Book Review: Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness
By Steve Geise |
After a three-year gap, M.S. Harkness returns with her third autobio graphic novel, and first for Fantagraphics. She continues her ...
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Meg 2: The Trench Blu-ray Review: Works Best When It Repeats What Worked Before
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based (loosely) on The Trench, the second novel in Steve Alten's Meg book series, Meg 2: The Trench is a ...
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Rock Around the Clock Blu-ray Review: It’s Squares-Ville, Man
By Joe Garcia III |
Rock Around the Clock (1956) features Bill Haley and the Comets riding the success of their seat-ripping, riot-inducing song that ...
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From the Couch Hole: It Seems I Don’t Get Time Out Anymore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we visited with the Midnight Club and found that suicide is painless. If it isn't, there's always ...
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Boris Karloff Collection DVD Review: Viva Karloff! These Four Movies Not So Much
By Joe Garcia III |
Legendary horror icon Boris Karloff makes his final silver screen appearance(s) in these four low- budget Mexican productions made shortly ...
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Cujo Blu-ray Review: A Straightforward Thriller with Modest Chills
By Davy |
When you talk about the greatest Stephen King adaptations, your mind usually drifts to Carrie (1976), Salem's Lot (1979), The ...
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Lorna the Exorcist Blu-ray Review: One of Jess Franco’s More Well-regarded Films
By Mat Brewster |
Fairly regularly, the film discourse on Twitter and other social media apps turns to sex in cinema. There is a ...
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Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD Review: An Embarrassment of Riches
By Greg Hammond |
The Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD box set comes packed full of scares. First there are the five movies, ...
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The Edge of the World Blu-ray Review: Director Michael Powell’s First Masterpiece
By Davy |
Even before he partnered with Emeric Pressburger and made some of the most ravishing British films, the legendary Michael Powell ...
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The Iron-Fisted Monk Blu-ray Review: Disjointed Drama, Fantastic Kung Fu
By Mat Brewster |
It makes sense that kung fu movies would eventually add in comedic elements. There is an inherent silliness to grown ...
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EO Blu-ray Review: The Secret Life of Donkeys
By Steve Geise |
EO is a happy circus donkey, content to travel with his raggedy troupe to rural outposts in Europe. He’s motivated ...
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Before Night Falls Blu-ray Review: Expresses the Overall Importance of Artists and Their Art
By Davy |
Sometimes, it's not always easy to embrace the cinematic biopic. There are the usual liberties and inaccuracies to be found ...
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Book Review: Dauntless Dames: High-Heeled Heroes of the Comics
By Steve Geise |
After entering into a partnership last summer to distribute the back catalog of Sunday Press, Fantagraphics is now releasing the ...
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Kiss the Girls 4K UHD Review: A Quality Thriller Showing Its Age
By Greg Hammond |
Early in Gary Fleder’s Kiss the Girls, Washington, D.C. forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) goes to North ...
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From the Couch Hole: Through Early Morning Fog I See
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we discovered that not a day goes by that the two stagecoaches don't leave with the baby. ...
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Mackintosh and T.J. Blu-ray Review: Roy Rogers Rides into the Sunset One Final Time
By Joe Garcia III |
Legendary singing cowboy Roy Rogers makes his final feature film appearance in Mackintosh and T.J. (1975). A good, clean, western ...
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Book Review: Monica by Daniel Clowes: Trip the Trauma Fantastic
By Jack Cormack |
In Daniel Clowes’s new graphic novel, Monica (his first in seven years), the titular hero goes on a flippin’ strange ...
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No Bears Blu-ray Review: A Powerful Work About the Passion for Filmmaking
By Davy |
I'm not familiar with Jafar Panahi's cinema, but from what I've heard from other film lovers and critics is that ...
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Strays (2023) Blu-ray Review: The Incredibly Crude Journey
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the annals of cinema, the raunchy R-rated comedy predominantly featured the profane and sexual antics of 20-something, white men, ...
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Carlito’s Way 4K UHD Review: Sad Streets
By Jack Cormack |
It’s more than just a Scarface (1983) reunion. In Carlito’s Way (1993), director Brian De Palma and Al Pacino give ...
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The Road Dance Movie Review: A Slight Misstep
By David Wangberg |
There comes a moment in Richie Adams’ The Road Dance where I wondered if I would actually care what happened ...
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Divinity Movie Review: Forever Young
By David Wangberg |
Eddie Alcazar’s Divinity is a film that begs to be seen. Heck, it’s pleading to be seen, to be noticed, ...
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The Storms of Jeremy Thomas DVD Review: An Entrancing Documentary
By Davy |
In cinema, there are always going to be troublemakers and button pushers, meaning that these are people who come in ...
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Poker Face: Season One Blu-ray Review: An Extremely Clever TV Series
By Lorna Miller |
I am a crime junkie and it is rare that something comes along in this genre that is new and ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Just Go On Thinking and Sweating
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a stalker eating street tacos. Henry Sugar told him, "Send in the clowns," and the ...
