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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.

• Movie Review: “Corporate Animals”

  By Josh Lasser on August 6, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  More than anything else, the new film “Corporate Animals” resembles a particularly off-kilter episode of “The Office.”  Directed by Patrick Brice with a script from Sam Bain the movie sees a dysfunctional CEO, Lucy (Demi Moore), bringing her peculiar group… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw”

  By Josh Lasser on August 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  People will tell you that a preponderance of summer movies are big, loud, and stupid.  Whether or not that’s the case, blockbusters don’t come much bigger, louder, or more stupid than this week’s “Fast & Furious Presents:  Hobbs & Shaw.” … Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The Operative” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on July 31, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Stories of undercover agents not following their handler’s orders are rather de rigueur.  Stories of undercover agents following in love with someone they shouldn’t are none too fresh.  Seeing the two types of issues crop up for an agent in… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Teacher” (2019)

  By Josh Lasser on July 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Not all movies deal in subtlety.  Some instead choose to beat the audience over the head with any message they have to offer. That is a decision that filmmakers can make, but it needs to fit in with the rest of… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “Mike Wallace is Here”

  By Josh Lasser on July 24, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There is no doubt that director Avi Belkin’s new documentary, “Mike Wallace is Here,” wishes to squarely place itself within the present day journalistic conversation, the conversation which includes the President of the United States and his White House abusing… Read More ›

• On Binge-Watching (“Saw”) Movies

  By Josh Lasser on July 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Last week, the podcast featured a discussion in which I mentioned having seen one “Saw” film and the inevitability that I would see the rest (or would keep watching until they got bad).  Well, here we are a week later… Read More ›

• Movie Review: “The art of Self-Defense”

  By Josh Lasser on July 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Taking a look at our world today, there can be no doubt that “toxic masculinity” is a problem. This idea of clinging to bygone notions of what it means to “be a man” and defining oneself around those things causes problems. … Read More ›