Black Belt Jones Blu-ray Review: Enter the Car Wash
By Gordon S. Miller |
After working together on Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon, director Robert Clouse reteamed with Jim Kelly, who stars as Black ...
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The Elephant Man Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the late 19th century, David Lynch's The Elephant Man tells the tragic tale of John Merrick (John Hurt) ...
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Book Review: The Complete I, René Tardi, P.O.W. by Jacques Tardi
By Steve Geise |
Jacques Tardi grew up hearing about his father’s life as a soldier during World War II, particularly his years spent ...
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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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Megadeth: A Night in Buenos Aires Blu-ray Review: Megadeth at Their Thrashing Best
By Joe Garcia III |
Megadeth! Megadeth! Megadeth! Fronted by singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine, Megadeth is known for being one of the Big Four thrash-metal pioneers ...
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Drag Me to Hell 4K UHD Review: Raimi Returns to Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Sam Raimi, renowned horror movie director, has never been a major fan of horror movies. The Evil Dead creator only ...
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Funny Girl Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: She’s the Greatest Star
By Steve Geise |
Barbra Streisand lights up the screen in her movie debut, commanding every second of her role as showgirl-turned-superstar, Fanny Brice. ...
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Book Review: The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen by Jeff Bond
By Davy |
There were so many reasons why the legendary film and television producer and director Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was one of ...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 4K UHD Review: Surprisingly Fresh for a Dead Guy
By Kent Conrad |
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice feels like it should be a disaster. It's a sequel to a nearly 40-year-old film that had a ...
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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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Kiss Me, Kate (2024) Movie Review: Kiss Me, Stephanie
By Steve Geise |
Over the past summer, London’s Barbican Theatre staged a three-month revival of the classic Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. ...
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September (1987) Blu-ray Review: An August Night’s Relationship Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda (2004), two playwrights tell different versions of the same story, one comic and the ...
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Reagan (2024) Blu-ray Review: Win One for the Gipper
By David Wangberg |
Sean McNamara’s biopic on America’s 40th president doesn’t reveal much new detail about what the former actor turned politician went ...
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Evil: The Complete Series DVD Review: Well Worth Your Time
By Mat Brewster |
If I told you the basic synopsis of Evil - a priest in training, a lapsed Catholic psychologist, and a ...
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Night of the Blood Beast + Attack of the Giant Leeches Blu-ray Review: A Creepy Creature Double Feature
By Rons Reviews |
Looking for something fun and funny to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon? Grab some popcorn and a cold soda ...
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Book Review: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet
By David Wangberg |
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is one of the greatest post-apocalyptic survival stories to come out in the last 20 years ...
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Swingers Blu-ray Review: Once Upon a Time in Los Angeles
By Gordon S. Miller |
Actor Jon Favreau had great success heeding the axiom“write what you know” with his screenplay for Swingers, a movie that ...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss Blu-ray Review: A Yakuza’s Life
By Mat Brewster |
There are eight million stories in Japan and this is one of them. Kinji Fukasaku's 1969 film Japan Organized Crime ...
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Didi Blu-ray Review: Ode to the Mostly Good Old Days
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sean Wang’s narrative feature debut treads the same perilous ground as Mid90s, Eighth Grade, and Thirteen with one notable ...
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Bill & Ted’s Most Triumphant Trilogy Review: “Sorry. They Melvined Me.”
By Greg Hammond |
Shout! Studios has released Bill & Ted’s Triumphant Trilogy (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray), including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, ...
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Shotgun Stories Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Father Are Visited Upon the Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Writer/director Jeff Nichols delivers a powerful feature-film debut with Shotgun Stories, a compelling tragic story about an extended-family feud that ...
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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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Superman vs. The Elite Movie Review: Does Might Make Right?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" in Action Comics #775 by Joe Kelly, who ...
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Spider-Man (2002) Movie Review: A Spectacular Superhero Blockbuster
By Gordon S. Miller |
After decades stuck in development, director Sam Raimi was given the great responsibility of bringing Spider-Man to the silver screen ...
