Book Review: Christmas in the Movies: Revised & Expanded Edition by Jeremy Arnold
By Davy |
Personally, I think my favorite Christmas movie is 1974's Black Christmas, which can be referred to as an anti-Christmas one. ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Don’t You Love the Farce
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a haunting in Venice and Carmella Creeper is dead again in The Void. In Flavortown, ...
Read More Crime and Punishment (2002) Blu-ray Review: Too Much Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crispin Glover plays Roskolnikov in Menahem Golan’s adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. Roskolnikov has recently published a ...
Read More Farewell My Concubine 30th Anniversary Movie Review: Leslie Cheung Shines Once More
By Steve Geise |
In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Chen Kaige’s searing epic is returning to U.S. theaters with a new 4K restoration ...
Read More The Exorcist 4K UHD Review: William Friedkin’s Masterpiece
By Greg Hammond |
William Friedkin's The Exorcist is based on the novel and screenplay by William Peter Blatty. The film opens in Iraq, ...
Read More New York Stories Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Trio from Three Great Directors
By Gordon S. Miller |
To quote the concluding narration from the Naked City (1958-1963) TV series, “There are eight million stories in the naked ...
Read More After Dark, My Sweet Blu-ray Review: A Strong Film Noir from Director James Foley
By Greg Hammond |
Based on the novel by Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, stars Jason Patric (in an early outing meant to ...
Read More Book Review: “You Talkin’ To Me?” The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes by Brian Abrams
By Joe Garcia III |
Someplace, somewhere, sometime at the appropriate moment we've all blurted out a quote lifted right from what we deem a ...
Read More Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! DVD Review: Plays Cards Across a Vast Spectrum of Fandoms
By Shawn Bourdo |
The 35th entry into the Scooby-Doo! Direct-To-Video Movie series arrives on September 26, 2023. Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! continues a ...
Read More Book Review: Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck in Les Misérables and War and Peace by Giovan Battista Carpi
By Greg Hammond |
Disney presents a new addition to the Fantagraphics series of collected cartoons. In this volume we get both “The Secret ...
Read More Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “Christmas on Bear Mountain” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Donald Duck "Christmas on Bear Mountain" is Volume 5 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
Read More La Bamba Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Soars Far Above Other Hollywood Biopics
By Joe Garcia III |
La Bamba (1987) is the story of Richard Valenzuela, known better as Ritchie Valens, a name associated with a song ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I’ve Been Out Walking
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Archer and Gator were not accused in the killing of a Chinese bookie. I ranked the best ...
Read More School of Rock 20th Anniversary Blu-ray Steelbook Review: It Still Rocks
By David Wangberg |
Richard Linklater’s School of Rock was released 20 years ago and is still proof that a family film doesn’t have ...
Read More Nil by Mouth Blu-ray Review: A Strong, Gripping Example of British Cinema
By Davy |
The British kitchen sink and social realist dramas of the 1950s and 60s were emotional and draining, but they don't ...
Read More American Pop Blu-ray Review: Try, Try, and Try Again
By Steve Geise |
Ralph Bakshi’s animated voyage through 20th century popular music has finally arrived on Blu-ray. While music is an integral part ...
Read More Three Days of the Condor Blu-ray Review: The Book Reader Who Stayed Out in the Cold
By Jack Cormack |
As far as paranoid ‘70s thrillers go, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor—about Joe Turner (Robert Redford), a hip ...
Read More Cocaine Bear 4K UHD Review: Fans of the Genre Might be Pleased
By Greg Hammond |
In 1985, a drug dealer dumped cocaine out of his Cessna and then fell from the plane to his death. ...
Read More Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: Beyond Halloween Town: The Story, the Characters, and the Legacy by Emily Zemler
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Emily Zemler, who describes her younger self as “a black clothing-clad weirdo” in the Introduction, helps commemorate the 30th ...
Read More My Sailor, My Love Movie Review: A Delightful Feature on Later-Stage Romance
By David Wangberg |
It may almost seem cliché to say that a movie filmed in Ireland is breathtaking to behold, but it’s true ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: As the Ocean Crawls Onto the Shoreline
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the enforcer Josey Wales named the best soda ever. It was in a broken dream that Python ...
Read More The Wild Party Blu-ray Review: A Wild Night Is Calling
By Joe Garcia III |
Gather ‘round, people, and you shall hear the grim tale of one named Jolly. With a comeback in tow, a ...
Read More Book Review: Totem by Laura Pérez
By Steve Geise |
In Laura Pérez’s beautiful, bewildering graphic novel, a flashback begets another flashback, unidentified characters drift in and out of the ...
Read More Sex, Power, and Money: Films by Beth B Blu-ray Review: A Filmmaker of Incredible Vision and Prescience
By Davy |
As an extreme film buff, I always appreciate and seek out filmmakers and films that challenge the usual and obviously ...
Read More Little Women (1933) Blu-ray Review: Sentimental but Sweet
By Mat Brewster |
In college, I did work study for the university dinner theater. It was a great job, and I had loads ...
Read More Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Blu-ray Review: Mostly Punishment
By Greg Hammond |
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, written by Larry Gross in the early 1990’s and directed by Rob Schmidt in 2000 ...
Read More Spinout Blu-ray Review: Hey, Elvis! You Gotta Win This Race!
By Joe Garcia III |
Elvis Presley leads a small rock ‘n’ roll band, likes racing fast cars, and gets into all kinds of trouble ...
Read More The Prodigal Son Blu-ray Review: Sammo Hung Meets Wing Chun
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their series of Sammo Hung Blu-ray releases, Arrow Video’s latest entry is this 1981 gem. Sammo directs and co-stars ...
Read More Wichita Blu-ray Review: Wyatt Earp’s Origin Story
By Mat Brewster |
How many movies and TV shows have been made about Wyatt Earp? Or been influenced by his reputation? They say ...
Read More Gay Purr-ee Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland Gets Animated
By Steve Geise |
By the 1960s, Judy Garland was in decline, no longer a potent or reliable force at the box office and ...
Read More The Big Knife Blu-ray Review: Stabbing Old Hollywood
By Mat Brewster |
Hollywood loves making movies about Hollywood. Usually, they are fawning tales about the magic of the movies, or about how ...
Read More Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K UHD Review: Batman in Love
By Kent Conrad |
In the last couple of decades, DC has been aggressive about adapting its comic book stories into films. Some of ...
Read More Malone Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Shows Off a Particular Set of Skills in a Generic Actioner
By Gordon S. Miller |
Burt Reynolds is Malone. But in 1987 that didn't mean as much as it did back in the '70s when ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: In the Days Between the Hours
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the muskrat love between Frances and Margot got the Mayans kicking and screaming at the wedding. The ...
Read More The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD Review: A Fantastic Set
By Gordon S. Miller |
This three-disc set features 75 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive. The biggest star to come out of ...
Read More Foolish Wives Blu-ray Review: The First Million Dollar Picture
By Kent Conrad |
Erich von Stroheim, the director of Foolish Wives, was well known for his aristocratic and military background. He was a ...
Read More Book Review: Eden II by K. Wroten
By Steve Geise |
K. Wroten’s sophomore graphic novel is a sprawling, 452-page meditation on the bleak existence faced by the current twenty-something generation. ...
Read More Borsalino Blu-ray Review: A (Not Quite) Epic French Gangster Flick
By Mat Brewster |
Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo were two of the biggest and greatest film stars in France. They were both great ...
Read More Liar’s Moon Blu-ray Review: A Teenage Soap Opera with a Great Soundtrack
By Joe Garcia III |
Rich girl, poor boy. Good kids tangled in a web of deceit spun long ago by their parents. It’s Romeo ...
Read More Hardcore Blu-ray Review: A Solid and Nervy Depiction
By Davy |
The 1970s was a legendary and often gritty time for filmmaking. There were obviously the films of Martin Scorsese, William ...
Read More Fathom Events Presents John Carpenter’s They Live
By Mat Brewster |
I don't go to the movie theater much anymore. It is too expensive. The crowds are always obnoxious. Half the ...
Read More Book Review: Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television’s Original Genius
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ernie Kovacs was a comic pioneer in television as well as a television pioneer in comedy. During the 1950s, both ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Doin’ the Town and Doin’ It Right
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were all dressed for the Fall Festival in harmony with the rabbits and the frogs. There ...
