Josh Reviews Ted Lasso Season Four!
Like so many others, I fell in love immediately with Ted Lasso as soon as I started watching the first season. The show was a nearly miraculous balance between being extremely funny while also being beautifully life-affirming, warm and upbeat. The show was also incredible in the w
Remembering Sir Patrick Stewart
“He who was my companion, through adventure, and hardship… is gone forever.” — Jean-Luc Picard to Captain Dathon, “Darmok” Only a few hours after I posted yesterday’s news round-up came the word that Sir Patrick Stewart had died. I watched 
News Around the Net: October, 2026
As always, let’s start with some trailers. Here’s a pretty epic-looking trailer for season three of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: It’s exciting to see this show finally getting to the real meat of this prequel story, with Sauron forging the One Ring!
Josh Reviews Motor City
Alan Ritchson stars in Motor City, a pulpy crime thriller set in Detroit in the late seventies. Mr. RItchson plays John Miller, an ex-con who has just completed his probation and is about to propose to his girlfriend, Sophia (Shailene Woodley). But John gets ensnared in the schemi
Josh Reviews In the Grey
In the Grey is the latest film written & directed by Guy Ritchie. Eiza González stars as the tough-as-nails lawyer/fixer Rachel Wild, whose job is to recover debts for super-rich clients, often from powerful and unsavory characters. She dances between the raindrops of legal a
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