News Around the Net: Previews!
OK, enough looking back on 2009. Let’s look forward to 2010! Quite a number of intriguing new previews for 2010 movies have recently appeared. Let’s take a look… Let’s start with one of the greatest things I have seen in a long time. It’s the traile
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Away We Go (2009)
Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph) are expecting their first child. When they learn that Burt’s parents are moving away, they realize that they have nothing tying them to Denver any longer. (Verona’s parents have passed away.) So Burt & Verona deci
News Around the Net!
Lots of great Lost analysis out there. Click here for EW‘s Jeff Jensen’s in-depth write-up of the season 6 premiere. I’m a big fan of “Doc” Jensen’s weekly Lost write-ups — they’re always insightful and ridiculously detailed. Clic
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Before seeing his latest film, The Lovely Bones, I thought it fitting to seek out a gaping hole in my Peter Jackson viewing filmography: his 1994 film, Heavenly Creatures. I’ve been hearing/reading about this film since the lengthy pre-release build-up to The Fellowship of the
Star Trek Titan (Book 1): Taking Wing
I’ve written a lot on this site about Pocket Books’ series of post-finale Deep Space Nine novels, as well as the series of post-Nemesis Next Generation novels. But I haven’t made much mention of another top-notch series of novels that has been a big part of Pocket
Lost: The Questions I Need Answered in the Final Season — Part Two!
Yesterday I began listing a variety of burning questions that I’d really like to see answered in Lost‘s sixth and final season (which begins tonight!). Here are several more: What is Walt’s special destiny and what are his special abilities? In “All the Best
Lost: The Questions I Need Answered in the Final Season — Part One!
Since early October, my wife and I have been engaged in our Great Lost Re-Watch Project! We started with the pilot episode, and have been slowly re-watching the entire run of Lost, all five seasons. With the exception of the first handful of episodes, I had only seen most episodes
The Top 10 Comic Books of 2009!
Time to wrap up my Best of 2009 lists! I hope you all enjoyed my lists of the Top 10 TV Shows of 2009, the Top 10 DVDs of 2009, and the Top 10 Movies of 2009! Now here we go with my list of the Top 10 Comic Book Series of 2009! First, let’s start […]
The Top 10 Movies of 2009 — Part Two!
Yesterday I began my list of my Top 10 Movies of 2009! Let’s continue, shall we? 5. Inglourious Basterds — Quentin Tarantino demonstrates, once again, that no one can wring more nail-biting tension out of simple conversation than he can. What I thought would be a s
The Top 10 Movies of 2009 — Part One!
Despite the horrendous batch of summer “blockbusters” that we had to suffer through, 2009 was actually a pretty darned good year for movies! I’d been feeling otherwise, but when I looked back through my notes about all the great films that I saw this past year, I h