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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 ...

Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London

By Steve Geise | Aug 5, 2026

Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...

Legends of the Lost Ark DVD Review: A No-Nonsense Search for the Ark of the Covenant

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 4, 2026

Directed by Stephen Pettit, Legends of the Lost Ark (2026) is a documentary that follows archaeologist and Biblical scholar Dr. ...

Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: Death Isn’t the End

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 4, 2026

Although main character Spear was killed off at the end of the second season and there was talk about the ...

From the Couch Hole: Lost in a Dream, I Don’t Know Which Way to Go

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 2, 2026

Previously on FTCH, it was closer to fine when saving Private Ryan during the Zygon inversion. The odyssey was that ...

The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream

By Mat Brewster | Aug 1, 2026

A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...

Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 31, 2026

Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...

The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 31, 2026

Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...

Book Review: Bimbo Agitprop by Raquelle Jac

By Mat Brewster | Jul 30, 2026

I just received a copy of Raquelle Jac's comic Bimbo Agitprop in the mail. I'm supposed to review it. But ...

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review: What a Fabulously Tangled Web We Weave

By Greg Hammond | Jul 30, 2026

Few sequels have the confidence to expand everything that made their predecessor special without losing sight of its emotional core. ...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray Review: Introducing Miles Morales

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 30, 2026

Right from the very beginning, as colored pixels are seen when passing passed the Sony logo and the Columbia torch-bearer ...

Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller

By Kent Conrad | Jul 30, 2026

Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...

Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 29, 2026

The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...

King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Steve Geise | Jul 28, 2026

While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...

Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy

By Mat Brewster | Jul 28, 2026

Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...

I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 28, 2026

I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...

The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time

By Steve Geise | Jul 27, 2026

Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...

The Paper: Season One Blu-ray Review: Return-to-Office Mandate

By Steve Geise | Jul 26, 2026

Dunder Mifflin is no more, but their Toledo-based parent paper company is still very much in business. Operating out of ...

From the Couch Hole: I’m Trying to Tell You Something ‘Bout My Life

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 26, 2026

Previously on FTCH, the Minions & Monsters unleashed the Mummy against the bear. Citizen Kane had peace of mind because ...

The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master

By Steve Geise | Jul 26, 2026

Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...