Josh Reviews Tetris
The film Tetris, available to watch on Apple TV+, tells the story of the efforts to market the video game Tetris for sale in the U.S. in the late eighties. The film focuses on game designer Henk Rogers, who first learns of Tetris when he sees a demonstration at a CES (Consumer Elect
Josh Reviews SmartLess: On the Road
SmartLess: On the Road is a six-episode documentary series on Apple TV+. We follow the hosts of the SmartLess podcast: Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes, as they take their podcast on the road for a series of live performances. The first half to two-thirds of each episode
Josh’s Thoughts on Star Wars: The Story in Music
This past week I had the pleasure of seeing Star Wars: The Story in Music, performed by the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart. John Williams has had a long connection with the Boston Pops; he was their conductor from 1980 to 1983. In the years since, the Pops has often perf
Josh Reviews Ahsoka
The latest live-action Star Wars TV show on Disney+, Ahsoka, is set in the same timeline as The Mandalorian. We’re years after the fall of the Empire in Return of the Jedi, and also still years before the events of The Force Awakens and the sequel trilogy. Ahsoka picks up st
Josh Reviews Secret Invasion
Secret Invasion is the latest Marvel show on Disney+. In this six-episode series, a grizzled Nick Fury returns to the field in an attempt to stop a civil war between the shape-shifting Skrull aliens on Earth. At the end of Captain Marvel, set in 1995, Fury had discovered and befri
Revisiting Fletch and the Original Fletch Novel!
As a kid I loved the 1985 Fletch film starring Chevy Chase. There was a period in my life in which I didn’t think anything was funnier than that movie!! Recently I decided it was high time that I read the original Fletch novel, from 1974, written by Gregory Mcdonald. Mr. Mcd
Josh Reviews Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
In Guy Ritchie’s latest film, The Covenant, Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Master Sergeant John Kinley, who leads a team of U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan in 2018, tasked with finding caches of bomb-making weapons. It’s dangerous work, and in an early sequence we see a truck-bom
Josh Reviews Invincible: Atom Eve
I was blown away by the first eight-episode season of the animated series Invincible when it was released back in 2021. (Click here for my full review!) The series is an adaptation of the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Cory Walker & Ryan Ottley.
News Around the Net
September 8th was the 57th anniversary of the launch of Star Trek. Wow! To celebrate that milestone, Variety posted a list of their 57 favorite episodes of Star Trek of all time, from across all the Trek series. That’s quite an endeavor! The list is a wild one. There&#
Josh Reviews Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle is the newest DC superhero movie released by Warner Brothers Discovery. It’s the third of four DC superhero films that were left in limbo following the announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran would be rebooting the DC film universe, despite these four mostly-