From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2025 – This Might Get Unpleasant… Or More Unpleasant
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week we focus on the best of film for 2025 (and a bonus look at 1975). Movies seen and unseen are ranked along with trailers.
From the Couch Hole: And Ice Cream Castles in the Air
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week we say “Wake up, dead man.” and examine both sides now. Poker face has a close encounter with naked Doritos on the social network.
From the Couch Hole: You Can Look at the Menu, but You Just Can’t Eat
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the wicked sorcerer was caught stealing banana caramel Cheerios. Police said no one is to blame that it was spirited away.
From the Couch Hole: I Hear You Calling, but I Can’t Come Home Right Now
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week Beth, the materialist, met a nice Indian boy. The rule of Jenny Pen is that the unquiet dead love cinnamon pistachios.
From the Couch Hole: Start Living for the Moment
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week on the road to Omaha, the running man found love so right. The companion brought the works of man and creamy vanilla Coke.
The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her
By Shawn Bourdo |
This film checks off every box of a top-tier film.
From the Couch Hole: And If You Want, Then Start to Laugh
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week Rocky has a return to innocence of happy days when he goes back to the future to experience a hot cocoa life.
From the Couch Hole: The World Has Only One Sweet Moment Set Aside for Us
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week Bugonia lived beyond the heart in a house of dynamite. They might not get out because who wants to live forever.
From the Couch Hole: You’re Gonna Hear Me on Your Radio
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week we say welcome to Derry where it’s the end of the world as we know it. Honey don’t harden my heart for Demongorgon Crunch.
From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got to Know What You’re Doin’
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the silent phone is caused by the ghoul and the substance that came with your love, which might have been buffalo wings.
Book Review: Peanuts Every Sunday: 1952-1955: Paperback Edition by Charles M. Schulz
By Shawn Bourdo |
An American treasure.
From the Couch Hole: Moving Through the Doorway of a Nation
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the situation at the deep red chair company was a order to bring her back. They thought that meant Mothra and Reese’s Oreos.
7 Women Blu-ray Review: Seven Who Defied What No Man Dared
By Shawn Bourdo |
This isn’t John Ford’s best, but it’s worth further discussion instead of being treated as an afterthought in his filmography.
From the Couch Hole: One Half Won’t Do
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the dream on becoming a guinea fowl was safe with the Stepford wives. It’s my life from highest to lowest with sweet onions.
From the Couch Hole: Shut Your Eyes and Think of Somewhere
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week shut your eyes and do you dream of electric sheep or the trilogy of terror? Get smart like Ultraman and grab the Cheesy Buffalo Dip.
From the Couch Hole: I’ll Wait Out of Time with You in My Heart
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the rhythm divine comes on the long walk. The trial of the Time Lord sent the monkey on to the road to Gandolfo with Enid cereal.
From the Couch Hole: Every Day Is an Endless Train
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the legend of the Ochi was all about looking out for #1. Get smart about Godzilla vs King Ghidorah vs. Kettle Cooked All Dressed.
The Next Best of Robert Redford
By Shawn Bourdo |
These are the ones that exist on the fringe of greatness and will give you a little cache when you compare them to his best films.
From the Couch Hole: When It’s All Too Late, It’s All Too Late
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the sign o’ the times was that there was a change to the happy days. The clue was when jaws ate the apple pie ala mode Oreos.
From the Couch Hole: Show Me a River That’s So Deep
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week the opus is sweet love of toffee creamer. At terminus the weapons of ice cream sundaes say “Farewell, my lovely.”
Book Review: Jaws: Memories From Martha’s Vineyard (Rev. and Updated) by Matt Taylor
By Shawn Bourdo |
A coffee table book for those afraid to go in the water.
From the Couch Hole: You Can’t Say What You Don’t Know
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week we start at square one with Shin Godzilla on Alien Earth. The hard truths are that timecop brought us strong berry Fudge Stripes.
From the Couch Hole: Are You the One You Want to Be?
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week the decision to leave was made and then the Commodores said, “Hold on.” It was farewell, my lovely, to the bear and awesome sauce.
From the Couch Hole: And You’re the Only One Who Knows
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week there are happy days with chili crisp chips. And so it goes that sinners will never flinch or there will be blood.
From the Couch Hole: And I Was in Crazy Motion
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week in ‘Salem’s Lot there was something so right on Sunset Boulevard. The incredible theft was the drop of Hershey’s Bark.
Donovan’s Reef Blu-ray Review: Wild, Wayne, and Wonderful!
By Shawn Bourdo |
The reason to buy this disc is ultimately for the incredible transfer.
