Articles by Josh Weiss

If you’ve ever watched a movie set in the 1970s, chances are you probably heard at least one song by Electric Light Orchestra, a British…

In 2012, Seth MacFarlane proved that a story about a foul-mouthed teddy bear (“Ted”) could become the highest grossing original R-rated comedy of all time.…

Superheroes and alternate history go hand in hand; just look at Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ “Watchmen,” which had America victorious in the Vietnam War,…

The kaiju are back, and this time there aren’t any giant human-piloted robots to protect us! Humanity’s only defense against malevolent skyscraper-sized monsters in Gareth…

Superman exists, and he’s American. Intentionally or not, Hollywood’s obsession with Marvel and DC subject material has led to a pseudo-repetition of the evolutionary stages…

CBS’s sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” came to a close after nine years March 31, and its sendoff was pretty medi-wait for it-ocre. Ever…

“Blood Ties” is a faint echo of a bygone era of filmmaking that defined an entire decade. That decade, of course, was the 1970s, an…

The only thing better than passing the time with a little Solitaire is indulging in a little Cold War paranoia. So many of the great…

Of all the movies, in all the theaters, in all the world, “Casablanca” is a piece of cinematic history that only gets better as time…

Taking a lesson from Helen of Troy, it’s the product that launched innumerable collectible sets, several video game franchises, six amusement parks and your childhood.…