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Chariots of the Gods Blu-ray Review: Before Ancient Aliens…
By Joe Garcia III |
Before Ancient Aliens there was Chariots of the Gods (1970) by Erich Von Daniken. VCI Entertainment proudly presents the 50th ...
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RWBY Volume 9 Blu-ray Review: Beware the Jabberwocky
By Greg Hammond |
RWBY Volume 9 continues the story of Team RWBY (pronounced Ruby), who are made up of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, ...
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The Black Phone 4K UHD Review: Unnerving Kidnapping Tale
By Kent Conrad |
Proper new screen horror villains are rare. While it seems like they pop up all the time, the ones that ...
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Night of the Demons 2 Blu-ray Review: Angela Comes Back, Better
By Kent Conrad |
Night of the Demons 2 is a direct-to-video sequel to Night of the Demons, released six years later. It's cheaper, ...
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Night of the Demons 4K UHD Review: Shameless & Shameful Evil Dead Rip-off
By Kent Conrad |
When I saw the opening credits of Night of the Demons, I had the feeling that the animated floating demons ...
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Book Review: Christmas in the Movies: Revised & Expanded Edition by Jeremy Arnold
By Davy |
Personally, I think my favorite Christmas movie is 1974's Black Christmas, which can be referred to as an anti-Christmas one. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Don’t You Love the Farce
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a haunting in Venice and Carmella Creeper is dead again in The Void. In Flavortown, ...
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Crime and Punishment (2002) Blu-ray Review: Too Much Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crispin Glover plays Roskolnikov in Menahem Golan’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. Roskolnikov has recently published a ...
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Farewell My Concubine 30th Anniversary Movie Review: Leslie Cheung Shines Once More
By Steve Geise |
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Chen Kaige’s searing epic is returning to U.S. theaters with a new 4K restoration ...
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The Exorcist 4K UHD Review: William Friedkin’s Masterpiece
By Greg Hammond |
William Friedkin's The Exorcist is based on the novel and screenplay by William Peter Blatty. The film opens in Iraq, ...
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New York Stories Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Trio from Three Great Directors
By Gordon S. Miller |
To quote the concluding narration from the Naked City (1958-1963) TV series, “There are eight million stories in the naked ...
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After Dark, My Sweet Blu-ray Review: A Strong Film Noir from Director James Foley
By Greg Hammond |
Based on the novel by Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, stars Jason Patric (in an early outing meant to ...
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Book Review: “You Talkin’ To Me?” The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes by Brian Abrams
By Joe Garcia III |
Someplace, somewhere, sometime at the appropriate moment we've all blurted out a quote lifted right from what we deem a ...
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Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! DVD Review: Plays Cards Across a Vast Spectrum of Fandoms
By Shawn Bourdo |
The 35th entry into the Scooby-Doo! Direct-To-Video Movie series arrives on September 26, 2023. Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! continues a ...
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Book Review: Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck in Les Misérables and War and Peace by Giovan Battista Carpi
By Greg Hammond |
Disney presents a new addition to the Fantagraphics series of collected cartoons. In this volume we get both “The Secret ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Christmas on Bear Mountain” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is Volume 5 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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La Bamba Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Soars Far Above Other Hollywood Biopics
By Joe Garcia III |
La Bamba (1987) is the story of Richard Valenzuela, known better as Ritchie Valens, a name associated with a song ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been Out Walking
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Archer and Gator were not accused in the killing of a Chinese bookie. I ranked the best ...
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School of Rock 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Steelbook Review: It Still Rocks
By David Wangberg |
Richard Linklater’s School of Rock was released 20 years ago and is still proof that a family film doesn’t have ...
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Nil by Mouth Blu-ray Review: A Strong, Gripping Example of British Cinema
By Davy |
The British kitchen sink and social realist dramas of the 1950s and 60s were emotional and draining, but they don't ...
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American Pop Blu-ray Review: Try, Try, and Try Again
By Steve Geise |
Ralph Bakshi’s animated voyage through 20th century popular music has finally arrived on Blu-ray. While music is an integral part ...
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Three Days of the Condor Blu-ray Review: The Book Reader Who Stayed Out in the Cold
By Jack Cormack |
As far as paranoid ‘70s thrillers go, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor—about Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a hip ...
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Cocaine Bear 4K UHD Review: Fans of the Genre Might be Pleased
By Greg Hammond |
In 1985, a drug dealer dumped cocaine out of his Cessna and then fell from the plane to his death. ...
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Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Beyond Halloween Town: The Story, the Characters, and the Legacy by Emily Zemler
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Emily Zemler, who describes her younger self as “a black clothing-clad weirdo” in the Introduction, helps commemorate the 30th ...
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My Sailor, My Love Movie Review: A Delightful Feature on Later-Stage Romance
By David Wangberg |
It may almost seem cliché to say that a movie filmed in Ireland is breathtaking to behold, but it’s true ...
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