Josh Enjoys Rifftrax Live: Reefer Madness!
I’ve written before about Rifftrax, the on-line enterprise from Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy (formerly of Mystery Science Theatre 3000). Rifftrax continues the familiar MST3K model of making fun of terrible movies, via downloadable podcasts that you can pl
“But they’re useless.” — A Small Dose of Daily Show Goodness
Why has The Daily Show topped my Best TV of 2009 and Best TV of 2008 lists? Clips like this one: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Back in Black – Eat Pray Love www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party It’s funny a
“In a World That Has Moved On…” The Dark Tower Book I: The Gunslinger
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So opens book one of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger. It’s a terrific opening line, and the rest of the story that follows ain’t too shabby, either. The titular gunslinger is Roland Deschain,
Star Wars is Coming to Blu-Ray and I Don’t Really Care…
A few days ago, at the Star Wars Celebration V convention in Orlando, FL, it was announced that the Star Wars films will be released on Blu-Ray in the fall of 2011. Click here for more details. I should be overcome with excitement at the propsect of seeing the Star Wars films presen
On the Road to the Dark Tower…
Back in 2007, Marvel Comics released the first of a series of comic books based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novels. Called The Gunslinger Born, that first seven-issue mini-series chronicled the back-story of the Dark Tower novels: specifically, the youth of Roland Deschain, t
Star Trek Titan (Book Six): Synthesis
It’s taken me a few months longer than I had originally planned, but after completing James Swallow’s novel Synthesis, I am finally caught up with Pocket Books’ Titan series, which chronicles the post-Nemesis adventures of Captain William T. Riker and his new command, the U.S.S.
News Around the Net!
Have you heard that they’re making new Looney Tunes cartoons to show theatrically? Check out this glimpse of the first new Road Runner cartoon in far too many years: Battlestar Galactica lives on! Rumors are that SyFy are working on an on-line BSG spin-off, tentatively title
Josh Reviews Dinner For Schmucks!
Hoo boy, this one was disappointing. I’m a big fan of both Steve Carell and Paul Rudd, and I thought Dinner For Schmucks had a premise that was so weird it seemed to promise good comedy. Rudd plays Tim, who is trying desperately to climb the ladder at the private equity firm a
From The DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews A Few Good Men (1992)
A Few Good Men is one of those movies that I saw countless times in the nineties, to the point that I knew the film so well that it bored me. But then I stopped watching it, and when I decided to pop the film into my DVD player earlier this month, it had been […]
My Mind Has Just Been Blown
I have got to share with you all the secret to the score of Inception, which I first saw posted over at CHUD: That is awesome.