Star Trek: The Light Fantastic
Last year, David Mack wrote a terrific trilogy of Star Trek: The Next Generation novels, under the subtitle “Cold Equations.” (Click here for my review of book 1, click here for my review of book 2, and here for my review of book 3.) It’s a great trilogy that moved
Josh Reviews Game of Thrones Season Four
I keep waiting for Game of Thrones to stumble, but so far show-runners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss have continued on an impressive winning streak, with each season successfully building on what came before. I wondered, in my review of season three, how the show would continue afte
Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel
Star Trek Enterprise was was an interesting failure as a TV show. Its pilot episode showed great promise, but the show quickly fell into the trap of recycling familiar Trek story tropes. Its first two seasons were very mediocre, and the show quickly shed most of the viewers who ha
News Around the Net
So Seinfeld premiered twenty-five years ago last week? Holy cow. Here’s a great look back at the beginning of the show. This is an interesting assessment of the show’s influence by noting, counter-intuitively, Seinfeld’s lack of imitators. This is also worth
Josh Reviews Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
I have been troubled by the popularization, over the past several years, of the idea of a “reboot” as a way to keep franchises evergreen and continually making money for the corporations that own them. I think there are times when a reboot is foolishly chosen whereas a c