Read More Book Review: Horror Unmasked: A History of Terror from Nosferatu to Nope by Brad Weismann
By Davy |
The horror genre is still regarded by many as the bastard stepchild of film. A lot of people continue to ...
Read More Enter the Dragon 4K UHD Review: Are You Not… Entered?
By Jack Cormack |
Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) is one of the most famous kung fu movies ever made. In the ...
Read More Book Review: Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas by Paco Roca
By Steve Geise |
This is not a new graphic novel by Spanish cartoonist Paco Roca. Instead, it’s a compilation of archival autobiographical comic ...
Read More City of the Living Dead 4K UHD Review: Where Zombies Are Ghosts
By Kent Conrad |
What makes Italian horror films of the '70s and '80s exciting is that anything can happen. What makes them infuriating ...
Read More The Flash (2023) Blu-ray Review: You Can’t Go Home Again
By Gordon S. Miller |
Andy Muschietti's The Flash (2023) is the 13th installment of the DCEU. The franchise gets an amusing but disjointed, multiverse ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Is This the Only Place You Thought to Go
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, what we did in the shadows was rad and included some teenage mutant ninja turtles. The Super ...
Read More Brightwood DVD Review: An Independent Horror Flick with a Blood-Soaked Heart
By Greg Hammond |
Brightwood, written, directed, and edited by Dane Elcar, and starring Dana Berger as Jen, and Max Woertendyke as Dan, is ...
Read More A Taste of Blood (2020) Blu-ray Review: These Vampires Aren’t Sexy but the Soundtrack Is
By Joe Garcia III |
A modern-day family in the Argentina countryside faces its bloody past in A.K. Tolstoy's A Taste of Blood (2020) brought ...
Read More The Broadway Melody Blu-ray Review: Give My Regards to the Warner Archive Team
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, is a melodramatic story focusing ...
Read More Book Review: Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work by Ian Nathan
By Gordon S. Miller |
Housed in a slipcase, Ian Nathan's Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work takes readers on an unofficial and ...
Read More A Moment of Romance Blu-ray Review: HK Stockholm Syndrome
By Steve Geise |
When a bank heist goes awry, getaway driver Wah (Andy Lau) grabs the closest civilian as a hostage as he ...
Read More Book Review: Starseeds 3 by Charles Glaubitz
By Steve Geise |
By any conventional literary measure, the Starseeds series is bewildering and left so far open to interpretation that it’s difficult ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Too Long in the Wind, Too Long in the Rain
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we let out with a "Chim Chim Cher-ee" even when some Pudd'nheads said, "It's bad for ya." ...
Read More Mutant Blast Blu-ray Review: A Witty, Weird, Gorific Blast
By Joe Garcia III |
Troma Entertainment (The Toxic Avenger) brings Portuguese director Fernando Alle's odd, gory, silly yet witty, funny, and brilliant sci-fi/horror Mutant ...
Read More Cosa Nostra: Franco Nero in Three Mafia Tales by Damiano Damiani Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Superstar Italian actor Franco Nero headlines three separate projects by director Damiano Damiani with a unifying spotlight on the mafia ...
Read More Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Cave of Ali Baba” is Volume 28 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. It ...
Read More Strangers in the House Blu-ray Review: French Masters of Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
In a large, shambling, mostly empty mansion, a loud noise clangs upstairs. It is loud enough to awaken Hector Loursat ...
Read More Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Danke Schoen for a Perfect Movie
By Kent Conrad |
For a certain segment of the population, this is the movie. The movie. One of my older brothers. My high ...
Read More Is Paris Burning? Blu-ray Review: Night of 100 Stars
By Steve Geise |
Not to be confused with Paris Is Burning, this 1966 WWII drama boasts a seemingly unbelievable roster of stars reenacting ...
Read More Book Review: Werewolf Jones & Sons: Deluxe Super Fun Annual by Simon Hanselmann and Josh Pettinger
By Mat Brewster |
I am not by any means a prude, but I should have never read Werewolf Jones & Songs: Deluxe Super ...
Read More Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Feels Like We’re Witnessing Real Life
By Davy |
Ever since legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasjuiro Ozu died in 1963, there has been an array of cinematic stories he left ...
Read More Book Review: Out There: The Science Behind Sci-Fi Film and TV by Ariel Waldman
By David Wangberg |
Science fiction is a genre that has predicted many current inventions. And yet, at the time of release, certain movies ...
Read More The Fastest Gun Alive Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Western
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Frank D. Gilroy's teleplay The Last Notch, Russell Rouse's The Fastest Gun Alive is a compelling western that ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: When The’s ‘Ardly No Day Nor ‘Ardly No Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were hanging on the telephone for the Omega Man and Boba Fett. There was Juneberry, Joe ...
Read More Rio Bravo 4K UHD Review: Degüello
By Jack Cormack |
For Rio Bravo (1959; 141 mins.; dir. Howard Hawks)—my favorite Western or damn near it—I have almost no critical faculty. ...
Read More Nightbreed 4K UHD Review: Clive Barker’s Monster Mess
By Kent Conrad |
It's unfortunate, but perhaps not surprising that Clive Barker hung up his directing hat. He made his first film, Hellraiser, ...
Read More Bigfoot or Bust Blu-ray Review: It’s Busty Alright
By Joe Garcia III |
A Spirit Halloween Bigfoot gets chased around by busty older women making corny, horny jokes. It's too long at 75 ...
Read More Fast X Blu-ray Review: It’s Still About Family
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fast X, the latest installment in the franchise, is a sequel to Fast Five. I opened my review of the ...
Read More Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: A Master Reflects
By Kent Conrad |
With a master artist, their later works are impossible to judge outside of the context of their careers. One could ...
Read More Robot Monster: 70th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: A Dream Release for 3-D Fans
By Gordon S. Miller |
Bayview Entertainment celebrates the 70th anniversary of Robot Monster with an impressive release that features a quality restoration by 3-D ...
Read More Swamp Thing (1982) Blu-ray Review: Wes Craven’s Beauty and the (Bayou) Beast
By Joe Garcia III |
Swamp Thing (1982) written and directed by Wes Craven takes DC Comics main monster from the page to the silver ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I’m in the Phone Booth, It’s the One Across the Hall
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the biggest part of me was a combination of Oppenheimer and Obi-Wan and a mashup of Twinkies ...
Read More Midsummer Scream 2023 Review, Part 2: Sunday Spooky Sunday
By Gordon S. Miller |
Throughout the 3-day weekend, the exhibit floor was packed with hundreds of vendors for all one's spooky season needs, from ...
Read More Kokomo City Movie Review: A Raw Portrait of Sex Work
By Davy |
I'm always struck by powerful stories that showcase our lives as LGBTQIA+ individuals, because we matter too, especially in an ...
Read More Du Barry Was a Lady Blu-ray Review: All Show, Little Story
By Steve Geise |
Even by the admittedly low bar of plot development in classic movie musicals, this film’s story is so half-baked it ...
Read More Midsummer Scream 2023: Hall of Shadows Review: Each Attraction Showcased an Impressive Amount of Work
By Lorna Miller |
The Hall of Shadows is a section of the exhibit floor filled with haunted attractions. CalHaunts, a Southern California group ...
Read More Assault on Hill 400 Blu-ray Review: A Disappointing Throwback to ’40s and ’50s B Combat Movies
By Joe Garcia III |
Assault on Hill 400 is loosely based on the 2nd Ranger Battalions valiant siege of Bergstein, Germany in 1944 as ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Try to Stay in the Middle
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was the return of the Killer's Hook and the Pickwick Papers said, "Thank you for smoking." ...
Read More East of Eden (1955) 4K Ultra HD Review: All Kinds of Perfection
By Greg Hammond |
Elia Kazan’s movie version of John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden is a retelling of the Cain and Abel story. ...
Read More Aber Bergen: Complete Series DVD Review: Divorce Norwegian Style
By Steve Geise |
When married partners of a law firm divorce, their office is left in flux as they try to continue working ...
Read More The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Blu-ray Review: A Fitting Farewell
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, The Venture Bros. ran for seven seasons on Adult Swim over 14 years ...
