“And Admiral… Eet ees the Enterprise…”
Last week, Virgin Galactic conducted the first piloted gliding flight of its commercial sub-orbital spaceship. The name of the craft? The VSS Enterprise. For more details, click here.
Josh Reviews The Social Network
It’s hard for me to a recall another film that has so bravely allowed its lead character to come off as so completely unlikable. In The Social Network‘s power-house of a first scene, Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) is clearly presented to us as a Grade-A, pr
From the DVD Shelf: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
After re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird last month, I couldn’t resist re-watching the famous film adaptation from 1962 starring Gregory Peck. I’d seen the film before, many years ago, but I hardly remembered it. After having devoured Harper Lee’s magnificent novel
On the Comics Shelf!
Last month I wrote about a number of great comic books that I’d read lately. Here’s some more of the fun stuff I’ve been reading these past few weeks: The Marvel Art of Joe Quesada — I remember taking note of a young artist named Joe Quesada back when he was
From the DVD Shelf: Amistad (1997)
My revisitation of the last decade-and-a-half of the films of Steven Spielberg continues! I’ve already looked at Jurassic Park and The Lost World, which brings me now to 1997’s Amistad. In an attempt to recapture the magic of 1993 (in which he released two films in a sin
Re-reading To Kill a Mockingbird in Honor of its 50th Anniversary
This past summer marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. That’s pretty amazing. Although I’d read the book several times in my life, it had been well over a decade (probably closer to fifteen years) since the last time, s
News Around the Net
Quint over at AICN has posted an amazing, career-spanning interview with the extraordinarily talented Drew Struzan. Mr. Struzan has illustrated many of the most iconic movie posters of the last several decades — posters I’m sure you’d recognize for all of the India
From the DVD Shelf: The Lost World (1997)
Last week I began my look back at the last decade-and-a-half of Steven Spielberg films with Jurassic Park. Now my project to revisit all of the films that Mr. Spielberg has made since 1993 — films that, with the exception of Saving Private Ryan, I have only seen once — c
The Reduced Shakespeare Company Presents: The Complete World of Sports (Abridged)!
I was delighted to have had a chance, last week, to see the new Reduced Shakespeare Company play, The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre. This run of performances was the East Coast premiere of this new show, and it was a blast! The Reduced Sh