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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.

• The one with Ross’s Sandwich… Recipe

  By Josh Lasser on May 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Please forgive the kind of meta nature of the below piece. It feels essential to do it this way… Every so often when I request a review copy of something, the response I get is positive, but it comes with… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Painter and the Thief”

  By Josh Lasser on May 20, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A painter has a show in an art gallery. A drug addict in the middle of an extended binge breaks into said gallery with another man and steals two of the painter’s works. When the thief comes down and is… Read More ›

• Playing Catch-up: “Flashdance,” Tom Cruise, and “Downhill”

  By Josh Lasser on May 19, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  This week’s podcast is 75% look back and 25% disappointment.  Sure, that’s like an apples and air fryers kind of a thing taking us to 100%, but there’s a pandemic on and we don’t have to play by the rules… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Scoob!”

  By Josh Lasser on May 15, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  There is no specific need for a Stargate to appear in “Scoob!,” the new Scooby-Doo based animated film that’s arrived on VOD today, but it fits into a movie which also incorporates the Blue Falcon, Dynomutt, Dick Dastardly, Simon Cowell,… Read More ›

• “The Call of the Wild” and the Bad CG

  By Josh Lasser on May 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In my middle school, everyone learned that the lead character in “The Call of the Wild,” Buck, is a dynamic progressive character.  It was the way we were taught to write a standard five paragraph essay.  That worked wonderfully (except… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “How to Build a Girl”

  By Josh Lasser on May 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  There is something unsettling that takes place throughout the running time of “How to Build a Girl.” The movie, which stars Beanie Feldstein, is full of golden little moments, great bits of humor, and a wonderful lead performance. It is… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Spaceship Earth”

  By Josh Lasser on May 6, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  No, “Spaceship Earth” is not a tale of the ride inside the sphere right at the front of EPCOT, and if some of the architecture in Matt Wolf’s documentary looks similar to that of EPCOT’s Future World, it has to… Read More ›