Articles by Josh Weiss

Some may say that Hollywood is running out of ideas. In fact, many do say it’s operating on a nearly empty tank of original imagination…

If I were a professor at an all-mutant school and the “X-Men” franchise were a mathematical equation with “X” being the constant and I asked…

Usually, writers, producers and directors struggle with creating a unique experience for moviegoers and TV bingers that’s different than anything they’ve ever seen before. Whether…

What are the essentials for wooing your significant other on Valentine’s Day? Some roses, maybe a bottle of iced champagne and a dash of a…

Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women” starts off with a car on fire in a supermarket parking lot. The blazing vehicle in question is a Ford…

Despite the harsh and unforgiving nature that is the human experience, Netflix is a place that can offer a new lease on life — a…

Does Brad Pitt have some kind of obsession with World War II? I mean, he’s gone from Nazi-scalping hillbilly to grizzled tank commander and now…

J.K. Rowling’s Dumbledore once said, “those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who … have leadership thrust…

There were no gas chambers or systematic extermination facilities. The Holocaust didn’t really happen. Even if it did, six million Jews weren’t actually killed by…

“It’s important to make a distinction between the terms ‘murder’ and ‘assassinate,’” asserts Cillian Murphy’s Jozef Gabcik midway through director Sean Ellis’s World War II…