Movie Night with Josh Barry

Josh Barry
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Talking about movies, sometimes with friends, sometimes with family and sometimes just me. We will discuss our thoughts and feelings, a bit of history and any backstory about the movie, the directors , the writers and the actors. The hope is to hopefully get you to watch a movie you haven't watched before or will want to watch again.

  1. Movie Night Ep 59 The Rainmaker

    7h ago

    Movie Night Ep 59 The Rainmaker

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarryRudy Baylor, a recent law grad played by Matt Damon, hustles for work in Memphis and lands at shady lawyer Bruiser Stone's firm (Mickey Rourke). He teams with paralegal Deck Shifflet (Danny DeVito), who failed the bar six times, to sue Great Benefit for denying a leukemia patient's bone marrow transplant. Rudy faces slick corporate attorney Leo Drummond (Jon Voight), navigates a judge change to the fair Tyrone Kipler (Danny Glover, uncredited), and romances abused Kelly Riker (Claire Danes). The trial exposes company fraud via a stolen manual, but bankruptcy shields punitive damages, leaving Rudy to teach law.

    10 min
  2. Movie Night Essay Ep 58 The Bridge on the River Kw

    4d ago

    Movie Night Essay Ep 58 The Bridge on the River Kw

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarryThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), directed by David Lean from Pierre Boulle's novel, follows British POWs in a Japanese camp during World War II as they are ordered to build a vital railway bridge—and the Allied commandos sent to destroy it. Starring Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), William Holden (Shears), Jack Hawkins (Warden), and Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), it blends war adventure, psychological drama, and moral ambiguity into a 161‑minute epic scored by Malcolm Arnold.

    16 min
  3. Movie Night Ep 57 The Bridge on the River Kwai

    Jun 5

    Movie Night Ep 57 The Bridge on the River Kwai

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarryThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), directed by David Lean from Pierre Boulle's novel, follows British POWs in a Japanese camp during World War II as they are ordered to build a vital railway bridge—and the Allied commandos sent to destroy it. Starring Alec Guinness (Colonel Nicholson), William Holden (Shears), Jack Hawkins (Warden), and Sessue Hayakawa (Colonel Saito), it blends war adventure, psychological drama, and moral ambiguity into a 161‑minute epic scored by Malcolm Arnold.

    12 min
  4. Movie Night Essay Ep 56 Tender Mercies

    Jun 1

    Movie Night Essay Ep 56 Tender Mercies

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarryTender Mercies (1983), written by Horton Foote and directed by Bruce Beresford, follows a washed‑up country singer in rural Texas as he stumbles into sobriety, faith, and family with a young widow and her son. Quiet, spare, and music‑soaked, it became a critics’ favorite, earned Robert Duvall an Oscar, and stands as one of the great American character studies of the 1980s.

    17 min
  5. Movie Night Ep 55 Tender Mercies

    May 29

    Movie Night Ep 55 Tender Mercies

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarryTender Mercies (1983), written by Horton Foote and directed by Bruce Beresford, follows a washed‑up country singer in rural Texas as he stumbles into sobriety, faith, and family with a young widow and her son. Quiet, spare, and music‑soaked, it became a critics’ favorite, earned Robert Duvall an Oscar, and stands as one of the great American character studies of the 1980s.

    10 min
  6. Movie Night Essay Ep. 54 - Straight Outta Compton

    May 25

    Movie Night Essay Ep. 54 - Straight Outta Compton

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarrStraight Outta Compton (2015), directed by F. Gary Gray, dramatizes the rise and fracture of N.W.A. from mid‑1980s Compton through the early 1990s, focusing on Eazy‑E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube under manager Jerry Heller. It’s both a biopic and a history of gangsta rap’s birth, powered by N.W.A.’s own music, a young cast (including O’Shea Jackson Jr. playing his father, Ice Cube), and strong box‑office and awards success.

    17 min
  7. Movie Night Ep 53 - Straight Outta Compton

    May 22

    Movie Night Ep 53 - Straight Outta Compton

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarrStraight Outta Compton (2015), directed by F. Gary Gray, dramatizes the rise and fracture of N.W.A. from mid‑1980s Compton through the early 1990s, focusing on Eazy‑E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube under manager Jerry Heller. It’s both a biopic and a history of gangsta rap’s birth, powered by N.W.A.’s own music, a young cast (including O’Shea Jackson Jr. playing his father, Ice Cube), and strong box‑office and awards success.

    11 min

  8. May 19

    Movie Night Essay Ep 52 Schindlers List

    @movienight-with-Josh-BarrySchindler’s List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg from Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s Ark, tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saves more than a thousand Polish Jews by employing them in his factories during the Holocaust. Anchored by performances from Liam Neeson (Schindler), Ralph Fiennes (Amon Goeth), and Ben Kingsley (Itzhak Stern), it combines stark black‑and‑white imagery, a haunting John Williams score, and meticulous historical detail into one of the most influential films ever made about the Holocaust.

    21 min
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Talking about movies, sometimes with friends, sometimes with family and sometimes just me. We will discuss our thoughts and feelings, a bit of history and any backstory about the movie, the directors , the writers and the actors. The hope is to hopefully get you to watch a movie you haven't watched before or will want to watch again.

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