News Around the Net
So… Back to the Future: The Musical is coming to Broadway in June 2023…? Great Scott! It seems like a ludicrous notion, but I must admit this trailer is sort of endearing. The actor playing Marty sounds exactly like Michael J. Fox when we hear him say “a time mac
Revisiting Barry Levinson’s Avalon
Barry Levinson’s Avalon charts the journey of a Jewish immigrant family, the Krichinskys, in Baltimore throughout the 1940s and ’50s. Armin Mueller-Stahl stars as Sam Krichinsky, who immigrates from Poland to Baltimore in 1941. We follow Sam and his extended family, es
Josh Reviews Life & Beth
In the Hulu series Life & Beth, Amy Schumer plays Beth, a young woman whose life, when we first meet her, seems OK. She lives in New York City, she has a cool job as a wine distributor, and she’s dating the hot guy in her office. But then her mother, with whom she has [&
Creating a Comic Book Page: José and the Pirate Captain Toledano!
Today I wanted to peel back the curtain and walk you through how I created a page of my graphic novel, José and the Pirate Captain Toledano! Today I’m going to be digging into page 11 of of José and the Pirate Captain Toledano. On this page, we follow our main charact
Josh Reviews Light & Magic
Light & Magic is a spectacular six-episode documentary series on Disney+, tracing the origins and development of Industrial Light and Magic, surely one of the greatest special effects company of all time. I am a sucker for behind-the-scenes documentaries on the making of movies, n
Josh Reviews Confess, Fletch
For something like three decades they’ve been trying to make a Fletch sequel. Lo and behold, Greg Mottola (director of Superbad, Adventureland, and Paul) and Jon Hamm have cracked the code. And yet, weirdly… I feel like very few people know this movie even exists. It
News Around the Net
Friends, drop what you’re doing and click here to behold the ballot submitted by Raphael Bob-Waksberg (the creator of Bojack Horseman and co-creator of Undone) to Rolling Stone’s list of the best TV shows of all time. This is genius. (Allow me to give special praise to
Josh Reviews Star Wars: Visions
Star Wars: Visions is an animated anthology series in which each episode was created by a different Japanese animation studio. The episodes utilize imagery from across the Star Wars universe, but the stories are non-canonical, meaning the Japanese animators and storytellers were fre
Josh Reviews For All Mankind Season Three
I need more people to be watching this amazing show!! If you’re reading this and you haven’t started watching, I cannot encourage you more to dig in and give this terrific show a chance. I am so happy we’ve gotten three seasons of For All Mankind... I hope for ma
Josh Reviews Only Murders in the Building Season Two
I adored the first season of Only Murders in the Building. I must confess that I was somewhat nervous about whether the second season could possibly live up to what a perfect concoction that first season was. I’m relieved to report that season two of Only Murders in the Buil