News Around the Net!
There was a ton of exciting news out of Comic-Con recently, so let’s dig in! Let’s start with the most exciting news: Star Wars: The Clone Wars is returning to give us the conclusion we were denied when the series was cancelled! Wowsers!! I never ever thought this woul
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Fallout
It is astonishing to me that not only does Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible film franchise still exist a whopping twenty-two years after the first movie was made (1996’s Brian DePalma-helmed Mission: Impossible), but that the series has arguably never been better! I real
Star Trek Titan: Fortune of War
For quite a number of years now, Pocket Books has been publishing a continuing series of Titan novels, chronicling the exploits of the U.S.S. Titan under the command of William Riker. I enjoyed the way the post-Nemesis novels finally allowed Riker to have his own command, and over
Josh Reviews Incredibles 2
Back in 2004, Brad Bird’s The Incredibles was a revelation — an extraordinary animated film that was gorgeous and funny and moving. It was a major change of pace for Pixar (it was their first film with human beings as the main characters), and it was also, in the era bef
Josh Reviews Ant Man and the Wasp
2015’s Ant Man was a delight; a fun, relatively low-stakes romp in which Kevin Feige’s Marvel Studios team demonstrated yet again that they could bring an obscure (at least to non-fans) comic book character to gloriously vibrant life on-screen. The new 2018 sequel, Ant Man and t
News Around the Net!
Check out this gorgeous new trailer for Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land)’s new film about Neil Armstrong, First Man: Wow that looks spectacular! I love movies about the space program. This looks like it has the potential to be something special. Here’s our first
Star Trek and Star Wars in Trouble…?
It’s been something of a rough week for my two favorite franchises with “Star” in their title. In last week’s big Star Trek news, the show-runners for Star Trek: Discovery were fired mid-way into production of season two, and replaced by Alex Kurtzman… wh
Star Trek: Further Adventures of the Department of Temporal Investigations!
The Department of Temporal Investigations was mentioned in one single Star Trek episode, Deep Space Nine’s “Trials and Tribble-ations.” But many fans (myself included!) loved what we saw of the DTI, and its agents Dulmur and Lucsley. Author Christopher L. Bennet
Josh Reviews the SyFy Channel Adaptation of Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, first published in 1953, is a magnificent novel, a triumph of science fiction that is riveting and heartbreaking. It’s a ripe subject for adaptation, and I’m pleased that I had a chance to catch up with the SyFy channel’s three-part, f
“I Always Wondered How This Was Gonna End” — Josh Reviews the (Series?) Finale of The X-Files
After a weak opening episode, I have been very impressed by how great the subsequent eight, mostly stand-alone episodes of The X-Files season eleven have been! Click here for my review of episodes 1-3, here for my review of episodes 4-6, and here for my review of episodes 7-9. And