Josh Reviews Turning Red
In the new Pixar film Turning Red, we meet Meilin Lee, a 13 year old Chinese-Canadian girl, living in Toronto in 2002. Mei is extremely close with her mother and has a tight group of friends at school. She’s an overachiever, and she works hard to make her family — espe
Josh Reviews The Batman
In The Batman, writer/director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) brings us a new cinematic version of Batman. In this new version, Bruce Wayne has only been operating as Batman for about two years, but he’s already feeling that he’s getting nowher
News Around the Net!
Here’s an exciting teaser for the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on Disney+: I love the music choices in that! Will this show be any good? I have no idea, but I’m excited to finally see Ewan McGreggor back in this role, after so many years of rumors. It’s sort of
Josh Reviews Together Together
Together Together was written and directed by Nikole Beckwith. The film tells the story of the unlikely bond that develops between two people, Matt (Ed Helms) and Anna (Patti Harrison). Matt is a lonely forty-something app developer who has decided he wants to have a child, even t
Josh Reviews Finch
The film Finch is set some time in the future. A massive solar flare, combined with other environmental catastrophes, has mostly wiped out mankind. Tom Hanks plays Finch, an engineer who has survived with his dog Goodyear by living mostly in the sheltered, underground lab of the c
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
I’m an enormous fan of Francis Ford Coppola. His films of the seventies, including The Godfather Part I and Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, are among my favorite films of all time. And yet, weirdly, despite my being a huge fan, I’d never seen a number of
Josh Reviews Peacemaker: Season One
Peacemaker was one of the most enjoyable surprises to come down the road in quite some time! I was not expecting to fall as head-over-heels in love with this show as I did! Writer/director James Gunn has crafted a beautiful and ferociously entertaining show. It’s absolutel
A Look Inside the Making of José and the Pirate Captain Toledano!
We’re fast approaching the May 1st release of my graphic novel José and the Pirate Captain Toledano! You can pre-order it on Amazon right now! Set in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition, José and the Pirate Captain Toledano is the coming-of-age story of José Alfaro, a youn
Josh Reviews Peter Jackson’s Magnificent Get Back!
Peter Jackson’s epic-in-length Beatles mini-series, Get Back, is a miracle, and a source of pure joy for a hard-core Beatles fan like myself. I listed it as my favorite TV series of 2021, and that was an easy choice! The film presents a fly-on-the wall look at the 21 days in J
Josh Reviews How To with John Wilson Season Two
How To with John Wilson was one of my very favorite new shows of 2020 (click here for my review of season one), and I am so happy that it recently returned for a second season. How I love this joyously bizarre, beautiful documentary series! I wasn’t sure quite how filmmaker John W