Read More Book Review: Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 3
By Kent Conrad |
The third in Fantagraphics reprint series, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Count Roquefort Case and Other Stories: The Disney ...
Read More Cimarron (1931) Blu-ray Review: An Epic Western and a Product of Its Time
By Joe Garcia III |
The Warner Archive Collection presents RKO Pictures' Cimarron directed by Wesley Ruggles, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, and ...
Read More Justice League: Warworld Blu-ray Review: A Minor Installment in the Tomorrowverse
By Gordon S. Miller |
Justice League: Warworld is the latest entry in the Tomorrowverse, the current iteration of the DC Animated Movie Universe. While ...
Read More Book Review: Scrooge McDuck: The Dragon of Glasgow by Joris Chamblain and Fabrizio Petrossi
By Kent Conrad |
Scrooge McDuck is best known from either DuckTales, or from the 1983 Disney Short, "Mickey's Christmas Carol." There he played, ...
Read More Soundies: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review: The Set Is Really a Lot of Fun
By Davy |
Going through history, there's always hidden gems of pop culture that seem lost forever, whether it's film or television. However, ...
Read More Book Review: The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988: A Lovingly Curated Collection of Charles M. Schulz’ Brilliant Strips
By generaljabbo |
For nearly 50 years, Charles M. Schulz captured the hearts and imaginations of readers with his beloved Peanuts characters. Charlie ...
Read More One False Move Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Southern Discomfort
By David Wangberg |
Carl Franklin’s work is a blind spot for me, sad to say. While the acclaimed filmmaker has only a few ...
Read More Sympathy for the Devil (2023) Movie Review: Ride Angry
By David Wangberg |
It’s almost too on the nose that Nicolas Cage would star in a movie called Sympathy for the Devil, in ...
Read More Star Pilot Blu-ray Review: Space Satire Points Finger at Self
By Greg Hammond |
Pietro Francisci’s Star Pilot (2 + 5 Missione Hydra in Italian, 1966) stars Leonora Ruffo and Anthony Freeman, and begins ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: There’s a New Sun Arisin’
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the heat was on Indiana Jones and we were holdin' onto yesterday. We said what we would ...
Read More Four Quartets DVD Review: Magnetic, Mesmerizing Solo Stage Performance
By Steve Geise |
While we spent our pandemic lockdowns doomscrolling, Zooming, and making bread, Ralph Fiennes decided to memorize the entirety of T.S. ...
Read More Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge: Operation Galleon Grab by Giorgio Cavazzano
By Kent Conrad |
While never a major draw in the United States, comic book stories starring the main line Disney cartoon characters, Mickey ...
Read More Book Review: Alison by Lizzy Stewart
By Steve Geise |
Alison is a plain teenager getting by in a small English town, running out the clock on her high school ...
Read More Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4K Digital Review: All the Feels
By Steve Geise |
After focusing on Star Lord’s family back story for the first two movies, writer/director James Gunn turns his attention to ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: My Yesterdays Have All Gone By
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the last of Sheila went to Asteroid City for the Ultimate Coca-Cola on a beautiful day. The ...
Read More Book Review: Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris
By Steve Geise |
Natalie Norris was just 16 years old when she was shipped off from the U.S. to France for a summer ...
Read More Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 1 Blu-ray Review: A Good Start to Becoming a Cartoon Collector
By Gordon S. Miller |
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 presents 20 Warner Brothers cartoons, 10 each from the 1940s and '50s. Not sure ...
Read More The Truman Show 4K UHD Review: Prescient Dystopic Satire
By Kent Conrad |
What's frightening about The Truman Show, a dystopic nightmare about the co-option of human experience and survival in a corporate ...
Read More Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd Movie Review: A Look at the Life of Pink Floyd’s Founder
By generaljabbo |
Before Pink Floyd became stadium rock giants during the 1970s, they were at the forefront of the London psychedelic music ...
Read More Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: Classic Science Fiction Gets the Royal Treatment
By Greg Hammond |
Invaders from Mars (1953) concerns a young boy named David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt - who carries much of the film ...
Read More The Rules of the Game Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: The Shooting Party
By Jack Cormack |
On the brink of WWII, Jean Renoir—inspired by baroque music and an opera, Les Caprices de Marianne—took his collaborators to ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Don’t Let It Get Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the brotherhood celebrated their Independence Day with beef, brownies, and a side of soylent green. The Sandman ...
Read More Only in Theaters DVD Review: If You Love Movies, It’s a Must-see
By Davy |
Ironically, watching last year's documentary Only In Theaters, filmed by Raphael Sbarge, I felt regret for doing so on DVD. ...
Read More Book Review: Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies by Léonie Bischoff
By Darcy Staniforth |
Diarist and author Anaïs Nin lived an extraordinary and controversial life. From Henry Miller to John Steinbeck, she had many lovers ...
Read More Clash of the Wolves / Where the North Begins Blu-ray Review: A Rin Tin Tin Double Feature
By Gordon S. Miller |
Kino Classics and the Library of Congress present a Rin Tin Tin double feature with Clash of the Wolves / ...
Read More Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece / Tintin and the Blue Oranges Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
The iconic Belgian comic book character has been translated into many forms of media over the years, and now two ...
Read More Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman DVD Review: Murakami Gets Animated
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director/composer Pierre Földes stitches together unrelated Haruki Murakami short stories into a somewhat cohesive narrative in this animated feature film. ...
Read More Book Review: Walt Disney’s Silly Symphonies 1932-1935: Starring Bucky Bug and Donald Duck
By Gordon S. Miller |
Previously available from IDW/The Library of American Comics in 2016, Fantagraphics has now released their edition of Walt Disney's Silly ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: See the Lights Do a Long Slow Fade
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Arthur reminded us "The best that you can do is fall in love with Churro Kit Kats." ...
Read More Book Review: The Planetoid and Other Stories by Al Feldstein and Joe Orlando
By Steve Geise |
After over 30 volumes in the long-running Fantagraphics EC Artists’ Library series, Joe Orlando’s sci-fi stories return to the spotlight ...
Read More The White Buffalo Blu-ray Review: Bizarre Prairie Jaws
By Kent Conrad |
There's potential in the idea of The White Buffalo. A pastiche of real world characters (Wild Bill Hickock, Crazy Horse, ...
Read More National Lampoon’s Vacation 4K UHD Review: This is No Longer a Vacation — It’s a Quest!
By Jack Cormack |
The basic idea behind National Lampoon’s Vacation is easy to guess—the movie is a lampoon, a harsh satire, of the ...
Read More The Venture Bros.: The Complete Series DVD Review: The Magnum Opus of Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Venture Bros.: The Complete Series is a repackaging of the previously released seven seasons of the cult favorite, Adult ...
Read More Millennium Mambo Blu-ray Review: A Lyrical and Subtle Film
By Davy |
We all go through life wondering where we're going in it. We always question our life choices; whether we're actually ...
Read More Book Review: Nudism Comes to Connecticut by Susan Schade and Jon Buller
By Steve Geise |
Imagine having a scandalous but fascinating tale buried deep within the branches of your family tree. Then imagine having the ...
Read More The Servant Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Scathing, Subversive Film of Class, Sexuality, and Manipulation
By Davy |
Only a few films in cinematic history have ever portrayed the rather complex dynamics between masters and their manservants, but ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I Know It’s Crazy but It’s True
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we asked, "Do you hear the rain when you're gone?" It's a Gilded Age at the Grindhouse ...
Read More A Zed and Two Noughts / The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway Blu-ray Review
By Davy |
Watching and doing my review for the 1982 film The Draughtman's Contract, I was instantly struck by filmmaker Peter Greenaway's ...
Read More Whisper of the Heart (2022) Blu-ray Review: A Delightful Romance for All Ages
By Greg Hammond |
Whisper of the Heart (2022) is a Japanese romance starring Nana Seino as Shizuku (She-Zoo-Koo) and Tori Matsuzaka as Seiji ...
Read More Creepshow Collector’s Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review: The Best E.C. Screamer Ever Put on Film
By Jack Cormack |
If horror comedies and horror anthology movies are not your thing, skip the Creepshow (1982). Otherwise, check it out. This cult ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Interview: Filmmaker Rod Blackhurst on Blood for Dust
By David Wangberg |
This isn’t the first time that filmmaker Rod Blackhurst has attended the Tribeca Film Festival. Back in 2016, his feature ...
