From the Couch Hole: I Will Be Your Storm at Seas
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Previously on FTCH, the oddity returned from beyond the grave on Sugar Hill. Shirley Temple gave us the genesis of ...
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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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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, ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More 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 ...
Read More Broken Oath Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Lady Snowblood
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese author Kazuo Koike created and wrote the story for a manga called Lady Snowblood, about an orphan who grows ...
Read More Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 Blu-ray Review: DNotS 2 Is a DNR: Do Not Rewatch
By Joe Garcia III |
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is brought to you by J.D. Feigelson, who wrote the original Dark Night of ...
Read More American Movie 4K UHD Review: Film, Family, and Alcohol Abuse
By Kent Conrad |
In its bare outline, American Movie is a documentary about a striving filmmaker. In the telling, it’s about addiction, family ...
Read More The Boy and the Heron 4K UHD Review: Out of Retirement, Miyazaki Makes One of His Best Films
By Mat Brewster |
After releasing The Wind Rises in 2013, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from filmmaking. He was too ...
Read More A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 4K UHD Review: A Dream Release
By Mat Brewster |
John Carpenter didn't invent the slasher genre with Halloween in 1978 but he certainly popularized it and solidified the formula. ...
Read More A Quiet Place: Day One Blu-ray Review: A Successful Prequel
By Lorna Miller |
Spooky movie season is upon on us and a viewing of A Quiet Place: Day One fits perfectly into my ...
Read More Book Review: Disney In-Between: The Lost Years 1966–1986 by Stephen Anderson
By Sombrero Grande |
Sometimes, you have to fall before you can rise. That’s the premise floated by Stephen Anderson’s new book, Disney In-Between: ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Let Me Tell You a Tale
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the God Emperor of Dune was on the carefree highway with bad Ronald. They ate Coca-Cola Oreos ...
Read More Saturday Night (2024) Movie Review: Will the Revolution Be Televised?
By Gordon S. Miller |
In what could be described as “High Noon at Studio 8H,” director, producer, co-writer Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is a ...
Read More Daytime Revolution (2024) Movie Review: When Counterculture Met Middle America
By Kit O'Toole |
The date was February 14, 1972, and unsuspecting stay-at-home mothers sat down to watch an episode of the Mike Douglas ...
Read More Book Review: Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher by Thomas Stemrich and Patrick Keck
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“I guess if I was asleep and something bit me real soft…well, I couldn’t really be mad about that, could ...
Read More Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories
By Joe Garcia III |
Splatter up! It's midnight and the moon is high in the night sky. Most folks are sound asleep but not ...
Read More The Threat Blu-ray Review: Battle of Wits Royale
By Steve Geise |
When two hardened death row inmates escape from prison, they come up with a fiendish kidnapping plot to get rich ...
Read More Two Taoist Tales Blu-ray Review: Wild Supernatural Hong Kong Action
By Kent Conrad |
Two Taoist Tales collects a pair of wildly ridiculous movies that involve monsters, demons, spells, and copious kung fu. It's ...
Read More Book Review: Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
By Shawn Bourdo |
This new book is an unauthorized and unofficial study of one of the most universally admired directors to ever put ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Let Me Slip Away on You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the humans would fade into you. It wasn't imaginary that young Frankenstein showed up with the Monster ...
Read More Conflict (1945) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet. Warner Brothers circa 1945. Car crashes. Romance. The perfect murder. The psychology of guilt. Everything about ...
Read More Book Review Godzilla: The Encyclopedia by Shinji Nishikawa
By Gordon S. Miller |
Setting aside the book is already in need of an update with the release of last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus ...
Read More The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Horror Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Fifty years ago this week, Tobe Hooper unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the all-time greatest horror movies ...
Read More Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 Review: A Heavy-Hitting, Hard Rock Performance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frustrated working with the Deep Purple Mark III line-up, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore began recording with members of the band of ...
Read More Touch (2024) Blu-ray Review: The Search for Past Love
By David Wangberg |
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has recently been toying with several projects involving people against nature. Whether it’s The Deep, Everest, ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Strange You Never Knew
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we called out "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" and got an American honey with a case of a crazy little ...
Read More Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Steve Geise |
Three decades after writer/director Gregg Araki shook up the indie film world with his trilogy of teen films starring James ...
Read More Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock
By Greg Hammond |
Watchmen Chapter 1 is a very faithful adaptation of the first six comics in the twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) ...
Read More Tattooed Life Blu-ray Review: Suzuki’s Never Conventional Yakuza Tales
By Kent Conrad |
In the first act, there's a murder, a betrayal, and two brothers go on the run. The last act features ...
Read More Lee (2024) Movie Review: Woefully Misguided
By David Wangberg |
A biopic on Lee Miller has been in the works for eight years, with Kate Winslet attached as the lead. ...
Read More Book Review: The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume by Attilio Micheluzzi
By Steve Geise |
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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