Book Review: Lost & Found by Mia Wolff
By Darcy Staniforth |
Art and grief are close friends. So it is no surprise that an artist would use her medium to process ...
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Chantal: Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: Welcome to the Belgian Wild West
By Steve Geise |
Not much Belgian entertainment washes up on our shores, making this offbeat mystery series notable for its U.S. DVD release. ...
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Book Review: The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler
By Darcy Staniforth |
Ephemerata, also known as ephemera, refers to temporary items. Think flyers, movie tickets, or postcards. These items are only in ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics Publishing has released another beautiful anthology with Atlas Comics Library No. 7: Girl Comics The collection contains Girl Comics ...
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I Know Where I’m Going! Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: I Sure Know Where I’ve Been
By Mat Brewster |
Though not quite as epic or spectacular as some of their better-known films, I Know Where I'm Going! from Michael ...
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Book Review: David Lynch: His Work, His World by Tom Huddleston
By Gordon S. Miller |
In his Introduction to David Lynch: His Work, His World, author Tom Huddleston acknowledges that “our world will be a ...
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The Ninja Trilogy 4K UHD Review: A Ninja Good Time
By Mat Brewster |
If you were a boy of a certain age in the early 1980s, you probably had a thing for ninjas. ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Can Look at the Menu, but You Just Can’t Eat
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the nice Indian boy obeyed the rule of Jenny Pen and met the unquiet dead for Cinnamon ...
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Grass and Chang Blu-ray Review: Laying the Foundation for King Kong
By Steve Geise |
Years before they co-directed the original King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack teamed for these two ...
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Two and a Half Men: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Once Great Comedy That Ended in Confusion and Disarray
By Todd Karella |
For 12 seasons, Two and a Half Men was one of the most popular shows on television, airing on September ...
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Book Review: Wes Anderson All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, and Short by Christophe Narbonne
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although the debut of The Phoenician Scheme in May meant the book already required an update before its release, Christophe ...
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Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein Blu-ray Review: The Actor Directs
By Steve Geise |
Robert Hossein was primarily renowned as an actor, but he also carved out a substantial career as a talented director. ...
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Book Review: Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum and Jon Buller
By Steve Geise |
In 1895, intrepid adventurer Joshua Slocum attempted to sail solo around the world, determined to become the first person to ...
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Monk in Pieces Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling Biodoc
By Davy |
Art has no boundaries, and it doesn't always have to explain what it is all about. It can cross over ...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Legacy Collection DVD Review: Makes for Many a Good Evening
By Gordon S. Miller |
At a time when the film industry thought it was superior to the television industry, Alfred Hitchcock brought his cache ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Hear You Calling, but I Can’t Come Home Right Now
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on the road to Omaha, the running man found love so right. His companion carried the works ...
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The Newsroom: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Same As It Ever Was
By Steve Geise |
Even though this HBO dramatic series began broadcasting in 2012, it remains shockingly timely in 2025. Watching it for the ...
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Together Blu-ray Review: The Best Film David Cronenberg Never Made
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, the horror genre is perhaps the most consistent one, meaning that there ...
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Book Review: X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series by James Field
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the early 1990s team from Jim Lee's tenure on the X-Men comics, X-Men: The Animated Series featured Cyclops, ...
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Alec Guinness Masterpiece Collection 4K UHD Review: So Much More Than Obi-Wan
By Mat Brewster |
I'm of the generation that knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars movies. Older generations will know ...
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A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story Blu-ray Review: A Celebration of Its Ruby Anniversary
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released in 2016, Keith Maitland's A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story tells the tale of the what ...
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No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B & Scott B Blu-ray Review: Confrontational, Fearless, and Highly Original
By Davy |
During the unfortunately short-lived No Wave movement, New York filmmakers like Beth B and her husband Scott B were making ...
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Book Review: Shadows of the Sea by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A chance meeting of two grief-stricken social outcasts leads to a healing journey and hope for a new future. Cathy ...
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Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Tenderhearted Family Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Little House on the Prairie is a multimedia franchise that began with author Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's novel, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton Blu-ray Review: You’d Be Crazy Not to Love This
By Mat Brewster |
The Mad Miss Manton takes place during the Great Depression. It is about a rich socialite and her gaggle of ...
