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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From the Couch Hole: As the Ocean Crawls Onto the Shoreline
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the enforcer Josey Wales named the best soda ever. It was in a broken dream that Python ...
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The Wild Party Blu-ray Review: A Wild Night Is Calling
By Joe Garcia III |
Gather ‘round, people, and you shall hear the grim tale of one named Jolly. With a comeback in tow, a ...
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Book Review: Totem by Laura Pérez
By Steve Geise |
In Laura Pérez’s beautiful, bewildering graphic novel, a flashback begets another flashback, unidentified characters drift in and out of the ...
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Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B Blu-ray Review: A Filmmaker of Incredible Vision and Prescience
By Davy |
As an extreme film buff, I always appreciate and seek out filmmakers and films that challenge the usual and obviously ...
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Little Women (1933) Blu-ray Review: Sentimental but Sweet
By Mat Brewster |
In college, I did work study for the university dinner theater. It was a great job, and I had loads ...
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Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Blu-ray Review: Mostly Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, written by Larry Gross in the early 1990’s and directed by Rob Schmidt in 2000 ...
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Spinout Blu-ray Review: Hey, Elvis! You Gotta Win This Race!
By Joe Garcia III |
Elvis Presley leads a small rock ‘n’ roll band, likes racing fast cars, and gets into all kinds of trouble ...
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The Prodigal Son Blu-ray Review: Sammo Hung Meets Wing Chun
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their series of Sammo Hung Blu-ray releases, Arrow Video’s latest entry is this 1981 gem. Sammo directs and co-stars ...
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Wichita Blu-ray Review: Wyatt Earp’s Origin Story
By Mat Brewster |
How many movies and TV shows have been made about Wyatt Earp? Or been influenced by his reputation? They say ...
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Gay Purr-ee Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland Gets Animated
By Steve Geise |
By the 1960s, Judy Garland was in decline, no longer a potent or reliable force at the box office and ...
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The Big Knife Blu-ray Review: Stabbing Old Hollywood
By Mat Brewster |
Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood. Usually, they are fawning tales about the magic of the movies, or about how ...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K UHD Review: Batman in Love
By Kent Conrad |
In the last couple of decades, DC has been aggressive about adapting its comic book stories into films. Some of ...
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Malone Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Shows Off a Particular Set of Skills in a Generic Actioner
By Gordon S. Miller |
Burt Reynolds is Malone. But in 1987 that didn't mean as much as it did back in the '70s when ...
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From the Couch Hole: In the Days Between the Hours
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the muskrat love between Frances and Margot got the Mayans kicking and screaming at the wedding. The ...
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD Review: A Fantastic Set
By Gordon S. Miller |
This three-disc set features 75 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive. The biggest star to come out of ...
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Foolish Wives Blu-ray Review: The First Million Dollar Picture
By Kent Conrad |
Erich von Stroheim, the director of Foolish Wives, was well known for his aristocratic and military background. He was a ...
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Book Review: Eden II by K. Wroten
By Steve Geise |
K. Wroten’s sophomore graphic novel is a sprawling, 452-page meditation on the bleak existence faced by the current twenty-something generation. ...
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Borsalino Blu-ray Review: A (Not Quite) Epic French Gangster Flick
By Mat Brewster |
Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo were two of the biggest and greatest film stars in France. They were both great ...
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Liar’s Moon Blu-ray Review: A Teenage Soap Opera with a Great Soundtrack
By Joe Garcia III |
Rich girl, poor boy. Good kids tangled in a web of deceit spun long ago by their parents. It’s Romeo ...
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Hardcore Blu-ray Review: A Solid and Nervy Depiction
By Davy |
The 1970s was a legendary and often gritty time for filmmaking. There were obviously the films of Martin Scorsese, William ...
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Fathom Events Presents John Carpenter’s They Live
By Mat Brewster |
I don't go to the movie theater much anymore. It is too expensive. The crowds are always obnoxious. Half the ...
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Book Review: Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ernie Kovacs was a comic pioneer in television as well as a television pioneer in comedy. During the 1950s, both ...
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From the Couch Hole: Doin’ the Town and Doin’ It Right
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were all dressed for the Fall Festival in harmony with the rabbits and the frogs. There ...
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Book Review: Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope by Brad Weismann
By Davy |
The horror genre is still regarded by many as the bastard stepchild of film. A lot of people continue to ...
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Enter the Dragon 4K UHD Review: Are You Not… Entered?
