Articles by Josh Weiss

The films of Paul Thomas Anderson can sometimes feel like incoherent drug trips, so it was only a matter of time until the critically acclaimed…

The debilitating November hack on Sony’s network and the ensuing widespread national controversy gave “The Interview” a kind of publicity that money can’t buy. Suddenly,…

“Horrible Bosses” (2011) is not one of those movies that usually warrant a sequel. Like “The Hangover” (2009), it was an unassuming R-rated comedy that…

An apocryphal quote going around is, “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they…

You can usually judge a director’s filmmaking prowess by their ability to make a war movie. It’s not easy to depict the horrors of battle…

It has become common practice now for studios to release certain movies on download or streaming services instead of the theater. This course of action…

Before racing pods over the desert landscape of Tatooine, George Lucas was racing cars over the streets of his hometown, Modesto, California. Over the years…

Remember in “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” when Obi Wan Kenobi described Mos Eisley Spaceport as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy”?…

George Orwell had it right when he wrote, “Four legs good, two legs bad.” This “Animal Farm” axiom is the driving theme behind “Dawn of…

Half sequel, half reboot, “Transformers: Age of Extinction” is one of those movies that never really justifies its existence. The latest entry in the filmography…