News Around the Net — UPDATED with Bond 25 Title
UPDATE: The Title of Bond 25 has been revealed: It’s an OK title. A bit generic, but also sort of classic Bond sounding. I just hope this movie is better than SPECTRE, which I found to be heartbreakingly disappointing. Recently I shared the exciting news that Brandon Routh
Josh Reviews True Detective Season Three
Like many, I loved the first season of True Detective. The ending was a little disappointing (in that the many plot threads weren’t wrapped up as neatly as I’d hoped), but I thought it was a riveting, smart, adult drama. The writing was sharp, the directing was memorab
Star Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise
For a while now I have been catching up with a bunch of Star Trek novels that I had skipped reading when they were originally published. With more books on my “to-read” shelf than I had time to read, I often found myself choosing to read the Star Trek novels that were se
Josh Reviews Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King
It seems like it was just a few weeks ago that I was writing about the live-action remake of Aladdin, and stating that I don’t see any creatively interesting rationale behind Disney’s current predilection for remaking so many of their classic animated films in live-action.
Josh Reviews Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Seeing Pulp Fiction for the first time in the theater back in 1994 made me a Quentin Tarantino fan for life, and so I have been eagerly anticipating the release of his ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. A new Tarantino film as always a cause for excitement! I was not disa
News Around the Net
I really enjoyed this trailer for Picard, the new show in which Patrick Stewart will reprise his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard: That’s a great trailer. Will the show be any good? Who knows. I’m dubious, mostly because I’m just not sure that Alex Kurtzman is th
Josh Reviews Spider-Man: Far From Home
While Avengers: Endgame was an epic, enormous culmination to the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, it was actually Spider-Man: Far From Home that was the official end to Marvel’s “Phase Three” of films. (Kevin Feige just announced an exciting and weird array of fil
Josh Reviews Men in Black: International
I really enjoyed the first Men in Black film, made back in 1997. It’s not a perfect film, but it’s a lot of fun to watch. But none of the sequels have ever lived up to the potential of this series’ wonderful premise (of a secret group of men and women whose job i
Josh Reviews Toy Story 4
I have loved all three previous Toy Story movies. Toy Story 2 is one of my favorite sequels ever made, and I adored Toy Story 3 as well. The ending of Toy Story 3 felt like a perfect ending to the series, beautiful and heartfelt. And so I was a little nervous when Toy Story [&he
Star Trek: No Time Like The Past
I am having fun catching up on a number of Star Trek novels from recent years that I have missed. Most of these books that I had skipped reading are stand-alone tales from the Original Series era, and the first batch I have been reading have all been written by Greg Cox. I have qu