Read More Time Bandits Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: A Child’s Nightmare Fantasy
By Kent Conrad |
Is Time Bandits a children's movie? It stars a child, and there's nothing on the face that a child shouldn't ...
Read More Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant Blu-ray Review: A Solid yet Standard War Flick
By David Wangberg |
Guy Ritchie’s wheelhouse has primarily been in the crime comedy genre with films like Snatch; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking ...
Read More Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux Blu-ray Review: Oddest of Odd Bedfellows
By Kent Conrad |
David Cronenberg, fellow Canadian and not a stranger to weirdness once said, "You haven't truly seen a foreign film until ...
Read More Mr. Wong Collection Blu-ray Review: Boris Karloff Detects
By Mat Brewster |
The early 1920s saw an influx of Chinese immigrants to the United States. This so-called "Yellow Peril" unsurprisingly led to ...
Read More The Bridges at Toko-Ri Blu-ray Review: The Toll of War
By Kent Conrad |
Korean war movies all tend to have a sense of ambivalence. WWII movies, even when they have obligatory scenes of ...
Read More Book Review: Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir: A Complete Package
By Darcy Staniforth |
Dark corners. Quiet conversations. Secrets that get spilled after a few too many. This could be a scene from a ...
Read More Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! Blu-ray Review: Ready for His Close-up
By Gordon S. Miller |
Yogi Bear, voiced by Daws Butler and based on Art Carney's Ed Norton from The Honeymooners, first appeared in his ...
Read More The Draughtsman’s Contract Blu-ray Review: An Oddly Fascinating Murder Mystery
By Davy |
There's always going to be a rift between the rich and the poor, where the poor sometimes gets a taste ...
Read More Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) Movie Review: Album Art Gods
By Jack Cormack |
Chances are, Hipgnosis—the working name of a pair of English lads, Storm Thorgerson & Audrey ‘Po’ Powell, who revolutionized the ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: And in the Day, Everything’s Complex
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the 100th episode was brought to you by Dr. Pepper Float, Cuban Sandwich, and Strawberry Lymonade. Mr. Blue ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Review: Blood for Dust
By David Wangberg |
In the opening scene of Rod Blackhurst’s Blood for Dust, we see an image of what appears to be a ...
Read More Tommy Guns Blu-ray Review: Blasts Conformity to Smithereens
By Steve Geise |
Angolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição announces his arrival on the global stage with this blisteringly original, confounding film that defies categorization. ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Review: Cinnamon
By Gordon S. Miller |
Writer/director Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.'s makes a notable feature-film debut with Cinnamon, a captivating neo-noir filled with well-plotted twists. Jodi ...
Read More Film: The Living Record of Our Memory DVD Review: Boiling the Preservation Ocean
By Steve Geise |
This new documentary takes a look at film preservation and restoration efforts underway around the world. We tend to think ...
Read More Thelma & Louise Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Two for the Road
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise tells a familiar story about two friends on a road trip who unintentionally become outlaws, ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Review: Stan Lee
By David Wangberg |
Stan Lee, the legendary Marvel Comics co-founder, passed away back in 2018. But the work he did during his time ...
Read More The Great Train Robbery (1978) Blu-ray Review: A Wry Money-Train Caper
By Jack Cormack |
England, 1855. Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), a clever thief with a thirst for daring stunts (and, yes, money), recruits his ...
Read More The Oyster Princess / Meyer from Berlin Blu-ray Review: A Pair of German Silents from Lubitsch
By Mat Brewster |
Ernst Lubitsch is widely considered one of the great directors of classic cinema. His comedies were sophisticated, elegant with a ...
Read More Rain Man Blu-ray Review: Irresistibly Good
By David Wangberg |
For years, I had made references to Rain Man or had people make references to the movie because of how ...
Read More Caliber 9 Blu-ray Review: Action-Packed Poliziotteschi with a Message
By Mat Brewster |
There is a scene relatively early in Fernando Di Leo's classic polischietti Caliber 9 that fairly well sums up everything ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Review: Richland
By David Wangberg |
Richland, Washington is a small town with which not many people may be familiar. And yet, it has a fascinating ...
Read More Tribeca 2023 Interview: Filmmaker Irene Lusztig Discusses Her New Documentary, Richland
By David Wangberg |
While the summer movie season will feature a lot of discussion about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which tells the true story ...
Read More The Package Blu-ray Review: Not so Much a Bad Movie as a Disappointing One
By Mat Brewster |
When I was in college, I realized that when you are with a particular group of friends and having a ...
Read More The Vault (2017) Blu-ray Review: Heist Goes Wrong, Phantom Turned Loose
By Joe Garcia III |
The Vault (2017) starts as a cliche heist flick but quickly (and thankfully) turns into an enjoyable yet weird haunted ...
Read More Gorky Park Blu-ray Review: Strange Accents Nearly Ruin a Strong Thriller
By Greg Hammond |
Gorky Park (1983), starring William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Joanna Pacula, and Brian Dennehy, is a thriller set in Cold War ...
Read More Joy House Blu-ray Review: Love and Death on the French Riviera
By Steve Geise |
This 1964 gem exudes cool, from the lead performances by gorgeous stars Alain Delon and Jane Fonda, to the jazzy ...
Read More Book Review: Listen, Beautiful Márcia by Marcello Quintanilha
By Steve Geise |
Brazilian favelas typically evoke images of poverty, drugs, and desperation, as most notably explored in the film City of God. ...
Read More Children of the Corn (1984) Blu-ray Review: The Corn Kids Bring New Meaning to Cult Classic
By Joe Garcia III |
"Outlander!" still gives me goosebumps when I hear it called out and “He who walks behind the rows” kept me ...
Read More Renfield Blu-ray Review: Sink Your Teeth into This One
By David Wangberg |
When you allow an actor like Nicolas Cage to completely let loose, it’s almost guaranteed that the performance will be ...
Read More Anna May Wong Collection Blu-ray Review: To Wong Blu, Thanks for Everything
By Steve Geise |
Kino Lorber’s new box set shines a light on a string of 1930s films starring the iconic Anna May Wong. ...
Read More Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIII Blu-ray Review: A Triple Feature from the ’50s
By Mat Brewster |
Kino Lorber continues to release lesser-known film noirs in their The Dark Side of Cinema sets. Part XIII includes a ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: And Today Is the Day We’ve Waited For
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a sick puppy with a problem of the jugular vein. We had to go slow West ...
Read More LYNCH/OZ Movie Review: A Slightly Repetitive but Illuminating Deep Dive into Inspired Cinephila
By Davy |
As many of us film buffs already know, legendary and strangely original filmmaker David Lynch has an iconic oeuvre that ...
Read More Book Review: Doris Danger: Giant Monsters Amok by Chris Wisnia & Ricky Sprague
By Kent Conrad |
As the American comic book industry developed in the '60s, it became significantly less diverse. Superheroes eventually became, essentially, the ...
Read More Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIV Blu-ray Review: Moral Teachings Get in the Way
By Mat Brewster |
It just now occurs to me that classic-era Hollywood cinema, especially those low-budget B-Movies, often acted like the Afterschool Specials ...
Read More If I Had a Million Blu-ray Review: A Mixed Bag
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Robert D. Andrews' 1931 novel Windfall, If I Had a Million is an anthology credited to seven directors, ...
Read More Book Review: Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades by David Steinberg
By Greg Hammond |
David Steinberg is a man of many talents. He performed improv at Second City before becoming a stand-up comedian known ...
Read More Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XII Blu-ray Review: I’m Still Watching and Loving It
By Mat Brewster |
The thing about film noir is that it was mostly a B-movie genre. For every noir with A-list stars, directors, ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I Fell Asleep Amid the Flowers
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, in the pitch black we were slip slidin' away down the quicksilver highway with an old pro. The ...
Read More Book Review: Out of My Head: The Imaginary Creatures of Josep Baqué by Brian Chidester
By David Wangberg |
Josep Baqué was an artist with whom very few are familiar. His artwork went mostly unknown, as he never shared ...
