(Almost) Fifty Years of 007! Josh Reviews Dr. No (1962)
It is absolutely unbelievable to me that it has been nearly FIFTY YEARS since the release of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, back in 1962. (I don’t think the 1954 television version of Casino Royale counts.) Let me say right at the outset that I am an enormous James Bond fan.
News Around the Net!
My friend Ethan e-mailed me this terrific article from Salon.com, entitled “Will Future Generations Understand The Simpsons?” It’s a great piece analyzing how pop-culture references might date once-great shows like The Simpsons, Seinfeld, etc., rendering them incompr
Tale From the Longbox: Comics I’ve Been Reading!
Here are some of the comics I’ve been reading lately: Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis — It took such a long time for Warren Ellis and Kaare Andrew’s five-issue mini-series to come out, I decided to wait for all five issues to be published before reading it all in one
From the DVD Shelf: Lost in La Mancha (2002)
In August of 2000, director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys) began work on his film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, an adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, starring Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis and Jean Rochefort
From the DVD Shelf: Rushmore (1998)
Although I’m a huge fan of Wes Anderson, somehow I had only seen Rushmore — the film that broke him through to a larger audience — one single time. I saw it on VHS back in 1999 or 2000. I didn’t know a thing about Wes Anderson at the time, I just knew it wa