The Top 10 Episodes of TV in 2012 — Part One!
I hope you’ve been enjoying my Best-of-2012 lists so far! Follow these links to read my Top 15 Movies of 2012: part one, part two, and part three, and my Top 15 Comic Book Series of 2012: part one and part two. When writing my Top 10 Episodes of TV list last year, I wrote [&he
The Top 15 Movies of 2012 — Part One!
Back in 2010, I had a hard time coming up with ten movies I liked enough to put on my Top 10 Movies of the year list. Last, year, in 2011, I thought there were so many great movies that I had a Top 15 list (and I even squeezed in a few extra movies […]
An Evening with Kevin Smith at the House of Blues in Boston!
I’m a big, big fan of Kevin Smith. I love the man’s flicks (Chasing Amy and Dogma are my favorites, but I’m also very partial to the lunacy of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), but some of my favorite of his projects are not actually his films. I hold great, enorm
Great Scott!! Josh is Blown Away by the 25th Anniversary Screening of Back to the Future!
In celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary (and also, not coincidentally, to promote yesterday’s release of the trilogy on blu-ray), movie theatres across this great nation of ours screened Back to the Future this past Monday night. I’m thrilled to say that I ha
Josh Enjoys Rifftrax Live: Reefer Madness!
I’ve written before about Rifftrax, the on-line enterprise from Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy (formerly of Mystery Science Theatre 3000). Rifftrax continues the familiar MST3K model of making fun of terrible movies, via downloadable podcasts that you can pl
Josh Enjoys Two Sweet New Classic Soundtrack Releases: Back to the Future & The Goonies!
I am a bit of a nut for movie soundtracks. I don’t purchase a lot of CDs — but I do own quite a number of great movie soundtracks. Not every movie soundtrack can stand on its own — but the ones that do are pure gold. James Horner’s score for Star Trek II: T
Josh Reviews the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke!
On Monday I wrote about Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. After re-watching that film last month, I was driven to pick up Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey off my book-shelf to re-read that as well. I had read all four of Arthur C. ClarkeR
Lost: The Questions I Need Answered in the Final Season — Part One!
Since early October, my wife and I have been engaged in our Great Lost Re-Watch Project! We started with the pilot episode, and have been slowly re-watching the entire run of Lost, all five seasons. With the exception of the first handful of episodes, I had only seen most episodes
Martin Wagner, Kevin Smith, Alan Moore, David Lapham, Grant Morrison, J. Michael Straczynski, and a lot of other comic book creators owe me some money!
Back in 1999, Tom Spurgeon wrote a piece in The Comics Journal entitled “Martin Wagner Owes me Fifty Bucks.” The subject of that piece, Martin Wagner, was the writer/illustrator of an acclaimed black-and-white comic book called Hepcats. What had begun as a comedic strip when Mr. W
Camp Ramah Gets Lost!
It’s become a bit of a tradition that, each summer at Camp Ramah in New England, we kick off our Staff Week at the beginning of each summer with a silly video that introduces our first program (which usually involves some sort of elaborate competition between the counselors of e