Challengers Blu-ray Review: A Sexy but Shallow Jules & Jim Tennis Epic
By Davy |
There are many films about love triangles, ones that actually have something to say about male ego, masculinity, masochism, and ...
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Rebecca (1940) Movie Review: Last Night I Dreamt I Went to Manderley Again
By Greg Hammond |
Rebecca is Alfred Hitchcock’s lovingly crafted ghost story, a haunted house suspense thriller where the ghost is Rebecca herself. She ...
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Monk: Season Eight Blu-ray Review: Monk’s Journey Comes to an End
By Davy |
With Season Eight, our favorite agoraphobic detective's journey (emotional, physical, and mental) comes to an end, with tears and all. ...
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The Mask of Fu Manchu Blu-ray Review: Pre-Code Lunacy with Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy
By Joe Garcia III |
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), directed by Charles Brabin, is a melodramatic pre-Code horror movie that stars Boris Karloff ...
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Le samouraï Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Well-Executed French Neo-noir
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed and co-written by Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samouraï stars Alain Delon, as professional hitman Jef Costello, whose detached coolness, which ...
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Blu-ray Review: Together Again for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Adam Wingard's Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is the fifth film in the Monsterverse franchise, and for those keeping ...
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Bandits of Orgosolo Blu-ray Review: It Don’t Feel Good to Be a Bandit
By Mat Brewster |
Orgosolo is a tiny village on the Italian island of Sardinia. Recent tourism has raised the island's economic prospects, but ...
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Prey (2022) Movie Review: A Great Script and Talented Cast Breathe New Life into an Aging Franchise
By Greg Hammond |
Dan Trachtenberg’s Prey (2022) is the fifth film in the Predator franchise, and seventh in the complete franchise. It serves ...
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Class Blu-ray Review: Pre-Brat Pack Comedy Drama That Pops Like Flat Champagne
By Joe Garcia III |
Class (1983) directed by Lewis John Carlino and featuring music by Elmer Bernstein is an unbalanced comedy drama that finds ...
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Justice League Dark Movie Review: I Will Take You There, So You Are No Longer Here
By Greg Hammond |
Justice League Dark is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 28th film of the DC ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Missing from Fire Trail Road
By Gordon S. Miller |
May Ellen Johnson-Davis disappeared from the Tulalip Indian reservation near Seattle on November 25, 2020. Two years later, director Sabrina ...
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Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Movie Review: A Fast-Paced Action Thriller
By Greg Hammond |
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 29th film of ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The First Avenger by Matthew K. Manning
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: The First Avenger is the fourth release in the ...
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Dexter’s Laboratory: The Complete Series DVD Review: As Inventive As Its Main Character
By Gordon S. Miller |
With its origins in an animated short film he made while attending CalArts, Genndy Tartakovsky created Dexter's Laboratory, a sci-fi ...
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Batman: The Killing Joke Movie Review: Two Guys Are in a Mental Asylum
By Greg Hammond |
Sam Liu’s Batman: The Killing Joke is the 27th of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies. It was written by ...
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Orlando, My Political Biography Blu-ray Review: A Highly Original Celebration of Personal Identity
By Davy |
Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928) remains one of the seminal literary works of the twentieth century. One of the first of ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XIX Blu-ray Review: Loads of Stars, Tons of Thrills
By Mat Brewster |
Kino Lorber continues their excellent series of releasing relatively obscure film noirs. For this, their 19th set in the series, ...
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From the Couch Hole: I’ll Never Find a Better Prize
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Deadpool couldn't fight the feeling that he liked the Police and Nashville Hot pretzels. Wolverine's origin came ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) was conducted by Dr. Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University in August 1971. It was intended ...
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Victims of Sin Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Zoot Suit Riot
By Steve Geise |
If you’re new to Mexico’s rumbera musical genre, imagine classic Hollywood musical tropes filtered through a crime-ridden back alley, removing ...
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Son of Batman Movie Review: I Owe My Grandfather a Death
By Greg Hammond |
Son of Batman is an animated DC superhero film which holds the spot as the 20th film of the DC ...
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Revival69: The Concert that Rocked the World Movie Review: Deep Dive into a Historic Concert
By Kit O'Toole |
In September 1969, Toronto experienced their own Woodstock: the Toronto Rock ’N Roll Revival Festival, a landmark event featuring music ...
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Arthur Dong’s LGBTQ Stories Blu-ray Review: Necessary Documents
By Davy |
Although Pride month will be over in just a few days, our endless fight to as LGBTQ individuals will never ...
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Macbeth (1948) Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Gets Shakespearean
By Mat Brewster |
William Shakespeare was one of the greatest writers in the English language. Macbeth is arguably his greatest play. Orson Welles ...
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Never Open That Door Blu-ray Review: Two Stories of Humanity Against Inhumanity
By Davy |
Film noir is universal. It reaches all over the world. The United States isn't the only country that can produce ...
