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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” by Carl Barks

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 21, 2025

Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Black Pearls of Tabu Yama” is Volume 19 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney ...

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman – The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set Review

By Steve Geise | Aug 20, 2025

Not to be confused with the recently concluded Superman & Lois series, this new Blu-ray box set compiles the full ...

Gung Ho (1986) Blu-ray Review: Team Work Makes the Dream Work

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 19, 2025

Gung Ho, directed by Ron Howard, is a comedy/drama that finds Micheal Keaton and Gedde Watanabe learning to work together ...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVI Blu-ray Review: These Sets Continue to Surprise and Delight

By Mat Brewster | Aug 17, 2025

I've watched and reviewed a lot of these film noir sets from Kino Lorber. I come to them with eyes ...

From the Couch Hole: And You’re the Only One Who Knows

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 17, 2025

Previously on FTCH, on Sunset Boulevard in 'Salem's Lot there was an incredible theft. Something so right came in the ...

See: Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Blind Game of Thrones

By Steve Geise | Aug 16, 2025

You know how it’s generally annoying whenever a sighted actor plays a blind character? Now imagine an entire cast fumbling ...

Through and Through Blu-ray Review: A Truthful Tale of Society’s Victims Becoming Its Villains

By Davy | Aug 16, 2025

In terms of films that feature outsiders on the outskirts of society, Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Krolikiewicz's stark 1973 film, Through ...

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Volume One Blu-ray Review: When You’re Jonesing for Chuck Jones

By Gordon S. Miller | Aug 15, 2025

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume One has been reissued. Of the 50 main cartoons, 3 are from the 1930s, 17 ...

Gigi Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful, Morally Complicated Musical

By Mat Brewster | Aug 14, 2025

It is difficult to know what to do with a film like Gigi. On one hand, it is impeccably made. ...

A Date with Judy Blu-ray Review: The Goody-Good, the Baddie, and the Beery

By Steve Geise | Aug 13, 2025

This classic MGM musical combines the golly-gee innocence of high school hijinks with the sizzle of Carmen Miranda, forbidden love ...

Book Review: Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2 by Milo Manara

By Greg Hammond | Aug 13, 2025

It is now the summer of 1606, and 14 years have passed since Caravaggio first arrived in Rome in the ...

Town Without Pity Blu-ray Review: Kirk Douglas Without Compassion

By Mat Brewster | Aug 13, 2025

In occupied West Germany, 16-year-old Karin Steinhof (Christine Kaufmann) lies by the river with her boyfriend, Frank Borgmann (Gerhart Lippert). ...

Lolita (1962) DVD Review: She Was Lo, Plain Lo, In the Morning

By Greg Hammond | Aug 12, 2025

Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita tells the tale of Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a professor of French literature who plans to vacation ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight Blu-ray Review: An Enjoyable Ride

By Mat Brewster | Aug 12, 2025

Someone ought to do one of those listicle things where they rank all the action movies set during the Christmas ...

Sugar Hill Blu-ray Review: Supernatural Voodoo Woman

By Steve Geise | Aug 12, 2025

Blaxploitation takes a trip to the voodoo bayou for this campy yarn. The story centers on a grieving woman named ...

The Medium Blu-ray Review: A Lacking Message About the Supernatural World

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 11, 2025

Directed by Silvio Amadio, The Medium (1980) is an Italian horror offering that stars Vincent Mannari Jr, Sherry Buchanan and ...

Under Siege Blu-ray Review: Steven Seagal Is Hard to Kill on a Battleship

By Mat Brewster | Aug 10, 2025

The huge success of Die Hard in 1988 changed the face of action films. Muscle-bound He-Men like Arnold Schwarzenegger and ...

From the Couch Hole: And I Was in Crazy Motion

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 10, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the big sleep brought dreams of first steps and if you know how to love me, you'll ...

Palindromes 4K UHD Review: Interesting Idea Falls Flat

By Greg Hammond | Aug 9, 2025

Nine years after Todd Solondz’s highly acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse, he wrote and directed 2004’s Palindromes; a film that ...

Bonjour Tristesse (2024) DVD Review: Mediterranean Summer Love

By Steve Geise | Aug 9, 2025

At first glance, writer/director Durga Chew-Bose’s debut film seems similar to scores of other tales about young love near the ...

The Invention of Lying Blu-ray Review: A Solid Comedy That Tells It Like It Is

By Greg Hammond | Aug 8, 2025

Comedian Ricky Gervais and writer Matthew Robinson co-wrote and co-directed the wildly funny comedy/fantasy The Invention of Lying in 2009. ...

Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex Movie Review: Glam’s First Cosmic Dancer

By Kent Conrad | Aug 8, 2025

There's a tradition of enormously influential musicians in the U.K. just not making it in the U.S. Robbie Williams still ...

