Josh Reviews Lanterns
Lanterns is an eight-episode HBO Max TV show; it’s the newest installment in the still-burgeoning new DCU overseen by James Gunn and Peter Safran. (So far, this new DCU has consisted of Creature Commandos, Superman, the second season of Peacemaker, and Supergirl.) Lanterns was
Josh Reviews The Center Seat II: 60 Years of Star Trek
Five years ago, in celebration of the fifty-fifth anniversary of Star Trek, Brian Volk Weiss’ Nacelle Company released The Center Seat, a phenomenal eleven-part documentary that explored the history of the Star Trek franchise. I loved every minute! It was thorough, filled with i
Josh Reviews The Social Reckoning
The Social Reckoning, written & directed by Aaron Sorkin, is the follow-up I never expected to see to 2010’s The Social Network (which was written by Mr. Sorkin & directed by David Fincher). Whereas The Social Network told the story of the origins of Facebook in 2003-0
Josh Reviews Digger
In Digger, Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, an aging multi-gazillionaire oil magnate. After using his wealth and influence to bypass procedures and regulations, a methane leak at one of his oil rigs in Greenland sets off a chain of events that threatens to unleash a global envir
Josh Reviews the Director’s Cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Sigh, The X-Files! I started watching The X-Files towards the end of its first season, back in early 1994. I fell in love with the show immediately, and for a number of years I thought it was the best show on television, getting better and better every year as the show’s mytho
Josh Checks out the Extra Scenes in Avengers Endgame: Encore!
I love revival screenings and the opportunity to see classic older movies back on the big screen. That said, I wasn’t originally planning to go see Avengers Endgame: Encore, Marvel’s re-release of Endgame as part of the lead-up to Doomsday. While I had a blast seeing E
Josh Reviews Reacher Season Four
At the start of Reacher season four, the titular lone hero is riding on a subway in Philadelphia when he spots a woman on the train who checks all the boxes of a potential suicide bomber. Reacher steps in to intervene, which starts a chain of events that winds up with him being purs
Josh Reviews Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender
I’d spent years hearing from friends about how wonderful the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender was. During Covid, my kids and I watched the show together, and we thought it was great!! I loved the characters and the world-building in this delightfully rich fantasy w
Josh Reviews X-Men ’97 Season Two
Back in 2024, X-Men ’97 was one of my favorite surprises of the year! I’d watched the original X-Men animated series from the nineties, but I was never all that taken with it. So I wasn’t sure, at first, if I was interested in watching the revival on Disney+. I
Josh Reviews Play Dirty
Play Dirty is the latest film written and directed by Shane Black. Mr. Black wrote a number of very successful action movies in the eighties and nineties (Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero), and in 2005 he wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Dow