Read More Shazam! Fury of the Gods Blu-ray Review: A Family-Friendly Return of the “Shazamily”
By generaljabbo |
Four years after Shazam!, a charming film starring Zachary Levi as the title character — an adult version of a ...
Read More Vengeance: A Love Story Blu-ray Review: Nic Cage As a Vigilante Cop
By Joe Garcia III |
Nicolas Cage plays an ex-soldier turned stoic detective who has had enough of the broken system that rewards the guilty ...
Read More Creed III Blu-ray Review: A Crowd-pleaser
By Gordon S. Miller |
As stated when I reviewed the movie, “Michael B. Jordan does double duty for the first time, making his directorial ...
Read More Violent Streets (1974) Blu-ray Review: Blood and Guts Yakuza Story
By Kent Conrad |
It might be a form of survivorship bias, but movies "demystifying" or "deglamorizing" yakuza seem to outnumber any other kind ...
Read More Samurai Wolf 1 & 2 Blu-ray Review: A Scruffier Yojimbo
By Kent Conrad |
The first director a Western audience thinks of for classic samurai films is Akira Kurosawa. After all, his Seven Samurai ...
Read More Book Review: Salome’s Last Dance by Daria Tessler
By Mat Brewster |
Portland artist Daria Tessler's second comic book published by Fantagraphics is a short, strange trip that finds influences from such ...
Read More Book Review: Sydney Pollack: A Subliminal Existentialist by Wes D. Gehring
By Davy |
Director/producer/actor Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was one of the unsung heroes of cinematic and popular culture. His films ranged from Depression-era ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: The Information’s Unavailable to the Mortal Man
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was just you 'n' me once upon a time . . . in Hollywood. We caught a ...
Read More Safe in Hell Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code Delight
By Mat Brewster |
If you do an image search for "pre-Code Hollywood," you'll most likely find a picture of an attractive blonde woman ...
Read More Trapped Alive Blu-ray Review: An ’80s Hodgepodge of Horror Tropes That Collapses Fast
By Joe Garcia III |
Three escaped convicts, two girls on their way to a Christmas party, one sheriff deputy, and a cannibal mutant trapped ...
Read More Fast X Movie Review: Dante Unleashes an Inferno
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fast X opens by taking the audience back to the events of Fast Five when Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul ...
Read More Branded to Kill Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Yakuza Movie as Experimental Art
By Kent Conrad |
Goro Hanada's life is spinning out of control. His wife spends all his money, so he's always on the financial ...
Read More Book Review: Daughters of Snow and Cinders by Núria Tamarit
By Steve Geise |
When a determined young adventurer sets out into the wilderness in search of gold, she quickly encounters threats from the ...
Read More Clash by Night (1952) Blu-ray Review: A Fritz Lang Dud
By Jack Cormack |
In Clash by Night, a former good-time girl, Mae (Barbara Stanwyck), returns home to Monterey, California. Done with her drifting ...
Read More Book Review: Jessica Lange: An Adventurer’s Heart by Anthony Uzarowski
By Davy |
Being a film lover, I have read a few actor/actress biographies in my time, but I've rarely come across one ...
Read More Wings of Desire Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Stay
By Jack Cormack |
Not much happens in Wings of Desire (1987; dir. Wim Wenders), but it’s among the most beautiful of films. In ...
Read More Return to Seoul Blu-ray Review: A Young Life in Turmoil
By Davy |
We all often wonder who we really are, where we come from, and where we are going. Sometimes we let ...
Read More Moon Garden Movie Review: A Beautiful, Nightmarish Ride
By David Wangberg |
It’s easy to see that Ryan Stevens Harris’ feature film debut, Moon Garden, takes its cues from established niche directors ...
Read More Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943 Blu-ray Review: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s DNR!
By Gordon S. Miller |
After Superman became a sensation in comic books, newspaper comic strips, and on the radio, Fleischer Studios, home of cartoons ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Simple and Free
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a summer freeze and a fire walks with me. We went to the Kazbar and said ...
Read More The Loveless Blu-ray Review: A Stylish Mash-Up of Two Very Different Outlaw Biker Classics
By Joe Garcia III |
They’re loud, fast, and out of control! And that's just the motorcycles! Engines roar and trouble soars when this relentless ...
Read More Storm Warming Blu-ray Review: A Flawed but Hard-hitting Expose of Small Town Corruption
By Davy |
The 1950s may have seemed somewhat wholesome and Cleaveresque, but make no mistake, there were a lot of worms hidden ...
Read More It’s Quieter in the Twilight Movie Review: The Final Frontier
By David Wangberg |
Space exploration is one of the most fascinating subjects we’ve been able to conduct in human history. It gives us ...
Read More A Night at the Family Dog / Go Ride the Music / West Pole DVD Review: Celebrating San Francisco’s Psychedelic Rock Scene
By Gordon S. Miller |
Mercury Studio repackages A Night at the Family Dog / Go Ride the Music / West Pole into a 2-DVD ...
Read More One Way Passage Blu-ray Review: Book This Voyage
By Steve Geise |
When a convicted murderer gets extradited from Hong Kong to San Francisco, the last thing on his mind is falling ...
Read More The Strawberry Blonde Blu-ray Review: A Sweet and Charming Piece of Old Hollywood
By Greg Hammond |
The Strawberry Blonde (1941) is directed by Raoul Walsh; stars James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland, and Rita Hayworth; and is ...
Read More Superman 5-Film Collection 4K UHD Review: Super-Reeve
By Jack Cormack |
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Warner Bros.’s new 4K UHD Superman 5-Film Collection (1978-1987)! But is it worth ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: While Color Lights Up Your Face
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a fire witness to the inferno of the honey habanero chips. Beau is afraid that it ...
Read More All-Star Superman 4K UHD Review: Great Comics, Okay Movie
By Kent Conrad |
Superman is a difficult character to write good stories about because… he's Superman. Impervious to damage, always the strongest and ...
Read More Book Review: Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar: Cocktails Inspired by the World of Film Noir
By Davy |
I am not a drinker whatsoever, but I do love film noir. So, Noir Bar, the delightful new photo-book by ...
Read More Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One Blue-ray Review: When There Is Action, the Film Shines
By Greg Hammond |
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsman, Part One has been released direct-to-video and follows a separate storyline from ...
Read More The Sunday Woman Blu-ray Review: A Strange Little Movie That Defies Expectations and Genre Delineations
By Mat Brewster |
An Italian Poliziotteschi by way of Agatha Christie. A murder mystery that's more interested in high society and class distinction ...
Read More Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: The End of a Prehistoric Era
By Gordon S. Miller |
In my review of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: The Complete First Season, I called the series an “animation masterpiece.” As the ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: To Take the Blues Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, we zoomed in on blackout cake and baby bundts. We had a cam ...
Read More Terminal Invasion Blu-ray Review: An Alien Walks into an Airport…
By Gordon S. Miller |
Back in 2002, the Sci-Fi Channel debuted Terminal Invasion, one of their first original productions, under their Saturday Night Movie ...
Read More Backtrack (1990) Blu-ray Review: Dennis Hopper’s Lost… Piece
By Kent Conrad |
Backtrack feels like one of the weird indie comedy-crime-dramas that came out in the wake of Pulp Fiction's success. It's ...
Read More Two Witches Blu-ray Review: Two Witches Casts a Classic Horror Spell
By Joe Garcia III |
“You're in the dark now” as hinges creak, shadows creep, candles flicker and danger lurks in shadowy places throughout this ...
Read More Sisu (2023) Movie Review: A Bloody, and I Mean Bloody, Good Time
By David Wangberg |
What happens when you take John Wick, cross it with Inglourious Basterds, and sprinkle a dash of the Man with ...
Read More Heat (1986) Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Comes Back Fighting
By Kent Conrad |
They call him "Mex." His name is Nick Escaflante (Burt Reynolds), and we meet him drunk in a bar hitting ...
Read More Hell Is for Heroes Blu-ray Review: Slowly Draws One in Just Enough to Guarantee Disappointment
By Rons Reviews |
Have you ever come upon a movie that you are sure you must have seen before, but just can’t remember? ...
