Josh Reviews the Director’s Cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Sigh, The X-Files! I started watching The X-Files towards the end of its first season, back in early 1994. I fell in love with the show immediately, and for a number of years I thought it was the best show on television, getting better and better every year as the show’s mytho
Josh Checks out the Extra Scenes in Avengers Endgame: Encore!
I love revival screenings and the opportunity to see classic older movies back on the big screen. That said, I wasn’t originally planning to go see Avengers Endgame: Encore, Marvel’s re-release of Endgame as part of the lead-up to Doomsday. While I had a blast seeing E
Josh Reviews Reacher Season Four
At the start of Reacher season four, the titular lone hero is riding on a subway in Philadelphia when he spots a woman on the train who checks all the boxes of a potential suicide bomber. Reacher steps in to intervene, which starts a chain of events that winds up with him being purs
Josh Reviews Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
I’d spent years hearing from friends about how wonderful the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender was. During Covid, my kids and I watched the show together, and we thought it was great!! I loved the characters and the world-building in this delightfully rich fantasy w
Josh Reviews X-Men ’97 Season Two
Back in 2024, X-Men ’97 was one of my favorite surprises of the year! I’d watched the original X-Men animated series from the nineties, but I was never all that taken with it. So I wasn’t sure, at first, if I was interested in watching the revival on Disney+. I
Josh Reviews Play Dirty
Play Dirty is the latest film written and directed by Shane Black. Mr. Black wrote a number of very successful action movies in the eighties and nineties (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero), and in 2005 he wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Dow
Josh Reviews Coyote vs. Acme!
Coyote vs. Acme depicts a delightfully playful notion: after years upon years of having his efforts to catch the Roadrunner foiled by faulty Acme products, Wile E. Coyote decides to sue the Acme company. To do so, he enlists the aid of down-on-his-luck lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte
Josh Reviews The Bear Season Five
The Bear season five brings the show to a strong, satisfying conclusion. Even today, when it’s more common for shows to end in the time and manner of their creators’ choosing (as opposed to when I was younger, when most shows were either cancelled before their time, or dragged o
Josh Reviews Spider-Man: Brand New Day
A lot of online ink has been spilled in recent years over the decline of the MCU, but then here comes Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which is not only a terrifically entertaining new installment, but also one that is crushing it at the box office, posting Endgame-like numbers. Both of w
Josh Reviews The Odyssey
The Odyssey is yet another triumph by Christopher Nolan, who is without question one of our greatest masters of cinema. Mr. Nolan makes it look so easy! With the exception of Tenet (which I found to be incomprehensible), I have loved all of his films, and I consider several of the