News Around the Net — UPDATED with Book of Boba Fett Trailer!
Lots to discuss! Let’s dig in! This is a great trailer — at last! — for The Book of Boba Fett: I am excited to see this expansion of the Star Wars TV universe! I hope this is awesome. I am excited by the idea that Boba Fett will finally get the cool, bad-ass st
Josh Reviews Star Trek: Lower Decks Season Two
The animated Star Trek comedy series Lower Decks focuses on the lower-ranked crew members aboard the small, not very well thought-of Starfleet vessel the U.S.S. Cerritos. I enjoyed the first season of Lower Decks, but I absolutely LOVED this second season! All the pieces fit into
Josh Reviews Mare of Easttown
Soon after watching The Queen’s Gambit, I moved on to enjoy another magnificent seven-hour TV miniseries: Mare of Easttown. I think I liked this even more than The Queen’s Gambit! The series was written by Brad Ingelsby (who has written the screenplays for a number of
Josh Reviews Nobody Does it Better: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond
I am a huge fan of the oral histories by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross. My favorite is their phenomenal, voluminous two-part look back at the entire history of the Star Trek franchise: The Fifty-Year Mission. I’ve also devoured and enjoyed their oral history of Battlestar
Josh Reviews Dune
Frank Herbert’s Dune is one of my very favorite novels. I adore it and have read it many times. (Each time I read it, I feel like I inch closer to full comprehension.) I have a soft spot in my heart for David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of Dune; it’s a terrible mov
Late to the Party: Josh Reviews The Queen’s Gambit
The Queen’s Gambit was released on Netflix almost exactly a year ago (in October, 2020), and right away it seemed like everyone was raving about it. I was intrigued and definitely interested in watching it, but I was so busy that I had trouble finding the time, and one thing
The Star Trek Literary Universe Appears to Draw to a Close with Star Trek Coda Book One: Moments Asunder
Back in 2001, I read the novel Star Trek: Avatar, by S.D. Perry, which picked up the story of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine following the events of the series finale. I loved the book, and I was delighted to see a continuation and exploration of the DS9 story and characters beyond the
Josh Reviews What If…? Season One!
What If…? is the latest Marvel TV series on Disney+, and the first animated one. The show is an anthology, with each half-hour episode exploring an alternate timeline in which events from the MCU movies unfolded in a different way. As with all of the other recent Disney+ Mar
Josh Reviews Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi (Simu Liu) and his best friend Katy (Awkwafina) are happy working go-nowhere jobs together, parking cars as hotel valets. But when Shang is attacked on a bus, the past he’d tried to bury comes rushing back. It turns out his father is Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung), a crime
News Around the Net
This looks amazing: a trailer for Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary (it was a film, now it’s a multi-part series for Disney+) called Get Back: Here’s the first trailer for House of the Dragon, the upcoming Game of Thrones spin-off show: I must admit I’m havin