2025 Scribe Awards Winners Announced
By Cinema Sentries |
On July 25, the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers awarded their Scribe Awards at San Diego Comic Con. Winners ...
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From the Couch Hole: Did They Get You to Trade Your Heroes for Ghosts?
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Parthenope was in Manchester by the Sea with twisted queso. The third-floor flat parasite said, "I'll be ...
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From the Couch Hole: Can You Feel The Light Shine?
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Bear and the Brutalist promised you a miracle. Then 28 weeks later they showed up at ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Saturday Programming Highlights
By Gordon S. Miller |
San Diego Comic-Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Saturday’s programming schedule has been revealed. Below ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Friday Programming Highlights
By Gordon S. Miller |
San Diego Comic-Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Friday’s programming schedule has been revealed. Below ...
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San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Thursday Programming Highlights
By Gordon S. Miller |
San Diego Comic-Con returns to the San Diego Convention Center and surrounding area. Thursday’s programming schedule has been revealed. Below ...
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Five Cool Things and Project Hail Mary
By Mat Brewster |
Hello, and welcome to another Five Cool Things, a bi-weekly article where yours truly discusses all the cool and interesting ...
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From the Couch Hole: Summer Breeze and Brilliant Light
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the life of Chuck had a coda 28 days later. There was a glittering prize but one ...
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From the Couch Hole: Shine On, Shine the Lights on Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, someone, somewhere in the Summertime there was a Phoenician scheme for the razor girl to find Howdy ...
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From the Couch Hole: Brilliant Days, Wake Up on Brilliant Days
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Jaws caused quite a fallout for his dead reckoning. The judgement from outer space proved that love ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Think It’s Time to Get Ready
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Rogue Nation was all I need. That and a friendship with Poirot that wasn't close to ...
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From the Couch Hole: When the Singer’s Gone / Let the Song Go On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Blade Runner believes in miracles of the dragons domain. The impossible mission of the ghost protocol ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been So Many Places, I’ve Seen Some Things
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the blue eyes crying in the rain fed the seeds of doom. The mission impossible was Goldfinger ...
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From the Couch Hole: In a Land That Knows No Parting
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Thunderbolts* upon inspection became the New Avengers for the good times. The escape artist grabbed the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let’s Just Be Glad We Had Some Time Together
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Tuck everlasting and the eternal daughter had an Alpha child. The wolf man took it one day ...
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From the Couch Hole: Is Good for You, You, You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, when love breaks down there is time enough for love during warfare. You gotta have fun during ...
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From the Couch Hole: Have You Seen the Weather
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week the Monkey Wrench Gang took on the emotional baggage of Y2K with some queer s'mores. ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Like Sugar Sometimes
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Righteous Gemstones went to Tom Lake looking for the beautiful loser. The death of a unicorn ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Realize You Just Can’t Have It All
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Medusa was in Cold Harbor with Aguirre. The four Musketeers discovered that love hurts but late-night jalapeno ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Know a Thing or Two, I Learned from You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Basquiat and Lady Blue listened to the Anderson Tapes with Barney Miller. All roads taste like salt ...
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From the Couch Hole: You’re Showing Me a Different Side
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Anora was carrying her black bag when she boarded the Millionaire's Express saying, "I feel like makin' ...
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From the Couch Hole: Watchin’ Winter Turn to Spring
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the fire woman showed us that we live in a time where all we imagine is light ...
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IDW Announces Three Star Trek Limited Series: Red Shirts, Strange New Worlds, Voyager
By Cinema Sentries |
IDW Publishing is proud to announce the expansion of the Eisner-nominated STAR TREK line of comics with three new limited ...
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From the Couch Hole: Twistin’ Like a Flame in a Slow Dance
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was vengeance most fowl in the meaning of dreams. The flow of friendship described in the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Tell Me What the Problem Is
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Peter and Max took on Captain America in his brave new world that included Frosted Flakes ice ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Getting Near Dawn
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Sherlock Jr was investigating some helter skelter at the summer's end. Charlie says, "Same spirits, new forms, ...
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“Popeye, You Still Picking Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?”: Five Essential Gene Hackman Films
By Shawn Bourdo |
When I heard about Gene Hackman's death this morning, I didn't need to pull up a filmography to remind myself ...
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From the Couch Hole: Just Come on Home
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a presence from the old days of Woe's Hollow. A different man with a sore ...
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From the Couch Hole: Good Times I Remember
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Continental Op was called in because on September 5, somebody somewhere was infected. The real pain ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got Too Much Energy to Switch Off My Mind
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, babygirl was on her last night in Soho with the young Americans. We said, "Hello, Ms. Cobel" ...
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From the Couch Hole: Scanning Life Through the Picture Window
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were afraid of Nosferatu who moves the dead. The reason is Sriracha Doritos on the day ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Not a Perfect Person
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, a complete unknown took shelter from the storm during the forever war. We are lady parts who ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Came in from the Wilderness, A Creature Void of Form
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were tangled up in blue because of the twisters. The masters of the air will speak ...
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Inglourius Basterds Is the Pick of the Week
By Mat Brewster |
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Quentin Tarantino. He's an undeniably talented writer/director and I have a ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Just Saw It From a Different Point of View
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the instigators said you're a big girl now so get the hot cocoa with marshmallow. The elf ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2024 – I’d Just Allow a Fragment of Your Life to Wander Free
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2020, 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 TV/Streaming 2024 – I’m Living in a Movie That You’re Writing in Your Head
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 2024 – Where Are You Going, So Full of Hope?
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a brief hiatus, again from 2017-2023, I have punctuated each year with an ...
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From the Couch Hole: Our Conversation Was Short and Sweet
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the wolfs stole this old heart of mine with a blitz to Burger King for the fried ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Not Too Proud to Shout It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the limey gave us an ode to a boy and chocolate Chex. The Penguin was wicked in ...
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From the Couch Hole: Exaggeration on the Truth
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the bad monkey met up with the baby driver who said, "Open your eyes and squeeze me." ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Show You the Light
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the postman rang twice, once for the lemon pepper potato chips and a second time for the ...
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Book Review: Star Trek: The Art of Glenn Hetrick’s Alchemy Studios
By Darcy Staniforth |
Since 1966, Star Trek has been taking its viewers along as Starfleet has explored "Space, the final frontier." In 2017, Star ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Quiet When the Tide is Low
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Baby Jane was watching "I Love Lucy" while eating Chex. The Adventures of Tintin couldn't hold a ...
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From the Couch Hole: Now You’re Moving in High Society
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the hot fuzz was looking for Shaun of the Dead who escaped on a lifeboat. The wild ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Will Be Your Storm at Seas
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the oddity returned from beyond the grave on Sugar Hill. Shirley Temple gave us the genesis of ...
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Separated Movie Review: Harm to the Children Was Part of the Point
By Greg Hammond |
Errol Morris continues his streak of astonishingly edge-of-your-seat storytelling and filmmaking in his latest documentary, Separated, based on the book ...
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From the Couch Hole: Before They Turn the Summer into Dust
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week out in Stumptown, the Joker found that love is a stranger with Plucky Duck and ...
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Dallas Fan Festival 2024 Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
It was as intimate an experience as you can have in pop-culture fandom with 15,000 of your friends at the ...
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From the Couch Hole: To Tempt You In and Drive You Far Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, at Salem's Lot, Carrie went down the old Spanish trail for some night ghoulery. It ended up ...
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