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The Prestige Movie Review: A Dark Study in Obsession
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige, based on the novel by Christopher Priest, is a ...
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Blu-ray Review: Belongs in Everyone’s Christmas Stocking
By Rons Reviews |
When I heard that legendary documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) was bringing us more, I couldn’t wait to see ...
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Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Review: A Tidy Midwestern Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Planning and executing the perfect crime is a wonderful movie trope. All the planning, scheming, and preparation so often go ...
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The Conjuring 4: Last Rites Blu-ray Review: The Long and Winding Road
By Steve Geise |
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return for a case so traumatizing it caused them to end their careers. That’s ...
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Book Review: Behind the Mirror: Inside the World of Big Brother by Taran Armstrong
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington For years, those of us who obsess over the Big Brother live feeds have relied ...
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Out of the Fog Blu-ray Review: Into Beauty
By Mat Brewster |
Life is always hard on the gentle people. The poor people. The people who just want to have a moment's ...
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Book Review: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto
By Gordon S. Miller |
Authors John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto have followed up their book Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Start Living for the Moment
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Rocky had a return to innocence when he went back to the future to the happy days ...
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Manhattan Melodrama Blu-ray Review: John Dillinger’s Favorite Movie
By Mat Brewster |
On the night of July 22, 1934, John Dillinger, one of the world's most famous gangsters, went to see a ...
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Went Up the Hill DVD Review: Fell Down
By Steve Geise |
Director/co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven’s sophomore feature is technically a ghost story, but plays more like a two-hander chamber drama. Vicky ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Blu-ray Review: It Tolls for Thee
By Joe Garcia III |
For Whom the Bell Tolls was penned by Ernest Hemingway and brought to the silver screen by producer/director Sam Wood ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” is Volume 29 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her
By Shawn Bourdo |
By 1956, John Ford had already won four Best Director Oscars. He didn't have anything left to prove as a ...
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Burden of Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Madness and Art in the Jungle
By Mat Brewster |
Werner Herzog is one of cinema's greatest directors. His films are strange and wonderful. They are imbued with a sense ...
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Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes – Live from Sheffield Blu-ray Review: Veteran Rockers Prove You Can Go Home Again
By generaljabbo |
On May 22, 2023, more than 40,000 adoring fans packed Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England, for a triumphant homecoming concert ...
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The Ogre of Athens Blu-ray Review: A Noir-Tinged Greek Tragedy
By Mat Brewster |
Thomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) is an unassuming, shy, and completely unremarkable bank clerk. He is a man who has spent his ...
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Malpertuis Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Runs Wild
By Steve Geise |
Just when I think Radiance Films can’t possibly find any more amazing, largely unknown gems, they drop this genre masterpiece ...
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The Day of the Jackal: Season One Blu-ray Review: Redmayne Conquers TV
By Steve Geise |
When a rogue billionaire vows to release a disruptive technology that will forever level the playing field of capitalism, another ...
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The Grifters Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Pitch-Black Film Noir
By Greg Hammond |
In Stephen Frears' The Grifters, Roy (John Cusack) is a 25-year-old conman, a grifter who makes his living running petty ...
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From the Couch Hole: And If You Want, Then Start to Laugh
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Bugonia lived in a house of dynamite because who wants to live forever. We went beyond the ...
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Flash Point (2007) Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Flash, Not Much Point
By Steve Geise |
Donnie Yen’s slickly produced, lightly plotted 2007 actioner hearkens back to the 1980s-'90s glory days of Hong Kong cinema. In ...
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Howards End 4K UHD Review: A Confounding “Romance”
By Greg Hammond |
Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, and directed by James Ivory, is a visual treat filled ...
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Dust Devil (1992) 4K UHD Review: Beautiful, Baffling African Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Richard Stanley's career has been haphazard at best. He started making videos for the weird goth-cowboy British band Fields of ...
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Scoop (2006) Blu-ray Review: London Murder Mystery
By Gordon S. Miller |
After directing Scarlett Johansson in the well-received Match Point, Woody Allen appeared with her on screen for his next film, ...
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Book Review: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish
By Steve Geise |
After two lavishly painted graphic novels, Parrish takes a step back to present an archival collection of short stories rendered ...
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