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Dogra Magra Blu-ray Review: Matsumoto’s Swan Song
By Steve Geise |
When a young man wakes up in an insane asylum with no memory of his past or his name, he ...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space 4K UHD Review: They Aren’t Klowning Around
By Mat Brewster |
I like to imagine the Chiodo Brothers, writers, directors, and producers of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, were sitting around ...
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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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Journey into Fear (1943) Blu-ray Review: A Briskly Paced, Espionage Thriller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based upon Eric Ambler's 1940 novel of the same name, Journey into Fear (1943) is a Mercury Production directed by ...
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Book Review: Jessica Farm by Josh Simmons: Let’s Weird Jessica to Death
By Jack Cormack |
Jessica Farm, by Josh Simmons (Fantagraphics Books), is an unconventional, sprawling, and (sometimes) bewildering journey through a landscape where nightmare ...
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Kingdom of the Spiders Blu-ray Review: A Notable Entry in the Eco-Horror Genre
By Gordon S. Miller |
During the eco-horror boom of the '70s, which saw movies like Empire of the Ants and The Food of the ...
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Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories Blu-ray Box Set Review: Broodingly Atmospheric Revenge Stories
By Greg Hammond |
Radiance Films has released a boxed set titled Daiei Gothic - Japanese Ghost Stories. The set includes three ghost stories ...
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Lust (2017) DVD Review: Delightful, Low Budget Bloody Mind Screw
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Severin Eskeland, Lust, aka Lyst, lures us down a familiar hallway then turns out the lights ...
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My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock Movie Review: A Kind of Omniscience
By Shawn Bourdo |
Director Mark Cousins must love a challenge. The new documentary, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (2024), attempts to bring a ...
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Goodbye & Amen Blu-ray Review: Part Spy Thriller, Part Hostage Drama, Wholly Excellent
By Mat Brewster |
Goodbye & Amen is a strange little film that twists a couple of genres together, not always successfully, but it ...
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Super Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Justice League Cartoons Assemble
By Gordon S. Miller |
Super Friends was Hanna-Barbera's animated adaptation of Justice League of America, a superhero team that frequently featured DC Comics' Big ...
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Book Review: Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen
By Steve Geise |
Much like Seinfeld, Olivier Schrauwen’s latest graphic novel is a book about nothing. As described in his preface, he supposedly ...
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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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Allonsanfan Blu-ray Review: The Revolution Is a Bit Dull, Actually
By Mat Brewster |
After the downfall of Napoleon, Europe had to pick up the pieces and redraw the lines between countries. For quite ...
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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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The Sting of Death (1990) Blu-ray Review: Love, Lies, and Madness
By Kent Conrad |
The man has cheated on his wife. This is not in dispute. It has hurt her to her core. She ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Trick or Treat” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Trick or Treat" is Volume 13 in Fantagraphics's The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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About Dry Grasses Blu-ray Review: Burns Like a Brush Fire
By Steve Geise |
Samet is stuck in a rut. Consigned to a teaching job at a rural middle school in the Turkish hinterlands, ...
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Through the Shadow (2015) DVD Review: A Gothic Spooker in the Classic Hollywood Tradition
By Joe Garcia III |
Through the Shadow is Brazilian director/writer Walter Lima Jr.’s gritty remake of The Innocents (1961) and a reworking of the ...
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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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A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Bedroom Farce
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, Woody Allen's 11th film as writer/director is A Midsummer Night's Sex ...
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Book Review: Innocence and Seduction: The Art of Dan DeCarlo: Expanded Edition by Bill Morrison
By Steve Geise |
Dan DeCarlo is best known as the defining artist of Archie Comics, but he pursued other artistic endeavors throughout his ...
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Pursued (1947) Blu-ray Review: The Sins of the Families Are Visited Upon the Children
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Raoul Walsh, Pursued (1947) has the trappings of a western, but at its core, it is a family ...
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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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Hanna-Barbera’s Superstars 10 Blu-ray Review: A Good Collection for Young Cartoon-Watchers
By Gordon S. Miller |
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 ...
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