Read More His Dark Materials: The Complete Season Three Blu-ray Review: A Fitting Finale for this Series
By David Wangberg |
All too often, successful television shows go on longer than they should. Most of the time, it results in the ...
Read More Living Blu-ray Review: Anchored by the Exquisite Metamorphosis of Bill Nighy’s Lead Performance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Oliver Hermanus, Living is adapted from 1952 Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952) by screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro, who set the ...
Read More Magic Mike’s Last Dance Blu-ray Review: The Cohesiveness and Comradery of the First Two Installments Is Missing
By Lorna Miller |
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is a departure from the previous films. While it still offers sexy, astoundingly choreographed dance numbers ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: You Chased the Day Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a beef with the worst ice cream to ever cross paths with the Couch Hole. But ...
Read More TCM Classic Film Festival 2023 Review: Celebrating Film Legacies
By Lorna Miller |
My eleventh opportunity to cover the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood provided an opportunity to enjoy some old favorites ...
Read More Cocaine Bear (Maximum Rampage Edition) Blu-ray Review: Bump This Up to the Top of Your To-Watch List
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the grand cinematic tradition of bear-rampage movies like Grizzly and Grizzly 2 comes Elizabeth Banks's Cocaine Bear, an amusing ...
Read More The Big Easy (1986) Blu-ray Review: Corrupt Cop Chews Scenery
By Kent Conrad |
For Remy McSwain (Dennis Quaid), life in the Big Easy is smooth. He's got his big smile (he's Dennis Quaid, ...
Read More Book Review: The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Eric LaRocca
By Greg Hammond |
The Trees Grew Because I Bled There by Bram Stoker Award Finalist Eric LaRocca is a collection of “literary dark ...
Read More The Seventh Seal Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Chess with Death
By Jack Cormack |
The Criterion Collection has just released Ingmar Bergman’s film, The Seventh Seal (1957), in 4K UHD. When I first saw ...
Read More Book Review: Night Terror by John Kenn Mortensen
By Mat Brewster |
On more than one occasion I've had a dream where I woke up, got up from bed, and went to ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Show Me Where to Look
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were down at the Mendocino County Line pushing daisies and looking for bodies, bodies, bodies. The Peeps ...
Read More Sick of Myself Movie Review: The Dark Side of Narcissism
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Kristoffer Borgli’s new film is the darkest of black comedies, at least until the comedy runs out. He imagines ...
Read More Sweetwater (2023) Movie Review: Inspirational Sports Story Hampered by Cliches
By David Wangberg |
Martin Guigui’s Sweetwater begins with a sports reporter (Jim Caviezel) getting into a taxicab and start discussing the possibility of ...
Read More Wild in the Country (1961) Blu-ray Review: Dramatic Elvis in the Country
By Joe Garcia III |
See Elvis Presley run Wild in the Country. Watch him croon as lovely ladies swoon. There's Millie Perkins, Tuesday Weld, ...
Read More The Hunters: Complete Seasons 1 & 2 DVD Review: A Man Called Backström
By Steve Geise |
A grumpy old retired cop is slogging through his golden years as a security guard at a start-up gold mine ...
Read More Black Sunday (1977) Special Edition Blu-ray Review: The Creep in the Blimp
By Jack Cormack |
It gets off to a fast start. Yet Black Sunday (1977; dir. John Frankenheimer), one of the better disaster flicks ...
Read More iMordecai DVD Review: Judd Hirsch Strikes Gold in His Golden Years
By Steve Geise |
iMordecai is the Taxi TV series reunion I never knew I needed, starring alums and fellow Oscar nominees Judd Hirsch ...
Read More Secret Defense Blu-ray Review: Twisty Secrets Hampered by Indefensible Direction
By Steve Geise |
This French drama gets off to a promising start when a scientist named Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire) learns that her father ...
Read More The Super 8 Years DVD Review: A Remembrance of the Past
By Davy |
Films can be meditative and self-reflecting, meaning they can come from one's own experience (internal or external). This can also ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: As the Sun Sank West
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we were a good person made of stardust who traveled from the meta moon to the Garden State. ...
Read More Interview with Actor Cary Elwes on His New Film, Sweetwater, and His Performance as Ned Irish
By David Wangberg |
While most people know Cary Elwes for his work as the dashing Westley in Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride, the ...
Read More Arsène Lupin Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Hits and a Miss
By Steve Geise |
The famous fictional thief arrives on Blu-ray in this new collection of three of his French theatrical adventures. The Lupin ...
Read More Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection 4K UHD Review: First 4K Contact
By Steve Geise |
Following up on last year’s six-movie 4K box set of the original Star Trek movies, Paramount has moved on to ...
Read More Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Assorted Curiosities
By Davy |
I have come around on silent cinema, and I've always loved experimental/avant-garde films. Putting the two rather misunderstood categories of ...
Read More Cool Hand Luke 4K UHD Review: Grin Like a Baby, Bite Like a Gator
By Jack Cormack |
It’s not I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (still the best chain gang movie I’ve seen)—but… Cool ...
Read More The Maltese Falcon (1941) 4K UHD Review: Bogart’s Big Break
By Kent Conrad |
Is The Maltese Falcon a film noir? To many viewers, it's not a question. It's black and white. There's crime. ...
Read More Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham Blu-ray Review: Superhero Goes Supernatural
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Elseworlds miniseries of the same name written by Mike Mignola and Richard Pace, Batman: The Doom That ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Stare into Space
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had three cheeses in our chips and fruity cereal in our ice cream. It was stormy weather ...
Read More The Dark (1979) Blu-ray Review: I’d Be Okay If It Had Stayed in the Dark
By Joe Garcia III |
The Dark is probably better left there, in the dark. Starring William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel with appearances ...
Read More Book Review: Fools Die on Friday by Erle Stanley Gardner
By Kent Conrad |
Donald Lam knows the girl's a phony. He knows from the second he sees the monogram on her cigarette case ...
Read More Kubrick by Kubrick Movie Review: Stanley Speaks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Stanley Kubrick died March 7, 1999, a few months before the release of his thirteenth and final feature film, ...
Read More Flaming Ears Blu-ray Review: A Striking Experience
By Davy |
Despite the fact that you always hear the demeaning phrase "Cinema is dead", when it comes to many areas of ...
Read More Dead Silence (2007) 4K UHD Review: Scary Dolls Don’t Do Anything
By Kent Conrad |
James Wan has had an interesting career. An absolute underdog, coming from Malaysia via Australia, he made the film Saw. ...
Read More Book Review: The Heavy Bright by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A young girl is tasked with a seemingly impossible quest: to hunt down and destroy 999 black eggs closely held ...
Read More Knockabout Blu-ray Review: Sticks, Shticks, and Slapstick
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video continues their new series of Sammo Hung releases with this action comedy from early in his directorial career. ...
Read More Make Believe Seattle 2023 Review: Smoking Causes Coughing
By Steve Geise |
If you’re in the Seattle area this weekend, Make Believe Seattle Film Festival is making its debut with a fascinating ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: You’ve Really Made the Grade
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we mused about once upon a time in the West with roulette and a poker face. We drove ...
Read More The Son of the Stars Movie Review: Rare ‘80s Romanian Cartoon Gets Blu-ray Release
By Steve Geise |
Thanks to Deaf Crocodile Films, U.S. viewers will finally get the chance to watch this Romanian sci-fi rarity. The film ...
Read More Chilly Scenes of Winter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Star of the Movie Is Director Joan Micklin Silver
By Greg Hammond |
Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Ann Beattie. ...
Read More Babylon 4K UHD Steelbook Review: That Old Hollywood Stomp
By Jack Cormack |
Babylon (2022; dir. Damien Chazelle) does for silent movies what Boogie Nights (1997; dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) did for ‘70s ...
Read More Book Review: Ephemera: A Memoir by Briana Loewinsohn
By Steve Geise |
Briana Loewinsohn’s debut graphic novel heralds the arrival of an intriguing new talent already operating at a masterful level. Her ...
Read More Dragonslayer (1981) 4K UHD Review: Great Dragon, Murky Movie
By Kent Conrad |
The title Dragonslayer brings to mind knights in shining armor. Villainous, fire-breathing wyrms. Damsels chained to posts in sacrifice to ...
