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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray Review: Introducing Miles Morales

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 30, 2026

Right from the very beginning, as colored pixels are seen when passing passed the Sony logo and the Columbia torch-bearer ...

Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller

By Kent Conrad | Jul 30, 2026

Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...

Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 29, 2026

The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...

King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Steve Geise | Jul 28, 2026

While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...

Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy

By Mat Brewster | Jul 28, 2026

Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...

I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 28, 2026

I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...

The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time

By Steve Geise | Jul 27, 2026

Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...

The Paper: Season One Blu-ray Review: Return-to-Office Mandate

By Steve Geise | Jul 26, 2026

Dunder Mifflin is no more, but their Toledo-based parent paper company is still very much in business. Operating out of ...

From the Couch Hole: I’m Trying to Tell You Something ‘Bout My Life

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 26, 2026

Previously on FTCH, the Minions & Monsters unleashed the Mummy against the bear. Citizen Kane had peace of mind because ...

The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master

By Steve Geise | Jul 26, 2026

Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...

Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 25, 2026

Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...

A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story

By Steve Geise | Jul 25, 2026

Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...

Book Review: Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film by Simon Braund

By Davy | Jul 23, 2026

What can you say about George A. Romero's revolutionary 1968 masterpiece Night of the Living Dead that hasn't already been ...

Moses the Lawgiver DVD Review: A Spaghetti Biblical Epic

By Joe Garcia III | Jul 23, 2026

Burt Lancaster is Moses the Lawgiver in the six-part, six-hour TV miniseries that originally aired in 1974. This gritty, Italian-produced ...

Bringing Out the Dead 4K UHD Review: Long Night’s Journey into Night

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 21, 2026

Based on Joe Connelly's novel of the same name, screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese reteam in Bringing Out ...

The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece

By Steve Geise | Jul 20, 2026

Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...

From the Couch Hole: Things Is Coming Much Too Slow

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 19, 2026

Previously on FTCH, Miss Marple discovered that Supergirl was a runaway from the drama of the Regatta Mystery over the ...

Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: For the Birds

By Steve Geise | Jul 19, 2026

Warner Archive continues their Blu-ray upsells of classic Hanna-Barbara animated series with this 1969 oddity, previously only available on DVD. ...

Night and Day Blu-ray Review: Cole Porter Vanishes Behind Cary Grant’s Star Power

By Steve Geise | Jul 17, 2026

This biopic about Cole Porter boasts more than 20 of his songs. If that sounds like a lot, it is, ...

A Man Named Rocca / La Scoumoune Blu-rays Review: Same Story, Same Actor, Very Different Films

By Mat Brewster | Jul 16, 2026

In 1962, French author José Giovanni wrote a novel entitled L'Excommunié about an ex-gangster who comes to Marseilles to help ...

Difficult People: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Series Close to My Heart

By Davy | Jul 16, 2026

Every now and then, there is a show that comes along and really wins me over (despite the fact that ...

The Black Shield of Falworth Blu-ray Review: Men in Tights

By Steve Geise | Jul 16, 2026

This 1954 swashbuckler is most notable for the romantic pairing of real-life married couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis ...

Book Review: Prince Valiant: Peril of the Round Table by Paul S. Newman and Bob Fujitani

By Steve Geise | Jul 14, 2026

The Prince Valiant character will forever be associated with his ongoing weekly comic strip, but he has occasionally ventured beyond ...

From the Couch Hole: Sun Is Comin’ and It’s Getting Warmer

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 12, 2026

Previously on FTCH, the toy story was a Cornish mystery of the murder in paradise of Wuthering Heights on disclosure ...

Book Review: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1 by Tardi

By Mat Brewster | Jul 9, 2026

My wife is a Francophile. She started studying French when she was in high school. She lived in French-speaking Montreal ...

Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Kiss of Death

By Steve Geise | Jul 8, 2026

Bill Condon’s much-maligned film adaptation of the musical of the movie of the play of the novel arrives with considerable ...

Book Review: Nancy For All Seasons by Ernie Bushmiller

By Gordon S. Miller | Jul 8, 2026

Nancy For All Seasons, which collects comic strips from the years 1951–1952, is the second installment in the Fantagraphics Nancy ...

Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Blu-ray Review: Just Over Two Hours on Your Television Screen

By Mat Brewster | Jul 7, 2026

Just over four months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 15 American B-25 bombers took off from aircraft carriers in ...

Amrum DVD Review: How to Survive the End of Fascism

By Steve Geise | Jul 7, 2026

Despite boasting globally recognized star Diane Kruger in the cast, this WWII-adjacent film focuses entirely on the effects of wartime ...

Pretty Maids All in a Row Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with a Social Conscience

By Mat Brewster | Jul 6, 2026

From a certain angle, it seems absolutely bonkers that a film starring Rock Hudson, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, and Roddy ...

Book Review: Heaven by Katie Skelly

By Mat Brewster | Jul 5, 2026

Dolly is a lonely 18-year-old high school senior. She's become adrift since she had to drop out of gymnastics due ...

Come Live with Me Blu-ray Review: A Very Relaxed Film

By Mat Brewster | Jul 5, 2026

World War II-era films are fascinating to me. Especially those made in America before the USA entered the war. There ...

Hang ‘Em High 4K UHD Review: An Important Film for the Western Genre in America

By Shawn Bourdo | Jul 4, 2026

In 1968, Clint Eastwood was in the midst of his evolution from a television star in Rawhide to an International ...

Strange Cargo Blu-ray Review: Weird Movie

By Mat Brewster | Jul 3, 2026

Joan Crawford and Clark Gable starred in eight films together, all for MGM. Strange Cargo was the final one. It ...

High Art Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Queer-film Aficionados and Indie-film Buffs

By Davy | Jul 3, 2026

Pride month is over, but it's really not. Resilience and resistance are key to our survival as LGBTQIA+ people, especially ...

Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma

By Rock London | Jul 2, 2026

Brian De Palma’s fourth feature, Hi, Mom!, is the suspense master’s first—and arguably best—full-blown comedy. Loose, politically charged, and eager ...