From the Couch Hole: If You Get Round to It
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, a couple weeks ago there was an odd assortment of berry lemonade chips, spicy pickle chips, and elotes ...
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The Brain from Planet Arous Blu-ray Review: It’s Kind of Fun
By Rons Reviews |
The wait is finally over! The Brain from Plant Arous has been released! Yes, on June 21st Film Detective released ...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era Blu-ray Review: A Wedding and a Funeral and More
By Gordon S. Miller |
Time marches on for the beloved characters of Downton Abbey as their second appearance on the silver screen delivers a ...
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Edge of Tomorrow 4K UHD Review: Groundhog D-Day
By Kent Conrad |
It is a strange time to look at a film that earned hundreds of millions at the box-office and wonder: ...
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American Werewolves Movie Review: Has the Vibe of a 1980’s Network Special About Cryptids
By Darcy Staniforth |
The independent production company Small Town Monsters is not afraid to explore topics in the worlds of the strange and ...
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Strawberry Mansion Blu-ray Review: Seek Out This Surrealistic, Genre-blending Film
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed and written by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley, Strawberry Mansion is a surrealistic, genre-blending story that takes viewers on ...
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Tribeca 2022 Interview: Producer Annalise Davis Talks Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
Producer Annalise Davis has been in the film industry for nearly 20 years, having worked on films such as The ...
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Panda! Go Panda! Blu-ray Review: Proto Totoro Anime Film
By Kent Conrad |
In my estimation, Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro is one of the greatest films ever made. It's an almost perfect fantasy ...
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True Romance Blu-ray Review: Entertaining, Relentless, and Fearless
By Davy |
I wouldn't exactly call the 1990s the greatest decade, but I will say that the movies that came out of ...
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Fire in the Sky Blu-ray Review: A Compelling Story
By Darcy Staniforth |
Even with news of UFOs and UAPs in the pages of The New York Times and in the halls of ...
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Blu-ray Review: It’s No Secret, This Movie Stinks
By David Wangberg |
If David Yates and J.K. Rowling are serious about their plan to make the Fantastic Beasts series into five movies, ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The DOC
By Darcy Staniforth |
In the rap and hip hop world, it's one thing to have confidence and ego about being one of the ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Fireworks
By David Wangberg |
There have been many films and television series that involve top-level characters carrying out orders to bomb a certain location ...
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One-Armed Boxer Blu-ray Review: Delivers a Nuttiness Desired in An Old Kung Fu Movie
By Mat Brewster |
A man walks into a bar and notices another man sitting at his table. He tells the man that he ...
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True Romance 4K UHD Review: Sick Love, Slick Film
By Kent Conrad |
True Romance isn't a Quentin Tarantino movie. His name is on the screenplay. It has many scenes which no other ...
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The Worst Person in the World Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Breathtakingly Honest
By Davy |
Seeing The Worst Person in the World, filmmaker Joachim Trier's breathtakingly honest and so in-the-moment take on relationships and finding ...
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From the Couch Hole: Ooh, He’s Here Again
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was a week with nutty ice cream, spicy almonds, and corny potatoes. Suzanne led us through butterflies ...
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Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete Second Season DVD Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided the writer with a free copy of the DVD reviewed in this Blog Post. The ...
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The Beatles and India: An Enduring Love Affair Blu-ray Review
By Shawn Bourdo |
This new feature-length documentary directed by Ajoy Bose was released June 21, 2022 by MVD Visual on DVD and Blu-ray. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Coming Out with the Help of a Time Machine
By Davy |
Coming out of the closet for in one of the most difficult things that anyone in LGBTQ community ever has ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Katrina Babies
By David Wangberg |
There is no way that someone could direct a documentary such as Katrina Babies the same way if they had ...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) Blu-ray Review: Well Worth Watching to See Spencer Tracy Play Against Type
By Mat Brewster |
Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Strange Case Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was originally sold as a penny dreadful and ...
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Book Review: Disneyanity: Of ‘Walt’ & Religion by Douglas Brode
By Joe Garcia III |
Disneyanity isn't a theological work of compare and contrast or how Disney and world religions stack up against one another. ...
