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King Lear (1987) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Baffling, Exacting, and Endlessly Fascinating

The late, legendary French New Wave filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) was one of the cinema's greatest rule-breakers. He never followed ...
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Conclave 4K UHD Review: Electing A Pope Has Never Been This Thrilling

I grew up in the Church of Christ. That's about as polar opposite of the Catholic Church as you can ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Got Too Much Energy to Switch Off My Mind

Previously on FTCH, babygirl was on her last night in Soho with the young Americans. We said, "Hello, Ms. Cobel" ...
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Hokuriku Proxy War Blu-ray Review: A Chaotic, Confusing Delight

An elderly man is buried up to his head in the snow-covered dirt. A group of younger men race a ...
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Becoming Led Zeppelin Movie Review: What Was and How It Came to Be

Singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bassist John Paul Jones sit separately and talk about Becoming Led Zeppelin. They ...
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Grand Hotel (1932) Movie Review: “People come. People go.”

Screenwriter William A. Drake adapted his 1930 play, which was adapted from Vicki Baum's 1929 novel Menschen im Hotel for ...
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Full Moon in Blue Water Blu-ray Review: Perfect for a Sunday Afternoon

Full Moon in Blue Water is the type of film I used to call a Sunday Afternoon Movie. When I ...
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From the Couch Hole: Scanning Life Through the Picture Window

Previously on FTCH, we were afraid of Nosferatu who moves the dead. The reason is Sriracha Doritos on the day ...
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Romance & Cigarettes Blu-ray Review: A Charming Musical for Adults

John Turturro’s (writer/director) film Romance & Cigarettes is filled with fun surprises. For instance, it is ten minutes into the ...
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Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Father Tries His Best

Initially appearing as a segment on the anthology show Love, American Style entitled “Love and the Old Fashioned Father,” Hanna-Barbera's ...
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Book Review: Joe Galaxy by Massimo Mattioli

Massimo Mattioli was an Italian artist and cartoonist (1943-2019) whose latest collection comes to us from Fantagraphics and features Joe ...
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Book Review: Jimmy! The Comic Art of James Swinnerton

James Swinnerton created a variety of comic strips in the first half of the 20th century, with his longest-running strip ...
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Juror #2 Blu-ray Review: 12 Angry Jurors

It’s amazing how, at 94 years old, Clint Eastwood is still churning out feature films on a somewhat consistent basis. ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 4 Blu-ray Review: A Fantastic Collection of Laughs

Looney Tunes Collector's Choice continues with Volume 4, which presents 27 cartoons, three cartoons from the 1930s, ten from the ...
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Stalag 17 (70th Anniversary Edition) Blu-ray Review: Billy Wilder Strikes a Successful Balance of Drama and Comedy

Based upon the 1951 play of the same name by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski, Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 is ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Not a Perfect Person

Previously on FTCH, a complete unknown took shelter from the storm during the forever war. We are lady parts who ...
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Running on Karma Blu-ray Review: Running on Empty

Hong Kong star Andy Lau and director Johnnie To have collaborated on around a dozen films together, but this one ...
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: See Who Killed Laura Palmer

On April 8, 1990, Twin Peaks debuted and the medium was never the same. The surreal, supernatural, soap opera from ...
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Underworld Beauty Blu-ray Review: Nikkatsu Noir

Director Seijun Suzuki will likely always be best known for his genre-defying, hyper-stylized masterworks, Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Came in from the Wilderness, A Creature Void of Form

Previously on FTCH, we were tangled up in blue because of the twisters. The masters of the air will speak ...
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The Mother and the Whore Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Brilliant, Vulgar, and Intimate Landmark

Some film lovers do have the tendency to skip French cinema. They think it's usually about infidelity, referencing this and ...
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Black Eye Blu-ray Review: The Hammer Builds a Winner

Fred “The Hammer” Williamson stars in this mid-’70s crime drama, which for the right audience is really all you need ...
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Conclave Blu-ray Review: A Well-written, Thought-provoking Drama

Based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris, Conclave is a compelling film about palace intrigue at the Vatican when ...
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Weak Spot Blu-ray Review: Total(itarian) Fun

Sometimes you come to a movie blind, having no idea what it's about. Sometimes that's a lot of fun. The ...
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Pandora’s Box Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Captivating Morality Tale

Based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904), writer/director G.W. Pabst's ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Just Saw It From a Different Point of View

