Book Review: Lovers of the Empire: Vol. 1 by Yudori
By Steve Geise |
Following last year’s superb Raging Clouds, Yudori returns with the first installment of a new historical romance series. The book ...
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Repo Men 4K UHD Review: Bland Runner
By Steve Geise |
Although its title might lead viewers to believe this 2010 film is a continuation of Repo Man (1984), the film ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVII Blu-ray Review: Three From Republic Pictures
By Mat Brewster |
Boy, does it seem like movies have gotten longer these days. I mean, really long. It is almost as if ...
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Shakespeare in Love Movie Review: All the World’s a Stage
By Greg Hammond |
There is something brave about Shakespeare in Love, a movie that takes the most revered figure in English literature and ...
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The Pink Panther (1963) 4K UHD Review: The Birth of a Multimedia Franchise
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kino Lorber presents on 4K UHD director Blake Edwards' quintet of Pink Panther films starring Peter Sellers as the iconic ...
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Harlem School 1970 Blu-ray Review: Everyone Can Relate to This
By Davy |
Capturing public education at its roots with a deliberately primitive lens, multitalented filmmaker Phil Gries makes us flies on the ...
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Le Choc Blu-ray Review: Delon and Deneuve Deliver
By Steve Geise |
Ten years after their only other narrative feature film together (Un Flic), screen legends Alain Delon and Catherine Deneuve teamed ...
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American Beauty (1999) Movie Review: A Rose by Any Other Name
By Greg Hammond |
When American Beauty won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, it seemed to capture something essential about the ...
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Manon 70 Blu-ray Review: Ruthless People
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Jean Aurel’s 1968 film tracks the rocky romance between two narcissists completely incapable of real emotions. Loosely updating the ...
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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Movie Review: My Work Is About Affection
By Greg Hammond |
Errol Morris’ The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography is a small, unusually kind film from a director better known for ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Still Alright to Smile
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the band on the run didn't have a logical song about their obsession with buttered corn potato ...
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Money From Home 3D Blu-ray Review: Step Inside the World of Martin and Lewis
By Steve Geise |
When 3D first became a movie theater fad in the 1950s, the technology occasionally drifted outside of its typical sci-fi ...
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Small Time Crooks Movie Review: They Never Completed Kindergarten Because They Were Drafted
By Greg Hammond |
Woody Allen’s Small Time Crooks begins with the kind of comic energy that makes it seem destined to become one ...
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) Blu-ray Review: Cagney Pounds the Boards
By Steve Geise |
Although Shakespeare’s evergreen comedy has been adapted to the screen many times, Max Reinhardt’s lavish 1935 production was the first ...
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Fire and Ice 3-Disc Limited Edition Steelbook Review: “A Comic Book Adaptation of Frank Frazetta.”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Artists Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta and writers Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas teamed up to create Fire and Ice, ...
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Crimes and Misdemeanors Movie Review: “Comedy Is Tragedy Plus Time”
By Greg Hammond |
Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors is one of his most serious and unsettling films. It is a dark comedy that ...
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Exit 8 Blu-ray Review: Clever and Creepy
By Davy |
Most video games don't exactly translate well to the big screen. But there a few that do, and Exit 8 ...
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Presenting Lily Mars Blu-ray Review: Broadway Baby
By Steve Geise |
Just four years removed from The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was still struggling to transition from child actress to ...
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MacArthur 4K UHD Review: War is Boring
By Mat Brewster |
I find it impossible to talk about MacArthur without comparing it to Patton, the 1970 film starring George C. Scott ...
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Hyperspace (3-D Director’s Cut) Blu-ray Review: Funnier Than Spaceballs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Suffering a six-year delay and a very brief U.S. theatrical release, Kino Lorber and 3-D Film Archive have teamed up ...
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Letty Lynton Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code Melodrama That Blends Romance and Crime
By Gordon S. Miller |
While Letty Lynton is credited with being based on Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes' 1931 novel of the same name about ...
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From the Couch Hole: When I Was Young, It Seemed That Life Was So Wonderful
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, thrice upon a time the green ripper straight up said there was no other choice about the ...
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The Boxer (1977) Blu-ray Review: The Fighter Still Remains
By Mat Brewster |
According to the excellent visual essay by Tom Mes, which is included in this new Blu-ray release of The Boxer, ...
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Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Versions of the Franchise Since Its Heyday
By Shawn Bourdo |
The made-for-television film, Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins aired originally on the Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009. The film debuted ...
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Ping Pong Blu-ray Review: Balls of Furi
By Steve Geise |
At the start of this century, three notable live-action sports comedies emerged from Asia: Waterboys, Ping Pong, and Stephen Chow’s ...
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Book Review: The Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice, and an American Icon by William Bernhardt
By Darcy Staniforth |
"Truth, justice, and the American way," may be Superman's famous catchphrase, but for Superman's creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “The Golden Nugget Boat” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: “The Golden Nugget Boat” is Volume 26 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. This ...
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The Island (1980) 4K UHD Review: At Least It’s Never Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a massive success. It turned Spielberg into a household name. It almost single-handedly created the summer-blockbuster ...
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Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...
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Legends of the Lost Ark DVD Review: A No-Nonsense Search for the Ark of the Covenant
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Stephen Pettit, Legends of the Lost Ark (2026) is a documentary that follows archaeologist and Biblical scholar Dr. ...
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: Death Isn’t the End
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although main character Spear was killed off at the end of the second season and there was talk about the ...
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From the Couch Hole: Lost in a Dream, I Don’t Know Which Way to Go
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was closer to fine when saving Private Ryan during the Zygon inversion. The odyssey was that ...
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The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...
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Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...
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The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...
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Book Review: Bimbo Agitprop by Raquelle Jac
By Mat Brewster |
I just received a copy of Raquelle Jac's comic Bimbo Agitprop in the mail. I'm supposed to review it. But ...
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Movie Review: What a Fabulously Tangled Web We Weave
By Greg Hammond |
Few sequels have the confidence to expand everything that made their predecessor special without losing sight of its emotional core. ...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Blu-ray Review: Introducing Miles Morales
By Gordon S. Miller |
Right from the very beginning, as colored pixels are seen when passing passed the Sony logo and the Columbia torch-bearer ...
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Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...
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King Creole 4K UHD Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid
By Steve Geise |
While Elvis Presley’s later films generally fell into a formulaic, lazy rut, this early effort marks a high point in ...
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Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy
By Mat Brewster |
Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...
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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 |
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...
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The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time
By Steve Geise |
Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...
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The Paper: Season One Blu-ray Review: Return-to-Office Mandate
By Steve Geise |
Dunder Mifflin is no more, but their Toledo-based parent paper company is still very much in business. Operating out of ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’m Trying to Tell You Something ‘Bout My Life
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Minions & Monsters unleashed the Mummy against the bear. Citizen Kane had peace of mind because ...
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The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master
By Steve Geise |
Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...
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Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott
By Joe Garcia III |
Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...
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A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...
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Book Review: Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film by Simon Braund
By Davy |
What can you say about George A. Romero's revolutionary 1968 masterpiece Night of the Living Dead that hasn't already been ...
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