Josh Bell Review: Hell on the Border Dec 17th, 2019 A title card at the beginning of writer-director Wes Miller’s Western Hell on the Border laments the erasure of the black cowboy from popular...
Josh Bell Review: Beyond the Law Dec 7th, 2019 Back in 2001, fading action star Steven Seagal starred with rapper DMX in Exit Wounds, one of the last Seagal movies to get a wide theatrical...
Josh Bell The McG-enius of Charlie's Angels Nov 13th, 2019 “Another movie from an old TV show,” sighs a character at the beginning of 2000’s Charlie’s Angels when confronted with the fictional T.J....
Josh Bell Review: Primal Nov 8th, 2019 The one advantage of Nicolas Cage starring in approximately 87 straight-to-video movies a year for the past decade is that he sometimes adds a bit...
Josh Bell Cluny Brown, Downton Abbey, and the British Class System Sep 30th, 2019“It’s 1927. We’re modern folk!” Lady Edith’s husband Bertie (Harry Hadden-Paton) declares in Downton Abbey when he and his wife (Laura...
Josh Bell Rock 'n' Roll High School and Female Friends, 40 Years Later Aug 1st, 2019Being a teenager is tough, but it’s also thrilling, and the best teen movies capture the angst and the exuberance of adolescence in equal measure....
Josh Bell Palm Springs Film Fest Report: Risky Business Jan 16th, 2019Although it caters to a large community of retirees, the Palm Springs International Film Festival still features its share of daring selections, on a...
Josh Bell Josh Bell Says Don't Forget: Thoroughbreds Dec 26th, 2018Two teenage girls, one a self-admitted sociopath, the other a spoiled schemer, conspire to commit murder in Cory Finley’s brilliantly incisive...
Josh Bell Josh Bell Says Don't Forget: Never Goin' Back Dec 26th, 2018In an alternate (and, frankly, better) universe, Augustine Frizzell’s Never Goin’ Back would have been one of the biggest comedy hits of 2018,...
Josh Bell Christmas Evil (1980): Not Your Typical Holiday Slasher Dec 5th, 2018The title Christmas Evil (also released as You Better Watch You) does not promise a complex psychological drama, and anyone going into Lewis...
Josh Bell Raising the Zombie Halloweens from the Dead Oct 17th, 2018In between Jamie Lee Curtis’ stints in the Halloween movies — after her character’s death in 2002’s Halloween: Resurrection and before her...
Josh Bell Jeremy Saulnier's History of Violence Sep 25th, 2018Jeremy Saulnier knows violence. The director of Hold the Dark (arriving on Netflix this week) makes movies filled with brutal, intense fights and...
Josh Bell Peyton Reeding Material: How Bring It On and Down with Love Led to Ant-Man and the Wasp Jul 9th, 2018In March, director Peyton Reed told Empire Magazine that his Ant-Man and the Wasp, despite early reports, is “not a romantic comedy,” and that...
