Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show!
Do you only know Titus Welliver from his role as the Man in Black on Lost? The man is a terrific actor and comedian. Check out his Christopher Walken impression: http://youtu.be/OOMUeMWv8y4 That was pretty good, right? But it’s nothing compared to his staggeringly spot-on im
From the DVD Shelf: The Larry Sanders Show: Season Two
Last month I wrote about season one of Garry Shandling’s magnificent HBO series from the ’90s, The Larry Sanders Show. Season one had been previously released on DVD, so I’d seen all of those episodes many times. But NONE of the subsequent seasons had ever before
Ape Management Part 7: Josh reviews Rise of the Planet of the Apes!
When I first started to read about the possibility of a new Planet of the Apes film, a few years back, I thought the central concept was at once incredibly gutsy and yet at the same time quite boringly predictable. The idea of remaking not the first Planet of the Apes (the way Tim Bur
Ape Management Part 6: Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes (2001)
My friends and I discovered the Planet of the Apes films in college. We’d taken to visiting the local rental store, trying to fill in the gaps in our movie-watching histories. Basically, we rented films that we felt we really SHOULD see, since we considered ourselves movie-f
Star Trek Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
Although I was a bit lukewarm on the first two novels in the four-book Star Trek crossover series, Typhon Pact, I loved the third installment (Rough Beasts of Empire, by David R. George III), and having just read the fourth and final installment, Paths of Disharmony, I am pleased to r
Ape Management Part 5: Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
We have made it, at last, to the fifth and final film in the original Planet of the Apes series! (Click here for my review of Planet of the Apes, here for my review of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, here for my review of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and here […]
News Around the Net!
Lots of fun geeky goodness has been spilling out onto the nets recently, mostly because of the annual San Diego Comic-Con. Did you miss the teaser trailer for The Avengers at the end of Captain America? Check it out here. Pretty sweet. Speaking of teasers, here’s one for The Dar
Ape Management Part 4: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
I’m entering the home stretch of my journey back through the Planet of the Apes film, as I’ve just taken in the fourth installment: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes! Click here for my thoughts on Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, and Escape From the Pla
Josh Reviews Captain America: The First Avenger!
And so we come to it at last, the final piece in the puzzle before next summer’s unprecedented super-hero cross-over movie, The Avengers. There was Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor, and now we have Captain America: The First Avenger. Captain America is ove
Josh Reviews Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
I’ve made this comment in my last several Harry Potter film reviews, but it bears repeating one final time: what an astounding achievement it is, that this eight-film series has made it all the way to the end with the same ensemble of actors all the way through (save for the lat