Josh Bell
Story Archive
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Taking stock of 'Lost'
Thursday, May 27, 2010 Debating the merits of the show's finale and the best and worst of the ABC hit.
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Screen
"The Special Relationship"
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 The Special Relationship explores Blair’s connection with Bill Clinton during their overlapping tenures as heads of state in the late 1990s.
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Film
"Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time"
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time can tower over nearly every other film in the subgenre just by being the least sucky.
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Film
Review: "Sex and the City 2"
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 The bloated sequel plays more like the vacation footage of the wealthy than anything resembling a cohesive narrative.
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Entertainment
Building a better island
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 Love or hate 'Lost,' the fact remains: It’s over. Which got us thinking...
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Film
Kink n’ grind
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Last week in Vegas two start-up festivals worked hard to bring underground work to local audiences.
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Screen
Shrek Forever After
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Exactly how many times can Shrek and Fiona live happily ever after?
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Hate (and love) for 'Robin Hood'
Saturday, May 15, 2010 It's a critic on critic battle over Russell Crowe's latest.
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television
Local, funny, late night
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 "If you took 'South Park' and 'Fat Albert' and forced them to have sex with 'Malcolm in the Middle'..."
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Film
Letters to Juliet
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 The good news is that Letters to Juliet is only the third-worst romantic comedy set in Europe released this year.
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Music
Deftones
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Diamond Eyes is the group's strongest effort since 2000's excellent White Pony.
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Music
Court Yard Hounds
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Even without Natalie Maines, secondary Chicks Emily Robison and Martie Maguire create an album that's in many ways an extension of the Dixie Chick's 2006 release.
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'Iron Man 2' and the future of superheroes
Saturday, May 8, 2010 Josh Bell takes a look into the Marvel crystal ball.
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Culture
Vegas' own Grindhouse-syle film festival
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 Includes such tantalizing titles as "Slime City Massacre, Dead Hooker in a Trunk, Orgy of Blood" and "Vaginal Holocaust"!
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Film
Second time's the charm
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 "Iron Man 2" didn’t, but some sequels actually improve on their predecessors...
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Film
Superhero balancing act
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 With all these larger-than-life crime-fighters getting screen time, it’s a wonder "Iron Man 2" has room left for Stark.
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Film
Remake fever
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Can you tell which projects listed below are actually in development, and which ones we just made up?
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Film
The Descent: Part 2
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Generally speaking, straight-to-DVD horror sequels are not to be trusted, but what about The Descent: Part 2?
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Film
North Face
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 It’s surprising to see a movie about Nazis in which their being Nazis isn’t the main focus.
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TV
Happy Town
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Happy Town manages to strike a good balance between Lynchian weirdness and straight-up murder mystery.
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TV
You Don't Know Jack
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Often tough to get through, although it’s artfully constructed and often rousing.
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Film
The Joneses
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Are those your neighbors, or a crack team of "stealth marketers"?
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Film
See a movie, save the Earth
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 Spend Earth Day (April 22) sitting in a darkened room eating popcorn!
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Not quite good enough
Friday, April 9, 2010 That's how Josh would describe Date Night starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell.
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Music
AC/DC: Ironclad
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 AC/DC's forceful, driving hard rock is perfect accompaniment for the flagrant badassery of Iron Man.
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Film
The Runaways
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Fanning and Stewart do a decent job of embodying both awkward adolescence and arrogant rock stardom, and the connection between the two at times feels genuine.
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television
The saint of New Orleans: David Simon chronicles Katrina’s aftermath in 'Treme'
Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Despite the governmental neglect and the property destruction, the New Orleans of Treme is inviting and even inspiring.
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Film
Clash of the Titans
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 Hastily converted to 3-D to take advantage of inflated ticket prices, Titans is visually unremarkable and narratively weak.
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Entertainment
Hot Tub Time Machine
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Like "Snakes on a Plane," if you like the title, you'll like the movie.
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Film
Chloe
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 The highlight of this "erotic thriller" is the genuine heat and chemistry between Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried.
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Music
Drive-By Truckers
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 The Truckers have nothing left to prove, but To-Do proves something anyway.
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Film
Spend a night with a scream queen
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 Spend a night with the shrieking star of Terror Overload, Camp Kill and Strip Club Slasher.
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Film
ShoWest’s coolest offerings
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 A vending machine of the future and some good vibrations at the movie-theater industry's annual trade convention.
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Film
Repo Men
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Repo Men takes a serious look at a world in which artificial organs are violently repossessed when people can no longer pay for them.
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TV
Justified
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 FX has built such a strong reputation for layered, uncompromising dramas. Does Justified follow suit?
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Noise
Shooter Jennings
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 If nothing else, Shooter Jennings’ fourth album, Black Ribbons, is completely unexpected.
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Music
Mark Huff
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 There’s something appealing about Huff’s dogged consistency.
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television
A "Marriage" made in hell
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 With every new project he takes on, Jerry Seinfeld further demonstrates that he’s lost whatever creative touch made his eponymous sitcom so iconic.
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Film
Alice in Wonderland
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Burton’s film is more a quasi-sequel and he gives an expected darker tinge to the setting, years after Alice first encountered it as a little girl.
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Film
Roman Polanski delivers a solid political thriller in "The Ghost Writer"
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Polanski remains a master craftsman, and he brings a level of skill to this material that raises it above what could have been a trashy thriller.
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Infallible Oscar predictions
Monday, March 1, 2010 Who will win Oscars on Sunday? Josh predicts who's going home happy.
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television
Family dysfunction
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 Prodigal daughter retuning home, raucous family meals... hmm, where have we seen this before?
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Film
Hopes for 'The Crazies'
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 Here are four elements from George A. Romero’s 1973 film that we hope to see in the 2010 version.
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Film
That Evening Sun
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 That Evening Sun is a complex portrait of the rural South as a place where deeply ingrained traditions and prejudices mingle freely with modern ideas and developments.
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Minor Scorsese still delivers
Friday, Feb. 19, 2010 Scorsese plus Leo and Oscar-nominated shorts in this week's podcast.