Previously on FTCH, the instigators said you're a big girl now so get the hot cocoa with marshmallow. The elf ...
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The Hitcher Blu-ray Review: A Solid Game of Cat and Mouse

In the opening of Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell), who is delivering a car from Chicago ...
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Miracle Mile Blu-ray Review: A Hidden Gem of the Apocalypse Genre

So many doomsday films have come and gone, but there are only a few that really stick with you. The ...
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Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie Blu-ray Review: A Solid Mix of Humor and Seriousness

Normally, I don't care for most reboots, but I really loved Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie (2023), a ...
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Seven 4K UHD Review: An Upgrade Worth (Serial) Killing For

I've been fascinated with serial killers since I first watched The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. Actually, I think ...
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Mr. Lucky Blu-ray Review: Luck Be a Lady

Cary Grant plays a debonair scoundrel named Joe who assumes a fake identity to dodge the draft, only to wind ...
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The Lords of Flatbush Blu-ray Review: Before Rocky and the Fonz

In 1974, before they were pop-culture icons Sylvester Stallone and Henry Winkler were The Lords of Flatbush. Directors Martin Davidson ...
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The Talk of the Town 4K UHD Review: Bromance Before Romance

Cary Grant is the biggest star in this 1942 comedy classic, but he’s just one part of a lead trio ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Frozen Gold” by Carl Barks

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Frozen Gold” is Volume 2 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book collects ...
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Movie Review: A Jim Carrey Fueled Fun-Fest

Jeff Fowler’s Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a direct sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and, in ...
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Snake Eyes Blu-ray Review: Snake Oil

Snake Eyes is a lame, if visually dazzling, Brian De Palma movie. Narratively, this thing’s a hot mess. In an ...
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Paris, Texas Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Sundown

There is a quiet, lingering beauty to Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (winner of the 1984 Palme D’Or). And once it ...
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The Tall Target Blu-ray Review: Abraham Lincoln Gets a Film Noir

A nation divided. Abraham Lincoln, newly elected President heads towards his inauguration. Half the country thinks the election was stolen. ...
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Dune: Part Two Blu-ray Review: Stunning, Sterile Sci-fi Spectacular

Dune: Part Two is beautiful. Director Denis Villeneuve has not for an instant allowed the overt influence of any recent ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: “I Figure on Gettin’ Myself Un-surrounded”

John Ford’s The Searchers, written by Frank S. Nugent, is based on the novel of the same name by Alan ...
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Book Review: The Worlds of Wes Anderson: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films by Adam Woodward

In his Introduction, The Worlds of Wes Anderson author Adam Woodward states that this book “is not intended to be ...
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The Beast Within (1982) Blu-ray Review: The Curse of the…Were-Cicada?

The Beast Within is directed by Philippe Mora (The Howling II & III) and written by Tom Holland (Fright Night ...
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Arthur Dong Collection Blu-ray Review: Filmmaking That Should Be Taken Seriously

As a lover of all things movies, I always look for all facets of the cinematic spectrum. Documentaries are definitely ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: The Dark World by Marie Javins & Stuart Moore

Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Thor: The Dark World is the seventh release in the 24-book ...
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Blood and Lace Blu-ray Review: Hammer Time

Blood and Lace (1971) stars Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, and Vic Tayback in a “proto slasher” that’s one of the ...
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Book Review: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick by John Bleasdale

Terrence Malick is one of the most revered – and divisive – directors in cinematic history. Whether it’s in his ...
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Horrible History: Four Historical Epics by Chang Cheh Blu-ray Review: Heap of Punching, Dash of History

Horrible History sounds like a collection of serious dramas cataloging atrocities. A sober reflection on the brutal world of the ...
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Gone with the Wind Movie Review: He Looks Like He Knows What I Look Like Without My Shimmy

Victor Fleming’s Gone with the Wind (1939) is the filmed version of one of the most popular novels ever written ...
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Joker: Folie à Deux Blu-ray Review: Joker Face

A lot has already been said about Joker: Folie à Deux in a not-so-positive way, that my expectations were fairly ...
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Jonny’s Golden Quest / Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber-Insects Blu-ray Review: Fun Throwbacks to Saturday-Morning Adventure Cartoons

Jonny Quest is an animated, science fiction/adventure series by Hanna-Barbera that originally ran for 26 episodes from September 18, 1964 ...
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