Read More Book Review: Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Eddie Muller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Eddie Muller, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and host of TCM's Noir Alley, once again serves ...
Read More Book Review: T*ts & Cl*ts 1972-1987: An Underground, Women-made Comix Gets the Fantagraphics Touch
By Jack Cormack |
Out this month, Tits & Clits 1972-1987 (Fantagraphics Books) compiles for the first time (in a single, handsome volume) all ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Well, My Time Went So Quickly
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went under the silver lake to investigate the Dain's Curse with cavemen. There was fast twitch and ...
Read More Book Review: Mickey and Donald: For Whom the Doorbell Tolls
By Steve Geise |
In 1999, a teacher at Disney’s Italian school for cartoonists presented his students with a prompt: select a short story ...
Read More Heartland of Darkness Blu-ray Review: Linnea Quigley’s Lost Movie
By Joe Garcia III |
Heartland of Darkness is truly straight from the 1980s. Filmed in1989 but never released in its entirety until 2022. Known ...
Read More Rocky: The Knockout Collection 4K UHD Review: The Contender
By Jack Cormack |
A Philly ham-and-cheese tough with heart, Rocky Balboa is one of cinema’s best underdogs. Say what you like about its ...
Read More The Retaliators (2022) Blu-ray Review: Crisis of Faith Meets Zombies
By Mat Brewster |
Stories about men encountering a crisis of faith are as old as stories, or as old as crises, or at ...
Read More Book Review: Evita: The Life and Work of Eva Perón by Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alberto and Enrique Breccia
By Steve Geise |
Fantagraphics continues their series of Alberto Breccia releases with this graphic biography of the polarizing Argentine icon, Eva Perón, popularly ...
Read More Millionaires’ Express Blu-ray Review: Chinese Bullet Train
By Steve Geise |
After shining a light on the rise of the Hong Kong film industry with their phenomenal Shaw Brothers box sets, ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Not Really Sure How to Feel About It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was a thematic whale of a tale about Dicky Moe, Moby Dick, Mobius, the Whale, and we ...
Read More The Vagrant (1992) Blu-ray Review: Baffling, but Never Boring Horror Film
By Kent Conrad |
The Vagrant has about four movies worth of themes and plots, but less than a single film's coherence. It's weird, ...
Read More Panther (1995) Blu-ray Review: No, Not That Black Panther
By Joe Garcia III |
From director Mario Van Peebles comes Panther (1995), the highly fictionalized story of the rise and fall of the Black ...
Read More The House That Screamed Blu-ray Review: A Hallmark of European Horror
By Davy |
I have discovered so many hidden gems in the horror genre. These films contain expert filmmaking, strong performances, sheer atmosphere, ...
Read More The Magic Flute (2023) Movie Review: Bargain Harry Potter Set to Opera
By David Wangberg |
I’m not familiar with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s original opera, The Magic Flute, nor am I familiar with other renditions that ...
Read More Fill ‘er Up with Super Blu-ray Review: A Down-to-Earth Meditation of Male Bonding and Bruised Masculinity
By Davy |
I always enjoy simple films about the flaws of human beings and how their insecurities and toxicities are made bare ...
Read More The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Filmation’s First Animated Iteration of the Caped Crusader
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filmation followed up The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) with The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), securing the rights to the first ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Call Me Ahab
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the was a killing and a nightmare that was meaner than evil. The strawberries and cream mixed with ...
Read More Creed III Movie Review: This Time (Like Every Time) It’s Personal
By Gordon S. Miller |
Michael B. Jordan does double duty for the first time, making his directorial debut on Creed III, the ninth movie ...
Read More Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Blu-ray Review: Puss Meets Death for the Ninth Time
By Kent Conrad |
The Shrek series has been dormant in the cinema for over a decade, since the release of the first Puss ...
Read More Training Day 4K UHD Review: King Kong Ain’t Got Sh*t on Him!
By Jack Cormack |
Let’s talk about Training Day (2001; dir. Antoine Fuqua). Modern-day L.A.: Jake, a rookie cop (Ethan Hawke, in an Oscar-nominated ...
Read More Book Review: The George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1927
By Kent Conrad |
Krazy Kat is the kind of thing that doesn't happen. The comic strip ran for almost 30 years despite irritation ...
Read More Hollywood Shuffle Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Be the Change You Want to See
By Gordon S. Miller |
When struggling actor Robert Townsend was frustrated by the stereotypical and racist roles he was being offered as a black ...
Read More The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Grinding Relentless Horror Classic
By Kent Conrad |
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre deserves its reputation. For grisliness, for nastiness. And for excellence. It's a rare movie that ...
Read More Kubo and the Two Strings 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Stop-motion Tribute to Samurai Cinema
By Kent Conrad |
Kubo and the Two Strings is the story of an estranged family coming together. It is the story of a ...
Read More The Boxtrolls 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Charming, Odd, Ugly Beautiful?
By Kent Conrad |
Stop motion animation is a pretty weird medium. It was an early special effects trick, long since superseded by technology. ...
Read More Palm Trees and Power Lines Movie Review: A Disturbingly Common Premise Given a Modern Feel
By Davy |
There are lots of films about the harsh realities of young adulthood, with emphasis on broken family dynamics, first love, ...
Read More The Magnificent Seven (1960) 4K UHD Review: McQueen Rising
By Jack Cormack |
It’s an Old West spin on a brilliant film, director Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. And hey, did it need to ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I Know Your Eyes in the Morning Sun
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we had a red harvest in the pastures of plenty. There was a starry flare that brought a ...
Read More The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Blu-ray Review: Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast
By Steve Geise |
London, 1968. It’s the height and epicenter of the Swinging Sixties, and hip housewife Mrs. Blossom (Shirley MacLaine) is content ...
Read More Book Review: Talespin: Flight of the Sky-Raker and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 2
By Kent Conrad |
Disney Afternoon was a staple of after-school procrastination for nearly a decade, from 1990-1997. Several of those years included my ...
Read More Dazed and Confused Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: School’s Out
By Jack Cormack |
Dazed and Confused (1993; dir. Richard Linklater) circuits darkness: On the last day of school before the summer of 1976, ...
Read More Ice Merchants Movie Review: A Heartrending Winner
By Davy |
These days its amazing that filmmakers are still able to invent new ways to tell stories, especially those centering on ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: I Slept on the Ground in the Light of the Moon
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we went from Pandora to the High Plains and drifted back to the water. The yellowjackets were breaking ...
Read More The Fabelmans Blu-ray Review: Steven Spielberg’s Cinema Paradiso
By David Wangberg |
It’s hard to imagine what cinema would be like without Steven Spielberg’s presence. He’s the man who created the first ...
Read More 2023 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Review
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...
Read More Deadly Games Blu-ray Review: More Like Slays of Our Lives
By Joe Garcia III |
Deadly Games (1982) is the passion project of writer/director Scott Mansfield and passions do play a large role in this odd ...
Read More 2023 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films Review
By Darcy Staniforth |
Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...
Read More Francois Truffaut Collection Blu-ray Review: L’Enfant Tendre
By Jack Cormack |
Director Francois Truffaut was a darling of French New Wave cinema. He left us some good movies. Unlike some of ...
Read More The Final 19 Movie Review: A Riveting Account of a POW’s Experience
By David Wangberg |
Dan Hefel knew he was going to be drafted eventually. With the Vietnam War intensifying, Hefel decided that it would ...
Read More Three Colors Trilogy Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Enigmatic Masterpieces About People Connecting
By Kent Conrad |
The Three Colors of this film trilogy, Blue, White, and Red, are so-chosen for the French tri-color flag (sorry, U.S.A.) ...
Read More Love on the Ground Blu-ray Review: Much Ado About Nothing
By Steve Geise |
This 1984 French drama follows actors rehearsing a play, a time-worn concept of a show within a show dating back ...
Read More 2023 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films Review
By Davy |
Starting February 17, the 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films will be available in over 500 theaters across 75+ theatrical markets ...
Read More Book Review: Spa by Erik Svetoft
By Mat Brewster |
Swedish writer/illustrator Erik Svetoft's Spa is a Kafkaesque adventure that plunges into a Lynchian nightmare. Set in a high-class, luxury ...
