Josh Reviews Angie Tribeca Season Two!
Last spring I devoured the first ten-episode season of Rashida Jones’ Angie Tribeca, a wonderfully clever, gloriously silly show. In my review of season one I compared Angie Tribeca to a modern-day version of Police Squad. The show follows a team of homicide detectives but i
Josh Reviews Loving
Jeff Nichols’ film Loving tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving. In the nineteen fifties, Richard, a white man, and Mildred, a black woman, fall in love and decide to get married. They get married in Washington, DC, but their home state of Virginia outlaws inter
Josh Reviews Arrival
As the film Arrival opens, we are introduced to Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams), a linguist living a quiet, solitary life following the death of her daughter. That life is shaken when Earth is visited by extra-terrestrial life, with twelve enormous round objects appearing in different
Josh Reviews Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Set more than a half a century before the events of the seven Harry Potter books (and the eight movie adaptations), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them introduces us to a young man named Newt Scamander. Mr. Scamander was mentioned in the original Harry Potter series as the autho
News Around the Net
We’ve been getting some fun teases lately for Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2. (Great title, by the way.) This is a solid poster and the tag-line, “obviously”, is genius. And then there is this tantalizing new trailer: That hits all the right notes for me. L
From the Blu-Ray Shelf: Josh Reviews Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
I enjoyed the first Neighbors. I wouldn’t call it a comedy classic, but it was a very funny film with a great cast. I loved the Seth Rogen-Rose Byrne combo, and all the frat boys (Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jerrod Carmichael) were fun. So I was interested
Star Trek Legacies: Best Defense
David Mack’s novel Best Defense is the middle book in a new trilogy of novels, entitled Legacies, intended to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek. Click here for my review of the first book in this trilogy, Greg Cox’s Captain to Captain. Best Defense picks up
Josh Reviews Better Call Saul Season Two!
I loved the first season of Better Call Saul. I was blown away by Bob Odenkirk’s performance in the lead role, and by the extraordinary groups of actors with whom he was surrounded, most notably fellow Breaking Bad alum Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut, along with new faces
Days of De Palma (Part 17): The Black Dahlia (2006)
I’m in the home stretch of my project to watch all the films directed by Brian De Palma! Following 2002’s Femme Fatale, Mr. De Palma was off the scene for a while until 2006’s The Black Dahlia. This noir murder-mystery was adapted by Josh Friedman from James Ellr
Josh Reviews Doctor Strange
In Doctor Strange, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the incredibly skilled, and incredibly arrogant, neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange. Strange is at the top of his field and he knows it. But his privileged life falls apart after a terrible car accident leaves him unable to use his hands