Josh Reviews Finch
The film Finch is set some time in the future. A massive solar flare, combined with other environmental catastrophes, has mostly wiped out mankind. Tom Hanks plays Finch, an engineer who has survived with his dog Goodyear by living mostly in the sheltered, underground lab of the c
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
I’m an enormous fan of Francis Ford Coppola. His films of the seventies, including The Godfather Part I and Part II, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now, are among my favorite films of all time. And yet, weirdly, despite my being a huge fan, I’d never seen a number of
Josh Reviews Peacemaker: Season One
Peacemaker was one of the most enjoyable surprises to come down the road in quite some time! I was not expecting to fall as head-over-heels in love with this show as I did! Writer/director James Gunn has crafted a beautiful and ferociously entertaining show. It’s absolutel
A Look Inside the Making of José and the Pirate Captain Toledano!
We’re fast approaching the May 1st release of my graphic novel José and the Pirate Captain Toledano! You can pre-order it on Amazon right now! Set in the shadows of the Spanish Inquisition, José and the Pirate Captain Toledano is the coming-of-age story of José Alfaro, a youn
Josh Reviews How To with John Wilson Season Two
How To with John Wilson was one of my very favorite new shows of 2020 (click here for my review of season one), and I am so happy that it recently returned for a second season. How I love this joyously bizarre, beautiful documentary series! I wasn’t sure quite how filmmaker John W
Josh Reviews Voir
Voir is a new Netflix series produced by David Fincher (the renowned director of so many incredible films, including Se7en, Fight Club, Zodiac, The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Mank, and more). Each episode of this six-episode series is a short (most are approx
Josh Reviews Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas
Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas, by Glenn Kenny, is exactly what it sounds like: a detailed look back at the making of Goodfellas and the impact of the film. I’m a big fan of Martin Scorsese’s movie Goodfellas and this book was a lot of fun! Almost immediately I knew t
Josh Reviews Station Eleven
Station Eleven is adapted from the novel written by Emily St. John Mandel. Twenty years after a deadly flu has wiped out much of the world’s population, a small group of traveling actors and musicians make their way between the scattered remnants of humanity, performing Shakes
Josh Reviews The Last Duel
Ridley Scott’s film The Last Duel is set in France in the late 1300’s. The film is a re-telling of the story of the feud that erupted between Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and his former friend Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) after de Carrouges’ wife Marguerite (Jodie