The Lord of the Rings: Original Animated Classic Blu-ray Review: Ralph Bakshi’s Previz for Peter Jackson

By Steve Geise | Aug 8, 2025

Long before Peter Jackson got the idea to create a cottage industry out of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works, underground animator ...

The Cobweb Blu-ray Review: It’s All About the Drapes

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 8, 2025

The Cobweb (1955) is a drama directed by Vincente Minnelli that centers around the staff and residents of a psychiatric ...

Executive Suite Blu-ray Review: Succession in the 1950s

By Steve Geise | Aug 7, 2025

Never got around to watching HBO’s Succession? Here’s a time-saving alternative: all the boardroom drama and backbiting condensed into one ...

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Movie Review: Not Only a Curated Look at His Life but So Much More

By Darcy Staniforth | Aug 7, 2025

I discovered Jeff Buckley as a college and community radio DJ in the late '90s. His album Grace was handed ...

Grand Prix Blu-ray Review: Takes the Flag for Total Racing Immersion

By Steve Geise | Aug 6, 2025

John Frankenheimer’s 1966 racing drama is so stacked with international stars that it might appear to be coasting on delivering ...

Donovan’s Reef Blu-ray Review: Wild, Wayne, and Wonderful!

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 5, 2025

The new Blu-ray release of Donovan's Reef (1963) by Kino Lorber, also available on 4K Ultra HD, is the most ...

The Beast to Die Blu-ray Review: Good Guy Gone Bad

By Steve Geise | Aug 4, 2025

By the start of the ‘80s, Yusaku Matsuda (Yokohama BJ Blues) had tired of his typical action hero roles and ...

Sands of Iwo Jima Blu-ray Review: John Wayne Storms the Beaches

By Joe Garcia III | Aug 3, 2025

Directed by Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) stars John Wayne as a grizzled WWII sergeant in charge of ...

From the Couch Hole: Breathless Drive on a Downtown Street

By Shawn Bourdo | Aug 3, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Superman had one summer dream of root beer float milk in Eddington. There was a double sin ...

Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible DVD Review: Alive and Kicking

By Steve Geise | Aug 2, 2025

Riding the New Wave to international fame in the ‘80s, Simple Minds has instantly recognizable hits even as the band ...

Get Carter (1971) Blu-ray Review: Birth of British Gangster Movies

By Kent Conrad | Aug 1, 2025

Jack Carter, a gangster in London, goes back to his own hometown to investigate the mysterious death of his brother. ...

His Kind of Woman Blu-ray Review: Film Noir Follies

By Kent Conrad | Jul 31, 2025

We open with the film-noir intrigue. A gangster wants access to his money. He's stuck in Italy and wants to ...

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Decent Vehicle For Clint’s Lighter Side

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 31, 2025

Before The Deer Hunter (1978) and Heaven's Gate (1980), writer-director Michael Cimino made his silver-screen debut writing and directing Thunderbolt ...

Book Review: Society Is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip 1895-1915 Revised Edition

By Steve Geise | Jul 30, 2025

The latest Sunday Press release through Fantagraphics revisits the first 20 years of the American comic strip, compiling over 200 ...

Dark Victory Blu-ray Review: Bette Davis Has Never Been Better

By Mat Brewster | Jul 29, 2025

Dark Victory is a fairly conventional tear-jerking melodrama buoyed by a fantastic performance by Bette Davis. She plays Judy Traherne, ...

The 100: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review: Post-Apocalyptic Lord of the Flies

By Steve Geise | Jul 29, 2025

After drifting out of print over the last decade, the first season of this sci-fi series is once again available ...

Lethal Weapon 4K UHD Review: Killer Chemistry

By Rock London | Jul 28, 2025

The first Lethal Weapon is a satisfying cop caper, directed with a sure, slick hand by that old studio pro ...

Champagne & Caviar: Four Weimar Comedies Blu-ray Review: Two Slapsticks, Two Rom-Coms

By Steve Geise | Jul 27, 2025

This fascinating new collection compiles four German black and white comedies from the early years of the sound era, 1931-32. ...

By Mat Brewster | Jul 27, 2025

I grew up with Angela Lansbury. Not literally, of course, but as a child of the 1980s, she was a ...

From the Couch Hole: Deep Waters Flow, Out to the Sea

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 27, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the people at the Institute said, "I wish you were here" during the long goodbye. Then 28 ...

Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver As You Read!

By Greg Hammond | Jul 26, 2025

Seattle-based Fantagraphics Publishing has released another beautiful anthology with Atlas Comics Library No. 6: Shiver As You Read! The collection ...