Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: There’s No Mystery That Angela Lansbury Is the Key to the Series’ Success
By Gordon S. Miller |
Murder, She Wrote is an hour-long mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as widowed author Jessica Fletcher, a resident of Cabot ...
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From the Couch Hole: Shine On, Shine the Lights on Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, someone, somewhere in the Summertime there was a Phoenician scheme for the razor girl to find Howdy ...
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The Ballad of Wallis Island Blu-ray Review: Wish Fulfillment
By Steve Geise |
Most of us have a dream musical act we’d love to see reunited in concert. Charles Heath is a different ...
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The Complete Thin Man Collection Blu-ray Review: The Nick & Nora Charles Film Files
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Thin Man Collection is a repackaging of the six Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as ...
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Cheyenne: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with a Known Name
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Clint Walker, Cheyenne was the first hour-long Western. Now available on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, The Complete ...
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Book Review: The Idris File by Dix
By Steve Geise |
When a quiet teen boy and his mother move to a remote seaside town in Wales, they enter a gloomy ...
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Rustlers’ Rhapsody Blu-ray Review: A Clever Comic Tribute to the Singing Cowboys
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Hugh Wilson (Police Academy), Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985) is filled with gags, jokes, and subtle ten-gallon hat ...
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Mystery Street Blu-ray Review: Murder Most Dull
By Steve Geise |
This 1950 crime procedural emphasizes the procedure, with dialogue as dry as the Mojave and bland, robotic performances. It’s historically ...
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Extremely Interesting and Enlightening
By Davy |
Being a dedicated lover of cinema, it's always amazing to come across films that don't fit the normalcy of filmmaking. ...
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From the Couch Hole: Brilliant Days, Wake Up on Brilliant Days
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Jaws caused quite a fallout for his dead reckoning. The judgement from outer space proved that love ...
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Three the Hard Way Blu-ray Review: What’s Black and White and Packed with Action All Over?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Gordon Parks Jr. followed up his feature-film debut of Superfly with Three the Hard Way, which brings together three ...
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Re-Animator 4K UHD Review: Dead Funny
By Joe Keaton |
Behold, Re-Animator (1985; dir. Stuart Gordon)—baby, you’re back. And in stunning 4K, no less. You still kick like a mule ...
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Blu-ray Review: A Tale That Is Poignant with Both Laughter and Excitement
By Rons Reviews |
In 1998, moviegoers were given two similarly themed films. Both Armageddon and Deep Impact told the story of a large ...
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Happy Valley: Series One DVD Review: Happy Viewers, Miserable Characters
By Steve Geise |
Catherine Cawood is a determined police sergeant in her grim small UK town of Yorkshire. She’s haunted by the suicide ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 5: Police Action
By Kent Conrad |
Fantagraphics Books has been releasing, over the last two years, several comics series from Atlas Comics. That was the precursor ...
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Midnight Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cinderella in Paris
By Steve Geise |
1939 is generally regarded as the greatest classic movie year of all time, largely due to The Wizard of Oz ...
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I, Madman Blu-ray Review: A Brilliant Work of Imagination
By Joe Garcia III |
I, Madman (1989) starring Jenny Wright and Clayton Rohner, brings us something other than the usual '80s, deranged monster slasher. ...
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Book Review: The Devil’s Grin: Book One by Alex Graham
By Steve Geise |
What’s black and white and red all over? Alex Graham’s second graphic novel for Fantagraphics, her follow-up to the acclaimed ...
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Drop (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Thrills and Suspense Reminiscent of Hitchcock
By Greg Hammond |
Christopher Landon’s Drop is an intense delight from beginning to end mostly because of the charisma of the two leads, ...
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise Blu-ray Review: “Saving Our Planet Is the Thing to Do”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise collects the three seasons of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was ...
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Book Review: Nancy Wears Hats by Ernie Bushmiller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ernie Bushmiller wrote and drew Nancy, a comic strip about the humorous antics of the titular eight-year-old and her friend ...
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The Annihilation of Fish Blu-ray Review: Equally Hilarious and Heartfelt
By Davy |
Marvel independent filmmaker Charles Burnett is an unsung hero of cinema. One of the pioneers of giving leverage to directors ...
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Mr. Show: The Complete Collection DVD Review: Sketch Comedy That Is Both Topical and Timeless
By Gordon S. Miller |
Previously released in 2006 and 2014, Mr. Show: The Complete Collection returns to DVD on a six-disc set, which is ...
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Bottoms Blu-ray Review: Hilarious High School High Jinks
By Gordon S. Miller |
High-schoolers PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are nerdy lesbian virgins hoping to get together with their straight crushes, ...
