Josh Reviews Nightmare Alley
As Guillermo del Toro’s film Nightmare Alley opens, we see images of a man apparently hiding a corpse underneath the floorboards and then burning down the isolated house as he walks away. It’s 1939, and that man, Stan (played by Bradley Cooper) winds up finding work in a
Josh Reviews 30 Rock: A One-Time Special
A silver lining of coronavirus’ tremendous disruption of TV and film production has been the reunion shows I never expected to see. I loved the Parks and Recreation special, and now here comes something else I never expected to see: a new installment of 30 Rock! 30 Rock: A One
Josh Reviews The Good Place: Season Four
I’m not sure I am emotionally ready yet to bid a final farewell to The Good Place, which has been one of my most dearly-loved TV shows these past few years. And with the beautiful, devastatingly emotional series finale, Mike Schur’s show about four dim bulbs in the aft
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 Orange is the New Black: Season 3
The first season of Orange is the New Black was a delight, a show that felt hugely original and stuffed full of wonderful, complex characters. The main hook of that first season was the journey of Piper, a relatively ordinary upper middle-class white woman who suddenly found herself
From the DVD Shelf: Bored to Death Season 3!
Last year my wife and I discovered the brilliant HBO series Bored to Death… just as the news broke that it had been cancelled. Aaargh! We tore through seasons one and two on DVD (click here for my review of season one, and here for my review of season two), and then had to w
Josh Bids Farewell to 30 Rock
I know I’m a little late on this one, but things have been busy, so I’ve finally caught up with the final episodes of 30 Rock. It’s hard to believe we’ve arrived at the end of the seventh season of this funny little show that I never expected to run more than o
From the DVD Shelf: Josh Reviews Time After Time (1979)
For years, Star Trek fans spoke of the odd-numbered curse that afflicted the Trek movies. The odd-numbered films (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and Star Trek V: The Voyage Home) seemed markedly inferior to the even-numbered ones (Star Trek II: T