Josh Reviews Uncut Gems
In Uncut Gems, a fantastic film written and directed by Josh and Benny Safdie (the script was also co-written by Ronald Bronstein), Adam Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a jewelry store owner in the Diamond District in New York City. He is buried in debts, but the fast-talking Howard
Josh Reviews Booksmart
Booksmart depicts the last 24 hours of high school for best friends Molly and Amy. The two girls have worked hard in high school and gotten into good colleges. But when Molly realizes that the party-loving classmates she always looked down on were also able to get into good colleg
Josh Reviews Star Trek: Picard Episodes 2 & 3
I quite enjoyed the premiere episode of Star Trek: Picard. Unfortunately, the next two episodes (“Maps and Legends” and “The End is the Beginning”) were rather disappointing. The same thing happened with Star Trek: Discovery — I really enjoyed the premi
Josh Reviews The Good Place: Season Four
I’m not sure I am emotionally ready yet to bid a final farewell to The Good Place, which has been one of my most dearly-loved TV shows these past few years. And with the beautiful, devastatingly emotional series finale, Mike Schur’s show about four dim bulbs in the aft
Josh Reviews The Mandalorian: Season One
I loved the first episode of The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars TV show, and the rest of the eight-episode Disney+ series did not disappoint! Creator Jon Favreau (who wrote six of the eight episodes) has accomplished an incredible feat. He has created a series that fee
Josh Reviews Prospect
Prospect is a brilliant, low-budget sci-fi film, written and directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell. When the film begins, a teenaged girl named Cee (Sophie Thatcher) and her father (Jay Duplass) are dropped off on a jungle-filled planet. Cee’s father is prospecting gems
News Around the Net!
I was saddened to read of the recent passing of comedy legend Terry Jones. There are some moving tributes to him up here. This is cool — Uncut Gems was one of my favorite films of 2019, and Adam Sandler and directors Josh & Benny Safdie have already reunited for a short fi
Star Trek: Collateral Damage
David Mack’s new Star Trek novel, Collateral Damage, looks to me like it might represent the conclusion of an amazing, almost two-decade-long experiment on the part of Pocket Books to create a connected continuity of Star Trek novels. It began in 2001 with the publication of S.D. Pe
Josh Reviews Fast Color
Fast Color made my list of my favorite movies of 2019. It’s a beautiful story of a young woman, Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who has been living on her own for years but who finally returns home to her mother (Lorraine Toussaint) and young daughter. Ruth is in desperate circumsta
Josh Reviews the Premiere of Star Trek: Picard!
Set decades after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the new series Star Trek: Picard reintroduces us to Jean-Luc Picard. No longer the captain of the Enterprise, or indeed a Starfleet officer of any kind, Picard lives out his days overseeing his family winery, assisted b