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Book Review: Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 2 by Brian M. Kane

When last we left our intrepid cartoonists, exacting Prince Valiant creator Hal Foster was having some difficulty relinquishing any control ...
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Terror Train Blu-ray Review: Halloween on a Train

After the massive success of John Carpenter's game changing 1978 classic slasher Halloween, everyone tried to replicate its magic, but ...
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House of Cards (1968) Blu-ray Review: One Fascist Battle After Another

When I was growing up in the 1970s, I’d frequently stumble across cheap paperbacks in bookstores from a long-running action ...
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The Cotton Club Encore Movie Review: Godfather the Musical

The Cotton Club Encore (2019) is a re-edited, re-vamped, and much stronger version of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club ...
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Talk Radio Blu-ray Review: An Incredibly Tense Thriller

Sometimes the most unlikable characters are the most charismatic and you just can't ignore them, no matter how much you ...
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Rider on the Rain 4K UHD Review: A Subverting Thriller

In a seaside town in the South of France, a strange man gets off a bus in the pouring rain. ...
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Soul to Soul Blu-ray Review: Powerful from Start to Finish

Soul to Soul (1971), directed by Denis Sanders (Elvis: That’s the Way It Is), is a concert movie/documentary filmed that ...
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Bend of the River Blu-ray Review: One of the Great Westerns of the 1950s

The old, wild west was a great place for new beginnings. One could leave the city behind and hunt for ...
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78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene Movie Review: Psycho Babble

The documentary 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene is an attempt to be the end-all discussion about the infamous shower scene in ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Are Passengers in Time

Previously on FTCH, the Dark Knight and King Sorrow say, "Welcome to Matheson," with very little sentimental value since I ...
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The Second Twin Blu-ray Review: Hossein Drifts Through a Wan Whodunit

The U.S. title of Christian-Jaque’s 1966 crime drama promises a mysterious twist involving a twin, but it’s a total misdirection. ...
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Mean Streets Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Scorsese, Keitel, De Niro, Perfection

At the heart of Martin Scorsese’s second independent, and breakout, film, Mean Streets, are two young men who have been ...
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Death of a Gunfighter Blu-ray Review: A Gem of a Western from 1969

Death of a Gunfighter directed by Robert Totten, finished by Don Seigel, and credited to “Alan Smithee” is a great ...
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Book Review: My Gun Is the Jury! and Other Stories, Illustrated by Jack Davis and Wallace Wood

Arguably the greatest humor magazine of the 20th Century, EC Comics' MAD was such a success it led to many ...
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Romancing in Thin Air Blu-ray Review: Rarefied Air of Hong Kong Talent

Veteran Hong Kong director Johnnie To is most known in the West for his taut action dramas, such as Election, ...
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From the Couch Hole: ‘Cause When You’re Not Here Nothing’s Any Fun

Previously on FTCH, Batman begins on the dark side of genius during the night of the owl. The family plot ...
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Hold That Ghost 4K UHD Review: Plenty of Laughs and Suspense

Hold That Ghost is the third film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their third released in 1941. The ...
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Stone Cold (1991) 4K UHD Review: Glorious Last Gasp of ’80s Action

Stone Cold is so committed to its action-movie stupidity, I think it deserves a place in the So Bad It's ...
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Tih-Minh Blu-ray Review: International Intrigue on the French Riviera

This classic French espionage serial was first released in theaters in 1919, billed as “a cinematic novel in 12 episodes”. ...
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Die My Love 4K UHD Review: Kids Make You Crazy

My wife was in labor for a good 24 hours before the doctors told us it would be better to ...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: “Mein Führer, I can walk!”

Stanley Kubrick directed and produced Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a political ...
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Gambling Ship (1933) Blu-ray Review: Gangster Grant Sinks Ship

Ace Corbin (Cary Grant), recently acquitted for murder, is sick of being a gangster. He goes out west for a ...
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Dust Bunny 4K UHD Review: A Dark, Quirky Delight

When the 4K UHD disc of Dust Bunny landed on my desk, I have to admit I'd never heard of ...
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This Is the Night (1932) Blu-ray Review: Cary Grant’s Assured Debut

A pre-Code movie is what we call films made without the censorious auspice of the Hayes code, which came about ...
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Book Review: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Times of No Money: The Early Years (Volume 1) by Gilbert Shelton