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From the Couch Hole: You Can Hear the Boats Go By
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was a week of sweet almonds, sweeter pastries, and the sweetest dew. Love grew for the Northman ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: A Rising Fury
By David Wangberg |
Starting with the Maidan Revolution in Kyiv in 2013, and leading up to the current invasion from Russia, A Rising ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Visitor
By David Wangberg |
After spending time in jail for “alcoholism,” Humberto (Enrique Araoz) is three years sober and ready to restart his life ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Integrity of Joseph Chambers
By David Wangberg |
Joseph Chambers (Clayne Crawford), or “Joe” as some call him, is not the kind of man you would think could ...
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The Initiation of Sarah Blu-ray Review: A Made-for-TV Carrie Rip-Off
By Mat Brewster |
In 1976, Brian De Palma released the supernatural horror movie, Carrie. Based upon Stephen King's first published novel of the ...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: A Love Song
By Davy |
An unorthodox romance set in a beautiful, vast Colorado backdrop is at the center of Max Walker-Silverman's beguilingly unassuming directorial ...
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Book Review: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
By Steve Geise |
A young Latina politician runs for and wins office in New York as a virtual unknown, ousting a veteran incumbent ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: A Love Song
By David Wangberg |
Dale Dickey has been acting for nearly 30 years, and chances are, you’ve seen her in at least one movie ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Butterfly in the Sky
By David Wangberg |
The opening scene of Butterfly in the Sky centers LeVar Burton in front of a huge library filled with books. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Wes Schlagenhauf is Dying
By Davy |
If you said that there are too many pandemic comedies existing now, I would have to agree with you. However, ...
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Late Night Movie Review: Emma Thompson Is Incredibly Pitch Perfect
By Matthew St.Clair |
While Late Night is full of high points, one of its best ones is how it points out the fallacies of any ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Out of Order
By Davy |
Sometimes the big city can bring a lot of you, including your search of love after heartbreak. This appealingly familiar ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
By Gordon S. Miller |
Produced and directed by Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman, and Stuart Samuels, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story documents the love ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Nude Tuesday
By Davy |
I've never been married nor have been in a relationship, but I have seen enough on film and TV to ...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Limited Edition Steelbook 4K UHD Review: Cinematic Adventure Perfection
By Kent Conrad |
Watching as a child, I knew that Raiders of the Lost Ark was a great adventure. It had everything you ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Peace in the Valley
By David Wangberg |
It’s a sad coincidence that Tyler Riggs’ Peace in the Valley premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival as the nation ...
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Book Review: Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen
By Jade Blackmore |
Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story by Jay Bergen recounts one of John Lennon’s less publicized legal ...
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Candyman (1992) 4K UHD Review: Urban Legend, Urban Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Of the many great things about Bernard Rose's Candyman, one of the best is that it isn’t structured like a ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Employee of the Month
By Gordon S. Miller |
Belgian director Veronique Jadin's Employee of the Month (L'employée du mois) reveals how hostile a workplace can get when people, ...
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The Clock Blu-ray Review: Judy Garland’s Time
By Steve Geise |
By 1945, 23-year-old Judy Garland was already a screen veteran with 20 leading roles to her credit. She was also ...
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Fanny: The Right to Rock Movie Review: Queens of Rock & Roll
By Jack Cormack |
Directed by Bobbi Jo Hart, Fanny: The Right to Rock, a documentary on the all-female rock band, Fanny, is a ...
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From the Couch Hole: And Nobody Knows Like Me
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, it was a COVID-delayed episode that featured purple thunder and a machine that can create rainstorms. There were ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Rounding
By David Wangberg |
Alex Thompson’s Rounding is classified as a psychological thriller, and it has the necessary elements to categorize it as such. ...
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Tribeca 2022 Review: Closing Dynasty
By Davy |
Written and directed by Lloyd Lee Choi Closing Dynasty is a quietly humanistic short portrait of how we really do ...
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Offseason Movie Review: Holistically Brilliant
By Darcy Staniforth |
A Shudder exclusive, Offseason is the newest film from writer and director Mickey Keating. Broken into chapters, the film starts ...
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Grease 2 (40th Anniversary) Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review: Back to Rydell High School Again
By Lorna Miller |
It is hard to believe that Grease 2 came out 40 years. Released four years after the massive hit Grease, ...
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Children Who Chase Lost Voices Blu-ray Review: Fantasy Adventure about Loss
By Kent Conrad |
Asuna is a happy girl. She's lucky to be happy since she spends so much of her time on her ...
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