Catching Up! Josh Reviews Powers Season One, Star Wars The Clone Wars “Bad Batch”, and Batman vs Robin
On my desk I keep a list of the various movies and TV shows that I’ve watched that I intend to write about here on the site. Lately that list has been growing very long! I have fallen somewhat behind on my blogging. So I’m going to try a new format here and post some
Trailers!
Wow, looks like the studios have all started selling their 2015 movies pretty hard lately! This past week has seen a flood of new trailers for some big upcoming films. It all started, of course, with that look at Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What a great trailer. As I wrote las
Josh Reviews Star Wars Rebels Season One
The first twelve episodes of the first season of Star Wars Rebels were entertaining, good-not-great pieces of all-ages fun. The thirteenth and final episode of the first season was terrific and really made me sit up and take notice, and I started to get excited for the potential of
News Around the Net
This is a great article revisiting Stephen King’s final three Dark Tower novels. I absolutely adore these books, and I am not at all in the camp of Dark Tower fans unsatisfied with the ending of Mr. King’s magnum opus. I spent quite a while reading and writing about th
Return of the Jedi
So let’s talk about this: I am still extremely dubious as to whether this movie is actually going to be any good (it will be a long time before I forgive J.J. Abrams for Star Trek Into Darkness) but boy, that is a pretty phenomenal teaser trailer right there. When I was a kid th
News Around the Net
Bill Watterson drew the poster for an international cartoonists’ festival, and it is awesome. I’ve been really enjoying Kumail Nanjiani’s podcast The X-Files Files. In each episode, Mr. Nanjiani and a guest host analyze two episodes of The X-Files, working their wa
The Force Awakens and News Around the Net!
So the new Star Wars film is going to be called The Force Awakens? Sigh. Someday I would love to be really EXCITED by the announcement of a new Star Wars title. While The Force Awakens is certainly a better title than The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, it seems very no
Catching Up on My Cartoons: Star Wars Rebels and a Return to The Simpsons
Well, the jury is still out on the over-all success or failure of Disney XD’s new Star Wars animated show, Rebels, but boy, including the droid Captain Rex from Star Tours in the second episode sure makes it hard for me to dislike the show!! More on that in a moment. Star Wars
News Around the Net
Ok, ready to lose the rest of your day? You might recall that this past summer, FXX ran a marathon of every single Simpsons episode ever. Well, apparently a bunch of the best writers for Hitfix.com decided to list their favorite episodes of each day of the marathon. Five writers
News Around the Net!
Did you know that genius Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson recently drew a few new comic strips? I sure didn’t!! Here’s the whole crazy story of how master artist Bill Watterson wound up collaborating with Stephan Pastis on his comic strip Pearls Before Swi