Joshua Rivera

Dec 9, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joshua Rivera

With its fourth episode, “Twice Born,” Dune: Prophecy is finally taking shape as layers of history and prophetic scheming converge in dramatic fashion. The power struggle between the enigmatic Sisterhood (also known as the Bene Gesserit in the Dune movies) and the mysterious, powerful stranger Desmond Hart (Travis Fimmel) is coming to a head. At the center of it all is Emily Watson’s Valya Harkonnen, who leads the Sisterhood as Mother Superior.

Dec 5, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Joshua Rivera

Even in an awards season uncommonly full of musicals, The End demands your attention. The first narrative feature from acclaimed documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, the film is set after an unspecified climate disaster has rendered Earth uninhabitable. It follows a handful of wealthy survivors and the arrestingly catchy tunes they sing after the world has ended. Michael Shannon plays Father, an energy scion who contributed to the climate apocalypse.

Nov 13, 2024 | vulture.com | Joshua Rivera

Now that The Penguin has wrapped up, it is time to do the important and rigorous work of deciding if it is in fact the best live-action DC Comics show of all time. Which is harder than most people may realize, because there are a lot of them. While this list, like all lists, is subjective, my bias is toward good TV, not faithful TV — while I may dock some shows for hardly having anything to do with the source material at all, if it’s in the service of a good time, I’ll allow it.

Nov 8, 2024 | theringer.com | Joshua Rivera

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Nintendo’s final major release of 2024 is a Mario game that shouldn’t exist. Revealed a mere four months ago, Mario & Luigi: Brothership is a new Switch installment in a series that was presumed dead for five years—a spinoff line that dates back decades, encompassing a couple of stone-cold classic games and a few more divisive ones.

Oct 18, 2024 | wrvo.org | Brittany Luse |Joshua Rivera

Extreme weather is becoming more frequent. Some towns that were touted as "safe" are now seeing hurricanes, floods or heat waves. This week, host Brittany Luse is joined by NPR climate solutions reporter Julia Simon and NPR culture reporter Chloe Veltman to understand misconceptions around "climate havens" and what it means to preserve culture in the face of the climate crisis. Then, Brittany continues her Trilogy of Terror series with an unexpected horror trope: scary service workers.