Catching Up on 2017: Josh Reviews The Deuce Season One
The Deuce is the latest television masterpiece from David Simon (The Wire, Treme, Show Me a Hero) and George Pelicanos (novelist and a key writer on both The Wire and Treme), set primarily around Times Square in the seventies, chronicling the legalization and growth of the porn indust
Catching Up on 2017: Josh Reviews Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I missed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri when it was first released, but I was able to finally catch it right before the Oscars. I am glad I did. The film is a fascinating, funny, heart-wrenching character study about a group of flawed men and women in a small town in Missou
Stray Bullets
Back in 1995, David Lapham (working with his wife Maria Lapham) released the first issue of his independently-published, black-and-white comic book series, Stray Bullets. I wish I could remember why I bought it. I believe it was because I was familiar with Mr. Lapham’s work
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gamma — Original Sin
For the last several years, David R. George III has been the author primarily responsible for continuing the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine story in Pocket Books’ continuing series of novels. Mr. George has crafted a thrilling series of books that, read together, form a fantastic, ric
Josh Reviews A Wrinkle in Time
I loved A Wrinkle in Time when I was a kid. I remember I had a set of the three (at the time) books in the series by Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet. As I recall, I didn’t much care for A Swiftly Tilting […]
Josh Reviews The Good Place: Season Two
I didn’t watch the first season of The Good Place last year. But when season two began in the fall, I wondered, why am I not watching this new show by Mike Schur, who has been behind so many other great shows that I have loved (particularly Parks and Recreation)?? So I went
Josh Reviews Pacific Rim: Uprising
I wasn’t expecting that much from Pacific Rim: Uprising, and yet, the film still managed to underwhelm me. The film isn’t bad; it’s perfectly unoffensive yet instantly forgettable. I was super-excited for the first Pacific Rim, back in 2013. Any new film from Guillermo del T
Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Patterns of Interference
I am pleased to have at last caught up with the fifth and most-recently published book in Christopher L. Bennett’s “Rise of the Federation” series of novels. Set a decade after the end of Star Trek: Enterprise, this series charts the lives of the Enterprise crew fo
Josh Reviews The X-Files: Season 11 — Part Two!
Click here for my comments on the first three episodes of The X-Files: Season 11. And now, onward! “The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat” — Darin Morgan only wrote four episodes from The X-Files’ original run, but they were among the series’ very best install
News Around the Net!
Let’s begin with this spectacular new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War: That is just great on all counts. I am in awe of the audaciousness of just how many main characters are being combined into this film. Thanos looks and sounds great. Seeing Chris Pratt and Robert Dow