Joshua Miller

FOUR LIONS (REVIEW)

I firmly believe that anything can be funny. Which isn’t to say that I think anything is funny. I loathe comedy that circumvents wit and actual joke writing by simply presenting offensive material as if it were a joke in and of itself; there are miles of distance between, say, Louis CK and Andrew Dice … Continue reading

DOWN TERRACE (REVIEW)

Down Terrace isn’t an easy movie to casually describe. Stylistically it has the British kitchen sink realism of a Mike Leigh work. Thematically we’re in the Coen Bros’ world of dipshit lowlifes farcically unraveling their own doom. The film is vérité, yet has a heightened reality. It is dramatically intimate, yet ironically detached. Its humor … Continue reading