Josh Bell
Contributing Editor
Josh Bell is the film critic for Las Vegas Weekly.
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- TV's 'Motive' is no whodunit
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- The gimmick is that both the killer and the victim are identified at the beginning of each episode.
- The Goodwin Games gets to be short and sweet
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- With no end in sight, the creators would likely run out of clever games, and the premise would lose steam.
- Film review: 'Erased'
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- Everything about Erased feels generic.
- Recommended alternatives to 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- Don't feel like wasting time on the new Star Trek? Revisit these classics
- VIFF highlights the strengths of local filmmaking
- Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- There were no token inclusions in this year's Vegas Indie Film Festival.
- A costume-spotting, line-waiting tour of Free Comic Book Day in Las Vegas
- Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- Josh Bell scored 29 comic books at Free Comic Book Day. How many did you get?
- Great adaptations: Five recent movies that successfully captured classic literature
- Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- Because we're not feeling Baz Luhrmann's take on The Great Gatsby.
- Country music roundup: Checking in on the state of twang
- Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- Natalie Maines, Pistol Annies and Lady Antebellum. Which one earned four stars?
- TV review: 'Family Tree'
- Wednesday, May 8, 2013
- A Christopher Guest fan? Yeah, you'll enjoy this
- Paramore plus enthusiastic audience equals a satisfying show at the Joint
- Saturday, May 4, 2013
- Hayley Williams overcomes food poisoning and technical difficulties.
- TV: Marc Maron makes an uneven transition in his new IFC sitcom
- Wednesday, May 1, 2013
- The comedian plays himself in a lightly fictionalized version of his own life,
- Film review: 'Iron Man 3'
- Wednesday, May 1, 2013
- Downey delivers again in a great start to the summer movie season
- TV: Eight models vie to be the face of Mandalay Bay
- Wednesday, May 1, 2013
- What it does well: showcase the hard-working employees who make the city’s glamorous hotels run.
- Robert Redford delivers a poorly plotted lecture in 'The Company You Keep'
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- It's not as condescending or dry as his other movies, but it's just as uninteresting.
- Film review: 'Arthur Newman'
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- The movie stars Colin Firth as a middle manager who changes his identity.
- Michael Bay makes a loud mess of 'Pain & Gain'
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- Though it still might be the director's best movie in years ... if not ever.
- 'Hemlock Grove' is a misstep for Netflix
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- Hemlock Grove is one long anticlimax.
- ‘From Up on Poppy Hill’ is a pleasant but dull animated love story
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013
- Legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki teams with his son for a sweet coming-of-age tale.
- CinemaCon showcases movie theater advances from earth-shaking sound to plastic popcorn lids
- Friday, April 19, 2013
- Shake n' Share solves all your movie theater popcorn problems.
- ‘Lore’ tells a different but powerful kind of World War II story
- Thursday, April 18, 2013
- Lore tells the story of Nazis hoping to avoid Allied capture after the fall of the Third Reich.
- 2013 Summer Movie Preview!
- Superheroes, cowboys, zombies and more in our guide to all the films you'll be watching this season
- Thursday, April 18, 2013
- From Iron Man 3 to The Great Gatsby, our guide to the movies you'll be watching this season.
- 'Oblivion' doesn't make a lot of sense at times, but it looks fantastic
- Wednesday, April 17, 2013
- Go for Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman, stay for the visuals
- Coachella Week: How to Destroy Angels’ live show emphasizes art over rock
- Sunday, April 14, 2013
- Trent Reznor's latest project played its third-ever show at the Pearl on April 13.
- Garbage entertains a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Pearl
- Saturday, April 13, 2013
- Shirley Manson and company bring a raw, powerful sound to the Palms.
- Country cruise: There’s way more to ACM week than the annual awards show
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- Josh Bell recaps all the the country commotion.
- CD Review: Paramore's 'Paramore'
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- This might be Paramore's most ambitious work to date.
- Film review: 'No'
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- It's a mix of satire and history -- and it's fascinating
- Film review: 'Trance'
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- It's a pretty good movie -- until everything is spelled out at the end
- '42' tells Jackie Robinson’s story almost entirely in platitudes
- Wednesday, April 10, 2013
- "The movie fares best on the field ... but there’s more grandstanding than ball-playing."
- Film review: 'Evil Dead'
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- Just what we need: Another pointless remake
- TV review: 'Vice'
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- HBO's news magazine is off to a great start
- Six burning questions for the sixth season of 'Mad Men'
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- Will Peggy return to Sterling Cooper Draper Price?
- TV review: 'Hannibal'
- Wednesday, April 3, 2013
- Despite its central character, this is a pretty weak show
- 'Game of Thrones' Season 3 promises plenty of shocks and surprises
- Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- We'll just say this: Don't get too attached to any character this season
- Film review: 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation'
- Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- It's even terrible for a G.I. Joe movie, and that's saying something
- TV review: 'How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)'
- Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- It's actually a pretty good show: Does it have a chance?
- Hysteria in the house: Def Leppard delivers a strong opening to its Joint residency
- Sunday, March 24, 2013
- Def Leppard "opens for itself" providing interesting musical contrast.
- Film review: 'Olympus Has Fallen'
- Wednesday, March 20, 2013
- This moronic movie has the freshness of a Sylvester Stallone vehicle from 1986.
- 'Spring Breakers' is a disaster on multiple levels
- Wednesday, March 20, 2013
- With Disney's teen queens Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens starring, is that really a surprise?
- TV review: 'Phil Spector'
- Wednesday, March 20, 2013
- It's not based on a true story. Color us frustrated
- Film review: 'The Incredible Burt Wonderstone' is kind of a mess
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- For a movie that gets so many little details right, it has a disappointingly hard time with the bigger picture.
- Booze and footrests: our first look inside Green Valley's new 'luxury' movie theater
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- The completely revamped auditoriums definitely live up to the theater’s name.
- TV review: 'Bates Motel'
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- The A&E series stars the teenage version of one of the most well-known characters in horror fiction and cinema.
- TV review: Sundance Channel's 'Top of the Lake'
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- Filmmaker Jane Campion expertly weaves examinations of gender politics and rural isolationism into the meticulous procedural narrative.
- CD review: 'Sound City: Real to Reel'
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- It's a cool concept, but the execution is half-hearted
- Chatting with ‘Burt Wonderstone’ screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
- Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- No surprise: both writers were "magic geeks" growing up.
- Film review: 'Emperor'
- Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- The movie adds little to the crowded canon of World War II cinema.
- Sam Raimi puts a fun twist on familiar material in 'Oz the Great and Powerful'
- Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- The director filled the movie with entertaining, creative touches.
- CD review: How to Destroy Angels' 'Welcome Oblivion'
- Wednesday, March 6, 2013
- Trent Reznor's side project does not suck
- Carrie Underwood finds the right balance between song and spectacle
- Sunday, March 3, 2013
- This time around, the American Idol winner's show was focused on her voice.
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