Josh Reviews The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
I’ve never read any of the Hunger Games novels, but of course I knew of the phenomenon and so I was curious to see that first Hunger Games film. I found it entertaining but rather mediocre. But I was stunned how much I enjoyed the second film, Catching Fire. I thought that
Return of the Jedi
So let’s talk about this: I am still extremely dubious as to whether this movie is actually going to be any good (it will be a long time before I forgive J.J. Abrams for Star Trek Into Darkness) but boy, that is a pretty phenomenal teaser trailer right there. When I was a kid th
News Around the Net
Bill Watterson drew the poster for an international cartoonists’ festival, and it is awesome. I’ve been really enjoying Kumail Nanjiani’s podcast The X-Files Files. In each episode, Mr. Nanjiani and a guest host analyze two episodes of The X-Files, working their wa
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
Days of De Palma (Part 9): Casualties of War (1989)
Following up on the successful and great The Untouchables, Brian De Palma moved on to another large-scale project: the Vietnam War story Casualties of War. The film is based on the true events of the “incident on Hill 192” that occurred in 1966, and that were described in
Josh Reviews Louie Season Three
I loved the first season of Louis C.K.’s FX show, Louie, but it took me a while to track down and then find the time to watch season two. But after tearing through season two in just a few days (click here for my review), my wife and I didn’t waste much time before movin
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part II: Wake The Devil
I have recently begun an epic project: re-reading Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning! What began as a series of sporadic mini-series and short-stories featuring the big red occult investigator has deepened over the past twenty years into what is, for
Josh Reviews the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
I have written many times before on this site about how amazing Peter Jackson’s Extended Editions of the Lord of the Rings films were. Mr. Jackson and his team reinvented the whole idea of both a director’s cut of a film, and DVD behind-the-scenes special features. Bot
Josh Reviews Birdman
Let me cut right to the chase: this film is phenomenal! In Birdman, Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson. Riggan was once a world-famous Hollywood super-star who played the super-hero Birdman in three wildly successful films. But he made waves by refusing to return to the role for
Josh Reviews Interstellar
When it was first announced that Christopher Nolan would be making an original science-fiction film as his next project, featuring a top-shelf cast and utilizing a blockbuster-sized budget, I was quickly atwitter with visions of a masterpiece. After much anticipation, Interstellar h