Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise Blu-ray Review: “Saving Our Planet Is the Thing to Do”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise collects the three seasons of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was ...
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Book Review: Nancy Wears Hats by Ernie Bushmiller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ernie Bushmiller wrote and drew Nancy, a comic strip about the humorous antics of the titular eight-year-old and her friend ...
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The Annihilation of Fish Blu-ray Review: Equally Hilarious and Heartfelt
By Davy |
Marvel independent filmmaker Charles Burnett is an unsung hero of cinema. One of the pioneers of giving leverage to directors ...
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Mr. Show: The Complete Collection DVD Review: Sketch Comedy That Is Both Topical and Timeless
By Gordon S. Miller |
Previously released in 2006 and 2014, Mr. Show: The Complete Collection returns to DVD on a six-disc set, which is ...
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Bottoms Blu-ray Review: Hilarious High School High Jinks
By Gordon S. Miller |
High-schoolers PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are nerdy lesbian virgins hoping to get together with their straight crushes, ...
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Black Bag 4K UHD Review: Soderbergh’s Bag of Tricks Expands to Espionage
By Steve Geise |
George and Kathryn Woodhouse are married British spies who work in the same office, throwing George’s life into disarray when ...
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Tribeca 2025 Review: Andy Kaufman Is Me
By Greg Hammond |
On the heels of Alex Braverman’s Thank You Very Much, the 2023 documentary about the enigmatic comedian/provocateur Andy Kaufman, comes ...
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Foul Play Blu-ray Review: To Catch an Assassin
By Gordon S. Miller |
Screenwriter Colin Higgins parlayed his success from the comedic, Hitchcockian thriller Silver Streak, into directing his screenplay Foul Play, another ...
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Rhapsody in Blue Blu-ray Review: Rapturous Rhapsody
By Steve Geise |
This movie was on my Blu-ray wish list for many years before it finally became reality last month thanks to ...
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Dastardly Good Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Blake Edwards's The Great Race, Wacky Races debuted in 1968. The Complete Series Blu-ray presents all 17 episodes, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Think It’s Time to Get Ready
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Rogue Nation was all I need. That and a friendship with Poirot that wasn't close to ...
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The Straight Story Movie Review: Good, Old-Fashioned, Fantastic Storytelling
By Greg Hammond |
The Straight Story is easily David Lynch’s most accessible movie. As a G-rated, Disney film, it is about as far ...
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McHale’s Navy (1964) DVD Review: Toss It Overboard
By Rons Reviews |
I have very fond memories of this series, but not of the movie as I don’t recall seeing it. When ...
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Dirty Harry 4K UHD Review: Justice and Anarchy
By Kent Conrad |
I felt a little sad after watching Dirty Harry. It wasn't my first time, of course. I've seen the movie ...
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Lover Come Back Blu-ray Review: Pillow Talk 2
By Steve Geise |
Following the success (and enduring popularity) of their first rom-com together, Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson and Doris Day teamed up ...
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Movie Review: Rules to Live and Die By
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum delivers more of the same non-stop, eye-popping action (and that's a literal description of ...
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Alien 3 Movie Review: Witness a Slow Decline
By Greg Hammond |
David Fincher’s Alien3 is the third entry in the Alien franchise and, chronologically, directly follows the first two films, Alien ...
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The Purge Blu-ray Review: A Great Premise that Falls Short of the Mark
By Greg Hammond |
The Purge, written and directed by James DeMonaco, is the first of a franchise consisting of five Purge movies and ...
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The New Adventures of Tarzan Blu-ray Review: Spirited Action and Unintended Laughs Make for an Entertaining Serial
By Gordon S. Miller |
Available to watch altogether or as individual chapters, The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) is a 12-part serial starring Herman ...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales 4K UHD Review: The Weary Gunslinger
By Rocky London |
A Missouri farmer goes guerrilla after Union raiders kill his family—that’s the basic setup of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976; ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” is Volume 17 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Heads Are Not Better than One
By Greg Hammond |
How to Get Ahead in Advertising is an unusual (though not unheard of) amalgamation of absurdist humor and body horror ...
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From the Couch Hole: When the Singer’s Gone / Let the Song Go On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Blade Runner believes in miracles of the dragons domain. The impossible mission of the ghost protocol ...
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Book Review: Night Drive by Richard Sala: Inkshot
By Rocky London |
I first saw illustrator Richard Sala’s work behind glass—enshrined in a columbarium niche at the Chapel of the Chimes in ...
