Josh Reviews The Adjustment Bureau!
I’m always intrigued, but a bit worried, when I hear that another Philip K. Dick story is being turned into a movie. Many adaptations of Mr. Dick’s work have been pretty horrid, and even the ones that are great (such as Total Recall and Blade Runner) tend to diverge pret
Tales From the Longbox: Two Classic Daredevil Collections!
After having so much fun, recently, reading some great Marvel prestige hardcover and trade paperback collections of classic story-lines (click here and here!), I decided to finally read two other Marvel reprint collections that had been sitting for a while on my to-read bookshelf: Dar
From the DVD Shelf: The Squid and the Whale (2005)
After watching Noah Baumbach’s film Greenberg last month (click here for my review), I thought it’d be fun to re-watch the first film of his that I ever saw: 2005’s The Squid and the Whale. I’m not sure what prompted me to rent this film 4-5 years ago. Possib
“Now, Mister Stark” — Full-Length Trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BBXXnYoIVo&feature=player_embedded OK, I’m officially excited.
Happy 80th Birthday William Shatner! It’s the THIRD annual Talk Like William Shatner Day!
WOW — Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner! For the last two years, now, talented voice-actor Maurice LaMarche has spearheaded International Talk Like William Shatner Day, in honor of the Shat’s birthday! Click here for his first video from 2009 in which he unleashes his
(Almost) Fifty Years of 007! Josh Reviews Dr. No (1962)
It is absolutely unbelievable to me that it has been nearly FIFTY YEARS since the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, back in 1962. (I don’t think the 1954 television version of Casino Royale counts.) Let me say right at the outset that I am an enormous James Bond fan.
News Around the Net!
My friend Ethan e-mailed me this terrific article from Salon.com, entitled “Will Future Generations Understand The Simpsons?” It’s a great piece analyzing how pop-culture references might date once-great shows like The Simpsons, Seinfeld, etc., rendering them incompr
Tale From the Longbox: Comics I’ve Been Reading!
Here are some of the comics I’ve been reading lately: Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis — It took such a long time for Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrew’s five-issue mini-series to come out, I decided to wait for all five issues to be published before reading it all in one
From the DVD Shelf: Lost in La Mancha (2002)
In August of 2000, director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys) began work on his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, an adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, starring Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort
From the DVD Shelf: Rushmore (1998)
Although I’m a huge fan of Wes Anderson, somehow I had only seen Rushmore — the film that broke him through to a larger audience — one single time. I saw it on VHS back in 1999 or 2000. I didn’t know a thing about Wes Anderson at the time, I just knew it wa