Revisiting Fletch and the Original Fletch Novel!
As a kid I loved the 1985 Fletch film starring Chevy Chase. There was a period in my life in which I didn’t think anything was funnier than that movie!! Recently I decided it was high time that I read the original Fletch novel, from 1974, written by Gregory Mcdonald. Mr. Mcd
Josh Reviews Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
In Guy Ritchie’s latest film, The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Master Sergeant John Kinley, who leads a team of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan in 2018, tasked with finding caches of bomb-making weapons. It’s dangerous work, and in an early sequence we see a truck-bom
Josh Reviews Invincible: Atom Eve
I was blown away by the first eight-episode season of the animated series Invincible when it was released back in 2021. (Click here for my full review!) The series is an adaptation of the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Cory Walker & Ryan Ottley.
News Around the Net
September 8th was the 57th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek. Wow! To celebrate that milestone, Variety posted a list of their 57 favorite episodes of Star Trek of all time, from across all the Trek series. That’s quite an endeavor! The list is a wild one. There&#
Josh Reviews Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle is the newest DC superhero movie released by Warner Brothers Discovery. It’s the third of four DC superhero films that were left in limbo following the announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran would be rebooting the DC film universe, despite these four mostly-
“I Don’t Understand the Play” — Josh Reviews Asteroid City
Asteroid City is the latest wonderful film from Wes Anderson. (Mr. Anderson wrote and directed the film; the story is credited to Mr. Anderson and Roman Coppola.) The film is set in a stylized version of the 1950’s, in a little town in the middle of nowhere called Asteroid C
Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil
James Swallow’s novel The Dark Veil tells a story of Captain William Riker and Deanna Troi on board the USS Titan, the starship that Riker took command of at the end of the final TNG movie, Nemesis. There has been a wonderful series of Titan novels published over the past fift
Josh Reviews the Documentary Howard
Don Hahn’s beautiful documentary Howard is a tribute to the life and work of Howard Ashman, the extraordinarily talented songwriter who wrote the book and lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors and, along with composer Alan Menken, wrote the songs for Disney’s The Little Mermai
Josh Reviews The Bear Season Two
It was only a few months ago that I watched, and was blown away by, the first season of The Bear. (Click here for my review!) Created by Christopher Storer (who wrote six of the ten season two episodes, and co-directed three of them), the series follows Carmy, a talented chef who
Josh Reviews Tales of the Jedi
Somehow I hadn’t yet written about one of the best new Star Wars stories in recent memory: Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi! The series was released last spring. I hope it’s the first of many! This series of six short stories (each about 15 minutes in length) tell two interweaving