Shawn Bourdo

From the Couch Hole: Now You’re Moving in High Society

Baby Jane watches the ghosts of “I Love Lucy” with a bowl of Chex cereal. Scott Pilgrim takes on Jaws to save the Goode family.

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From the Couch Hole: I Will Be Your Storm at Seas

This week Shaun of the Dead encountered a wild robot on a lifeboat. It’s alright, baby’s coming back with chocolate brownie truffle ice cream

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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Movie Review: A Kind of Omniscience

A hundred years after his first film, Alfred Hitchcock voice (McGowan) leads the viewer through a visual essay of his works.

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From the Couch Hole: Before They Turn the Summer into Dust

This week we wake up on Sugar Hill from beyond the grave on Wednesday. The genesis of the Daleks is an oddity like a Shirley Temple.

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Dallas Fan Festival 2024 Review

Long-time convention-goers, first timers and cosplay fans can get a breath of fresh air at a well attended but not crowded Fan Festival.

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From the Couch Hole: To Tempt You In and Drive You Far Away

This week, love is a stranger with ultimate cheddar Doritos. Plucky Duck and the Joker go to Stumptown and there the beast must die.

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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Tell You a Tale

This week in Salem’s Lot there is night ghoulery with Carrie. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is over the new VooDew on the old Spanish trail.

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Book Review: Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan

This comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg.

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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Slip Away on You

This week Godzilla vs the Sea Monster is on the carefree highway. The God Emperor of Dune at Coca-Cola Oreos with bad Ronald.

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From the Couch Hole: Strange You Never Knew

This week the humans fade into you in a montage. The shipment to Beirut includes Boo Berry and Biscuits and Gravy.

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From the Couch Hole: I Gotta Be Cool, Relax

This week the American honey finds a crazy little thing called love. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was responsible for only murders in the building.

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From the Couch Hole: I’m Just a Vagabond

This week starts sunny and in the aftersun, you like it darker. Roll me easy into Area 51 where there are Fruity Pebble Waffles.

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From the Couch Hole: You’ve Got to Put on That Party Dress

The week the American refugee is on the causeway to watch Mary Jane’s last dance. The old school night is board games with tavern pizza.

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Hanna-Barbera Double Feature: Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost / Scooby-Doo! and the Alien Invaders Blu-ray Review

These films are important entries into the made-for-television Scooby-Doo! franchise.

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From the Couch Hole: The World Survives Into Another Day

This week there was an Amityville awakening for frosted chocolate cake cereal. The Aliens and Predators are wondering where the lions are.

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From the Couch Hole: I Get Up and Nothin’ Gets Me Down

This week we speak no evil about the bad monkey. The alien resurrection makes us jump, and we sing sing about the Infinite Swirl.

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From the Couch Hole: I Can’t Believe It’s Real

This week the aliens three were sharper because of fudge stripe cookies. The cuckoo was lost without your love on a sunny day.

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From the Couch Hole: Facing Our Fear and Standing Out There Alone

This week we celebrate a higher love with a freedom fusion of Hellcats and aliens. Didi is at a point break over the books that you must read

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From the Couch Hole: Don’t Need No Credit Card to Ride This Train

This week Deadpool and Wolverine catch up with the chaser and there’s no surrender to the power of love. The alien sings a power ballad.

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From the Couch Hole: Pay No Mind to What They Say

This week we take a liberty chill with longlegs, but our lips are sealed. He’s in refrigerators, but love lies bleeding next to carnitas.

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From the Couch Hole: Slow Down You’re Doing Fine

This week Maxxxine travels from Vienna to the United States of Tara on Planet Janet. There was a kill ordered for s’mores and churros.

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San Diego Comic Con 2024: Sunday Preview

Shawn’s Top 3 panels for Sunday are…

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From the Couch Hole: And All My Words Would Just Fall Out of Line

This week Logan is in a quiet place with the bear. There’s a kind of kindness that comes straight from the heart with fruity pebbles.

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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Saturday Preview

Shawn’s Top 5 panels for Saturday are…

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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Friday Preview

Shawn’s Top 5 panels for Friday are…

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San Diego Comic-Con 2024: Thursday Preview

Shaun’s Top 5 panels for Thursday are…

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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Never Find a Better Prize

This week it was the night of the Sentinels with Deadpool and Wolverine together in electric dreams. The children of dune ate loaded Eggos.

