Josh Reviews The Bear Season Three
I loved the first two seasons of The Bear and was eager for season three to arrive! (Click here for my review of season one and click here for my review of season two.) Season three picks up soon after the tumultuous soft-opening of the Bear, the new high-end restaurant that Carmy
Josh Reviews Dune: A Masterpiece in Disarray
Dune: A Masterpiece in Disarray is an oral history of the making of David Lynch’s 1984 Dune, written by Max Evry. I had a fun time reading this; I’d recommend it for any Dune fan or anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes stories of how movies get made. I first saw th
Josh Reviews Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Decades after the events of the original Beetlejuice, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) is the host of a TV show about the supernatural (shades of Pete Venkman hosting World of the Psychic), and is somewhat estranged from her lonely daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega). When Lydia’s father
Josh Reviews Drive Away Dolls
Drive Away Dolls is set in 1999; two lesbian best friends decide to take a road trip from Philadelphia to Tallahassee. Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) is straight-laced and has been having trouble coming out of her shell, while Jamie (Margaret Qualley) is brash and outgoing, though h
Josh Reviews Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three
Crisis on Infinite Earths is one of the most famous storylines in the long history of DC Comics. This twelve-issue mini-series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Perez and was released in 1985-86, and it ended and then restarted DC’s comic book continuity. T
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Here’s a trailer for the latest attempt at a Hellboy movie: I love this character, and I’m all-in for as many Hellboy movies as they want to make. (This is the fourth movie and the third iteration.) But is there an audience for this? I hope so. It’s weird the
Josh Reviews The Instigators
In The Instigators, two down on their luck Bostonians — divorced ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon) and motormouthed alcoholic Cobby (Casey Affleck) — are recruited for a heist. On election night, Boston’s incumbent mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) has scheduled a victory par
Josh Reviews Jackpot!
Jackpot! is set in the year 2030; the financially-desperate state of California has created the “Grand Lotto” in which, any time someone wins, anyone else with a losing ticket has until sundown to kill the lottery winner and claim their winnings. The only rules are that
Josh Reviews Alex Garland’s Civil War
Alex Garland’s film Civil War is set in the very near future, in a world in which the United States has collapsed into civil war, with several secessionist factions violently battling a central government led by a third-term president (Nick Offerman). Lee (Kirsten Dunst) is a
Josh Reviews Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season Three
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an animated Star Wars show set immediately after the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. It’s a sequel/spin-off of the animated Clone Wars show. The series focuses on “the Bad Batch”, a group of Clone Troopers with genetic