Star Trek: Picard: The Dark Veil
James Swallow’s novel The Dark Veil tells a story of Captain William Riker and Deanna Troi on board the USS Titan, the starship that Riker took command of at the end of the final TNG movie, Nemesis. There has been a wonderful series of Titan novels published over the past fift
Josh Reviews the Documentary Howard
Don Hahn’s beautiful documentary Howard is a tribute to the life and work of Howard Ashman, the extraordinarily talented songwriter who wrote the book and lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors and, along with composer Alan Menken, wrote the songs for Disney’s The Little Mermai
Catching up with Creed III
In Creed III, we catch up with Adonis Creed as he’s retiring a champion and settling into a pleasant life being a rich and famous celebrity. He’s enjoying his family life with his wife Bianca and his daughter Amara, and he’s become a successful manager and mentor t
Josh Reviews the Animated Justice League: Warworld
Justice League: Warworld is the latest direct-to-DVD/blu-ray DC animated film. I knew that there was a recent extended storyline in the Superman comics about Superman’s being trapped on Warworld, forced to compete in the gladiatorial games there, in an effort to free the impri
Josh Reviews Babylon 5: The Road Home
I’m a big fan of Babylon 5! While I always was more of a Star Trek fan, and I preferred Deep Space Nine over B5 in the battle of the nineties sci-fi shows set on space stations, I have tremendous respect and affection for what J. Michael Straczynski created with Babylon 5. His “
Josh Reviews Oppenheimer
A new Christopher Nolan movie is always exciting to me. I’ve been a huge fan ever since Memento. Some of his movies rank among my favorite films ever, such as The Prestige and The Dark Knight. I was surprised that I so disliked his most recent film, Tenet. Yet I remained
Josh Reviews Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One
In Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his allies Luther (Ving Rhames), Benji (Simon Pegg) and Ilsa (Rebecca Ferguson) find themselves the world’s last hope against an AI system nicknamed “the Entity” that has been spreadi
Josh Reviews Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Quick run-down of my feelings on the Indiana Jones series: the original Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I also have enormous love for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I have a lot of fondness for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, though I
Josh Reviews The Flash!
In The Flash, Ezra Miller reprises his role as Barry Allen, the speedster super-hero. After helping Batman stop a robbery that turns into a potentially city-destroying crisis, Barry realizes that, if he runs fast enough, he can enter the Speed Force and travel back in time. Unable
Josh Reviews Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!
As Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opens, we see that more than a year has passed since the end of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Gwen Stacy’s secret life as Spider-Woman is leading to a painful conflict with her police-captain father. Meanwhile, in his universe, Mil