Broken Oath Blu-ray Review: Kung Fu Lady Snowblood
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese author Kazuo Koike created and wrote the story for a manga called Lady Snowblood, about an orphan who grows ...
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Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 Blu-ray Review: DNotS 2 Is a DNR: Do Not Rewatch
By Joe Garcia III |
Dark Night of the Scarecrow 2 is brought to you by J.D. Feigelson, who wrote the original Dark Night of ...
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American Movie 4K UHD Review: Film, Family, and Alcohol Abuse
By Kent Conrad |
In its bare outline, American Movie is a documentary about a striving filmmaker. In the telling, it’s about addiction, family ...
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The Boy and the Heron 4K UHD Review: Out of Retirement, Miyazaki Makes One of His Best Films
By Mat Brewster |
After releasing The Wind Rises in 2013, acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement from filmmaking. He was too ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 4K UHD Review: A Dream Release
By Mat Brewster |
John Carpenter didn't invent the slasher genre with Halloween in 1978 but he certainly popularized it and solidified the formula. ...
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A Quiet Place: Day One Blu-ray Review: A Successful Prequel
By Lorna Miller |
Spooky movie season is upon on us and a viewing of A Quiet Place: Day One fits perfectly into my ...
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Book Review: Disney In-Between: The Lost Years 1966–1986 by Stephen Anderson
By Sombrero Grande |
Sometimes, you have to fall before you can rise. That’s the premise floated by Stephen Anderson’s new book, Disney In-Between: ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Tell You a Tale
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the God Emperor of Dune was on the carefree highway with bad Ronald. They ate Coca-Cola Oreos ...
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Saturday Night (2024) Movie Review: Will the Revolution Be Televised?
By Gordon S. Miller |
In what could be described as “High Noon at Studio 8H,” director, producer, co-writer Jason Reitman's Saturday Night is a ...
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Daytime Revolution (2024) Movie Review: When Counterculture Met Middle America
By Kit O'Toole |
The date was February 14, 1972, and unsuspecting stay-at-home mothers sat down to watch an episode of the Mike Douglas ...
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Book Review: Crusher Loves Bleeder Bleeder Loves Crusher by Thomas Stemrich and Patrick Keck
By Steve Geise |
“I guess if I was asleep and something bit me real soft…well, I couldn’t really be mad about that, could ...
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Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories
By Joe Garcia III |
Splatter up! It's midnight and the moon is high in the night sky. Most folks are sound asleep but not ...
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The Threat Blu-ray Review: Battle of Wits Royale
By Steve Geise |
When two hardened death row inmates escape from prison, they come up with a fiendish kidnapping plot to get rich ...
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Two Taoist Tales Blu-ray Review: Wild Supernatural Hong Kong Action
By Kent Conrad |
Two Taoist Tales collects a pair of wildly ridiculous movies that involve monsters, demons, spells, and copious kung fu. It's ...
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Book Review: Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
By Shawn Bourdo |
This new book is an unauthorized and unofficial study of one of the most universally admired directors to ever put ...
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From the Couch Hole: Let Me Slip Away on You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the humans would fade into you. It wasn't imaginary that young Frankenstein showed up with the Monster ...
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Conflict (1945) Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet. Warner Brothers circa 1945. Car crashes. Romance. The perfect murder. The psychology of guilt. Everything about ...
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Book Review Godzilla: The Encyclopedia by Shinji Nishikawa
By Gordon S. Miller |
Setting aside the book is already in need of an update with the release of last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Horror Classic
By Mat Brewster |
Fifty years ago this week, Tobe Hooper unleashed The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the all-time greatest horror movies ...
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Rainbow: Live in Munich 1977 Review: A Heavy-Hitting, Hard Rock Performance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Frustrated working with the Deep Purple Mark III line-up, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore began recording with members of the band of ...
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Touch (2024) Blu-ray Review: The Search for Past Love
By David Wangberg |
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has recently been toying with several projects involving people against nature. Whether it’s The Deep, Everest, ...
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From the Couch Hole: Strange You Never Knew
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we called out "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" and got an American honey with a case of a crazy little ...
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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Smells Like Teen Spirit
By Steve Geise |
Three decades after writer/director Gregg Araki shook up the indie film world with his trilogy of teen films starring James ...
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Watchmen Chapter 1 Blu-ray Review: Checking the Time on the Doomsday Clock
By Greg Hammond |
Watchmen Chapter 1 is a very faithful adaptation of the first six comics in the twelve-issue Watchmen (1986 - 1987) ...
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Tattooed Life Blu-ray Review: Suzuki’s Never Conventional Yakuza Tales
By Kent Conrad |
In the first act, there's a murder, a betrayal, and two brothers go on the run. The last act features ...
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Lee (2024) Movie Review: Woefully Misguided
By David Wangberg |
A biopic on Lee Miller has been in the works for eight years, with Kate Winslet attached as the lead. ...