By Jack Cormack |
Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) is one of the most famous kung fu movies ever made. In the ...
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Book Review: Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas by Paco Roca
By Steve Geise |
This is not a new graphic novel by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca. Instead, it’s a compilation of archival autobiographical comic ...
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City of the Living Dead 4K UHD Review: Where Zombies Are Ghosts
By Kent Conrad |
What makes Italian horror films of the '70s and '80s exciting is that anything can happen. What makes them infuriating ...
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The Flash (2023) Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Go Home Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Andy Muschietti's The Flash (2023) is the 13th installment of the DCEU. The franchise gets an amusing but disjointed, multiverse ...
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From the Couch Hole: Is This the Only Place You Thought to Go
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, what we did in the shadows was rad and included some teenage mutant ninja turtles. The Super ...
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Brightwood DVD Review: An Independent Horror Flick with a Blood-Soaked Heart
By Greg Hammond |
Brightwood, written, directed, and edited by Dane Elcar, and starring Dana Berger as Jen, and Max Woertendyke as Dan, is ...
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A Taste of Blood (2020) Blu-ray Review: These Vampires Aren’t Sexy but the Soundtrack Is
By Joe Garcia III |
A modern-day family in the Argentina countryside faces its bloody past in A.K. Tolstoy's A Taste of Blood (2020) brought ...
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The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review: Give My Regards to the Warner Archive Team
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, is a melodramatic story focusing ...
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Book Review: Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
By Gordon S. Miller |
Housed in a slipcase, Ian Nathan's Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work takes readers on an unofficial and ...
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A Moment of Romance Blu-ray Review: HK Stockholm Syndrome
By Steve Geise |
When a bank heist goes awry, getaway driver Wah (Andy Lau) grabs the closest civilian as a hostage as he ...
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Book Review: Starseeds 3 by Charles Glaubitz
By Steve Geise |
By any conventional literary measure, the Starseeds series is bewildering and left so far open to interpretation that it’s difficult ...
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From the Couch Hole: Too Long in the Wind, Too Long in the Rain
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we let out with a "Chim Chim Cher-ee" even when some Pudd'nheads said, "It's bad for ya." ...
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Mutant Blast Blu-ray Review: A Witty, Weird, Gorific Blast
By Joe Garcia III |
Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger) brings Portuguese director Fernando Alle's odd, gory, silly yet witty, funny, and brilliant sci-fi/horror Mutant ...
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Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Superstar Italian actor Franco Nero headlines three separate projects by director Damiano Damiani with a unifying spotlight on the mafia ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” is Volume 28 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. It ...
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Strangers in the House Blu-ray Review: French Masters of Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
In a large, shambling, mostly empty mansion, a loud noise clangs upstairs. It is loud enough to awaken Hector Loursat ...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Danke Schoen for a Perfect Movie
By Kent Conrad |
For a certain segment of the population, this is the movie. The movie. One of my older brothers. My high ...
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Is Paris Burning? Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with Paris Is Burning, this 1966 WWII drama boasts a seemingly unbelievable roster of stars reenacting ...
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Book Review: Werewolf Jones & Sons: Deluxe Super Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger
By Mat Brewster |
I am not by any means a prude, but I should have never read Werewolf Jones & Songs: Deluxe Super ...
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Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Feels Like We’re Witnessing Real Life
By Davy |
Ever since legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasjuiro Ozu died in 1963, there has been an array of cinematic stories he left ...
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Book Review: Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV by Ariel Waldman
By David Wangberg |
Science fiction is a genre that has predicted many current inventions. And yet, at the time of release, certain movies ...
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The Fastest Gun Alive Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Frank D. Gilroy's teleplay The Last Notch, Russell Rouse's The Fastest Gun Alive is a compelling western that ...
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From the Couch Hole: When The’s ‘Ardly No Day Nor ‘Ardly No Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were hanging on the telephone for the Omega Man and Boba Fett. There was Juneberry, Joe ...
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Rio Bravo 4K UHD Review: Degüello
By Jack Cormack |
For Rio Bravo (1959; 141 mins.; dir. Howard Hawks)—my favorite Western or damn near it—I have almost no critical faculty. ...
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Nightbreed 4K UHD Review: Clive Barker’s Monster Mess
By Kent Conrad |
It's unfortunate, but perhaps not surprising that Clive Barker hung up his directing hat. He made his first film, Hellraiser, ...
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