Josh Reviews Luther: The Fallen Sun
During the pandemic I caught up with the five seasons of Luther, the BBC series starring Idris Elba as the brilliant, but morally dubious, investigator. I really enjoyed the series, mostly for Idris Elba’s magnificent performance in the lead role, though the series’ brut
Josh Reviews The Harder They Fall
The Harder They Fall is a new Western film, released on Netflix, directed by Jeymes Samuel and written by Mr. Samuel & Boaz Yakin (Now You See Me). As the film opens, a young boy watches his parents murdered at their dinner table by an outlaw with beautiful golden pistols. Ye
Josh Reviews The Suicide Squad
Five years after the first disappointing Suicide Squad film from DC/Warner Brothers comes another attempt at the property, the similarly-titled The Suicide Squad, written and directed by James Gunn. It’s sort of crazy to me that DC/Warner Brothers can’t or won’t ma
Josh’s Favorite TV Series of 2020 — Part One!
I’m excited to begin my look back at 2020 with this list of my favorite TV series of 2020! While I usually like to restrict my lists to TV series that aired new episodes during the previous year, this year I’d like to begin with some Honorable Mentions that didn’t. T
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 Molly’s Game
Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of the book Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom. Molly trained to be a competitive skier, but
Josh’s Favorite Movies of 2017 — Part Three!
Click here for part one of my list of my favorite movies of 2017, and click here for part two! And now, onwards into my TOP TEN: 10. It — 2017 brought two Stephen King adaptations that I was super-excited about. Sadly, The Dark Tower was a dud, but It was even better than I
Josh Reviews The Dark Tower
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series is an extraordinary achievement, a work of breathtaking genius that represents one of my absolute favorite fictional sagas of any medium. The series consists of seven main novels plus an eighth follow-up novel (The Wind Through the Keyhole)
Josh Reviews The Jungle Book
When Jon Favreau shifted from directing smaller character-based films (like Made) to larger, more special-effects-driven films, he at first did so with a strong attachment to using traditional practical effects over CGI. (I never saw 2005’s Zathura, but I well remember all of
Star Trek…Lives?
As I have often lamented here on this blog, it’s been a dark time for Star Trek fans. The Next Generation movie series sputtered to a halt with the dreadful Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002, and there hasn’t been a Trek series on TV in over a decade, since the cancellation of