News Around the Net!
I’m a big, big fan of Adywan’s fan-edit of the original Star Wars, so much-so that I consider it to be the definitive version of that film. I am chomping at the bit for the release of his upcoming edit of The Empire Strikes Back! Here’s a fascinating interview with
Josh Reviews Tron: Legacy
The original Tron (read my review here), released in 1982, boasted incredibly stunning special effects but was hamstrung by a pretty simplistic story. The new Tron: Legacy, released last week, boasts incredibly stunning special effects but is hamstrung by a pretty simplistic story. I&
Josh Enjoys Danny Elfman’s Newly-Released Complete Soundtrack to Batman (1989)!
Last month, La-La Land Records released a limited edition 2-CD set containing the complete score to Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), composed by Danny Elfman. As I’ve written before here on the site, I’m a bit of a nut for movie soundtracks, and I love it when we’re
The Late Shift
Like many of you out there, I followed the news of NBC’s recent late-night craziness — the collapse of Jay Leno’s 10 PM show, the feud this caused between newly-installed Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien and the NBC brass, and Jay Leno’s return to The Toni
The BBC is Adapting Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency!!!
MUST. SEE. IMMEDIATELY.
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews the original TRON (1982)
Before seeing the new, big-budgeted sequel Tron: Legacy, being released this week by the Walt Disney Company, I decided that I really needed to go back and watch the 1982 original. That proved a little more difficult than I had anticipated! I’d assumed that Disney would cash i
Star Trek: The Sorrows of Empire
David Mack’s novella The Sorrows of Empire appeared in the Star Trek: Mirror Universe anthology Glass Empires back in 2007. It was the highlight of the anthology, and one of my favorite pieces of Star Trek fiction in recent memory. (Read my review of Glass Empires here.)
News Around the Net
Apparently police officers in Pittsburgh spent eight hours investigating “the most grisly murder scene in 35 years” before discovering it was, in fact, a movie set. Pretty funny. The breaking news this week, of course, is that Jon Favreau won’t be returning to dire
Spielberg in the Aughts: War of the Worlds (2005)
In 2005 Steven Spielberg returned to sci-fi with his version of H. G. Wells’ famous story from 1898, War of the Worlds. Not surprisingly, rather than being a period piece, Mr. Spielberg set his adaptation in the present day. Tom Cruise reunited with Spielberg to star as Ray Fe
Josh Reviews Love & Other Drugs
When we first meet Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Jamie Randall at the start of Edward Zwick’s new film Love & Other Drugs, we learn immediately that Jamie is a fast-talking salesman who seems to be able to convince anyone to buy anything, and also that he is quite a lad