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Let’s begin today with these fantastic clips from The Simpsons Live, the recent Simpsons musical extravaganza at The Hollywood Bowl featuring Conan O’Brien, Jon Lovitz, Hank Azaria, and others. These clips are amazing. Prepare to lose several hours from your day perusing
Re-reading Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Part II: Twenty-first Century Blitz!
After enjoying the second Captain America film, The Winter Soldier, I decided to go back and re-read the comic-books that had inspired the film. Click here for my thoughts on the beginning of writer Ed Brubaker’s long run on Captain America, illustrated so gorgeously by Steve
Josh Reviews Orange is the New Black: Season 2
My wife and I tore through the first season of Orange is the New Black in about a week last October. (Click here for my review.) It’s been a long wait for season two! There are some shows that build gradually to popularity (like Seinfeld), while others explode onto the scene
Batman: Assault on Arkham
I have soured recently on the DC Animated direct-to-DVD/blu-ray releases, and I’m afraid their latest release, Batman: Assault on Arkham, does little to change my general impression that this line of animated films has lost its way. This film had a few things going for it off th
Star Trek The Lost Era: One Constant Star
In 2003 Pocket Books published a six-book series called “The Lost Era” that told tales from the almost-century between the end of Star Trek VI and the launch of the Enterprise D in “Encounter at Farpoint,” the premiere episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Josh Reviews Sin City: Dame to Kill For
For me, growing up, Frank Miller was one of the gods of comic books. He seemed to be a master of the form of a super-hero comic-book, crafting some of the finest mainstream super-hero comic-book stories I had ever read (his long run on Daredevil; Batman: Year One; The Dark Knight Re
Josh Reviews Dear Mr. Watterson
The materials for Joel Allen Schroeder’s film Dear Mr. Watterson describe it as “a documentary film about the impact of the best comic strip in the history of the universe.” That’s a funny line, but also accurate, as I do believe that Bill Watterson’s C
Star Trek The Lost Era: The Buried Age
I read Christopher L. Bennett’s novel The Buried Age back when it was originally released in 2007. I remembered loving it, and I’ve been wanting o re-read it for a while now. When the latest “Lost Era” novel was published recently, David R. George III’
Josh Reviews Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
I knew of Elaine Stritch mostly from her spectacular recurring role on 30 Rock as Jack (Alec Baldwin)’s imposing mother. But that was more than enough to interest me in Chiemi Karasawa’s recent documentary about her, titled Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me. Filmed in 2013 and re
Josh Reviews Snowpiercer
An attempt to reverse global warming has gone catastrophically wrong, resulting in frigid temperatures covering the entire planet and wiping out almost all life on Earth. The few survivors of humanity exist inside Snowpiercer, an enormous train on a track that circles the globe once