Josh Reviews the 4K Restoration of the “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture!
Praise be to the Great Bird of the Galaxy — after two decades of wishing and hoping, I am delighted that a beautiful high-definition 4K version of the “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture now exists!! I watched it streaming on Paramount+, and
Josh Reviews Reacher Season One
The eight-episode Amazon series Reacher is based on Killing Floor, the first novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series. When the story opens, the wandering Jack Reacher has sat down at a diner in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, when he is arrested for the murder of three m
News Around the Net
This trailer for season two of Only Murders in the Building makes me very happy: I loved the first season and I can’t wait for season two! Say halleluyah: the 4K “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is finally here! Here’s a trailer 
Josh Reviews Murderville Season One
In the Netflix series Murderville, Will Arnett stars as homicide detective Terry Seattle. In each of the six episode, Mr. Arnett’s Terry Seattle is paired up with a different celebrity guest, to investigate a murder. The idea is that Mr. Arnett and the other cast members kno
Anatomy of a Cover: José and the Pirate Captain Toledano!
We’re one month out from the publication date of my graphic novel José and the Pirate Captain Toledano! (Click here to pre-order it on Amazon!) Today, I thought it’d be fun to take a deep dive into the process of creating the book’s cover. The process began with a
Josh Reviews Francis Ford Coppola’s Rumble Fish
Immediately after completing work on The Outsiders, his 1983 adaptation of the novel by S.E. Hinton, Francis Ford Coppola began making an adaptation of another of S.E. Hinton’s novels, Rumble Fish, starring several members of The Outsiders cast. Both The Outsiders and Rumble F
Josh Reviews Nightmare Alley
As Guillermo del Toro’s film Nightmare Alley opens, we see images of a man apparently hiding a corpse underneath the floorboards and then burning down the isolated house as he walks away. It’s 1939, and that man, Stan (played by Bradley Cooper) winds up finding work in a
Josh Reviews CODA
The beautiful, sweet film CODA was written and directed by Sian Heder (based on the French film La Famille Bélier). The CODA of the title — a Child of Deaf Adults — is Ruby Rossi, a high school student living in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ruby is the only
Josh Reviews Turning Red
In the new Pixar film Turning Red, we meet Meilin Lee, a 13 year old Chinese-Canadian girl, living in Toronto in 2002. Mei is extremely close with her mother and has a tight group of friends at school. She’s an overachiever, and she works hard to make her family — espe
Josh Reviews The Batman
In The Batman, writer/director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) brings us a new cinematic version of Batman. In this new version, Bruce Wayne has only been operating as Batman for about two years, but he’s already feeling that he’s getting nowher