For the uninitiated Steven Lambert was, at one time, one of Hollywood’s most elite stuntmen. Back in 2019 he and co-writer Justin Dabrow sat down and wrote the bulk of Steven’s life in From...
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The Bone Collector – A Comparative Review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated Lincoln Rhyme is NYC’s Sherlock Holmes, and he’s on the hunt for the only serial killer to give him a real challenge – the Bone Collector, more from Summer 2018 Reading...
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Doctor Sleep – a book-centered review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated Picking up only a few years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, this sequel to Stephen King’s The Shining follows a now middle-aged Dan Torrance as it becomes his turn...
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For All Mankind – A Speculative Review by Joshua Sherman
“The inspiration of the race is the race,” Edmund Blyden For the uninitiated “The series explores what would have happened if the global space race had never ended.” –IMDB, but more specifically it speculates...
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When We Were Apollo – a review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated From 1959 to about the mid 1970s NASA was the name most synonymous with civilian space exploration, education, discovery. From President John F. Kennedy’s bold initiative to, “Send a man to...
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The Challenger Disaster | Two Movies, Two Perspectives: Which is the better film? by Joshua Sherman
“Nature cannot be fooled.” —Dr Richard Feynman on the political inclination to put image over safety. For the uninitiated On a brisk January morning the 26th of 1986 the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated only...
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Armstrong – A Review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated (from IMDB)Dramatic, moving and deeply human, Armstrong offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in Ohio to his first steps on the Moon, and beyond. Now that...
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Celebrating Apollo 11’s 50th Anniversary by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated 50 years ago yesterday Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle on the surface of the moon, and as Neil stepped from one of the module’s...
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Summer 2018 Reading Recommendations by Joshua Sherman | What you should be reading
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver Deaver’s first Lincoln Rhyme novel that was adapted to the silver screen of the same title in 1999 starring Denzel Washington (Remember the Titans, Crimson Tide) as Rhyme...
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Endurance – A Review of Scott Kelly’s Memoir by Joshua Sherman | What You Should Read
For the uninitiated Naval test pilot, engineer, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly reflects on his year-long mission aboard the ISS, and the journey that got him there. Now that you’re caught up On March...
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Particle Fever – A review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated If you have ever heard of the Higgs boson aka the God particle, which was the big story that made front-page news back in the summer of 2012, this documentary follows...
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Dynamic Pocket Calculators – A Review of Humans Season 2 by Joshua Sherman
“Other computers are just pocket calculators by comparison,” –Miles Bennett Dyson For the uninitiated… This gritty sci-fi series explores a world where the latest in high-tech gadgetry is a ‘Synth’ – a ro(bot)ic servant...
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The Inexplicable Universe – a review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated The people’s astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ph.D hosts the six-part miniseries Netflix production that expounds on how the latest in cutting-edge technology helps scientists probe deeper than ever before into both...
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Patriots Day – a review by Joshua Sherman
Movies of this nature usually have a habit of rubbing me the wrong way up front. Why? Because it’s Hollywood profiting off death and tragedy. There’s something to be said differently of this story,...
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Hidden Figures – An editorial review by Joshua Sherman
I cannot remember the last time a true story in science was adapted to the silver screen that so moved me the way this one did. In a science that has oft been dominated...
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Spectral – A review by Joshua Sherman
My first thought of this movie would describe it as Ghostbusters meets Halo. The film opens on a soldier named Davis, a special forces operative on his own trying to evade some kind of...
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The Man In The High Castle – Season 2 Review by Joshua Sherman
Alternate histories hold a special place in my heart within the realm of science fiction. If you’re at all familiar with the theory that our universe is just one in a vast and infinite...
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Bad Santa 2 – Sequel and Origin Story In One by Joshua Sherman
What Christmas is ever complete without a foul-mouthed Santa Clause? It’s not quite the ensemble of the first Bad Santa, but the new cast members bring a whole new level of filth and raunch-factor...
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Arrival Review by Joshua Sherman
As an astronomy nut, under most circumstances, I’m the type to give most stories a score of 10 for appropriate reference(s) to Carl Sagan, but even this intriguing adventure left me with too many...
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Mr. Robot Season 2: A Review by Joshua Sherman
For the uninitiated USA’s Mr. Robot follows Elliot, a young programmer who was working as a cyber-security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot has been coming to grips with his...
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“Live Long and Prosper,” For the Love of Spock Review by Joshua Sherman
I won’t speak for anyone but myself in saying that even in the productions I knew of Leonard Nimoy’s outside of Star Trek, such as Three Men and A Baby, Spock will forever remain...
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Whistle-blower: Snowden Review by Joshua Sherman
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” –Edward...
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The IT Crowd: The Final Episode by Joshua Sherman
For The Uninitiated Set in the fictional offices of Reynholm Industries, the show revolves around the corporation’s CEO Douglas Reynholm and the three staff members of its IT department: the computer genius and socially...
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