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From the Couch Hole: Let’s Just Be Glad We Had Some Time Together

By Shawn Bourdo | May 11, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Tuck everlasting and the eternal daughter had an Alpha child. The wolf man took it one day ...

From the Couch Hole: Is Good for You, You, You

By Shawn Bourdo | May 4, 2025

Previously on FTCH, when love breaks down there is time enough for love during warfare. You gotta have fun during ...

From the Couch Hole: Have You Seen the Weather

By Shawn Bourdo | Apr 27, 2025

Previously on FTCH, last week the Monkey Wrench Gang took on the emotional baggage of Y2K with some queer s'mores. ...

From the Couch Hole: It’s Like Sugar Sometimes

By Shawn Bourdo | Apr 20, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the Righteous Gemstones went to Tom Lake looking for the beautiful loser. The death of a unicorn ...

From the Couch Hole: You Realize You Just Can’t Have It All

By Shawn Bourdo | Apr 13, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Medusa was in Cold Harbor with Aguirre. The four Musketeers discovered that love hurts but late-night jalapeno ...

From the Couch Hole: I Know a Thing or Two, I Learned from You

By Shawn Bourdo | Apr 6, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Basquiat and Lady Blue listened to the Anderson Tapes with Barney Miller. All roads taste like salt ...

From the Couch Hole: You’re Showing Me a Different Side

By Shawn Bourdo | Mar 30, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Anora was carrying her black bag when she boarded the Millionaire's Express saying, "I feel like makin' ...

From the Couch Hole: Watchin’ Winter Turn to Spring

By Shawn Bourdo | Mar 23, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the fire woman showed us that we live in a time where all we imagine is light ...

IDW Announces Three Star Trek Limited Series: Red Shirts, Strange New Worlds, Voyager

By Cinema Sentries | Mar 18, 2025

IDW Publishing is proud to announce the expansion of the Eisner-nominated STAR TREK line of comics with three new limited ...

From the Couch Hole: Twistin’ Like a Flame in a Slow Dance

By Shawn Bourdo | Mar 16, 2025

Previously on FTCH, there was vengeance most fowl in the meaning of dreams. The flow of friendship described in the ...

From the Couch Hole: Tell Me What the Problem Is

By Shawn Bourdo | Mar 9, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Peter and Max took on Captain America in his brave new world that included Frosted Flakes ice ...

From the Couch Hole: It’s Getting Near Dawn

By Shawn Bourdo | Mar 2, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Sherlock Jr was investigating some helter skelter at the summer's end. Charlie says, "Same spirits, new forms, ...

“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 27, 2025

When I heard about Gene Hackman's death this morning, I didn't need to pull up a filmography to remind myself ...

From the Couch Hole: Just Come on Home

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 23, 2025

Previously on FTCH, there was a presence from the old days of Woe's Hollow. A different man with a sore ...

From the Couch Hole: Good Times I Remember

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 16, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the Continental Op was called in because on September 5, somebody somewhere was infected. The real pain ...

From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got Too Much Energy to Switch Off My Mind

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 9, 2025

Previously on FTCH, babygirl was on her last night in Soho with the young Americans. We said, "Hello, Ms. Cobel" ...

From the Couch Hole: Scanning Life Through the Picture Window

By Shawn Bourdo | Feb 2, 2025

Previously on FTCH, we were afraid of Nosferatu who moves the dead. The reason is Sriracha Doritos on the day ...

From the Couch Hole: I’m Not a Perfect Person

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 26, 2025

Previously on FTCH, a complete unknown took shelter from the storm during the forever war. We are lady parts who ...

From the Couch Hole: I Came in from the Wilderness, A Creature Void of Form

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 19, 2025

Previously on FTCH, we were tangled up in blue because of the twisters. The masters of the air will speak ...

Inglourius Basterds Is the Pick of the Week

By Mat Brewster | Jan 13, 2025

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino. He's an undeniably talented writer/director and I have a ...

From the Couch Hole: We Just Saw It From a Different Point of View

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 12, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the instigators said you're a big girl now so get the hot cocoa with marshmallow. The elf ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2024 – I’d Just Allow a Fragment of Your Life to Wander Free

By Shawn Bourdo | Jan 5, 2025

From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021, I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2024 – I’m Living in a Movie That You’re Writing in Your Head

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 29, 2024

From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...

From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2024 – Where Are You Going, So Full of Hope?

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 22, 2024

From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2023, I have punctuated each year with an ...

From the Couch Hole: Our Conversation Was Short and Sweet

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 15, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the wolfs stole this old heart of mine with a blitz to Burger King for the fried ...

From the Couch Hole: I’m Not Too Proud to Shout It

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 8, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the limey gave us an ode to a boy and chocolate Chex. The Penguin was wicked in ...

From the Couch Hole: Exaggeration on the Truth

By Shawn Bourdo | Dec 1, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the bad monkey met up with the baby driver who said, "Open your eyes and squeeze me." ...

From the Couch Hole: Let Me Show You the Light

By Shawn Bourdo | Nov 24, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the postman rang twice, once for the lemon pepper potato chips and a second time for the ...

Book Review: Star Trek: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios

By Darcy Staniforth | Nov 18, 2024

Since 1966, Star Trek has been taking its viewers along as Starfleet has explored "Space, the final frontier." In 2017, Star ...

From the Couch Hole: It’s Quiet When the Tide is Low

By Shawn Bourdo | Nov 17, 2024

Previously on FTCH, Baby Jane was watching "I Love Lucy" while eating Chex. The Adventures of Tintin couldn't hold a ...

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

By Shawn Bourdo | Nov 10, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the hot fuzz was looking for Shaun of the Dead who escaped on a lifeboat. The wild ...

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

By Shawn Bourdo | Nov 3, 2024

Previously on FTCH, the oddity returned from beyond the grave on Sugar Hill. Shirley Temple gave us the genesis of ...

Separated Movie Review: Harm to the Children Was Part of the Point

By Greg Hammond | Oct 27, 2024

Errol Morris continues his streak of astonishingly edge-of-your-seat storytelling and filmmaking in his latest documentary, Separated, based on the book ...

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

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 27, 2024

Previously on FTCH, last week out in Stumptown, the Joker found that love is a stranger with Plucky Duck and ...

Dallas Fan Festival 2024 Review

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 22, 2024

It was as intimate an experience as you can have in pop-culture fandom with 15,000 of your friends at the ...

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

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 20, 2024

Previously on FTCH, at Salem's Lot, Carrie went down the old Spanish trail for some night ghoulery. It ended up ...

Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 19, 2024

Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10 collects 10 made-for-TV animated films that aired on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, a syndicated program that ...