Josh Bell
Contributing Editor
Contributing editor Josh Bell he has been a Las Vegas Weekly staffer since 2002, writing film and TV reviews and covering local entertainment. He is a member of the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, and his movie reviews appear on the Rotten Tomatoes website.
A Las Vegas resident since 1995, Bell took a brief detour to Massachusetts, where he graduated from Amherst College in 2002 with a degree in English. He has contributed to publications including Las Vegas Life, Casino Player, Kirkus Reviews and Media Life. Like everyone, he has a blog (signalbleed.blogspot.com).
When not at a screening or in front of the TV, Bell enjoys reading novels and comic books, and taking naps.
Josh's favorite movie is Heathers.
Call Josh at 702-990-2411.
Recent Stories (view all stories)
- Fangst
- Vampire romance Twilight makes an awkward leap from page to screen
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- Twilight is all about a perverse kind of wish-fulfillment: Average teenager Bella Swan falls madly in love with perfect, ageless vampire Edward Cullen, who sweeps her off her feet (often quite literally), protects her from harm and loves her unconditionally.
- R.I.P. TRL
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- MTV managed to pack Times Square one more time this past Sunday for the last episode of TRL, dubbed Total Finale Live, although nostalgia was pretty much the only reason for anyone to show up.
- Bolt
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- Hollywood canine Bolt (voiced by Travolta) doesn’t realize that he’s not really the superpowered dog he plays on a popular TV show.
- Hinder
- Take It to the Limit
- Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008
- Thanks to their dreadful, inescapable power ballad “Lips of an Angel,” Hinder have been lumped in with the grim post-grunge likes of Nickelback, Puddle of Mudd and 3 Doors Down.
- More helpings of "Soup"
- Two new franchises expand the world of pop-culture snarkery
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- Snarking on pop culture has become a national pastime, and its TV standard-bearer is The Soup (E!, Fridays, 10 p.m.), hosted by comedian Joel McHale.
- Madonna
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- At 50, Madonna's in better shape than ever, and she kept pace move for move with her much younger troupe of dancers, all while singing just about every word to every song.
- Spacebabes, aliens, pimps, prostitutes and wounded soldiers
- A roundup of local movies released on DVD in the past year
- Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
- Not known for its film making scene, Las Vegas has been responsible for at least five films released to DVD in the past year.
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- Melman becomes the giraffes’ doctor, Gloria is seduced by a hippo lothario, Marty blends in with the zebra herd, Julien tries to become king of the savannah, and the penguins get busy fixing the plane.
- Queen + Paul Rodgers
- The Cosmos Rocks
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- We’d all like for our most beloved rock stars to age gracefully; barring that, they can always die young, leaving a body of work largely uncompromised because it was cut off abruptly.
- The future is now
- Two new reality shows bring us closer to dystopia
- Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008
- By the time we get to 2017, we may indeed be forcing convicted criminals to outrun sadistic gladiators with souped-up chain saws on national TV.
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