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Book Review: Raging Clouds by Yudori

By Steve Geise | Jul 14, 2025

While I read my fair share of manga and manhwa, I don’t particularly enjoy much of its mainstream output due ...

From the Couch Hole: Can You Feel The Light Shine?

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 13, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the Bear and the Brutalist promised you a miracle. Then 28 weeks later they showed up at ...

The Blues Under the Skin Blu-ray Review: Trouble in Mind

By Steve Geise | Jul 12, 2025

Robert Manthoulis’s little-seen 1973 film is a curious combination of intimate music performances, documentary scenes of working-class poor, and scripted ...

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Blu-ray Review: One of the Greatest Nature Documentaries of All-time

By Davy | Jul 11, 2025

There is a certain kind of relationship between humans and animals that can't be explained, but why should it be? ...

Beware of Mr. Baker Blu-ray Review: Strange Brew

By Steve Geise | Jul 10, 2025

This 2012 documentary delves into the riotous life of wild-eyed, mercurial drummer Ginger Baker, best known for his work with ...

Superman (2025) Movie Review: A Great Start for the New DC Universe

By Todd Karella | Jul 9, 2025

Whenever I’ve been asked the question, “if you were a superhero, what superpower would you want?” I never have an ...

The Monkey Blu-ray Review: Has Heart, Humor, and Horror in Equal Measure

By Davy | Jul 9, 2025

Osgood Perkins (filmmaker and son of the legendary Anthony Perkins) has built a stellar reputation as a wizard of horror, ...

Final Destination 2 Blu-ray Review: Solid Sequel Fun

By Greg Hammond | Jul 9, 2025

The Final Destination franchise includes six films, ten novels, a one-shot comic, and a comic series. There is no typical ...

Sinners Blu-ray Review: A Modern Masterpiece

By Davy | Jul 8, 2025

Acclaimed and highly imaginative filmmaker Ryan Coogler is one of our best living directors. His oeuvre since his startling 2013 ...

Made in New Jersey: Films from Fort Lee Blu-ray Review: Birth of a Nation’s Films

By Steve Geise | Jul 7, 2025

Hollywood wasn’t always the center of the U.S. film industry. For a handful of years in the early 20th century, ...

The President’s Wife Blu-ray Review: Game Recognizes Game

By Steve Geise | Jul 6, 2025

Early on in Catherine Deneuve’s recent film, it appears that she may have lost the thread. Nearing 80 during its ...

From the Couch Hole: Summer Breeze and Brilliant Light

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 6, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the life of Chuck had a coda 28 days later. There was a glittering prize but one ...

The Usual Suspects (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: A Very Good Modern Noir

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 3, 2025

Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, The Usual ...

Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Avengers: Age of Ultron by Jacob Johnston

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 1, 2025

Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Avengers: Age of Ultron is the tenth release in the 22-bookMarvel ...

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 | Jun 30, 2025

Murder, She Wrote is an hour-long mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as widowed author Jessica Fletcher, a resident of Cabot ...

From the Couch Hole: Shine On, Shine the Lights on Me

By Shawn Bourdo | Jun 29, 2025

Previously on FTCH, someone, somewhere in the Summertime there was a Phoenician scheme for the razor girl to find Howdy ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island Blu-ray Review: Wish Fulfillment

By Steve Geise | Jun 26, 2025

Most of us have a dream musical act we’d love to see reunited in concert. Charles Heath is a different ...

The Complete Thin Man Collection Blu-ray Review: The Nick & Nora Charles Film Files

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 26, 2025

The Thin Man Collection is a repackaging of the six Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as ...

Cheyenne: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Man with a Known Name

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 24, 2025

Starring Clint Walker, Cheyenne was the first hour-long Western. Now available on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection, The Complete ...

Book Review: The Idris File by Dix

By Steve Geise | Jun 24, 2025

When a quiet teen boy and his mother move to a remote seaside town in Wales, they enter a gloomy ...

Rustlers’ Rhapsody Blu-ray Review: A Clever Comic Tribute to the Singing Cowboys

By Joe Garcia III | Jun 23, 2025

Written and directed by Hugh Wilson (Police Academy), Rustlers’ Rhapsody (1985) is filled with gags, jokes, and subtle ten-gallon hat ...

