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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Broken Oath Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Lady Snowblood

Japanese author Kazuo Koike created and wrote the story for a manga called Lady Snowblood, about an orphan who grows ...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 Blu-ray Review: DNotS 2 Is a DNR: Do Not Rewatch

Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is brought to you by J.D. Feigelson, who wrote the original Dark Night of ...
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American Movie 4K UHD Review: Film, Family, and Alcohol Abuse

In its bare outline, American Movie is a documentary about a striving filmmaker. In the telling, it’s about addiction, family ...
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The Boy and the Heron 4K UHD Review: Out of Retirement, Miyazaki Makes One of His Best Films

After releasing The Wind Rises in 2013, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from filmmaking. He was too ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 4K UHD Review: A Dream Release

John Carpenter didn't invent the slasher genre with Halloween in 1978 but he certainly popularized it and solidified the formula. ...
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A Quiet Place: Day One Blu-ray Review: A Successful Prequel

Spooky movie season is upon on us and a viewing of A Quiet Place: Day One fits perfectly into my ...
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Book Review: Disney In-Between: The Lost Years 1966–1986 by Stephen Anderson

Sometimes, you have to fall before you can rise. That’s the premise floated by Stephen Anderson’s new book, Disney In-Between: ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Tell You a Tale

Previously on FTCH, the God Emperor of Dune was on the carefree highway with bad Ronald. They ate Coca-Cola Oreos ...
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Saturday Night (2024) Movie Review: Will the Revolution Be Televised?

In what could be described as “High Noon at Studio 8H,” director, producer, co-writer Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is a ...
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Daytime Revolution (2024) Movie Review: When Counterculture Met Middle America

The date was February 14, 1972, and unsuspecting stay-at-home mothers sat down to watch an episode of the Mike Douglas ...
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Book Review: Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher by Thomas Stemrich and Patrick Keck

“I guess if I was asleep and something bit me real soft…well, I couldn’t really be mad about that, could ...
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Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories 

Splatter up! It's midnight and the moon is high in the night sky. Most folks are sound asleep but not ...
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The Threat Blu-ray Review: Battle of Wits Royale

When two hardened death row inmates escape from prison, they come up with a fiendish kidnapping plot to get rich ...
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Two Taoist Tales Blu-ray Review: Wild Supernatural Hong Kong Action

Two Taoist Tales collects a pair of wildly ridiculous movies that involve monsters, demons, spells, and copious kung fu. It's ...
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Book Review: Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan

This new book is an unauthorized and unofficial study of one of the most universally admired directors to ever put ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Slip Away on You

Previously on FTCH, the humans would fade into you. It wasn't imaginary that young Frankenstein showed up with the Monster ...
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Conflict (1945) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Classic

Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet. Warner Brothers circa 1945. Car crashes. Romance. The perfect murder. The psychology of guilt. Everything about ...
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Book Review Godzilla: The Encyclopedia by Shinji Nishikawa

Setting aside the book is already in need of an update with the release of last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Horror Classic

Fifty years ago this week, Tobe Hooper unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the all-time greatest horror movies ...
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Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 Review: A Heavy-Hitting, Hard Rock Performance

Frustrated working with the Deep Purple Mark III line-up, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore began recording with members of the band of ...
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Touch (2024) Blu-ray Review: The Search for Past Love

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has recently been toying with several projects involving people against nature. Whether it’s The Deep, Everest, ...
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From the Couch Hole: Strange You Never Knew

Previously on FTCH, we called out "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" and got an American honey with a case of a crazy little ...
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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Smells Like Teen Spirit

Three decades after writer/director Gregg Araki shook up the indie film world with his trilogy of teen films starring James ...
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Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock

Watchmen Chapter 1 is a very faithful adaptation of the first six comics in the twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) ...
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Tattooed Life Blu-ray Review: Suzuki’s Never Conventional Yakuza Tales

In the first act, there's a murder, a betrayal, and two brothers go on the run. The last act features ...
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Lee (2024) Movie Review: Woefully Misguided

A biopic on Lee Miller has been in the works for eight years, with Kate Winslet attached as the lead. ...
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Book Review: The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume by Attilio Micheluzzi

I consider myself to be fairly well versed in the world’s finest cartoonists, and yet prior to this graphic novel, ...
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