Josh Reviews Better Call Saul Season Two!
I loved the first season of Better Call Saul. I was blown away by Bob Odenkirk’s performance in the lead role, and by the extraordinary groups of actors with whom he was surrounded, most notably fellow Breaking Bad alum Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut, along with new faces
Days of De Palma (Part 17): The Black Dahlia (2006)
I’m in the home stretch of my project to watch all the films directed by Brian De Palma! Following 2002’s Femme Fatale, Mr. De Palma was off the scene for a while until 2006’s The Black Dahlia. This noir murder-mystery was adapted by Josh Friedman from James Ellr
Josh Reviews Doctor Strange
In Doctor Strange, Benedict Cumberbatch plays the incredibly skilled, and incredibly arrogant, neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange. Strange is at the top of his field and he knows it. But his privileged life falls apart after a terrible car accident leaves him unable to use his hands
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part XVIII: End of Days
My epic project to re-read Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning rolls on! Click here for part one, in which I discussed the very first Hellboy tale: the four-part mini-series Seed of Destruction. Click here for part two, in which I discussed The
Star Trek Legacies: Captain to Captain
In celebration of this year’s fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek, several of the best of Pocket Books’ stable of Star Trek authors have collaborated on a fiftieth anniversary trilogy of novels called Legacies. The first novel, Captain to Captain, written by Greg Cox, is set
Josh Reviews The Girl on the Train
Adapted from the Paula Hawkins novel of the same name, The Girl on the Train tells the story of Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt), a divorced alcoholic. Every day Rachel rides the train to and from New York City, and she has become obsessed with the couple living in a house that she sees
Josh Reviews For The Love of Spock
For the Love of Spock is a documentary about Leonard Nimoy that was produced and directed by Mr. Nimoy’s son, Adam Nimoy. The project was originally intended as an in-depth look at Leonard Nimoy’s iconic character, Mr. Spock, that Adam would create with Leonard’s i
Days of De Palma (Part 16): Femme Fatale (2002)
My journey through the films of Brian De Palma continues! Following Mr. De Palma’s brief excursion into big-budget sci-fi, his next film returned to him to more familiar ground of crime, mystery, beautiful dames and Hitchcockian double-twists. I’d never seen Femme Fatale
Josh Reviews Netflix’s Luke Cage!
Season one of Netflix’s Daredevil was a revelation. I was blown away by that gritty, intense, adult take on Marvel’s blind super-hero. Season one of Jessica Jones was just as good if not better: a riveting take on a character whose life was torn apart by a trauma and a
