Josh Reviews Undone
Amazon’s gorgeous, emotionally rich animated series Undone centers around a young woman named Alma (Rosa Salazar), who feels stuck in the mundane routines of her every-day life. When her younger sister Becca announces her engagement, Alma begins to spiral into insecurity and f
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I am delighted by this first trailer for AppleTV’s upcoming adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation: Mr. Asimov’s Foundation series is one of my very favorite works of sci-fi in any medium. I love those books and have longed for years for a top-notch adaptation.
Josh Reviews Disenchantment Season Two
Matt Groening’s animated Netflix series, Disenchantment, doesn’t seem to me to have made much of an impact on the pop-culture scene. And, let’s be honest, Disenchantment isn’t The Simpsons. It doesn’t come near to approaching that series’ trans
Josh Reviews John Lewis’ Graphic Novel March
March is a three-book graphic novel series, telling the inspiring true story of Congressman John Lewis’ years spent as a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement. This graphic novel memoir is an extraordinary powerful, deeply moving history of the Civil Rights Movement and
Star Trek: The Shocks of Adversity
A while back there was a lengthy interruption in the publication of new Star Trek novels from Pocket Books, a situation only recently resolved. During the break, I went back to catch up on a stack of Trek books that’d been published over the past five or so years that I’d never
Josh Reviews the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Interactive Special!
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was one of very my favorite shows for the four seasons it was on Netflix. The series was hilarious and joyous and pretty much wonderful in every way. I was happy with the manner in which the fourth and final season wrapped up the series — but I am
Josh Reviews George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy tells the riveting story of George Takei’s youth growing up in an American concentration camp, after he and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were imprisoned by the U.S. government following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. T
Josh Reviews The Spy
Netflix’s six-episode mini-series The Spy tells the true story of Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy in Syria in the 1950’s. This was one of my favorite series of 2019, but I realized I’d never finished & posted my full review — time to remedy that! I watched all
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Last week I went down a rabbit hole of watching fan-edited “modern trailers” for classic films. Check out this terrific trailer for The Empire Strikes Back: I also absolutely love this trailer for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: I’m a huge fan of the Paley Center
Josh Reviews Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
In Nicholas Meyer’s wonderful new Sherlock Holmes pastiche (a novel structured to imitate the Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his comrade Dr. Watson are tasked with investigating the