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Here’s a trailer for the latest attempt at a Hellboy movie: I love this character, and I’m all-in for as many Hellboy movies as they want to make. (This is the fourth movie and the third iteration.) But is there an audience for this? I hope so. It’s weird the
Josh Reviews The Instigators
In The Instigators, two down on their luck Bostonians — divorced ex-Marine Rory (Matt Damon) and motormouthed alcoholic Cobby (Casey Affleck) — are recruited for a heist. On election night, Boston’s incumbent mayor Miccelli (Ron Perlman) has scheduled a victory par
Josh Reviews Jackpot!
Jackpot! is set in the year 2030; the financially-desperate state of California has created the “Grand Lotto” in which, any time someone wins, anyone else with a losing ticket has until sundown to kill the lottery winner and claim their winnings. The only rules are that
Josh Reviews Alex Garland’s Civil War
Alex Garland’s film Civil War is set in the very near future, in a world in which the United States has collapsed into civil war, with several secessionist factions violently battling a central government led by a third-term president (Nick Offerman). Lee (Kirsten Dunst) is a
Josh Reviews Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season Three
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an animated Star Wars show set immediately after the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire. It’s a sequel/spin-off of the animated Clone Wars show. The series focuses on “the Bad Batch”, a group of Clone Troopers with genetic
Josh Reviews Batman: Caped Crusader
Batman: Caped Crusader is a gloriously entertaining new take on Batman, overseen by Bruce Timm (who, of course, created Batman: The Animated Series and the many wonderful DC animated shows and movies that spun out of that) and James Tucker (who worked on Bruce Timm’s shows start
Josh Reviews Alien: Romulus
Alien: Romulus is set twenty years after the events of Ridley Scott’s original 1979 Alien film, and 37 years before the events of James Cameron’s sequel, Aliens. Rain is an orphan working in indentured servitude to “the Company” (Weyland-Yutani) on a failing
Josh Reviews The Acolyte
The Acolyte is the latest Star Wars live-action TV show on Disney+. It’s set in the “High Republic” era, about 100 years before the events of Episode I: The Phantom Menace. (For the past few years, Disney has been working to establish the High Republic as a new e
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Let’s begin with this trailer for the fifth (and, tragically, final) season of Star Trek: Lower Decks: I can watch and rewatch that trailer all day. It’s a brilliant take on the amazing first teaser trailer for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Here’s a trail
Josh Reviews Deadpool & Wolverine
After Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, many Marvel fans, like I was, were thrilled that so many of the Marvel characters were finally back under one roof. I was over the moon excited (and I still am!) to see the Fantastic Four and the X-Men brought into the MCU. But fans had ques