Read More Emily Movie Review: Frances O’Connor’s Directorial Debut Soars to Wuthering Heights
By Steve Geise |
First-time writer/director Frances O’Connor reimagines the final years of writer Emily Brontë’s life in this stunning period drama, heralding her ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: ‘Cause We All Have Wings
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, I thought that top guns were mad men. I went maverick over tangy Cheetos that take my breath ...
Read More Ghostriders Blu-ray Review: They Aren’t Just in the Sky!
By Joe Garcia III |
MVD Visual brings to Blu-ray a refreshingly clear, remastered print of director/producer Alan Stewart’s Ghostriders (1987). A low budget action/horror ...
Read More Let’s Hope It’s a Girl Blu-ray Review: Italian Film, Continental Cast
By Steve Geise |
While this Italian film was a critical success in its native land in 1986, winning seven of its national awards ...
Read More The Bride Wore Black and Mississippi Mermaid Blu-rays Review: Truffaut Does Hitchcock
By Mat Brewster |
For much of his career, Alfred Hitchcock was not taken seriously by the critical establishment. His films were hugely successful, ...
Read More Irreversible: Straight Cut Movie Review: Still Remains an Exhaustive, Challenging Experience
By Davy |
Director Gaspar Noe is one of the true cinematic enfant terribles. People love him or hate him, but there's also ...
Read More Book Review: The Extraordinary Part: Book One: Orsay’s Hands by Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot
By Steve Geise |
The latest work from powerhouse French graphic novelist duo Ruppert and Merlot imagines a world much like our own with ...
Read More Chicago: Limited Edition Blu-ray SteelBook Review: Rob Marshall Gives Audiences the Old Razzle Dazzle
By Lorna Miller |
Musical theater is something that I have always enjoyed. It is often difficult to translate a spectacular and engaging play ...
Read More That Man Bolt Blu-ray Review: That Man Hammer
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, this movie seems to bear all the hallmarks of a blaxploitation classic: its prime 1973 release date, ...
Read More Plane Movie Review: Gerard Butler Leads a Satisfying Shoot-’em Up
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis, Plane is a satisfying shoot-'em up ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Watching in Slow Motion
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, during a rainy night in Georgia, we were turning red like a spicy nacho dip. Or was it ...
Read More Legion of Super-Heroes Blu-ray Review: A Fun Superhero Adventure Geared Towards a Younger Audience
By Gordon S. Miller |
Listed as part of the Tomorrowverse line of animated DC movies, Legion of Super-Heroes has the feel of a pilot ...
Read More White Woman (1933) Blu-ray Review: Certainly Watchable but Not Much More Than That
By Mat Brewster |
In the early 1930s, Paramount Pictures made a name for itself by making films with beautiful women in exotic settings. ...
Read More Men at Work Blu-ray Review: Put Away the Vegemite. It’s Not the Band from a Land Down Under
By Joe Garcia III |
From writer-director Emilio Estevez comes Men at Work (1990), a misguided way to get him and his brother Charlie Sheen ...
Read More Violent Night Blu-ray Review: Can’t Say They Didn’t Warn You
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Tommy Wirkola's Violent Night opens with Santa (David Harbour) having grown disillusioned with his job, bringing to mind Rankin/Bass' ...
Read More Book Review: Kevin Smith: His Films and Fans, Compiled & Edited by David Gati
By David Wangberg |
No matter what you think of director Kevin Smith, there’s no denying that the 52-year-old filmmaker has something out of ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Tryin’ to Find a Warm Place to Spend the Night
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, further on up the road with the Swiss Miss, things on Pandora were all quiet on the Western ...
Read More Bones and All Blu-ray Review: A Heartbreaking and Accomplished Tale of Young Love
By Davy |
There are some films that only come once in a lifetime; films that seem to come from an otherworldly stratosphere; ...
Read More Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits Live In ‘76 Album Review: A Night of Marvin Medleys
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally released on DVD in 2007, Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits Live In ‘76 is now available on vinyl and CD ...
Read More Maigret (1960): Season 2 Blu-ray Review: This Series Keeps Getting Better
By Mat Brewster |
While I was writing my review for Season 1 of Maigret, I kept wondering if I'd be able to find ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Where the Road Is Dark and the Seed Is Sowed
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we kicked off the third year of FTCH with some roadwork with Tar that was so easy even ...
Read More Book Review: Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen by Fred Goodman
By Gordon S. Miller |
Author Fred Goodman takes readers on a tour of Rock on Film for Turner Classic Movies. After revealing his first ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Take That Look of Worry, I’m an Ordinary Man
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, way back in 2022 we left you with a cliffhanger as Valdez was coming. There was a Zapp ...
Read More The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wondrous Story about a Wondrous Storyteller by a Wondrous Filmmaker
By Gordon S. Miller |
Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen has the distinction of being the sixth Gilliam-directed title (#1166) released by ...
Read More Book Review: Tonechaser – Understanding Edward: My 26-Year Journey with Edward Van Halen by Steve Rosen
By Jade Blackmore |
While there have been many books chronicling Eddie Van Halen’s life and music, Steve Rosen’s Tonechaser is by the far ...
Read More Book Review: Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective by Mark Salisbury
By David Wangberg |
Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond in No Time to Die reminded us all how much of an impact ...
Read More Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Blu-ray Review: A Look at How Things Look
By Davy |
The male gaze in film has been problematic since the silent age. Sometimes directors (mostly male) unintentionally objectify women on ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Best of the Rest 2022 – Haunted by the Ghost of You
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2014-2021, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best of List. In 2020 I returned ...
Read More Darryl Jones: In the Blood DVD Review: The Man in the Stones’ Shadow
By Gordon S. Miller |
While not a well-known name, Darryl Jones is an integral component of the “Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Band in the ...
Read More Invaders from Mars (1953) Blu-ray Review: A Standout in the ’50s Sci-fi Genre
By Gordon S. Miller |
William Cameron Menzies's penultimate movie as director, Invaders from Mars (1953), tells the story of an alien invasion seen through ...
Read More Black Adam Blu-ray Review: Legend, Vengeance, and the Kahndaqian Way
By Gordon S. Miller |
Black Adam is the 11th film in the DC Extended Universe franchise.The character first appeared in rival Fawcett Comics' Marvel ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2022 – Let Justice Be Done Though the Heavens Fall
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005-2013 and 2017-2020, I punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. In 2021, I returned ...
Read More El Vampiro Negro (1953) Blu-ray Review: An Argentinian “M”
By Kent Conrad |
Film noir as a genre is rather over-subscribed. It existed for a relatively brief period in the ‘40s and ‘50s ...
Read More Cinema’s First Nasty Women Blu-ray Set Review: Thoughtfully Highlights Unknown Performers from Different Walks of Life
By Davy |
When Donald Trump called opponent Hilary Clinton a "nasty woman" at a 2016 televised debate, the term came back to ...
Read More Twilight (1998) Blu-ray Review: Mystery and Noir Fans Should Enjoy It
By Gordon S. Miller |
After adapting Richard Russo's Nobody's Fool (1994), starring Paul Newman, its screenwriter/director Robert Benton teamed with Russo to write the ...
Read More The Banshees of Inisherin Movie Review: Simply Lovely
By David Wangberg |
What could be better than watching two under-appreciated actors give it their all? It’s watching two under-appreciated actors give it ...
Read More Little Nicholas: Happy as Can Be Movie Review: Adventures in Real and Imagined Past
By Steve Geise |
This thoroughly charming French animated feature takes a unique approach in its storytelling. Rather than solely recounting the fictional adventures ...
Read More Halloween Ends Blu-ray Review: Rights Many of the Wrongs Committed by Halloween Kills
By Davy |
2018's Halloween was basic but effective because it erased the bad taste left by many of the original franchise's questionable ...
Read More From the Couch Hole: Best of Film 2022 – Movies Are Dreams, Doll, That You Never Forget
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013 and then, after a hiatus, from 2017-2021, I have punctuated each year with an ever increasingly ...
Read More Broker Movie Review: The Korean Shoplifters
By Steve Geise |
Japanese writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his cinematic explorations outside his native land and language with this dysfunctional relationship drama set ...
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