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
News Around the Net!
My friend Rabbi Ethan Linden has written a wonderful article on his blog about HBO’s recently-concluded Game of Thrones mini-series (which I LOVED) and some broader thoughts about the fantasy and sci-fi genres. Here’s an excerpt: People love to make fun of the superhero
Ape Management Part 3: Escape From the Planet of the Apes (1971)
My epic project to re-watch all of the Planet of the Apes films continues! Click here for my thoughts on Planet of the Apes, and here for my thoughts on Beneath the Planet of the Apes. The end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes seemed t0 definitively eliminate the possibility of any
Josh Tests His Endurance and Takes In Transformers: Dark of the Moon
I can’t help it. I really love The Transformers. As a kid, I loved the cartoon show, I loved the toys, I loved the crazy-dark animated movie, I loved Marvel Comic’s comic book series, I loved it all. And that’s why, even after suffering through the abysmal Tran
Ape Management Part 2: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1969)
Last week I began my project to re-watch all five original Planet of the Apes movies by re-watching the original Planet of the Apes from 1967. Today, we move to discuss the first sequel: 1969’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes. For whatever reason, Charlton Heston only participa
Josh Reviews Green Lantern!
Well, we’ve had two very solid super-hero films so far this summer, Thor (click here for my review) and X-Men: First Class (click here for my review), and while neither were quite as perfect as I might have hoped, I found both to be very solidly entertaining films. But with Gr
From the DVD Shelf: From the Earth to the Moon
In 1998, HBO aired From the Earth to the Moon, a twelve-part mini-series produced by Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, and Michael Bostick. The series chronicled the Apollo program, the massive American space-flight initiative that ran from 1961-1975 and which resulted in the fir