The Peasants Blu-ray Review: Drama with a Fresh Coat of Paint
By Steve Geise |
The latest film from married writers/directors DK and Hugh Welchman follows the formula of their breakout prior effort, Loving Vincent. ...
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All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil and Daniel Webster) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
By Davy |
The ancient tale of man selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for wealth and prosperity has been adapted ...
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The Coffee Table DVD Review: I Said the Smartest Thing to Do Was Get a Vasectomy
By Greg Hammond |
Caye Casas’ The Coffee Table (La Mesita del Comedor) opens with brand new parents, María (Estefania de los Santos) and ...
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Nostalghia 4K UHD Review: Out, Out, Brief Candle
By Joe Keaton |
In director Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983), a glum Russian poet, Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky), treks the Italian countryside with his comely ...
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Run Silent, Run Deep Blu-ray Review: Furious ’50s Sub Action
By Kent Conrad |
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) is the story of two frustrated men. We open with the first man's frustration. Commander ...
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From the Couch Hole: Sat by the River and It Made Me Complete
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, there was a zone of interest about the rise of the planet of the apes who said, ...
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Midnight Cowboy Movie Review: I Only Get Car Sick on Boats
By Greg Hammond |
John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy (1969) is based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy and adapted by Waldo Salt. In ...
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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker Blu-ray Review: A Nutball’s (Further) Descent into Madness
By Joe Garcia III |
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981) was directed by William Asher and stars Jimmy McNichol (brother of Kristy), Susan Tyrrell, and ...
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Interview with Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black on The Spiderwick Chronicles
By David Wangberg |
From 2003 through 2004, Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black released a series of five children's fantasy books called The Spiderwick ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 2: Venus Vol. 2
By Kent Conrad |
Venus tells a very revealing story - not about its characters or world, but about the world of comic book ...
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Over the Edge Blu-ray Review: Hits Close to Home
By Davy |
It was a banner year in 1979 for trouble youth-oriented films, such as The Warriors, The Wanderers, and Walk Proud, ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 3 Blu-ray Review: Another Choice Collection of Classic Cartoons
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Warner Archive Collection has gone back through the vaults to present the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3. This ...
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From the Couch Hole: The Calendar on Your Wall Was Ticking the Days Off
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week the eclipse was just a jade in the shade in the New Empire. The Baja ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge “Only a Poor Old Man” is Volume 12 in Fantagraphics' The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library. ...
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Arcadian Movie Review: Let Nicolas Out of His Cage
By Greg Hammond |
Ben Brewer’s Arcadian opens with Paul (Nicolas Cage) running for his life in what appears to be an apocalypse-level event ...
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Gigi Movie Review: Weak Heads and Careless Bodies
By Greg Hammond |
Gigi (1958), a musical romantic comedy, won all nine of its Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Director ...
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A Day at the Races Blu-ray Review: Better Than a Bowl of Tootsie-Fruitsie Ice Cream
By Gordon S. Miller |
After A Night at the Opera, the Marx brothers spent A Day at the Races, their seventh film and second ...
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Book Review: Blessed Be by Rick Altergott
By Greg Hammond |
In the opening of Rick Altergott’s first graphic novel, Blessed Be, a Flowertown judge sentences Tommy Cottonwood, a local drug ...
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Lisa Frankenstein Blu-ray Review: Captures How Life and Death Everything Feels As a Teenager
By Darcy Staniforth |
Being a teenage girl is already rough. But it gets rougher if you aren’t like the other girls and tend ...
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From the Couch Hole: Time Can Erase the Things We Said
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week the Ghostbusters were called in by the mysterious stranger. They went to Skull Island and ...
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They Drive by Night Blu-ray Review: They Live by Day
By Mat Brewster |
One of the interesting things about becoming a classic movie fan is how you wind up just wandering around an ...
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Coup de Chance Movie Review: He Caught His Wife Having an Affair with Their Marriage Counselor
By Greg Hammond |
Woody Allen’s 50th feature film, Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck), is a comedic thriller that opens, of course, with ...
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Heroes: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Save the Cardboard, Save the World
By Steve Geise |
“Save the cheerleader, save the world.” With that simple theme, NBC’s superhero TV series captured the nation’s attention years before ...
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A Fistful of Dynamite Blu-ray Review: Viva la Sergio Leone Revolucion
By Kent Conrad |
For many filmgoers, Sergio Leone made four movies, four Westerns that helped to define the perception of the Spaghetti Western. ...
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The Crime Is Mine Movie Review: 2 Broke Girls
By Steve Geise |
Madeleine and Pauline are five months behind on their rent, struggling to make their way as young adults in 1930s ...
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The Lion in Winter (1968) Blu-ray Review: Cutthroat Politics, Medieval Style
By Kent Conrad |
The Lion in Winter is largely about terrible people who might love each other, when they're not plotting against each ...
