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
Josh Reviews In Search of Tomorrow
In Search of Tomorrow is a crowd-funded documentary that takes an in-depth look at the sci-fi movies of the eighties. (I backed this project on Indiegogo back in 2021.) From the huge blockbusters to the low-budget camp-fests, this lengthy film takes a deep dive into the many wonderf
Josh Reviews Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
In Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Scott Lang (Ant Man) and his daughter Cassie, along with Hope van Dyne, Janet van Dyne, and Hank Pym, get sucked back into the Quantum Realm. Janet was trapped for decades in this subatomic realm, and it turns out it’s not nearly as desert
Josh Reviews Strange World
In the prologue of the Disney animated film Strange World, brave adventurer Jaeger Clade and his 15-year-old son Searcher are attempting to cross the seemingly uncrossable mountains that surround their home of Avalonia. Searcher discovers an amazing plant that seems to generate elec
Josh Reviews Amsterdam
Not long after watching and enjoying See How They Run, I moved on to another period-piece murder mystery film with a sprawling all-star cast that was released towards the end of 2022: David O. Russell’s Amsterdam. Christian Bale and John David Washington star in the film as Burt