Mystery Street Blu-ray Review: Murder Most Dull

By Steve Geise | Jun 23, 2025

This 1950 crime procedural emphasizes the procedure, with dialogue as dry as the Mojave and bland, robotic performances. It’s historically ...

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Extremely Interesting and Enlightening

By Davy | Jun 22, 2025

Being a dedicated lover of cinema, it's always amazing to come across films that don't fit the normalcy of filmmaking. ...

From the Couch Hole: Brilliant Days, Wake Up on Brilliant Days

By Shawn Bourdo | Jun 22, 2025

Previously on FTCH, Jaws caused quite a fallout for his dead reckoning. The judgement from outer space proved that love ...

Three the Hard Way Blu-ray Review: What’s Black and White and Packed with Action All Over?

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 21, 2025

Director Gordon Parks Jr. followed up his feature-film debut of Superfly with Three the Hard Way, which brings together three ...

Re-Animator 4K UHD Review: Dead Funny

By Joe Keaton | Jun 21, 2025

Behold, Re-Animator (1985; dir. Stuart Gordon)—baby, you’re back. And in stunning 4K, no less. You still kick like a mule ...

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 | Jun 20, 2025

In 1998, moviegoers were given two similarly themed films. Both Armageddon and Deep Impact told the story of a large ...

Happy Valley: Series One DVD Review: Happy Viewers, Miserable Characters

By Steve Geise | Jun 20, 2025

Catherine Cawood is a determined police sergeant in her grim small UK town of Yorkshire. She’s haunted by the suicide ...

Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 5: Police Action

By Kent Conrad | Jun 19, 2025

Fantagraphics Books has been releasing, over the last two years, several comics series from Atlas Comics. That was the precursor ...

Midnight Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Cinderella in Paris

By Steve Geise | Jun 18, 2025

1939 is generally regarded as the greatest classic movie year of all time, largely due to The Wizard of Oz ...

I, Madman Blu-ray Review: A Brilliant Work of Imagination

By Joe Garcia III | Jun 17, 2025

I, Madman (1989) starring Jenny Wright and Clayton Rohner, brings us something other than the usual '80s, deranged monster slasher. ...

Book Review: The Devil’s Grin: Book One by Alex Graham

By Steve Geise | Jun 17, 2025

What’s black and white and red all over? Alex Graham’s second graphic novel for Fantagraphics, her follow-up to the acclaimed ...

Drop (Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Thrills and Suspense Reminiscent of Hitchcock

By Greg Hammond | Jun 16, 2025

Christopher Landon’s Drop is an intense delight from beginning to end mostly because of the charisma of the two leads, ...

Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise Blu-ray Review: “Saving Our Planet Is the Thing to Do”

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 16, 2025

Captain Planet and the Planeteers: The Complete Franchise collects the three seasons of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, which was ...

Book Review: Nancy Wears Hats by Ernie Bushmiller

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 15, 2025

Ernie Bushmiller wrote and drew Nancy, a comic strip about the humorous antics of the titular eight-year-old and her friend ...

The Annihilation of Fish Blu-ray Review: Equally Hilarious and Heartfelt

By Davy | Jun 14, 2025

Marvel independent filmmaker Charles Burnett is an unsung hero of cinema. One of the pioneers of giving leverage to directors ...

Mr. Show: The Complete Collection DVD Review: Sketch Comedy That Is Both Topical and Timeless

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 13, 2025

Previously released in 2006 and 2014, Mr. Show: The Complete Collection returns to DVD on a six-disc set, which is ...

Bottoms Blu-ray Review: Hilarious High School High Jinks

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 12, 2025

High-schoolers PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) are nerdy lesbian virgins hoping to get together with their straight crushes, ...

Black Bag 4K UHD Review: Soderbergh’s Bag of Tricks Expands to Espionage

By Steve Geise | Jun 11, 2025

George and Kathryn Woodhouse are married British spies who work in the same office, throwing George’s life into disarray when ...

Tribeca 2025 Review: Andy Kaufman Is Me

By Greg Hammond | Jun 10, 2025

On the heels of Alex Braverman’s Thank You Very Much, the 2023 documentary about the enigmatic comedian/provocateur Andy Kaufman, comes ...

Foul Play Blu-ray Review: To Catch an Assassin

By Gordon S. Miller | Jun 10, 2025

Screenwriter Colin Higgins parlayed his success from the comedic, Hitchcockian thriller Silver Streak, into directing his screenplay Foul Play, another ...