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Book Review: The Farewell Song of Marcel Labrume by Attilio Micheluzzi
By Steve Geise |
I consider myself to be fairly well versed in the world’s finest cartoonists, and yet prior to this graphic novel, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Gotta Be Cool, Relax
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it wasn't just sunny, it was aftersun even though you like it darker. You can roll me ...
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Surf Nazis Must Die Blu-ray Review: As Silly As It Sounds
By Joe Garcia III |
What happens when you take Mad Max and A Clockwork Orange and throw them into one of those large 1980s ...
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Torso 4K UHD Review: ‘The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence’
By Jack Cormack |
Torso (1973; dir. Sergio Martino) is pure, unfiltered giallo—a movie drenched in blood, nudity, and unapologetic sleaze. It’s rough around ...
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The Strangers (2008) 4K UHD Review: Remarkably Taut Suspense Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
The basic outline of The Strangers is absolutely nothing new: bad guys attack people in a house. Doesn't go well. ...
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A Man on His Knees Blu-ray Review: You’ll Stand Up and Applaud
By Mat Brewster |
Running a small business is hard. The cost of materials constantly goes up while the demand that you keep your ...
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Book Review: Foul Play and Other Stories, Illustrated by Jack Davis
By Darcy Staniforth |
If you are a comic reader and I mention Tales From the Crypt to you, I’m sure some very clear ...
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Book Review: Ocultos by Laura Pérez
By Darcy Staniforth |
Our material and natural world is sometimes interrupted or even complimented by the supernatural. Sometimes these incidents are a one-time ...
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Friday the 13th (2009) 4K UHD Review: Remake Exceeds Low Expectations
By Kent Conrad |
The most famous visual of Friday the 13th is Jason Voorhees in a hockey mask. But Jason wasn't the villain ...
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The Chronicles of Riddick 4K UHD Review: An Unexpected Expanded Treasure
By Kent Conrad |
Pitch Black did not seem like a movie that deserved a sequel. It was a serviceable action-horror sci-fi picture that ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald and Mickey in Metropolis and Faust by Francesco Artibani, Paolo Mottura, Carlo Chendi, and Luciano Bottaro
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics continues their line of Disney adaptations of classic tales with this pairing of Metropolis and Faust. The comics are ...
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Book Review: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet
By Greg Hammond |
In the opening of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet, there isn’t much road to ...
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Clockwatchers Blu-ray Review: An Unsettlingly Honest Film
By Davy |
I've never held a job in my entire life, but I'm kind of glad I've never had a job in ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Mystery of the Swamp” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Mystery of the Swamp" is Volume 3 in Fantagraphics's The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Just a Vagabond
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the American refugee witnessed Mary Jane's last dance to a passage for trumpet on the causeway. The ...
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England Is Mine Blu-ray Review: The Story of a Young Man With a Shyness That Is Criminal and Vulgar
By Joe Garcia III |
England Is Mine (2017), directed and co-written by Mark Gill, is the story of one Steven Patrick Morrissey, who would ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX Blu-ray Review: A Couple of Terrific Alan Ladd Vehicles (and a Not-So-Great Film Without Him)
By Mat Brewster |
Alan Ladd will probably always be remembered for his award-winning performance in Shane, one of the greatest westerns ever made. ...
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Book Review: Total Recall: The Official Story of the Film by Simon Braund
By Kent Conrad |
Total Recall is one of those movies whose spectacle convinced critics it was dumber than it was. It's a brash ...
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Totem Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical Celebration of Life Amidst Impending Tragedy
By Davy |
We've all gone through death, guilt, grief, and acceptance, the things that life unfortunately brings to us all. There have ...
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Book Review: Elise and the New Partisans by Dominique Grange and Tardi
By Steve Geise |
Shortly after a young pop singer arrives in 1950s Paris to find fame, she becomes aware of the political crisis ...
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A World Without Thieves Blu-ray Review: Larceny on the Chinese Express
By Steve Geise |
Andy Lau is the main attraction in this 2004 Chinese action drama, but its well-crafted plot is the true champion. ...
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Boulevard Nights Blu-ray Review: Let’s Take a Trip Down Whittier Blvd.
By Joe Garcia III |
Danny De La Paz and Richrd Yniguez star as the brothers Avila, young men on two different paths in Boulevard ...
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Book Review: The De Palma Decade by Laurent Bouzereau: A Breezy Tribute to a Master Provocateur
By Jack Cormack |
Laurent Bouzereau’s The De Palma Decade (Running Press) is a valentine to director Brian De Palma’s provocative 1970s run. Divided ...
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Viva La Muerte! Blu-ray Review: A Hypnotically Demented Ride
By Davy |
Once in a while, a film comes along and completely leaves me flabbergasted. In the case of Spanish filmmaker Fernando ...
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