Josh Reviews The Last Blockbuster
The Last Blockbuster is a documentary film, directed by Taylor Morden and written & produced by Zeke Kamm, that chronicles the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous video rental company Blockbuster Video. It also shines a light on the very last Blockbuster that is still open and
Josh Reviews All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Colin Hanks’ 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records is a loving look back at the history and impact of the record store franchise. I’ve been interested in watching this film for years. I have fond memories of the iconic Tower Records
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Reunion
Back in 1991, one of the very first Star Trek: The Next Generation hardcover novels published by Pocket Books was Michael Jan Friedman’s Reunion. I remember this being an exciting event at the time, because the novel fleshed out the backstory of Captain Picard’s time on the Sta
Josh Reviews Star Trek: Discovery Season Four — Part One
xxx Episode 01: “Kobayashi Maru” — The new uniforms look better than the bland outfits the Disco crew were wearing in the final moments of the season 3 finale. I like the emphasis on brighter primary colors, in the style of the Original Series. Though I still don
Josh Reviews Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Luc Besson’s 2017 film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is adapted from the French comic book series Valérian and Laureline, written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières. The film is set in the 28th century, and depicts the heroic space adv
Josh Reviews Revolver
I’m a huge fan of Guy Ritchie’s first two films: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000). Mr. Ritchie followed that up with Swept Away in 2o02, which remains the only film Mr. Ritchie has directed that I haven’t seen. It was brutally panned
Josh Reviews Tucker: The Man and his Dream
I’ve been having fun watching several of the films that Francis Ford Coppola directed in the eighties that I’d never before seen! (Please click here for my review of The Outsiders, click here for my review of Rumble Fish, and click here for my review of The Cotton Club:
Josh Reviews The Cotton Club: Encore
After watching The Outsiders and Rumble Fish, two 1980’s films directed by Francis Ford Coppola that I’d never before seen, I decided to move on to The Cotton Club, Mr. Coppola’s 1984 film set in and around the real-life Harlem nightclub, where African-Americans per
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish
Immediately after completing work on The Outsiders, his 1983 adaptation of the novel by S.E. Hinton, Francis Ford Coppola began making an adaptation of another of S.E. Hinton’s novels, Rumble Fish, starring several members of The Outsiders cast. Both The Outsiders and Rumble F
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