News Around the Net!
Sad news of the passing of Carl Reiner at the incredible age of 98. Here’s a great appreciation of Mr. Reiner, written by Rolling Stone TV critic Alan Sepinwall. Mel Brooks tweeted a lovely tribute to his friend. The long, incredible friendship between Mel Brooks and Carl
Star Trek: Crisis of Consciousness
I’m a big fan of author Dave Galanter, and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to catch up to his most recent Star Trek novel, Crisis of Consciousness, which was published in 2015. Mr. Galanter has written a number of great Trek books, including Troublesome Minds, which is o
Josh Reviews Luther
Idris Elba (The Wire) stars as DCI (Detective Chief Inspector) John Luther in the BBC television series Luther. Luther is a brilliant investigator but he always seems to tread right up (and sometimes over) to the boundary separating a by-the-book police officer with someone willing
Josh Reviews Undone
Amazon’s gorgeous, emotionally rich animated series Undone centers around a young woman named Alma (Rosa Salazar), who feels stuck in the mundane routines of her every-day life. When her younger sister Becca announces her engagement, Alma begins to spiral into insecurity and f
News Around the Net
I am delighted by this first trailer for AppleTV’s upcoming adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation: Mr. Asimov’s Foundation series is one of my very favorite works of sci-fi in any medium. I love those books and have longed for years for a top-notch adaptation.
Josh Reviews Disenchantment Season Two
Matt Groening’s animated Netflix series, Disenchantment, doesn’t seem to me to have made much of an impact on the pop-culture scene. And, let’s be honest, Disenchantment isn’t The Simpsons. It doesn’t come near to approaching that series’ trans
Josh Reviews John Lewis’ Graphic Novel March
March is a three-book graphic novel series, telling the inspiring true story of Congressman John Lewis’ years spent as a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement. This graphic novel memoir is an extraordinary powerful, deeply moving history of the Civil Rights Movement and
Star Trek: The Shocks of Adversity
A while back there was a lengthy interruption in the publication of new Star Trek novels from Pocket Books, a situation only recently resolved. During the break, I went back to catch up on a stack of Trek books that’d been published over the past five or so years that I’d never
Josh Reviews the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Interactive Special!
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt was one of very my favorite shows for the four seasons it was on Netflix. The series was hilarious and joyous and pretty much wonderful in every way. I was happy with the manner in which the fourth and final season wrapped up the series — but I am
Josh Reviews George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy
They Called Us Enemy tells the riveting story of George Takei’s youth growing up in an American concentration camp, after he and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were imprisoned by the U.S. government following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Mr. T