Josh

Josh

Life would be better if more people were Elliott Gould.

Favorite films

  • Superman
  • Do the Right Thing
  • The World's End
  • The Long Goodbye

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  • In a Violent Nature

    ★★★★

  • Stripped to Kill

    ★★½

  • Dirty Dingus Magee

    ★★★

  • The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

    ★★★½

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  • In a Violent Nature

    In a Violent Nature

    ★★★★

    Maybe it’s that my expectations were tempered because I heard so many people talk about how slow this was or how unsatisfying the ending was but I gotta say, it worked like gangbusters on me. Even the (no spoilers) ending worked for me, and left me with a sense of dread that’s often missing from slasher movies. 

    The plot is as basic as they come, a hulking murder enthusiast returns from the grave and wreaks masked havoc on a group…

  • Stripped to Kill

    Stripped to Kill

    ★★½

    You know those days when you’re feeling down and what you really need for comfort is the doomed girlfriend from Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (Kay Lenz) going undercover as a stripper to solve a bunch of stripper murders alongside the other dad from My Two Dads (Greg Evigan) and also the strip club is run by Mr. Roper? Well, today is one of those days so thank god for this movie. 

    It’s all very ridiculous but in just the…

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  • Renegades

    Renegades

    ★★★

    I live for this kind of nonsense. The poster makes it look like a sequel to a movie that never existed (it has two tag lines, “The boys are back in town” and “This time, they’ve brought their guns to the city”) but it was actually just referencing the hit western Young Guns that Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips had appeared in together the year before (Young Guns II came out the year after this and was marketed more…

  • Just Before Dawn

    Just Before Dawn

    ★★★★

    Do you ever have an idea of what to expect from a movie but then you sit down to watch it and it’s significantly better than the movie you already had in your head? That’s exactly what happened here, and I am incredibly grateful for it. This thing is way better than it has any right to be and I believe I pre-judged it unfairly based purely on the plot summary. 

    Gregg Henry (turns out his hair was always kinda…