Movie Night with Josh Barry

White Men Can’t Jump (1992), written and directed by Ron Shelton, stars Woody Harrelson as Billy Hoyle and Wesley Snipes as Sidney Deane in a streetball hustling comedy set in Los Angeles’ Venice Beach courts. Rosie Perez shines as Gloria Clemente, Billy’s sharp‑witted girlfriend obsessed with $5,000 for a Lotto dream. Technical advisor Rob Ryder trained the cast for authentic pick‑up games, makin...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

The Killing Fields (1984), directed by Roland Joffé, stars Sam Waterston as New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg and Haing S. Ngor (in his debut) as Cambodian interpreter Dith Pran, chronicling their friendship amid the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975. John Malkovich (Al Rockoff), Julian Sands (Jon Swain), and Craig T. Nelson co‑star in this harrowing drama, which won three Oscar...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

F1 is a sports drama about aging F1 driver Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), who returns to the sport after a decades‑long absence to help resurrect a struggling team, APXGP. In the 1990s, Sonny drove for Lotus and was tipped as a future champion before a near‑fatal crash at the 1999 Japanese Grand Prix ended his career. Now, in his late 50s, he lives as a nomadic “racer‑for‑hire,” competing in various min...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

“Unforgiven” (1992), directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is both a Western and a critique of the Western myth. It tells the story of an aging killer, William Munny, dragged back into violence for money, only to discover that the past he thought he’d buried still defines him. The film’s restrained storytelling, spare but evocative music, and lean, almost ascetic production make it one of the k...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

“The Philadelphia Story” (1940), directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart, is a sparkling romantic comedy of remarriage that doubles as a character study of class, vulnerability, and second chances. Adapted from Philip Barry’s hit Broadway play, it revived Hepburn’s career, showcased Grant and Stewart at the height of their charm, and became both a cri...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

“One Battle After Another” (2025) is a darkly comic action thriller directed, co‑written, and co‑produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted loosely from Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland. It marks the long‑anticipated first collaboration between Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio—an actor Anderson originally wanted for the lead in Boogie Nights—and uses DiCaprio’s star power to anchor a story about faile...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

“The Rip” (2026) is a Miami-set cop thriller that uses a simple hook—crooked cops, a stash house full of cash, and a unit that can’t trust itself—to explore loyalty, grief, and corruption in the streaming age. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star and produce through their Artists Equity banner, and the film has quickly become one of Netflix’s biggest recent premieres, helped by an unprecedented perform...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

“Sinners” (2025), written, produced, and directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role, is a genre blending horror gangster musical that uses vampires and bootleggers in 1932 Mississippi to tell a story about sin, exploitation, and the cost of genius. It has become both a box office hit and an awards season juggernaut, leading the 2026 Oscars with a record breaking 16 nomi...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryTombstone: The Western That Became a LegendFew American movies have aged into myth as gracefully as Tombstone. Released in 1993, it arrived at a moment when the Western seemed, to many studio executives, more like a burden than a bankable genre. The classic cowboy picture had not vanished, but it had become a difficult sell in a marketplace driven by action franchises, u...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryTombstone: The Western That Became a LegendFew American movies have aged into myth as gracefully as Tombstone. Released in 1993, it arrived at a moment when the Western seemed, to many studio executives, more like a burden than a bankable genre. The classic cowboy picture had not vanished, but it had become a difficult sell in a marketplace driven by action franchises, u...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryMy Darling Clementine: John Ford’s Elegy for the FrontierMy Darling Clementine is one of the great American Westerns not because it is the most realistic, the most violent, or the most expansive, but because it is among the most graceful. Released in 1946 and directed by John Ford, the film transforms the raw historical material of the O.K. Corral era into a stately medi...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryMy Darling Clementine: John Ford’s Elegy for the FrontierMy Darling Clementine is one of the great American Westerns not because it is the most realistic, the most violent, or the most expansive, but because it is among the most graceful. Released in 1946 and directed by John Ford, the film transforms the raw historical material of the O.K. Corral era into a stately medi...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryGunfight at the O.K. Corral: The Hollywood Legend of Wyatt Earp and Doc HollidayGunfight at the O.K. Corral is one of those classic Western titles that immediately evokes a place, an event, and an entire mythology. Released in 1957 and directed by John Sturges, the film is not just a retelling of the famous 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is also a majo...

@movienight-with-Josh-BarryGunfight at the O.K. Corral: The Hollywood Legend of Wyatt Earp and Doc HollidayGunfight at the O.K. Corral is one of those classic Western titles that immediately evokes a place, an event, and an entire mythology. Released in 1957 and directed by John Sturges, the film is not just a retelling of the famous 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. It is also a majo...

@movienight-with-Josh-Barry Raise the Red Lantern  (1991) is a visually precise, emotionally devastating drama about power, patriarchy, and collapse, centered on a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy Republican‑era landlord and finds herself trapped in ritualized domestic warfare. Through director Zhang Yimou’s controlled compositions, Gong Li’s performance, and the recurring imag...

@movienight-with-Josh-Barry Raise the Red Lantern  (1991) is a visually precise, emotionally devastating drama about power, patriarchy, and collapse, centered on a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy Republican‑era landlord and finds herself trapped in ritualized domestic warfare. Through director Zhang Yimou’s controlled compositions, Gong Li’s performance, and the recurring imag...