EZ Viewing IV
This past weekend my wife Steph and I hosted our fourth annual EZ Viewing movie marathon! (Click here for more info on last year’s EZ Viewing III.) This year’s selection was: Star Wars: A New Hope — The Adywan Fan-Edit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels A Mighty
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
My faith in the continuing DS9 saga is restored! Last week I week I wrote about my disappointment with how the spectacular DS9 novel series has sort-of petered out over the past few years, but after reading the other DS9 novel published this year, Una McCormack’s spectacular The
More Great Comic Books!
Last week I wrote about some of the great comics I’ve read lately. That list was just scratching the surface! Here’s some more fantastic stuff that I’ve been enjoying recently: Hellboy: The Wild Hunt and BPRD: 1947 – The Hellboy saga continues in these two
Josh Reviews Where The Wild Things Are!
I’ve been reading about Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s deservedly beloved children’s book Where The Wild Things Are for a long time — years, now — and I am so thrilled to be able to report that the finished film which has finally been
The Deep Space Nine Saga Continues…
Deep Space Nine remains, by an order of magnitude, my favorite of the Star Trek series. Not surprisingly, then, it was the terrific DS9 relaunch of novels set after the series finale (which I wrote about in depth here) that rekindled my interest in (and love for) Pocket Books’
Great Comic Books!
I’ve written a few pieces, recently, about some of the great comic books that I’ve been reading lately. (Click here for my thoughts on 100 Bullets, and here for my reviews of three recent graphic novels adapted from the short stories of Alan Moore.) What else have I be
Josh Enjoys a Double-Feature of Toy Story & Toy Story 2 in Glorious 3-D!!
Last week I had the pleasure of taking in a double-feature of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, re-done in beautiful 3-D. What a glorious time in a movie theatre! It seems that 3-D is really starting to be embraced by the studios. There have been a number of big 3-D releases in the past
Camp Ramah Gets Lost!
It’s become a bit of a tradition that, each summer at Camp Ramah in New England, we kick off our Staff Week at the beginning of each summer with a silly video that introduces our first program (which usually involves some sort of elaborate competition between the counselors of e
Three Great New(ish) Works by Alan Moore
Last month I waxed poetic a bit about the groundbreaking comic book work of writer Alan Moore, and I reviewed a recent interview/retrospective of his career, The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore: Indispensible Edition, by George Khoury, published by TwoMorrows Publishing. I commented
Josh Reviews Julie and Julia
Here’s how not to get me excited about a film: start it off by trailers for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster flick 2012, Rob Marshall’s latest musical Nine, and about five other movies that you could not pay me enough