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The Magilla Gorilla Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven
By Steve Geise |
This classic Hanna-Barbera series finally gets a Blu-ray release, and the results should finally satisfy fans disappointed by previous DVD ...
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Book Review: Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum
By Joe Garcia III |
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television is the first full biography solely about Desi in many years. Desi’s own ...
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A Clockwork Orange Movie Review: Bezoomny Droogs and Horrorshow Bitvas
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell and based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, takes place in a ...
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Book Review: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928-1930
By Kent Conrad |
I do not receive a daily newspaper. Nor have I for over a decade. I used to pay attention to ...
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Book Review: Buz Sawyer Vol. 5: Island of the Lotus Eaters by Roy Crane
By Steve Geise |
After a publishing gap of over eight years, Fantagraphics continues their collected editions of Roy Crane’s long-running adventure comic strip. ...
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The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fun for All, and All for Fun
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Three Musketeers (1973) is star-studded, comic swashbuckler based on Alexandre Dumas’s 19th century classic novel of the same name. ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection Blu-ray Review: The Animated Pair’s Trademark Slapstick Violence Goes Widescreen
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry franchise, which began with their first cartoon, Puss ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been So Many Places, I’ve Seen Some Things
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the blue eyes crying in the rain fed the seeds of doom. The mission impossible was Goldfinger ...
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Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC Blu-ray Box Set Review: Big, Beautiful Box of Krimi
By Steve Geise |
Eureka’s new Masters of Cinema Blu-ray box set collects a selection of 1960s West German crime films, aka krimis. Bridging ...
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Movie Review: The Past and Future Collide
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, the seventh film in the franchise, sees the Impossible Mission Force deal with both Ethan ...
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Killer of Sheep Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical Portrait of Urban Decay
By Davy |
There are some films that possess the power to wash over you; to make you think, feel, and see the ...
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Dune: Prophecy: The Complete First Season 4K UHD Review: Spice World
By David Wangberg |
The resurgence of Dune in the cultural lexicon has been awesome to see in recent years, thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s ...
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Book Review: The Cabbie: Definitive Edition Vols. 1 & 2 by Marti
By Steve Geise |
A lone wolf taxi driver takes the law into his own hands as he patrols the bleak streets of 1980s ...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Love in the Time of Big Brother
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on George Orwell's classic novel of the same name, writer-director Michael Radford's Nineteen Eighty-Four tells the story of one ...
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Mission: Impossible 2 Movie Review: A Weak Entry in the Series
By Greg Hammond |
Mission: Impossible 2, a spy action thriller directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, is the second installment in ...
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The New Boy Movie Review: Woefully Disappointing
By David Wangberg |
After the surprise that was Sweet Country, I was all in for the next film from director Warwick Thornton. Just ...
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Looney Tunes Super Stars – Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham DVD Review: Get Yourself a Helping
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally released in 2012, Looney Tunes Super Stars - Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham presents 18 Looney Tunes / Merrie ...
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From the Couch Hole: In a Land That Knows No Parting
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Thunderbolts* upon inspection became the New Avengers for the good times. The escape artist grabbed the ...
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The Old Woman with the Knife Movie Review: Kill Bill Vol. 3
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Min Kyu-dong’s new action drama inverts the vengeance genre by focusing on the target, not the killer. That’s not ...
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Themroc Blu-ray Review: A Highly Unorthodox and Disturbing Comedy
By Davy |
Sometimes life really is bizarre. You don't know what's going on most of the time. The uncertainty grows and grows ...
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Better Man 4K UHD Review: Robbie Williams Is a Monkey
By Kent Conrad |
Reviewing this film, it is hard to separate the art from the commercial. Because if I was to contemplate the ...
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Book Review: Dark City Dames: The Women Who Defined Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally published in 2001 and spun off from his Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir, Eddie Muller's Dark ...
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Landman: Season One Blu-ray Review: Billy Bob Thornton Hits a Gusher
By Steve Geise |
Following the successes of his Yellowstone universe, as well as Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King, and Lioness, Taylor Sheridan’s latest ...
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Juliet & Romeo Movie Review: A Forgettable Musical Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Classic
By David Wangberg |
You can tweak the title all you want, but that won’t change the fact that this is a bad movie. ...
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TCM Classic Film Festival 2025 Review: Fantastic Worlds on Film
By Lorna Miller |
The 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival took place April 24-27 in Hollywood, CA. The central theme for the 16th annual ...
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Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Movie Review: The Zombies Have Resurrected
By Kent Conrad |
The Zombies were the also-rans of the '60s. While the Beatles got the accolades and the Rolling Stones got the ...
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