Josh Reviews Season Five of Black Mirror
I think the first six episodes of Black Mirror, Charlie Brooker’s haunting anthology series that explores the many (mostly negative) ways in which technology has and will continue to affect our lives, are a triumph of television. I love all six of those original UK-produced ep
News Around the Net
Well, obviously the biggest new trailer to drop recently is this look at The Rise of Skywalker: That trailer is crazy huge. There is a lot of extraordinary imagery in there. Will the movie be any good? Who knows! A great trailer for a Star Wars film doesn’t necessarily m
Josh Reviews Amazon’s Adaptation of Good Omens
This past summer, Amazon released a six-episode adaptation of Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the wonderful novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. I love the novel. It’s a deliriously funny, clever romp that reminds me very much of t
Josh Reviews Terminator: Dark Fate
The latest Terminator film ignores the events of Terminator 3, Terminator: Salvation, and Terminator: Genisys, treating only the first two films, the ones written and directed by James Cameron, as canon. Terminator: Dark Fate picks up in 2019, decades after Sarah Connor stopped Judg
Josh Reviews the New Short Treks Episode: The Trouble with Edward
In “The Trouble with Edward,” the latest “Short Treks” Star Trek short film being released on CBS All Access in the lead-up to the launch of the new Picard series, we meet the newly-promoted Captain Lynne Lucero (Rosa Salazar), transferring off of Christopher P
Josh Reviews Ad Astra
At the start of James Gray’s film Ad Astra, we see astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) working on a space platform in low Earth orbit, when a mysterious “surge” destroys the platform and nearly kills him. As the mysterious power surges continue to range across the pl
Josh Reviews Stranger Things Season Three
In Stranger Things season three, we rejoin the kids (and a few heroic adults) of Hawkins, IL in the summer of 1985. The kids are enjoying summer and the brand new Starcourt Mall that’s been built in their town. Mike and Eleven are a couple and are inseparable (to the frustr
Josh Reviews the Premiere of Watchmen
Watchmen, the 1986-87 mini-series/graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is probably the single greatest comic book story ever made. The collected graphic novel was selected as one of Time Magazine’s 100 greatest English-language novels of the past century. (I waxed p
Josh Reviews Joker
Joker, directed by Todd Phillips and written by Mr. Phillips and Scott Silver, tells the origin of the famous Batman villain, the Joker. However, this take on the Joker is almost entirely divorced from the Batman comic mythos, and it is also completely separate from all of the rece
Catching Up On 2018: Josh Reviews Song of Back and Neck
Wait, what, I never got around to posting a review of one of my favorite films of 2018? Time to remedy that immediately! I’m talking about Song of Back and Neck, the small, sweet, funny, weird film written by, directed by, and starring Paul Lieberstein (Toby from The Offic