Created by Gilbert Shelton, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers was a popular underground comix that presented the wacky, drug-fueled (or ...
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The House of Seven Corpses 4K UHD Review: The House of Nothing Happening

There are many variations on genre movies, but there is a basic split of creators working in genre that is ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Never Let Me Down Before

Previously on FTCH, during life on the Mississippi there was lightning that was a killer for five nights of such ...
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Book Review: The Atlas Creator Collection No. 3: Bill Everett Vol. 1: “One Head Too Many!” and Other Weird Horror Stories

Bill Everett created Marvel superheroes before Marvel even existed, most notably Namor, the Sub-Mariner in 1939. When superhero characters fell ...
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So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious… Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with Heart

If you spend any time in the movie corners of social media, you will inevitably get involved in a conversation ...
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Book Review: Uncle Scrooge: “A Little Something Special” and Other Tales of Fiendish Foes: Disney Greatest Comics Collection Vol. 1

The latest Disney comics collection from Fantagraphics kicks off a new giant-size series of reprints from fan-favorite U.S. and European ...
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Loopy De Loop: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Smarter Than the Average French-Canadian Wolf

Loopy de Loop (voiced by Daws Butler) is a kindly, French Canadian wolf who suffers trying to do good deeds ...
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The Phantom (1996) 4K UHD Review: Goofball Pulp Antics

The essence of pulp entertainment is, usually, propulsive momentum. There's not a lot of time to evaluate the sense of ...
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 4K UHD Review: Lots of Fun but Not Enough to Kill You

There is a thin line between making something genuinely weird and trying too hard at it. Good Luck, Have Fun, ...
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The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together 4K UHD Review: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)

Hal Ashby's Let's Spend the Night Together captures the Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour in support of Tattoo You. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Cool As the Water Melting from the Winter Snows

Previously on FTCH, there was a body in the library and it was a sleeping murder of my lagan love ...
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Confessions of a Police Captain Blu-ray Review: Crime and Corruption in an Italian City

I've now watched quite a few films made during Italy's so-called Years of Lead, which lasted from the late 1960s ...
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Moneyball 4K UHD Review: Steals Home

Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is a semi-biographical baseball drama written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It is based on Michael ...
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Lurker Blu-ray Review: Greatness Lurking Beneath the Vapid Surface

At first glance, writer/director Alex Russell’s debut feature film doesn’t appear very compelling, riffing on the relationship between celebrity fame ...
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Trouble in Paradise Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: No Trouble at All

Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (1932) was adapted by Grover Jones from the play The Honest ...
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Agitator Blu-ray Review: Violence, Loyalty, and Betrayal

De-romanticizing yakuza is one of the major genres of yakuza movies. It's ironic that the word "yakuza" comes from a ...
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Ben-Hur (1959) 4K UHD Review: Pomp v. Pulp

Winner of 11 Oscars, Ben-Hur is (mostly) an epic snooze. It spends a godawful amount of time letting its characters ...
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From the Couch Hole: When Rainy Nights Are Soft with Tears

Previously on FTCH, stand by me and I'll keep a long story short for eternity. Keep pushin' the zodiac predictions ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “Balloonatics” by Carl Barks

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Balloonatics” is Volume 25 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. This book collects comic-book ...
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… 4K UHD Review: An American James Bond

In the mid-1980s, Orion Pictures went scouring through existing IP looking for something to launch a new franchise upon. They ...
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Book Review: Family Movie Night Menus: Recipes & Films for Unforgettable Times Together by Leonard Maltin & Jessie Maltin

TCM in their partnership with Running Press have teamed up with film critic and movie historian, Leonard Maltin and his ...
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Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset Blu-ray Review: Politically Charged Thrillers

Yves Boisset was a French director who cut his teeth as an assistant on films by Jean-Pierre Melville, René Clément, ...
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Resident Alien: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Cozy Sci-Fi

After four seasons and 44 episodes, Syfy’s recent hit series is now collected in this new Blu-ray box set. The ...
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Death Ship 4K UHD Review: Nazi Ghosts on a Boat

Whenever I'm watching a movie, especially when I'm going to review it, there is a part of my brain, somewhere ...
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Silent Classic

When I was presented with the chance to review The Thief of Bagdad I jumped at the chance, but I ...
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From the Couch Hole: And I’m Gettin’ to Know Myself a Little Bit Better

Previously on FTCH, Kassa was drinking cherry sakura and killing faith. The undertone was that you and I and tu ...
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