Josh Reviews The Shape of Water
Guillermo del Toro’s latest masterpiece, The Shape of Water, is set in the early sixties. Sally Hawkins plays Elisa, a mute woman who works as a janitor at a government installation. Her routine, lonely life is shaken when she discovers that the scientists and military offic
Josh Reviews Orange is the New Black: Season Five
Wow, I can’t believe Orange is the New Black is already five years old! While I have found the series to be somewhat inconsistent, I have enjoyed the ride, and season five was no exception. The new season picks up seconds after the cliffhanger ending of season four, with Dia
Josh Reviews Vice Principals: Season Two
I quite enjoyed the first season of Danny McBride & Jody Hill’s latest collaboration, Vice Principals. (Mr. McBride starred in Mr. Hill’s first film, The Foot First Way, and the two co-created Eastbound and Down.) That first season chronicled the messed-up partner
Josh Reviews Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season Nine!
I thought for sure that we’d seen the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but after a hiatus of six years, the longest break in the series’ history (and the longest break I can think of in between series of a show that was not officially cancelled), lo and behold, we got a ninth season o
Josh Reviews The Disaster Artist
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist chronicles the making of The Room, the 2003 film that is widely regarded as one of the worst movies ever made. The Disaster Artist is based on Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell’s book of the same name, which depicts the unlikely friendsh
Josh Reviews Score: A Film Music Documentary
I love movies, and I love movie scores. I’m not sure when I first started to realize that a part of what I loved about movies was their score; and that, beyond that, it was in fact the score that was a critical element of those movies I loved. It probably began with the Star
Josh Reviews Lady Bird
Set in 2002, Greta Gerwig’s film Lady Bird tells the story of a teenaged girl, Christine (though she prefers to go by “Lady Bird” — her given name in that, as she says in the film, “it was given to me, by me”) growing up in Sacramento. Lady Bird i
Josh Reviews Star Wars: The Last Jedi!
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, written and directed by Rian Johnson, is not at all the film that I expected it to be. It is very different from The Force Awakens, but a satisfying continuation of the story that film began. The film is exciting, suspenseful, and emotional. It is funny
Star Trek: The Original Series Gets the Series Finale it Always Deserved in “To Boldly Go” Part 2!
Star Trek: Continues is a fan-made enterprise (see what I did there?) begun five years ago in an attempt to create the never-made fourth season of the Original Series. In the past five years, Vic Mignogna and his fantastic team of collaborators have created eleven full-length episod
Josh Reviews Better Things Season Two!
I loved the first season of Pamela Adlon’s show Better Things, and the recently-concluded second season was every bit as fantastic. I feel like this show has been flying under the radar for many people, and that’s a shame. It’s one of the best currently-running T