Josh Reviews Silicon Valley Season Three
I really loved the first two seasons of Silicon Valley, a show chronicling the long road that a young engineer Richard Hendricks and his team of co-workers and friends face in trying to successfully navigate the business and technological challenges of creating and successfully releas
Josh Reviews Netflix’s The Defenders!
Way back in October, 2013, Marvel and Netflix announced that they would be collaborating on four TV shows — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist — whose characters would then cross over into a combined series The Defenders. This would be a TV version of the
Star Trek: Enigma Tales
Una McCormack’s Enigma Tales is the latest Star Trek novel continuing the interconnected series of books exploring the universe and characters of the 24th Century-set Star Trek shows beyond the events of their series finales. Ms. McCormack has developed into the writer most of
Josh Reviews Game of Thrones Season Seven!
It’s hard to believe that we have arrived at the endgame of Game of Thrones. It wasn’t so long ago that I remember watching the first few episodes of the show, and slowly falling in love with its vast array of characters, its wonderful fantasy world-building, and its rut
Josh Reviews an Extraordinary Fan-Edit/Reconstruction of The Empire Strikes Back!
Back in 2009, I watched and fell in love with the fan-edit of the original Star Wars created by a Star Wars fan known on-line as Adywan. This fan-made version, called Star Wars: Revisited, blew me away. It is at once a restoration, stripping away some of the dumber changes made by
Josh Reviews The Big Sick
The Big Sick, written by Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon and directed by Michael Showalter, is based on the true story of Kumail and Emily’s relationship. As the film opens, the two meet at one of Kumail’s shows and begin to date, and while they are clearly compatibl
Josh Reviews Waking Sleeping Beauty
Waking Sleeping Beauty is a 2009 documentary film, masterminded by Don Hahn and Peter Schneider, that tells the story of Disney animation’s return to prominence in the late eighties and early nineties with the huge successes of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladd
Josh Reviews The Dark Tower
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is an extraordinary achievement, a work of breathtaking genius that represents one of my absolute favorite fictional sagas of any medium. The series consists of seven main novels plus an eighth follow-up novel (The Wind Through the Keyhole)
Josh Reviews Baby Driver!
I have enormous love for all of writer/director Edgar Wright’s collaborations with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, from their fantastic TV show Spaced to their trilogy of films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. Though actually, I have to admit that my absolute
Josh Reviews Dunkirk
In May of 1940, German forces had trapped the British Expeditionary Force, along with French and Belgian soldiers, along the northern French coast. The Allied troops pulled back to Dunkirk, but efforts at evacuation were at first thwarted by the German Luftwaffe. In what came to b