Kingdom Come
It is the distant future of the DC Universe. Beings with super-human abilities have spread across the globe, and ever-more powerful violent heroes and villains wreak untold havoc with their escalating conflicts. Meanwhile, the heroes of old are gone. Green Lantern has abandoned
Josh Reviews American Teen
In 2006, documentary film-maker Nanette Burstein and her team followed several teenagers through the course of their Senior Year of High School in Warsaw, Indiana. While a number of students applied to participate, the final film focuses on five kids, who seem to fit into typical Br
“If you are listening to this, you are the resistance” — Josh Reviews Terminator: Salvation
Bottom line on Terminator: Salvation — It’s not as good a Terminator movie as I would have hoped for, but don’t believe the reviews, it’s not nearly the catastrophe you’ve been lead to believe it is. Ever since James Cameron’s original masterpiece T
The Ultimates Saga Continues!
Yesterday I wrote about three terrific series that told the story of The Ultimates, Marvel Comics’ reinvention of their super-hero team, the Avengers. In addition to those three phenomenal series that I discussed (The Ultimates, The Ultimates 2, and the Ultimate Galactus Trilo
The Ultimates!
Last month I wrote several posts about my favorite graphic novels. One of the works that I mentioned (saying at the time that a more lengthy review would be coming) was Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch’s The Ultimates. In the early 2000’s, Marvel Comics launched their Ultim
More Love for Motion Pictures from Around the Net
Yesterday I mentioned two terrific reviews of the recent Trek coverage and comics here at MotionPicturesComics.com. I’m also excited to report that we’ve been mentioned on several other fun sites from around the web over the past two weeks: Star Trek author Keith R.A. De
Motion Pictures Around the Net!
MotionPicturesComics.com has been getting a little bit of love from around the net lately! Jill Rayburn at Roddenberry.com posted a RAVE review of the site and my recent Star Trek comics. Jill writes a regular blog on that site called Artistic License that is well worth checking out
Not Quite the Best There is at What he Does — Josh Suffers Through X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Hoo boy. One of my first articles, when I started this blog, was about great franchises that have fallen on hard times. I was writing about my once-beloved Alien and Predator series, but we can all now safely add the X-Men films to that list. What in the world has happened to this
News Around the Net!
Big dumb summer movie trailer alert! It’s the new trailer for Transformers 2, filled with lots of robot smashing action, and the new trailer for G.I. Joe, filled with Ninjas and, um, Eiffel Tower smashing action! Sigh. Hard to believe these two iconic and beloved cartoons
“I definitely did not touch your woo-woo!” — Josh Reviews Choke
Victor Mancini (Sam Rockwell) is a sex-addict who works at Colonial Dunsboro, an 18th-century re-enactment village. He’s also a con-man whose routine is to pretend he is choking in a restaurant and then befriend the person who rescues him, ultimately hitting that unsuspecting