Josh Reviews The Rum Diary!
It’s not getting much notice in theatres, it seems, but I found myself quite taken with The Rum Diary, Bruce Robinson’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book, starring Johnny Depp. I am not at all a devotee of Hunter S. Thompson. I have not read the novel on whic
News Around the Net!
This is a fantastic article from the New York Times about how baseball dugout payphones are the last bastion of the landline. The web-site io9 always has some great lists, and I particularly enjoyed their recent list of 10 stand-alone episodes that totally represent their respective s
Josh Reviews Party Down (Season One)!
Wow! Add this series to the list of brilliant, cancelled-before-their-time TV shows! I don’t think I even heard of Party Down during the two seasons it was on the air, on Starz, in 2009-10. But every now and then, since it’s cancellation, I’d hear or read a menti
From the DVD Shelf: Mimic (The Director’s Cut)
I had previously seen Mimic once, back when it was originally released to theatres in 1997. I think I went to see it because the trailers looked interestingly creepy, and because I had so enjoyed Charles S. Dutton in Alien 3. (I still think that Mr. Dutton is one of the best aspec