News Around the Net
I am over-the-moon excited by this trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest film, Asteroid City: I’m interested in this trailer for American Born Chinese, which is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and reunites Everything Everywhere All
Josh Reviews Star Trek: Picard Season Three — Part One
I had started to doubt it could ever be possible, but they’ve actually made a modern live-action Star Trek TV show that I don’t hate! (I wrote “live-action” because, while I have been hugely disappointed in almost every modern Star Trek series, including Disc
Josh Reviews Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Two years after the events of the first Shazam! film, we see that Billy Batson and his foster-siblings are continuing to try to use their superpowers to help people. But they don’t work that well as a team, and the individual kids are drifting apart as they get older and live
Maclunkey!
Hello, readers and supporters of this site! I’m excited to share that my “Maclunkey” Star Wars/Highlander mash-up t-shirt is again available on Woot! This is, of course, a joke based on George Lucas’ increasingly-bizarre tweaks to the Han-Greedo scene in Star
Re-Reading Steve Englehart’s Classic “New” Fantastic Four Comics from the Eighties!
One of my favorite comic book series as a kid was The Fantastic Four, and to this day, I still deeply love those characters. Although I’ve gone back (many times now!) to read and love John Byrne’s lengthy run on the FF in the eighties, I actually started reading the FF
Josh Reviews Poker Face Season One!
Natasha Lyonne stars in Poker Face as Charlie, a young woman with the unerring ability to tell when someone is lying. On the run from a powerful casino owner with a grudge, she tries to disappear into America. But she winds up getting herself continually involved in a variety of dan
News Around the Net
I enjoyed the first season of Schmigadoon! I didn’t need any more, but this trailer for the upcoming second season made me smile: This looks like fun: it’s a documentary called A Disturbance in the Force, about the infamous 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special: I’m excited
Directed by James Burrows
There is probably no single greater master of the TV sitcom that director James Burrows. You’ve probably seen the “directed by James Burrows” credit at the start or end of many of the television comedies you’ve loved the most from the past half-century: Taxi, Cheers, Friends
Josh Reviews Fleishman is in Trouble
Fleishman is in Trouble is a wonderful adaptation of Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name. Toby Fleishman is recently divorced and adjusting to this new reality. Then one day his ex-wife, Rachel, drops their two daughters off at his apartment… and vanishes. She
Star Trek: Living Memory
Christopher L. Bennett’s Star Trek novel Living Memory is set in the era between Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Admiral Kirk is serving as the commandant of Starfleet Academy, and he is attempting to oversee the incorporation of a group of a