, Abel and his friend and attorney, Andrew Walsh (Albert Brooks), have just secured a great deal: the purchase of an enormous fuel term
Josh Reviews Crimson Peak
A new film by Guillermo del Toro is always a source of great excitement for me. Add to that the idea of Mr. del Toro, a master of horror and fantasy, involved in a haunted house movie? Delicious. Crimson Peak has not been successful at the box office, which is a shame because it
Josh Reviews Bridge of Spies
Bridge of Spies, the new film from Steven Spielberg, spans events in the Cold War from 1957-1962. The film opens with the arrest of Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a Soviet spy living in Brooklyn, NY. Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks), a lawyer who primarily deals with insurance, agrees to serv
Josh Reviews Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Douglas Tirola’s new documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon tells the story of the rise (and eventual decline) of the brilliant, hugely influential humor magazine The National Lampoon. The film follows its origins as a Harvard magazine, to i