Josh Reviews Captain America: Brave New World
Captain America: Brave New World opens with Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) inhabiting the mantle of Captain America, adventuring with his new sidekick Joaquin Torres (Danny Ramirez), the new Falcon. They retrieve a “package” stolen by terrorists, earning them appreciation from the
Josh Reviews Poker Face Season One!
Natasha Lyonne stars in Poker Face as Charlie, a young woman with the unerring ability to tell when someone is lying. On the run from a powerful casino owner with a grudge, she tries to disappear into America. But she winds up getting herself continually involved in a variety of dan
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 The Report
Amazon’s film The Report, written and directed by Scott Z. Burns, depicts the years-long process in which the Senate Intelligence Committee investigated the C.I.A.’s use of torture of detainees after September 11th. The investigation was led by Daniel Jones, a staffer f
“Mind the Eggs” — Josh Reviews HBO’s Watchmen Series
Damon Lindelof’s magnificent nine-episode Watchmen series has exceeded even my highest expectations. I was blown away by the series premiere, and the eight episodes that followed surpassed even that strong start. I don’t know what exactly I expected, but Watchmen is fa
Josh Reviews the Premiere of Watchmen
Watchmen, the 1986-87 mini-series/graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, is probably the single greatest comic book story ever made. The collected graphic novel was selected as one of Time Magazine’s 100 greatest English-language novels of the past century. (I waxed p
Josh Bids Farewell to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt!
I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Tina Fey’s 30 Rock nearly as much as I did. (That first season, it was Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip that was the “behind-the-scenes at an SNL-like show” that I was most interested in. But Studio 60 was gone
Josh Reviews The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The newest film from the Coen Brothers, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is available for viewing on Netflix. The film consists of six short-stories, all set in the Old West. I thought the film was marvelous — it’s weird and funny and heartbreaking… and did I say we
Josh Reviews Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season One
Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have followed up the magnificent 30 Rock with another wonderfully unique, funny, sweet creation: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The show was developed for NBC who, for some unfathomable-to-me decision, passed on the show after the entire thirteen-episode firs
Josh Reviews Fantastic Four
I’ve been a fan of the Fantastic Four ever since I first started reading comic books as a kid. The FF was the first super-hero comic book I ever followed monthly, and I’ve been reading it on and off ever since. I long to someday see a faithful adaptation of the FF on-s