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Colt .45: The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set Review: Revolving Peacemaker
By Steve Geise |
Ask anyone not collecting Social Security to name an old Western TV series and you’ll likely get one of two ...
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Stand and Deliver Blu-ray Review: A Classic Classroom Drama
By Joe Garcia III |
Stand and Deliver (1988), directed by Ramon Menendez, is the story of a high school math teacher who dreamed the ...
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The Best Years of Our Lives Movie Review: People Are Playing Golf…Just As if Nothing Had Ever Happened
By Greg Hammond |
Director William Wyler’s best picture winner, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), deftly interweaves the stories of three men ...
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From the Couch Hole: In This Life I’ve Seen Everything I Can See
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week on Star Island, the Shogun smelled old books and sizzlin' cheese burgers. Godzilla and Kong ...
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Una Familia de Tantas (A Family Like Many Others) Blu-ray Review: A True Cine Mexicano Classic
By Joe Garcia III |
Una Familia de Tantas (A Family Like Many Others) is a well-made family drama directed by Alejandro Galindo that won ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVI Blu-ray Review: A Worthy Entry to the Series
By Greg Hammond |
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema is an on-going series of boxed sets each containing three noir films from ...
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Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Vol. 2 Blu-ray Review: Another Wonderful Collection of Classic Cartoons
By Gordon S. Miller |
Fans should be happy that Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 2 expands upon the previous volume's offerings in the number ...
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Wednesday: Season 1 Blu-ray Review: Two Snaps Up
By Greg Hammond |
The Addams Family empire has quite a streak going. Starting with 150 single-panel comics (mostly published in The New Yorker) ...
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Book Review: Alfred Hitchcock Storyboards by Tony Lee Moral
By Gordon S. Miller |
As author Tony Lee Moral states in his Introduction, “No other director is more strongly associated with storyboarding than Sir ...
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Book Review: How War Begins: Dispatches from the Ukrainian Invasion by Igort
By Steve Geise |
Italian cartoonist Igort began serializing reports from Ukrainian citizens in the early days of their ongoing invasion by Russian forces. ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVIII Blu-ray Review: One Out of Three Ain’t Bad
By Mat Brewster |
I suppose there were always low-budget movies. As soon as somebody started making money from moving pictures, somebody else probably ...
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From the Couch Hole: We Can All Get Together and Ease Up Our Mind
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, last week Morbius and Monsieur Spade narrated the anatomy of the fall. Venom didn't give the best ...
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The Fox (2022) DVD Review: Two Against the World
By Steve Geise |
This German/Austrian co-production dramatizes the real-life story of an Austrian soldier who adopted a fox cub during World War II. ...
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The Giant Gila Monster Special Edition Blu-ray Review: Hey, Kids! It’s a Rocking, Horror Double Bill with The Killer Shrews
By Joe Garcia III |
The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews return! These two low budget sci fi/ horror flix directed by Ray ...
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Strange Way of Life DVD Review: A Strong, Romantic, Cowboy Drama
By Greg Hammond |
Writer-director Pedro Almodovar’s Strange Way of Life is a short (30 minutes) cowboy drama/romance starring Ethan Hawke as Sheriff Jake ...
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The Long Riders Blu-ray Review: O Brother, Who Shot Thou?
By David Wangberg |
While the western genre is amongst my favorites for film and television, there are still some that I’ve overlooked or ...
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The Ring Collection 4K UHD Review: Video Terror’s Diminishing Returns
By Kent Conrad |
The Ring (2002) might be one of the most influential horror movies of the new century. Based on the Japanese ...
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 4K UHD Review: Inventive Action Sequences Keep the Story Alive
By Greg Hammond |
James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is funny, action-packed, filled with strong performances, and it is one of the ...
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Drifter Blu-ray Review: A Taboo-breaking Time Capsule
By Davy |
As a member of the LGBTQ community, I'm always looking for films (past and present) that tell our stories. And ...
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Book Review: Anna by Mia Oberländer
By Steve Geise |
Anna is tall. Like, freakishly tall, with legs so long she’s able to stride over small mountains in a single ...
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Good Burger 2 Blu-ray Review: Still Serving Up the Laughs
By Greg Hammond |
It has been two and a half decades since Good Burger hit the screens to tell the story of Dex ...
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Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell DVD Review: Inside the Heart of Vietnam
By Steve Geise |
This award-winning entry from last year’s Cannes Film Festival takes viewers on a mournful quest through present-day rural Vietnam. As ...
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The Questor Tapes Blu-ray Review: An Android Seeks Its Creator in This TV Pilot from Gene Roddenberry
By Gordon S. Miller |
With a story by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and a screenplay credited to Roddenberry and Star Trek show runner ...
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Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XVII Blu-ray Review: The B-Sides of Edward G. Robinson
By Mat Brewster |
Something I've been thinking about lately is how when I was growing up I had a pretty decent knowledge of ...
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