Josh Howie

Josh Howie is a stand up comedian, screenwriter and father of five children

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV review: Hamishe dwarves …but what’s it all about?

Amazon's blockbuster production is as close as television gets to the cinematic but after two episodes, for all the superb special effects, acting, music and costumes, we are left wondering where this journey is taking us

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV review: Hamishe dwarves …but what’s it all about?

MO. Mo Amer as Mo in episode 108 of MO. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022

Mo TV review: A 'Dramedy' lacking in mo-mentum

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Delicious vegetarian pizza with champignon mushrooms, tomatoes, mozzarella, peppers and black olives, isolated on white background

The Howie Bunch: The kindness of my keto mentor

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House of the Dragon TV review: The dragons lack bite, their world’s too clean

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The kindness of my keto mentor

Josh Howie's on a diet - and a friend is helping

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August 25, 2022 12:12

Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 TV review: A Sixties dream turns into a Nineties nightmare

Netflix's portrayal of how an attempt to replay the famous festival three decades on is a detailed autopsy of the decline and fall of teenagekind

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August 19, 2022 11:44

Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99. XXX in Clusterf**k: Woodstock '99. Cr. Netflix © 2022

The Sandman TV review: What have they done to the comic icon I loved?

Hope were high for Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's classic creation, so it’s gutting to see the dream crash and burn on the small screen

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August 11, 2022 10:50

The Sandman TV review: What have they done to the comic icon I loved?

Westworld season four TV review: A robot saga springs to life and it’s a late miracle

Season four of HBO series has pulled a narrative magic trick and is up and running stronger than ever

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August 5, 2022 15:48

Westworld season four TV review: A robot saga springs to life and it’s a late miracle

The Offer TV review: Entertaining drama about the making of The Godfather

A charismatic cast tells the tale of how Jewish and Italian filmmakers came together to create the cinema classic

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July 28, 2022 10:55

Paramount+ shows Giovanni Ribisi as Joe Colombo in a scene from "The Offer,"(Nicole Wilder/Paramount+)

Never Stop Dreaming TV review: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres - A starry homage to an Israeli political giant

With its outdated style this documentary could have been made decades ago but with a subject this fascinating - and interviews with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Barbra Streisand - this is unmissable television

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July 21, 2022 15:33

Never Stop Dreaming TV review: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres - A starry homage to an Israeli political giant

The most frightening ritual in the world? Planning a barmitzvah party

Few people have to endure the kind of deprivation necessary in the undertaking of this kind of 'celebration'

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July 14, 2022 14:52

The most frightening ritual in the world? Planning a barmitzvah party

Stranger Things season four TV review: 'a knowing throwback to the films and fashions of our childhoods'

Josh Howie reviews the new series of Netflix's smash hit

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July 14, 2022 09:43

Stranger Things season four TV review: 'a knowing throwback to the films and fashions of our childhoods'

The Undeclared War TV review: Understated direction makes thriller a bit boring

The limited pleasure of this series comes from having your eyes opened to this very real world that keeps the digital world turning

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July 8, 2022 10:19

Falafel: A recipe for connection Radio 4 review

This examination of the seemingly simple street food works at the very least as a reappraisal of the myriad ways its elements combine to create something larger than themselves

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July 4, 2022 10:17

Falafel: A recipe for connection Radio 4 review

Ms Marvel TV review: Funny, endearing and likeable, new star Iman Vellani carries the show

Ms Marvel gets it right in the way Moon Knight just doesn’t

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June 30, 2022 13:39

Ms Marvel TV review: Funny, endearing and likeable, new star Iman Vellani carries the show

Everything I Know About Love TV review: not enough substance to bat away the lack of originality

There’s a whiff of plagiarism in this cross between Sex and the City and Before Sunrise

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June 23, 2022 16:09

Everything I Know About Love,07-06-2023,Maggie (EMMA APPLETON);Birdy (BEL POWLEY);Amara (ALIYAH ODOFFIN);Nell (MARLI SIU),**FIRST LOOK EXCLUSIVE GUARDIAN**,Working Title,Laura Bailey

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Josh Howie

Latest from Josh Howie

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV review: Hamishe dwarves …but what’s it all about?

Mo TV review: A 'Dramedy' lacking in mo-mentum

The Howie Bunch: The kindness of my keto mentor

House of the Dragon TV review: The dragons lack bite, their world’s too clean

More from Josh Howie

The kindness of my keto mentor

Trainwreck: Woodstock 99 TV review: A Sixties dream turns into a Nineties nightmare

The Sandman TV review: What have they done to the comic icon I loved?

Westworld season four TV review: A robot saga springs to life and it’s a late miracle

The Offer TV review: Entertaining drama about the making of The Godfather

Never Stop Dreaming TV review: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres - A starry homage to an Israeli political giant

The most frightening ritual in the world? Planning a barmitzvah party

Stranger Things season four TV review: 'a knowing throwback to the films and fashions of our childhoods'

The Undeclared War TV review: Understated direction makes thriller a bit boring

Falafel: A recipe for connection Radio 4 review

Ms Marvel TV review: Funny, endearing and likeable, new star Iman Vellani carries the show

Everything I Know About Love TV review: not enough substance to bat away the lack of originality