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Last week I went down a rabbit hole of watching fan-edited “modern trailers” for classic films. Check out this terrific trailer for The Empire Strikes Back: I also absolutely love this trailer for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: I’m a huge fan of the Paley Center
Josh Reviews Sherlock Holmes and The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols
In Nicholas Meyer’s wonderful new Sherlock Holmes pastiche (a novel structured to imitate the Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his comrade Dr. Watson are tasked with investigating the
Just Reviews Stumptown Season One
I enjoyed the first episode of Stumptown, and I’m pleased that I continued to enjoy the subsequent seventeen episodes of this first season. Stumptown is based on the fantastic comic book series written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by first Matthew Southworth and then Justin
Josh Reviews the Fourth and Final Season of Brockmire
Hank Azaria’s series Brockmire has consistently been one of my very favorite shows these past few years. (Season three was one of my favorite TV shows of 2019.) Each eight-episode season has been a small slice of pure pleasure. The series is fiercely hilarious while also t
Josh Reviews the Triumphant Final Season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars!
I quite enjoyed the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars series when it ran on Cartoon Network from 2008-2012. Although the series started out a little wobbly (the first four episodes, which were edited together into a film that was released theatrically, were mediocre at best), it gr
Josh Reviews Better Things Season Four
Pamela Adlon’s magnificent TV series, Better Things, seems to get better and better with every season. The ten episode fourth season was another wonderfully memorable, moving and funny installment. I love this show, and if you’re not watching it, I highly recommend you cha
Star Trek: The Antares Maelstrom
Star Trek: The Antares Maelstrom, the new Star Trek novel by Greg Cox, is set in the later days of the Five Year Mission. As the novel begins, Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise are summoned to assist the colony of Baldur III. A rare and valuable material known as pergium has
Josh Reviews Modern Love
Amazon’s series, Modern Love, is based on the New York Times column of the same name. Each episode of this eight-episode anthology series adapts a specific Modern Love column. Each episode tells the story of a romance; though the episodes feature different types of love st
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I loved Josh Gad’s Goonies cast reunion, and his Back to the Future reunion was just as much fun! I always enjoy sampling Robert Myer Burnett’s Robservations show. Recently he had a terrific in-depth interview with Melinda Snodgrass, a terrific writer who, among other cr
Josh Reviews The Report
Amazon’s film The Report, written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, depicts the years-long process in which the Senate Intelligence Committee investigated the C.I.A.’s use of torture of detainees after September 11th. The investigation was led by Daniel Jones, a staffer f