This article -- guaranteed to make you chuckle at least once -- explains the state of science-fiction in 1970s mainstream movies, and it reviews many of them.
Josh MatthewsJanuary 28, 2020
Title: Bandersnatch Directed by: David Slade Written by: Charlie Brooker Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe Music by: Brian Reitzell This is an interactive review of the new interactive film Bandersnatch, which is part of the science-fiction series Black Mirror on Netflix. When you watch this movie, you will make over a…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 18, 2019
Title: Solo: A Star Wars Story Directed by: Ron Howard Written by: Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Paul Bettany, and Joonas Suotamo Music by: John Powell Solo, the new Disney Star Wars movie, begins with a flash of light. Then the screen goes…
Josh MatthewsJune 2, 2018
Title: A Quiet Place Directed by: John Krasinski Written by: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski Starring: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmons, Noah Jupe Music by: Marco Beltrami "A Quiet Place” did something at the movie theater that I have never witnessed before. It made a large group…
Josh MatthewsMay 5, 2018
Title: Ready Player One Directed by: Steven Spielberg Written by: Zak Penn and Ernest Cline Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg Music by: Alan Silvestri If at the end of a movie I feel stupider than when it started, I figure that…
Josh MatthewsApril 27, 2018
Title: Downsizing Directed by: Alexander Payne Written by: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Starring: Matt Damon, Christopher Waltz, Hong Chau I suspect that if I were very big, as Book One of Gulliver’s Travels allows me to imagine, I would want to be small again. Yet my children…
Josh MatthewsJanuary 8, 2018
Title: The Circle Directed by: James Ponsoldt Adapted from: The Circle Story by: Dave Eggers Produced by: Tom Hanks, James Ponsoldt, Gary Goetzman, Anthony Bregman Published on: May 12, 2017 When inallthings.org asked me to review The Circle, I worried. The movie ][as of May 2017) has a 16%…
Josh MatthewsMay 12, 2017
Title: Alien: Covenant Directed by: Ridley Scott Written by: John Logan, Dante Harper Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy CrudupMusic by: Jed Kurzel Alien: Covenant is the sixth movie in a franchise that is running on fumes. This Covenant movie is a sequel to Prometheus…
Josh MatthewsMay 8, 2017
Title: Life Directed by: Daniel Espinosa Written by: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds Given the name “Life,” the title of this new outer-space science-fiction thriller, I was looking for a grand artistic gesture. I wanted a movie about all…
Josh MatthewsMay 3, 2017
Title: Logan Written and directed by: James Mangold Screenplay by: Scott Frank Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen Published on: March 13, 2017 Midway through Logan, the latest Wolverine movie about that most popular of the X-Men characters, an old man and a young girl…
Josh MatthewsMarch 13, 2017
