Josh Reviews Raya and the Last Dragon
Menaced by the Druun (seemingly unstoppable evil entities that turn people to stone), the once-prosperous, peaceful nation of Kumandra has fractured into five bitterly divided, isolated tribes: Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon, and Tail. What little hope still existed could be found in t
News Around the Net!
I’m intrigued by this trailer for Oxygen, a new sci-fi film starring Melanie Laurent (who was so great in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds): I’m a huge Asterix fan — I grew up reading those amazing French comics, written by René Goscinny and illustrat
Josh Reviews WandaVision
Marvel Studios has kicked off what looks like a vast array of Disney+ shows with the nine-episode WandaVision, and I couldn’t be happier. This series was a delight; it was everything I wanted it to be. It shined a well-deserved spotlight on two characters from the Marvel Cin
News Around the Net!
Well the Snyder Cut of Justice League is actually a real thing that is really coming later this month! Crazy. I don’t have much hope this will be a great movie, but I must say I cannot wait to see this thing! Here’s the full trailer, in case you missed it: And here i
Star Trek: A Time to Kill and A Time to Heal
Last year, I decided to finally go back and read the nine-book “A Time To…” series, originally published in 2004. This series came out after the final TNG movie, Nemesis, and was designed to help explain many of that film’s choices regarding the status of th
Josh Reviews The 40-Year-Old Version
Radha Blank wrote, directed, produced, and stars in in The 40-Year-Old Version, a film that I loved and included on my list of my favorite movies of 2020. This wonderfully off-beat and moving film centers on a fictionalized Radha Blank. Despite her early success as a playwright,
Josh Reviews How To with John Wilson
One of my very favorite TV shows of 2020 was How To with John Wilson. This was one of my absolute favorite discoveries of 2020, and I cannot recommend it highly enough! This bizarre, beautiful documentary series is hard to describe, and I think it’s best to go into it knowing
Josh Reviews Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story
I vividly remember discovering The Ren & Stimpy Show, back when it first started airing on Nickelodeon in 1991. I was already a huge animation fan, but this hilarious, disgusting, absolutely bonkers cartoon blew my mind. I loved it immediately. I watched those initial six ep
Josh Reviews Ted Lasso Season One!
In the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis stars as the incredibly up-beat Ted Lasso, an American football coach who, improbably, winds up coaching an English Premiere League football (what Americans call soccer) team. I remember seeing lots of ads for Ted Lasso when the se
“To Be… Or Not… To Be” — Remembering Christopher Plummer and Other News Around the Net
Soon after I posted my previous “News Around the Net” round-up, the news broke that Christopher Plummer had passed away. Mr. Plummer was a tremendous talent. He’s appeared in so many films which I love, including (but by no means limited to) Murder by Decree, 12