Materialists Blu-ray Review: No Sophomore Slump Here
By Steve Geise |
Celine Song announced her arrival as the writer and director of the highly acclaimed Past Lives, putting her in the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Shut Your Eyes and Think of Somewhere
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Time Lord was on the road to Gandolfo for his trial. The monkey heard the rhythm ...
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Drugstore Cowboy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: It’s Hard Being a Dope Fiend
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on James Fogle's then-unpublished autobiographical novel of the same name, Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy presents an insightful, authentic ...
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Annabelle Comes Home Movie Review: All Dolled Up
By Greg Hammond |
Annabelle Comes Home, directed by Gary Dauberman, is the third Annabelle film (Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation), and is the sixth ...
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The Amazing Mr. X Blu-ray Review: A Poverty Row Masterpiece
By Joe Garcia III |
The Amazing Mr. X (1948), aka The Spiritulist, is a horror/suspense thriller with a film-noir twist starring Turhan Bey as ...
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Are We Good? Movie Review: A Natural Extension of Who Marc Maron Is and How He Works
By Darcy Staniforth |
"Everything was supposed to work out and it didn't." - Marc Maron Are We Good? the new documentary, directed by Steven Feinartz, gets ...
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 4K UHD Review: Such a Beautiful Nothing
By Kent Conrad |
I do not know Tim Burton (in high school one of my classmates claimed his aunt dated him). I do ...
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Book Review: The Spawn of Venus and Other Stories, Illustrated by Wallace Wood
By Steve Geise |
If you’ve been following along with Fantagraphics’ ongoing releases in their EC Comics Artists Library series, this title might seem ...
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The Nun (2018) Movie Review: These Could Become a Habit
By Greg Hammond |
The Nun, directed by Corin Hardy, is a spin-off from the Conjuring Universe of films which also include the Annabelle ...
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The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Review: A Cartoon Classic from the Vaults
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series presents all four seasons, 68 episodes across eleven Blu-ray discs, of the ...
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Misericordia Blu-ray Review: Misery Loves Company
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Alain Guiradie’s latest film is patly marketed as a comic thriller, which widely misses the mark on a nuanced ...
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Dogtooth 4K UHD Review: Deeply Weird but Satisfying
By Mat Brewster |
As the parent of a teenager in these times, I have to admit I feel a great deal of anxiety ...
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Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics Blu-ray Review: This Set Is So Good, It’s Criminal
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics repackages previously released Blu-rays of Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest, and White Heat, ...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker Blu-ray Review: Prison Is Hell
By Mat Brewster |
A friend of mine used to say that if he was ever sent to prison, the first thing he'd do ...
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The .44 Specialist Blu-ray Review: John Saxon Strikes Again
By Mat Brewster |
John Saxon was one of those actors who just showed up in all kinds of things. He's probably best known ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Wait Out of Time with You in My Heart
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah vs. the legend of Ochi was to see who was looking for #1. ...
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DeepStar Six Blu-ray Review: A Fun Movie
By Rons Reviews |
Nineteen eighty-nine was the year of underwater movies. With all due respect to The Evil Below and Lords of the ...
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Annabelle: Creation Movie Review: A Bland Attempt at an Origin Story
By Greg Hammond |
Annabelle: Creation, directed by David F. Sandberg and produced by James Wan, serves as a prequel to the movie Annabelle, ...
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Interview: Darcy Staniforth in Conversation with Barbara Butcher About The Death Investigator with Barbara Butcher
By Darcy Staniforth |
Barbara Butcher spent more than twenty years as a death investigator with the NYPD. Over the span of her accomplished ...
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The Concorde…Airport ’79 4K UHD Review: The Disaster Movie That Ended Them All
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies were hugely popular throughout the 1970s. They featured large casts full of classic actors and young, up and ...
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Patterns (1956) Blu-ray Review: Business Always, and Never Changes
By Kent Conrad |
The whole office is excited for the arrival of the new man. He's a new addition to the executive suite ...
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Book Review: Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles, Written and Edited by Brian Walker
By Gordon S. Miller |
Beetle Bailey: 75 Years of Smiles celebrates the Diamond Anniversary of Mort Walker's comic strip about the habitually lazy Private ...
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Peking Opera Blues Blu-ray Review: Hong Kong Cinema at Its Wildest
By Mat Brewster |
Peking Opera Blues is possibly the most perfect amalgamation of Hong Kong Cinema ever put on film. It mixes real ...
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The Wrong Arm of the Law Blu-ray Review: Peter Sellers Warms Up for Clouseau
By Steve Geise |
This 1963 British crime caper stars Peter Sellers mere months before his debut outing as The Pink Panther’s Inspector Clouseau, ...
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The Conjuring 2 Movie Review: A Love Story
By Greg Hammond |
The opening of James Wan’s The Conjuring 2 is absolutely horrifying. Demonologists and paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick ...
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The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Terrific Television
By Mat Brewster |
Sequels are hard. Television series past season number one are hard. The moment right before you start to tell a ...
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From the Couch Hole: Every Day Is an Endless Train
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the sign o' the times was a clue to the change unearthed in the time capsule. Jaws ...