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Black Bag 4K UHD Review: Soderbergh’s Bag of Tricks Expands to Espionage
By Steve Geise |
George and Kathryn Woodhouse are married British spies who work in the same office, throwing George’s life into disarray when ...
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Tribeca 2025 Review: Andy Kaufman Is Me
By Greg Hammond |
On the heels of Alex Braverman’s Thank You Very Much, the 2023 documentary about the enigmatic comedian/provocateur Andy Kaufman, comes ...
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Foul Play Blu-ray Review: To Catch an Assassin
By Gordon S. Miller |
Screenwriter Colin Higgins parlayed his success from the comedic, Hitchcockian thriller Silver Streak, into directing his screenplay Foul Play, another ...
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Rhapsody in Blue Blu-ray Review: Rapturous Rhapsody
By Steve Geise |
This movie was on my Blu-ray wish list for many years before it finally became reality last month thanks to ...
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Dastardly Good Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Blake Edwards's The Great Race, Wacky Races debuted in 1968. The Complete Series Blu-ray presents all 17 episodes, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Think It’s Time to Get Ready
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Rogue Nation was all I need. That and a friendship with Poirot that wasn't close to ...
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The Straight Story Movie Review: Good, Old-Fashioned, Fantastic Storytelling
By Greg Hammond |
The Straight Story is easily David Lynch’s most accessible movie. As a G-rated, Disney film, it is about as far ...
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McHale’s Navy (1964) DVD Review: Toss It Overboard
By Rons Reviews |
I have very fond memories of this series, but not of the movie as I don’t recall seeing it. When ...
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Dirty Harry 4K UHD Review: Justice and Anarchy
By Kent Conrad |
I felt a little sad after watching Dirty Harry. It wasn't my first time, of course. I've seen the movie ...
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Lover Come Back Blu-ray Review: Pillow Talk 2
By Steve Geise |
Following the success (and enduring popularity) of their first rom-com together, Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson and Doris Day teamed up ...
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Movie Review: Rules to Live and Die By
By Gordon S. Miller |
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum delivers more of the same non-stop, eye-popping action (and that's a literal description of ...
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Alien 3 Movie Review: Witness a Slow Decline
By Greg Hammond |
David Fincher’s Alien3 is the third entry in the Alien franchise and, chronologically, directly follows the first two films, Alien ...
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The Purge Blu-ray Review: A Great Premise that Falls Short of the Mark
By Greg Hammond |
The Purge, written and directed by James DeMonaco, is the first of a franchise consisting of five Purge movies and ...
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The New Adventures of Tarzan Blu-ray Review: Spirited Action and Unintended Laughs Make for an Entertaining Serial
By Gordon S. Miller |
Available to watch altogether or as individual chapters, The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) is a 12-part serial starring Herman ...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales 4K UHD Review: The Weary Gunslinger
By Joe Keaton |
A Missouri farmer goes guerrilla after Union raiders kill his family—that’s the basic setup of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976; ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Secret of Hondorica” is Volume 17 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The book ...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Heads Are Not Better than One
By Greg Hammond |
How to Get Ahead in Advertising is an unusual (though not unheard of) amalgamation of absurdist humor and body horror ...
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From the Couch Hole: When the Singer’s Gone / Let the Song Go On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Blade Runner believes in miracles of the dragons domain. The impossible mission of the ghost protocol ...
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Book Review: Night Drive by Richard Sala: Inkshot
By Joe Keaton |
I first saw illustrator Richard Sala’s work behind glass—enshrined in a columbarium niche at the Chapel of the Chimes in ...
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The Magilla Gorilla Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven
By Steve Geise |
This classic Hanna-Barbera series finally gets a Blu-ray release, and the results should finally satisfy fans disappointed by previous DVD ...
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Book Review: Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum
By Joe Garcia III |
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television is the first full biography solely about Desi in many years. Desi’s own ...
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A Clockwork Orange Movie Review: Bezoomny Droogs and Horrorshow Bitvas
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, starring Malcolm McDowell and based on the novel by Anthony Burgess, takes place in a ...
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Book Review: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1928-1930
By Kent Conrad |
I do not receive a daily newspaper. Nor have I for over a decade. I used to pay attention to ...
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Book Review: Buz Sawyer Vol. 5: Island of the Lotus Eaters by Roy Crane
By Steve Geise |
After a publishing gap of over eight years, Fantagraphics continues their collected editions of Roy Crane’s long-running adventure comic strip. ...
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The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Fun for All, and All for Fun
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Three Musketeers (1973) is star-studded, comic swashbuckler based on Alexandre Dumas’s 19th century classic novel of the same name. ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Complete CinemaScope Collection Blu-ray Review: The Animated Pair’s Trademark Slapstick Violence Goes Widescreen
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera's Tom and Jerry franchise, which began with their first cartoon, Puss ...
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