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You Can’t Take It with You Movie Review: A World Walt Disney Might Have Created

By Greg Hammond | Aug 27, 2026

Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You is one of those movies that seems almost impossibly optimistic by modern ...

Book Review: Quacky by Jim Woodring: A Little Big Book

By Kent Conrad | Aug 27, 2026

Jim Woodring, who has been cartooning for longer than I've been alive, is a unique voice in American comics. Since ...

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror Blu-ray Review: “It’s not a movie. It’s a way of life.”

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 26, 2026

Richard O'Brien is the legendary creator of The Rocky Horror Show and the lesser-known co-creator of Linus O'Brien, who directed ...

Book Review: Prince Valiant Vol. 31: 1997-1998 by Hal Foster, John Cullen Murphy, and Cullen Murphy

By Steve Geise | Aug 26, 2026

The latest two-year run of Prince Valiant strips kicks off with a royal abduction, as Val’s wife, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter ...

The Devil Queen Blu-ray Review: Day of the Dead

By Steve Geise | Aug 25, 2026

There are ample reasons that this 1974 Brazilian drama is on the Kino Cult imprint instead of the general Kino ...

Practical Magic 4K UHD Review: Spellbinding

By Lorna Miller | Aug 25, 2026

Practical Magic is a movie that has grown on me over time which I enjoy more with each viewing. The ...

The Bad Seed (1956) Blu-ray Review: Sugar and Spice, a Murderous Delight

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 24, 2026

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, The Bad Seed (1956) is a powerful psychological, horror thriller that stars Nancy Kelly and Patty ...

The Stranger (2025) Blu-ray Review: Killing an Arab

By Steve Geise | Aug 23, 2026

In the latest film adaptation of Albert Camus’ classic novel, director Francois Ozon (The Crime is Mine) remains remarkably faithful ...

Jinsei Blu-ray Review: A Bold, Interesting Film

By Mat Brewster | Aug 23, 2026

I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent man. I've watched a lot of movies in my life. Some of ...

From the Couch Hole: Almost Doing Things We Used to Do

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 23, 2026

Previously on FTCH, Space Godzilla met Kamen Rider and the mirror crack'd because they lacked patience. Trouble is my business ...

Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: Ragnarok by Eleni Roussos

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 22, 2026

Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: Ragnarok is the 16th release in the 22-book Marvel Studios: ...

The Silence of the Lambs Movie Review: Like Having an Old Friend for Dinner

By Greg Hammond | Aug 22, 2026

Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs is one of those rare films ...

Book Review: Tiodora’s Letters: An Enslaved Woman’s Fight for Family and Freedom by Marcelo D’Salete

By Davy | Aug 22, 2026

Being in this world for 41 years, I have obviously realized that history has so many dark sides to it. ...

Book Review: Lovers of the Empire: Vol. 1 by Yudori

By Steve Geise | Aug 21, 2026

Following last year’s superb Raging Clouds, Yudori returns with the first installment of a new historical romance series. The book ...

Repo Men 4K UHD Review: Bland Runner

By Steve Geise | Aug 21, 2026

Although its title might lead viewers to believe this 2010 film is a continuation of Repo Man (1984), the film ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVII Blu-ray Review: Three From Republic Pictures

By Mat Brewster | Aug 20, 2026

Boy, does it seem like movies have gotten longer these days. I mean, really long. It is almost as if ...

Shakespeare in Love Movie Review: All the World’s a Stage

By Greg Hammond | Aug 20, 2026

There is something brave about Shakespeare in Love, a movie that takes the most revered figure in English literature and ...

The Pink Panther (1963) 4K UHD Review: The Birth of a Multimedia Franchise

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 19, 2026

Kino Lorber presents on 4K UHD director Blake Edwards' quintet of Pink Panther films starring Peter Sellers as the iconic ...

Harlem School 1970 Blu-ray Review: Everyone Can Relate to This

By Davy | Aug 19, 2026

Capturing public education at its roots with a deliberately primitive lens, multitalented filmmaker Phil Gries makes us flies on the ...

Le Choc Blu-ray Review: Delon and Deneuve Deliver

By Steve Geise | Aug 19, 2026

Ten years after their only other narrative feature film together (Un Flic), screen legends Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve teamed ...