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Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires Blu-ray Review: An Imaginative New Take on the Batman Universe
By Joe Garcia III |
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires (Batman Azteca: Choque de Imperios) is a fresh new take on the Batman mythos that ...
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Annabelle Movie Review: The Conjuring Universe Gets All Dolled Up
By Greg Hammond |
Annabelle, a horror film directed by John R. Leonetti, is the first of three Annabelle movies (Annabelle: Creation and Annabelle ...
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Airport ’77 4K UHD Review: Another Day, Another Disaster
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies remained quite popular throughout the 1970s, and despite the general critical consensus that these movies aren't very good, ...
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Maedchen in Uniform (1958) Blu-ray Review: Pretty Maidens All in a Row
By Steve Geise |
This 1958 adaptation of a play is also a film remake, with the original filmed adaptation released in 1931. The ...
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Drive (1997) Blu-ray Review: Before Rush Hour and The Matrix
By Joe Garcia III |
Before Rush Hour (1998) and The Matrix (1999), there was Drive. Director Steve Wang keeps his masterpiece fast paced and ...
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Book Review: The Avengers in the Veracity Trap! by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho
By Gordon S. Miller |
As seen on the cover of Chip Kidd and Michael Cho's The Avengers in the Veracity Trap goes back to ...
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Los Golfos Blu-ray Review: Hope Dies in the Ring
By Steve Geise |
Spanish director/co-writer Carlos Saura’s 1960 feature-film debut follows a downtrodden group of young men on the fringes of society. With ...
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Chain Reactions (2025) Movie Review: Depicts the Legacy and Relevance of Tobe Hooper’s Horror Classic
By Davy |
The Saw is Family. But the Saw is also America. It saws in half the old reality and stitches together ...
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Book Review: Death in Trieste by Jason
By Steve Geise |
Veteran Norwegian cartoonist Jason returns with an all-new collection of three short graphic stories rendered in his impeccably clear line ...
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Jurassic World Rebirth Blu-ray Review: High Adventure Returns to a Jurassic World
By Greg Hammond |
The opening of Jurassic World Rebirth has an unfortunate start. Yet somehow it pulls itself out of the muck quickly ...
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From the Couch Hole: When It’s All Too Late, It’s All Too Late
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we said farewell, my lovely in Terminus to the Chips Ahoy weapons. The opus of toffee creamer ...
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The White Lotus: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Thai Spice
By Steve Geise |
HBO’s buzzy limited series continues with its third iteration, this time traveling to an idyllic resort in Thailand. As in ...
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Night of the Juggler Blu-ray Review: A Time Capsule of Ancient New York Grime
By Davy |
New York in the late 1970s and early '80s was not the best place to be. It was full of ...
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Airport 1975 4K UHD Review: A Disaster of a Disaster Movie
By Mat Brewster |
In between the release of Airport (1970) and Airport 1975 (1974), there had already been a slew of disaster movies ...
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues – On, Off, and Around the Record – IMAX Live Q&A Event Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
As the audience took their seats, the original trailer, which focuses on a cheese festival rather than the band and ...
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The Lords of Discipline Blu-ray Review: Struggles to Find Its Marching Rhythm
By Rons Reviews |
David Keith had some very distinctive roles in The Great Santini and Brubaker to name a few, but it was ...
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City on Fire (1987) UHD Review: Who Do You Trust?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ringo Lam's City on Fire is a gritty crime drama that takes place on the streets of Hong Kong where ...
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Book Review: Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant Sketchbooks: An Illustrated Memoir: Volume 1 by Brian M. Kane
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics kicks off a new six-volume look behind the scenes of Hal Foster’s Prince Valiant comic strip with this initial ...
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PAW Patrol: Fire Rescue DVD Review: Adventure Bay Has a Fire Problem
By Greg Hammond |
Welcome to Adventure Bay, the town where PAW Patrol: Fire Rescue takes place. Ryder is the boy who runs the ...
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Martial Law: Lo Wei’s Wuxia World Blu-ray Review: The Brotherhood of Shaw Brothers
By Steve Geise |
We’ve had an abundance of far-ranging Shaw Brothers box sets in the past few years, but this one narrows the ...
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Book Review: These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Grady Hendrix & Chris Poggiali
By Gordon S. Miller |
Coming four years after its original release, the Revised and Expanded Edition of These Fists Break Bricks is a fascinating ...
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Naked Ambition Movie Review: The Story of a Renaissance Woman who Transcended the Societal Barriers of Mid-Century America
By Jade Blackmore |
Naked Ambition explores the life and extraordinary career of Bunny Yeager, the woman who brought Bettie Page to mainstream notoriety, ...
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Book Review: I Like People That Can’t Sing: Paul Nelson Interviews Lucinda Williams & Leonard Cohen or Leonard Cohen Buys Paul Nelson a Cheeseburger but Lucinda Williams Won’t, edited by Kevin Avery
By writeonmusic |
When rock and pop-culture critic Paul Nelson was commissioned by LA Weekly in early 1991 to profile Lucinda Williams and ...
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