Josh Reviews Live From New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live
My buddy Ethan has been pestering me to read this book for quite a while, and I am so happy that I finally followed his sage advice! Live From New York is described on the cover as “an uncensored history of Saturday Night Live as told by its stars, writers, and guests.” The book i
Josh Reviews Inception!
Thank goodness – finally a good movie! I was beginning to think that Toy Story 3 was going to be the only bright spot in this rather dismal summer of movies. With Inception, writer/director Christopher Nolan reunites a great many members of his Batman ensemble (Michael Caine, Cillia
Down in the Treme…
In addition to watching the first two new episodes of Futurama last week, I had a chance to catch (a few weeks late) the final two episodes of Treme, the magnificent new HBO series by the fine folks behind The Wire (A.K.A. The greatest television series ever created). When I wrote abo
Good News Everybody! Futurama Lives!
Sometimes things really do work out all right in the end, after all! After being dumped by Fox back in 2004, Futurama has returned to life — first as a series of four direct-to-DVD movies (click here for my review of the final DVD, “Into the Wild Blue Yonder”) and
Superhero Movie News!
There has been some exciting news recently in the world of superhero movies. EW has premiered the first look at Ryan Reynolds in his Green Lantern costume. I think it looks absolutely terrible, frankly — but I often think that the first time a live-action superhero costume is
Camp Ramah Pandora
I have written before about our annual parody videos that we create at Camp Ramah in New England to kick off our beginning-of-Staff-Week competitions. This year we had some fun with the biggest blockbuster of 2009-10. Behold: Take a look at our previous parodies of Lost, The Offic
Star Trek: Titan (Book Five): Under a Torrent Sea
Author Christopher Bennett returns to the Star Trek: Titan series of novels (chronicling the continuing adventures of Captain William T. Riker and the diverse inter-species crew of his new command, the deep-space exploration ship Titan) with the fifth installment in the series, Under
Let the Remake In?
I was late in discovering the terrific Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In. (Read my review here.) But that doesn’t stop me from being dubious at the prospect of the upcoming Hollywood remake. I just don’t understand the point of a remake of this film. The or
Looking Ahead to the Deathly Hallows…
Boy, has this been a dismal summer for movies, or what? I thought Toy Story 3 was a masterpiece. I thought Iron Man 2 was OK. And that’s about it for movies I’ve enjoyed. Now, admittedly, I’ve hardly been to the theatres for the past few months — just too