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The Case of the Bloody Iris 4K UHD Review: A Typically Stylish Giallo
By Kent Conrad |
The Case of the Bloody Iris exemplifies the appeal of the giallo completely. Giallo is the Italian precursor to the ...
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Sympathy for the Underdog Blu-ray Review: Crime Takes a Holiday
By Steve Geise |
Director Kinji Fukasaku began a string of memorable 1970s yakuza films with this newly restored gem. The film follows a ...
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) Blu-ray Review: Hitchcock Comedy, for Better or Worse
By Kent Conrad |
There's an underrated aspect of Hitchcock's films, and that is their comedy. The comedy tends to be ironic, and based ...
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Act of Violence (1948) Blu-ray Review: Terrific Film Noir with Heart
By Mat Brewster |
A trench-coated figure hobbles toward us in shadow. The New York City skyline hovers over him at an odd angle. ...
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Dune Part Two Blu-ray Review: Will the Prophecy Be Fulfilled?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve continues his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel with Dune Part Two, an interplanetary political epic that equals ...
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The Boys in the Boat Blu-ray Review: Wasted Potential and Talent
By Rons Reviews |
Legendary actor and inconsistent director George Clooney brings the #1 New York Times Bestselling Non-Fiction novel to the big screen ...
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Book Review: Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass
By Darcy Staniforth |
The saying “Those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat it” gets thrown around in a lot of different ...
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Cat Ballou Blu-ray Review: The End of the Western
By Kent Conrad |
When I talk to people younger than myself about Westerns, the first name they generally mention is "Clint Eastwood." What ...
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Into the Wild Blu-ray Review: The Lost Boy
By David Wangberg |
Sean Penn’s adaptation of Into the Wild was what initially inspired me to then read the book on which it’s ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Satisfied
By Steve Geise |
Filled with Renée Elise Goldsberry’s self-recorded archival clips, this new documentary traces her meteoric ride on the Hamilton express at ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Time to Bring This Ship Into the Shore
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Frankie went to Hollywood in a Ferrari during a purple rain. The crime story was about the ...
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Eight Men Out Blu-ray Review: We’re Talking Baseball…Scandals, and Say It Ain’t So, Joe!
By Joe Garcia III |
Bottom of the ninth, writer/director John Sayles steps to the plate. He takes a big swing and hits a home ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Old Castle’s Secret” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Old Castle's Secret” is Volume 6 in Fantagraphics’ The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. The ...
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American Fiction Blu-ray Review: Will Be Talked About for Years to Come
By Davy |
There are some movies that just come and go, meaning that you watch them once and move on. Cord Jefferson's ...
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Team America: World Police 4K UHD Review: Pulls the Right Strings
By Greg Hammond |
From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the long-running TV series South Park (328 episodes between 1997 - ...
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Querelle Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Man in Every Port
By Joe Keaton |
In director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Querelle (1982; adapted from a book by Jean Genet), a Belgian sailor, Querelle (Brad Davis), ...
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Book Review: Mark Twain’s War Prayer, Illustrated by Seymour Chwast
By Shawn Bourdo |
By the end of his life, Mark Twain (1835-1910) had made and lost fortunes many times over. He had suffered ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Luther: Never Too Much
By Steve Geise |
Luther Vandross built a recording career on love songs featuring his unforgettable voice, but director Dawn Porter takes a deep ...
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South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut 4K UHD Review: Still Funny but Aging Rapidly
By Greg Hammond |
South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker, and written by Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, is ...
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Remembering Gene Wilder Blu-ray Review: A Loving Portrait of the Man, the Myth, and the Legend
By Davy |
Gene Wilder, legendary Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning actor, writer, and filmmaker was one of the geniuses of his generation. A versatile, ...
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Tribeca 2024 Review: Desire: The Carl Craig Story
By Steve Geise |
Widely regarded as one of the key figures and champions of the Detroit EDM scene, Carl Craig is both a ...
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Chinatown 4K UHD Review: Noir Gold; or “The point is, the girl dies”
By Joe Keaton |
As a masterpiece, Chinatown needed its two main creators, screenwriter Robert Towne (who won the movie’s sole Oscar) and director ...
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Thunderheart Blu-ray Review: A Gritty Neo-Western
By Joe Garcia III |
Thunderheart (1992) was directed by Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist), written by John Fusco (Young Guns I & II) ...
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All That Breathes Blu-ray Review: A Profound, Lyrical Film
By Davy |
I also appreciate cinematic stories about the relationships between humans and wildlife, where our bonds are much stronger than we ...
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Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series DVD Review: A Funny Show Even When Dealing with Serious Topics
By Gordon S. Miller |
Welcome Back, Kotter is a reference to Gabe Kotter (co-creator Gabe Kaplan, whose life and stand-up material inspired the show), ...
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