From the Couch Hole: Time Can Erase the Things We Said
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week the Ghostbusters were called in by the mysterious stranger. They went to Skull Island and ...
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WonderCon 2024 Review: Day Two
By Gordon S. Miller |
It was raining Saturday morning so not sure how this affected attendance, but surely had to dissuade a few. More ...
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WonderCon 2024 Review: Day One
By Gordon S. Miller |
Not sure if it's an intentional decision, but WonderCon is getting smaller. Whether that's a good or bad thing is ...
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From the Couch Hole: In This Life I’ve Seen Everything I Can See
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week on Star Island, the Shogun smelled old books and sizzlin' cheese burgers. Godzilla and Kong ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Can All Get Together and Ease Up Our Mind
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week Morbius and Monsieur Spade narrated the anatomy of the fall. Venom didn't give the best ...
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From the Couch Hole: Beautiful Faces and Loud, Empty Places
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we returned to Dune for chocomania with the Shogun. The blade runner said, "Wish you were here" ...
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From the Couch Hole: Same Old Show, In a Different Town, On Another Time
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, inside Llewlyn Davis they found Coca-Cola spiced with hot honey. The drive-away dolls have been searchin' such ...
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From the Couch Hole: Good Things in Life Take a Long Time
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Lord of Light arrived in his midnite cruiser with maple syrup grahams. On Dune, the color ...
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From the Couch Hole: So Glad That You’re Here Again
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a murder at the end of the world on Dune. The messiah asked for black ...
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From the Couch Hole: Looking from a Window Above
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Dr. No met Jim Dandy in their past lives in Babylon. From May to December, we had ...
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From the Couch Hole: All the Lights Are Changing Green to Red
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the little women were poor things that had to call an exorcist who said "This is a ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been So Many Places In My Life And Time
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Barbie in the multiverse of madness was the rabbit hunter, so beware of darkness. The Golden ...
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From the Couch Hole: Watch Out, Take Care
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were full of pork belly in 2001 when we met at the Einstein Intersection with Monsieur ...
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From the Couch Hole: Just Like a Song in Days of Yore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we started the year on Dune with a 'Shroom Swiss burger. The heroes used the Iron Claw ...
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American Dharma Movie Review: Duty, Fate, and Destiny
By Greg Hammond |
American Dharma is a documentary film in which director Errol Morris interviews Steve Bannon, who, among many other roles, was ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Could Steal Time, Just for One Day
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, way back in 2023, the boy and the heron went to a castle in the sky for ...
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A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened Blu-ray Review: Bringing Balance and Answers After 45 Years
By Joe Garcia III |
Making its sole television appearance on November 17, 1978, the Star Wars Holiday Special is an event that remains forever ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2023 – You Can Burn The Midnight Oil With Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2022, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2021 I returned ...
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TV Review: Star Wars Holiday Special
By Gordon S. Miller |
In 1978, Star Wars fans had little content beyond the film to immerse themselves. There was the movie novelization ghost ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2023 – Every Day Here Is the Freakin’ Super Bowl
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2023 – I Still Don’t Understand What the Play Is About
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...
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Standard Operating Procedure Movie Review: We Just Did What We Were Told
By Greg Hammond |
Errol Morris’ 2008 documentary Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) concerns itself with the photos uncovered at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004 ...
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From the Couch Hole: With a Pretty Girl Dancin’ to Jug Band Music
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Godzilla raids again for the cherry game fuel. Godzilla and the Muppets sang, "We're the best of ...
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From the Couch Hole: We’ve Got Good Vibes
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Napoleon and the duellists met the boogeyman. The Muppet family and the scientist made a coldplay for ...
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From the Couch Hole: Pulling the Puzzles Apart
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Holly was one of the warriors with poems, prayers, and promises. The Muppets were long riders on ...
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From the Couch Hole: How Long It’s Been Since Yesterday
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Priscilla told a horse's tale about the bling ring. The lullaby was a cure and it was ...
