Articles by Josh Weiss

First he took us into the mind of John Malkovich. Then he worked with the anxious writing process of Charlie Kaufman before sailing off to…

In their fifth collaboration, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for “The Wolf of Wall Street,” a movie that makes “The Great Gatsby” look…

It always warms my heart when a beloved book is faithfully adapted into a movie. In 2010, adaptations of both “Shutter Island” and “Harry Potter…

The same year that Robert Zemeckis brought us the sci-fi comedy masterpiece that was “Back to the Future,” author Orson Scott Card published a tour…

If Garry Ross’ “Pleasantville” was a piece of anti-nostalgia spearing mid-20th century values in television, then that makes Randy Moore’s “Escape from Tomorrow” a satire…

He’s played a toy cowboy, a war hero and an astronaut, and now he’s a cargo ship captain? While this might not seem like the…

In the vein of Pearl Harbor, the Oklahoma City Bombing and 9/11, another day that will always live in infamy is Nov. 22, 1963. It…

Dramatized versions of American history with a splash of humor always seem to make better movies than the actual events that inspired them. One only…

If the “Ghostbusters” and “Men In Black” franchises had a one-night stand, then “R.I.P.D.” would be the result of their cinematic love affair: an entertaining,…

It is a wondrous thing when a movie makes you feel like a little kid again, transporting you back to a time when the only…