Josh Reviews Ex Machina
In Alex Garland’s film Ex Machina, Domhnall Gleeson plays Caleb, a young programmer for Bluebook (a company that, in the world of the film, is the world’s most popular search engine). Caleb wins a contest to spend a week with the company’s brilliant and reclusive y
The Great Hellboy Re-Reading Project Part IX: The Iron Prometheus & Others!
Over the last several months I have undertaken an epic project: re-reading Mike Mignola’s complete Hellboy saga from the very beginning! What began as a series of sporadic mini-series and short-stories featuring the big red occult investigator has deepened over the past twen
Late to the Party: Josh Reviews the Final Season of Breaking Bad!
I am certainly late to the Breaking Bad party, having only begun watching the show’s first season on DVD in the days following the airing of the season finale. All of the hub-bub over the show’s final season finally got me to try the show, and I’ve been slowly watc
Josh Reviews The Martian
What a refreshing joy it is to get to see an intelligent, original science-fiction story that is also gorgeous to behold and ferociously entertaining. The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and written by Drew Goddard, adapting the book by Andy Weir, is a triumph, a gripping story abou
Josh Reviews Tim Russ and Walter Koenig’s Return to the Star Trek Universe — Star Trek: Renegades
Though this is a slow period for new “official” Star Trek, there’s a lot of exciting, professional fan-made efforts happening. I’ve written a lot about the two groups working on creating their own new episodes of the Original Series, new adventures of Kirk an
News Around the Net!
This substantive look at the upcoming X-Files revival has me giddy with anticipation. Please don’t let me down, Chris Carter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1SmJUBT5q0 I’ve learned over the years not to trust trailers, but holy cow this trailer for the new Coen Brother
Josh Reviews Show Me A Hero
Is there a greater master of television working today than David Simon? Had he never done anything else of consequence after the triumph that was The Wire (and seriously, if anyone reading these words has never watched that show, you really need to drop everything and remedy that im
Josh Reviews Justice League: Gods and Monsters
For many years, Bruce Timm was the mastermind behind Warner Brothers’ Animation’s wonderful DC Universe superhero shows. But in the past few years he has stepped away from the currently-running line of direct-to-DVD/blu-ray movies, to what I feel is the detriment of the
Josh Reviews Kevin Pollak’s Misery Loves Comedy
As I have written about multiple times, I am a huge fan of Kevin Pollak’s amazing podcast Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, in which Mr. Pollak sits down for extended (and I mean extended — most of the interviews are about two hours long) conversations with comedians and act
Star Trek Continues: “Divided We Stand”
I must confess that I don’t have high hopes for the third rebooted Star Trek film that is currently in production. But thankfully the Star Trek spirit is being kept alive on-line by groups of committed Trek fans. The fan-made series Star Trek Continues is back with their fif