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The Fog of War Blu-ray Review: Robert McNamara Tells All
By David Wangberg |
Although I’ve never held a role in politics, nor do I intend to, there’s no doubt that they come with ...
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From the Couch Hole: Softly Through the Shadow of the Evening Sun
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we found ourselves in Y3000 sitting in the rockin' chair for a time of changes. In Cut ...
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From the Couch Hole: Just Rock Me Away from Here
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were enlightened by Mr. Roboto about holiday stuffing. We spent five nights at Freddy's with Dolores ...
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From the Couch Hole: With Parts Made in Japan
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, don't look now but there was a photograph of the masque of Red Death that led to ...
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Book Review: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto & Maria Jose Tenuto
By Gordon S. Miller |
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film is sure to satisfy the needs of ...
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From the Couch Hole: ‘Til You Come Home Again to Stay
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we entered the crawlspace on a Midnight dreary but we said, "Don't be afraid of the dark." ...
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From the Couch Hole: It Seems I Don’t Get Time Out Anymore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we visited with the Midnight Club and found that suicide is painless. If it isn't, there's always ...
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From the Couch Hole: Through Early Morning Fog I See
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we discovered that not a day goes by that the two stagecoaches don't leave with the baby. ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Just Go On Thinking and Sweating
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a stalker eating street tacos. Henry Sugar told him, "Send in the clowns," and the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Don’t You Love the Farce
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a haunting in Venice and Carmella Creeper is dead again in The Void. In Flavortown, ...
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Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! DVD Review: Plays Cards Across a Vast Spectrum of Fandoms
By Shawn Bourdo |
The 35th entry into the Scooby-Doo! Direct-To-Video Movie series arrives on September 26, 2023. Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! continues a ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been Out Walking
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Archer and Gator were not accused in the killing of a Chinese bookie. I ranked the best ...
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From the Couch Hole: As the Ocean Crawls Onto the Shoreline
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the enforcer Josey Wales named the best soda ever. It was in a broken dream that Python ...
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From the Couch Hole: In the Days Between the Hours
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the muskrat love between Frances and Margot got the Mayans kicking and screaming at the wedding. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Doin’ the Town and Doin’ It Right
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were all dressed for the Fall Festival in harmony with the rabbits and the frogs. There ...
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From the Couch Hole: Is This the Only Place You Thought to Go
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, what we did in the shadows was rad and included some teenage mutant ninja turtles. The Super ...
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From the Couch Hole: Too Long in the Wind, Too Long in the Rain
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we let out with a "Chim Chim Cher-ee" even when some Pudd'nheads said, "It's bad for ya." ...
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Book Review: Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV by Ariel Waldman
By David Wangberg |
Science fiction is a genre that has predicted many current inventions. And yet, at the time of release, certain movies ...
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From the Couch Hole: When The’s ‘Ardly No Day Nor ‘Ardly No Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were hanging on the telephone for the Omega Man and Boba Fett. There was Juneberry, Joe ...
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Fast X Blu-ray Review: It’s Still About Family
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fast X, the latest installment in the franchise, is a sequel to Fast Five. I opened my review of the ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m in the Phone Booth, It’s the One Across the Hall
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the biggest part of me was a combination of Oppenheimer and Obi-Wan and a mashup of Twinkies ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 2: Sunday Spooky Sunday
By Gordon S. Miller |
Throughout the 3-day weekend, the exhibit floor was packed with hundreds of vendors for all one's spooky season needs, from ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 1: The Things I Saw on Saturday
By Gordon S. Miller |
Debuting in 2016, Midsummer Scream dubs itself “the world’s biggest Horror and Halloween convention.” It certainly is the biggest Horror ...
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Midsummer Scream 2023: Hall of Shadows Review: Each Attraction Showcased an Impressive Amount of Work
By Lorna Miller |
The Hall of Shadows is a section of the exhibit floor filled with haunted attractions. CalHaunts, a Southern California group ...
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