American Beauty (1999) Movie Review: A Rose by Any Other Name

By Greg Hammond | Aug 18, 2026

When American Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, it seemed to capture something essential about the ...

Manon 70 Blu-ray Review: Ruthless People

By Steve Geise | Aug 18, 2026

Writer/director Jean Aurel’s 1968 film tracks the rocky romance between two narcissists completely incapable of real emotions. Loosely updating the ...

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Movie Review: My Work Is About Affection

By Greg Hammond | Aug 17, 2026

Errol Morris’ The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography is a small, unusually kind film from a director better known for ...

From the Couch Hole: I’m Still Alright to Smile

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 16, 2026

Previously on FTCH, the band on the run didn't have a logical song about their obsession with buttered corn potato ...

Money From Home 3D Blu-ray Review: Step Inside the World of Martin and Lewis

By Steve Geise | Aug 15, 2026

When 3D first became a movie theater fad in the 1950s, the technology occasionally drifted outside of its typical sci-fi ...

Small Time Crooks Movie Review: They Never Completed Kindergarten Because They Were Drafted

By Greg Hammond | Aug 15, 2026

Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks begins with the kind of comic energy that makes it seem destined to become one ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Blu-ray Review: Cagney Pounds the Boards

By Steve Geise | Aug 14, 2026

Although Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy has been adapted to the screen many times, Max Reinhardt’s lavish 1935 production was the first ...

Fire and Ice 3-Disc Limited Edition Steelbook Review: “A Comic Book Adaptation of Frank Frazetta.”

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 13, 2026

Artists Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta and writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas teamed up to create Fire and Ice, ...

Crimes and Misdemeanors Movie Review: “Comedy Is Tragedy Plus Time”

By Greg Hammond | Aug 12, 2026

Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors is one of his most serious and unsettling films. It is a dark comedy that ...

Exit 8 Blu-ray Review: Clever and Creepy

By Davy | Aug 12, 2026

Most video games don't exactly translate well to the big screen. But there a few that do, and Exit 8 ...

Presenting Lily Mars Blu-ray Review: Broadway Baby

By Steve Geise | Aug 12, 2026

Just four years removed from The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was still struggling to transition from child actress to ...

MacArthur 4K UHD Review: War is Boring

By Mat Brewster | Aug 11, 2026

I find it impossible to talk about MacArthur without comparing it to Patton, the 1970 film starring George C. Scott ...

Hyperspace (3-D Director’s Cut) Blu-ray Review: Funnier Than Spaceballs

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 11, 2026

Suffering a six-year delay and a very brief U.S. theatrical release, Kino Lorber and 3-D Film Archive have teamed up ...

Letty Lynton Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code Melodrama That Blends Romance and Crime

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 9, 2026

While Letty Lynton is credited with being based on Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes' 1931 novel of the same name about ...

From the Couch Hole: When I Was Young, It Seemed That Life Was So Wonderful

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 9, 2026

Previously on FTCH, thrice upon a time the green ripper straight up said there was no other choice about the ...

The Boxer (1977) Blu-ray Review: The Fighter Still Remains

By Mat Brewster | Aug 8, 2026

According to the excellent visual essay by Tom Mes, which is included in this new Blu-ray release of The Boxer, ...

Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Versions of the Franchise Since Its Heyday

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 8, 2026

The made-for-television film, Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins aired originally on the Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009. The film debuted ...

Ping Pong Blu-ray Review: Balls of Furi

By Steve Geise | Aug 8, 2026

At the start of this century, three notable live-action sports comedies emerged from Asia: Waterboys, Ping Pong, and Stephen Chow’s ...

Book Review: The Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice, and an American Icon by William Bernhardt

By Darcy Staniforth | Aug 7, 2026

"Truth, justice, and the American way," may be Superman's famous catchphrase, but for Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, ...

Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “The Golden Nugget Boat” by Carl Barks

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 7, 2026

Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “The Golden Nugget Boat” is Volume 26 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. This ...

The Island (1980) 4K UHD Review: At Least It’s Never Boring

By Mat Brewster | Aug 6, 2026

Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a massive success. It turned Spielberg into a household name. It almost single-handedly created the summer-blockbuster ...