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Josh Bell

Josh Bell is a freelance writer and movie/TV critic based in Las Vegas. He's the former film editor of 'Las Vegas Weekly' and has written about movies and pop culture for Syfy Wire, Polygon, CBR, Film Racket, Uproxx and more. With comedian Jason Harris, he co-hosts the podcast Awesome Movie Year.

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Review: <i>Carol of the Bells</i> — Josh Bell

Review: Carol of the Bells

Mar 3rd, 2020

Although he’s still best known for being John Travolta’s brother, for a while in the ’90s and ’00s Joey Travolta carved out a surprisingly...

Review: Swift

Feb 18th, 2020

There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he so memorably appeared opposite a...

Review: <i>Camp Cold Brook</i> — Josh Bell

Review: Camp Cold Brook

Feb 11th, 2020

For a group of professional ghost hunters, the main characters in Camp Cold Brook are surprisingly unhappy to discover that the abandoned summer...

Review: <i>Come As You Are</i> — Josh Bell

Review: Come As You Are

Feb 11th, 2020

It would be easy for Come as You Are to turn into a cloying, condescending lecture about how the disabled are people, too, and there are times when...

Review: Cupid

Jan 29th, 2020

Christmas-themed horror movies have become a thriving subgenre in recent years, providing micro-budget horror filmmakers with easy subject matter...

Review: <i>The Rest of Us</i> — Josh Bell

Review: The Rest of Us

Jan 28th, 2020

If nothing else, the low-key Canadian drama The Rest of Us makes a surprisingly strong case for Heather Graham as a dramatic actor. Graham is...

Review: John Henry

Jan 21st, 2020

Despite his imposing physical presence, former football player Terry Crews has spent the majority of his acting career in comedic roles, where his...

Review: Get Gone

Jan 21st, 2020

Apparently starring in terrible VOD genre movies is becoming a family business, because both Nicolas Cage’s son and his nephew show up in Get...

Review: The Wave

Jan 14th, 2020

The opening scene of Gille Klabin’s The Wave promises an edgy head-trip of a movie, as main character Frank (Justin Long) describes a drug...

Review: <i>Disturbing the Peace</i> — Josh Bell

Review: Disturbing the Peace

Jan 14th, 2020

No matter how hard they work, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, and John Travolta can only star in so many direct-to-VOD thrillers a year, so someone has...

Review: <i>Three Christs</i> — Josh Bell

Review: Three Christs

Jan 7th, 2020

It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke: Three Jesus Christs walk into a mental hospital, each claiming to be the real thing. But there’s nothing...

Josh Bell Says Don't Forget: <i>Fast Color</i> — Josh Bell

Josh Bell Says Don't Forget: Fast Color

Dec 23rd, 2019

The dominance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has essentially crowded out the kind of smaller-scale, diverse superhero stories that are more common...