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From the Couch Hole: It’s Time to Bring This Ship Into the Shore

This week we can’t fight the feeling that Deadpool likes the Police. It was Tuesday and we learned the origin of Wolverine and pickle ketchup.

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Book Review: Mark Twain’s War Prayer, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast

Mark Twain skewers the inherent doom of patriotism in his War Prayer story that is given a new life by the illustrations by Seymour Chwast.

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From the Couch Hole: Keep the Vampires from Your Door

This week the Ferrari is fueled by the power of love, fully loaded with Eggos. Purple rain is falling in a quiet place during a crime story.

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From the Couch Hole: Good Times for a Change

The week Furiosa meet the Idea Man and they say, “Please let me get what I want.” That turns out to be birthday cake and Burger King.

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From the Couch Hole: Or a Man Who Makes Potions in a Travelin’ Show

This week we play your song on the Fury Road. I saw the TV glow in a quiet place because endings are hard like Cool Ranch pretzels.

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From the Couch Hole: Where Do We Go Now?

This week Madame Web is the sweet child o’ mine. The ring of terror is beyond Thunderdome for the Kingdome of the Planet of the Apes.

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From the Couch Hole: If There’s Anything That You Want

This week the Earth Mama became a road warrior to adopt a highway. From me to you there’s a ghostwatch for garlic parmesan pretzels.

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From the Couch Hole: I Follow the Night

This week Mad Max says “One day I’ll fly away.” The house on the bayou is stocked with Red Bull and Pepsi Peach by the Sympathizer.

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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Book Myself Into a Soul Asylum

This week we go for a night swim in our town and we feel half a world away with our fiery mangoes and our Sprite chill with the Shogun.

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From the Couch Hole: All My Little Plans and Schemes

This week the 13th apostle was a sympathizer for the war for the planet of the apes. There was real love for creamy coconut Dr. Pepper.

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3 Godfathers (1948) Blu-ray Review: Director John Ford in Living Color

John Ford brings the viewer 3 Godfathers and a little man in Technicolor. It’s an important story of redemption that still works today.

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From the Couch Hole: Sat by the River and It Made Me Complete

This week there is a civil war over the best short-lived television series ever. The Martian chronicles from somewhere only we know.

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From the Couch Hole: The Calendar on Your Wall Was Ticking the Days Off

This week the dream scenario is a rise of the planet of the apes. The shogun says “Tomorrow is tomorrow but today is the day with Takis.”

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From the Couch Hole: Time Can Erase the Things We Said

This week we break out the VHS of Spring Breakers eating Churro Oreos at Bob’s Burgers. The won’t hold us back from the Mtn Dew Point Break.

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From the Couch Hole: In This Life I’ve Seen Everything I Can See

This week the mysterious stranger asks “Do ya want some Laguna Baja Lemonade? Do ya?” The ghostbusters were called to Skull Island too.

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From the Couch Hole: We Can All Get Together and Ease Up Our Mind

This week the Shogun of Star Island served two masters, Godzilla and Kong, with some late night sizzlin’ chesse burgers and string cheese.

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From the Couch Hole: Beautiful Faces and Loud, Empty Places

This week Venom said, “Let there be carnage,” and Morbius replied, “Give them the best of my love.” “And sour dirt gummy worms,” said Spade.

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From the Couch Hole: Same Old Show, In a Different Town, On Another Time

This week Anjin-san is wishing you were here on Dune with the blade runner. There’s an arrival of chocomania and hot honey.

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From the Couch Hole: Good Things in Life Take a Long Time

This week there is war and peace inside Llewlyn Davis. He’s been searchin’ so long for Coca-Cola spice and honey that is hot.

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From the Couch Hole: So Glad That You’re Here Again

This week the purple thunder on Dune rumbled the midnite cruiser.The Lord of Light was also the color of purple during the NASA moon landing.

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Book Review: John Ford (Revised and Expanded) by Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington

Like a stagecoach crossing the West, this tome traverses the long and varied career of John Ford with intelligent and critical insight.

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From the Couch Hole: Looking from a Window Above

Only you made a trip to Dune to investigate a murder at the end of the world. The black and white Oreos said “You hurt my feelings.”

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From the Couch Hole: All the Lights Are Changing Green to Red

This week we are in Babylon from May to December with Jim Dandy. In our past lives we can’t help falling in love with Dr. No and his Space Dunk.

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