From the Couch Hole: Breathless Drive on a Downtown Street
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week, if you think you know how to love me, you’ll bring chili cheese fries chips. The first steps towards the big sleep is mango tango.
From the Couch Hole: Deep Waters Flow, Out to the Sea
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week Superman has one Summer dream of a double sin in the triangle of Rhodes. One sin was lime cucumber chips in Eddington.
From the Couch Hole: Did They Get You to Trade Your Heroes for Ghosts?
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week there was a long goodbye at the Institute. Then 28 years later at Jurassic World we wish you were here with honey butter chips.
From the Couch Hole: Can You Feel The Light Shine?
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week I’ll be your song in Manchester by the Sea if you bring twisted queso chips. Parthenope is on the third floor with the parasite.
From the Couch Hole: Summer Breeze and Brilliant Light
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the Bear promised you a miracle. But 28 weeks later, the Brutalist shows up at the Tender Bar for Beer Can Chicken.
From the Couch Hole: Shine On, Shine the Lights on Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the life of Chuck was a glittering prize of Chips Ahoy! The coda was that one of our olives and kisses were missing 28 day later.
From the Couch Hole: Brilliant Days, Wake Up on Brilliant Days
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week there’s a Phoenician scheme for the razor girl to find someone, somewhere in the Summertime for the final reckoning of Howdy Doody.
From the Couch Hole: I Think It’s Time to Get Ready
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week love is alive for a dead reckoning with Jaws. There was a fallout from the judgement from outer space of the Mango Rush.
From the Couch Hole: When the Singer’s Gone / Let the Song Go On
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week all I know is that it’s curtains for friendship in a rogue nation. Poirot solves the case of s’mores creamer & Korean fried chicken.
From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been So Many Places, I’ve Seen Some Things
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week there are miracles from the dragon’s domain where the Blade Runner has gone on an impossible ghost protocol for beer braised chips.
From the Couch Hole: In a Land That Knows No Parting
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the blue eyes were crying in the rain about those awful hot pockets. The mission impossible twice planted seeds of doom.
From the Couch Hole: Let’s Just Be Glad We Had Some Time Together
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the Thunderbolts* did the inspection to find the escape artist. The search for the Holy Grail was for the good times and butterbeer
From the Couch Hole: Is Good for You, You, You
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week Tuck everlasting and the eternal daughter took it one day at a time. The wolf man at the Alpha child and a PB&J Reese’s Cup.
From the Couch Hole: Have You Seen the Weather
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week when love breaks down during warfare you still gotta have fun. There’s time enough for love with night moves and double fudge.
From the Couch Hole: It’s Like Sugar Sometimes
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the Monkey Wrench Gang realizes how sweet it is to have s’mores ice cream. There’s queer emotional baggage for Y2K with Nutty Buddy.
From the Couch Hole: You Realize You Just Can’t Have It All
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week at Tom Lake the Righteous Gemstones met the beautiful loser over pi. The death of a unicorn wasn’t because of poblano potato chips.
From the Couch Hole: I Know a Thing or Two, I Learned from You
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week in Cold Harbor, Medusa and the four Musketeers found that love hurts. Aguirre discovered his wrath in Late Night Doritos.
From the Couch Hole: You’re Showing Me a Different Side
By Shawn Bourdo |
All roads taste like salt to Basquiat and Ramon, but Lady Blue likes the taste of Vanilla Frost and Birthday Cake.
From the Couch Hole: Watchin’ Winter Turn to Spring
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week the Millionaire’s Express was loaded to the cheap seats when Anora arrived with her black bag. She feels like makin’ love to Life.
From the Couch Hole: Twistin’ Like a Flame in a Slow Dance
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week all we imagine as light is really a fire woman. We live in a time of sweet vitriol, cafe au lait biscuits and butterbeer grahams.
From the Couch Hole: Tell Me What the Problem Is
By Shawn Bourdo |
The week the meaning of dreams is friendship. The memoir of a snail has a flow of orange cream soda and tropical 7-up from Norbot.
From the Couch Hole: It’s Getting Near Dawn
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week Peter & Max were in a brave new world under the sunshine of your love. Attila went to a conclave at the White Lotus with pina colada.
“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films
By Shawn Bourdo |
Gene Hackman gave us some of the best characters in film over the past 60 years. These are my essential roles.
From the Couch Hole: Just Come on Home
By Shawn Bourdo |
This week at summer’s end, it’s same spirits, new form for Sherlock Jr who discovered some REM. Charlie says “Helter Skelter for Butterbeer.”

















































