Prince of the City Blu-ray Review: The NYPD Blues
By Jack Cormack |
In Prince of the City (1981; dir. Sidney Lumet), everything about drug enforcement is crooked—and that’s the way it’s supposed ...
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Shock (1977) Blu-ray Review: Bava’s Final Film
By Kent Conrad |
Shock is the final film that Mario Bava directed and is commonly regarded as an underwhelming swan song. He was ...
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Dune (2021) Blu-ray Review: Although Half the Story, Denis Villeneuve Delivers an Entertaining Science Fiction Spectacle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Denis Villeneuve wisely chose to only adapt the first half of Frank Herbert's landmark novel Dune, even though the ...
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From the Couch Hole: When the Little Things You’re Doing Don’t Turn Out Right
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we started the new season with King, Mountain Dew (your constant writer's weaknesses) and we spiced up ...
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Ragtime (1981) Blu-ray Review: The Movie Needed to be Shorter or Longer to Succeed
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel of the same name, Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) is set in the turn of ...
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Disciples of Shaolin Blu-ray Review: Socially Conscious Kung Fu
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a kid one of the local television stations used to run what they called Kung Fu Theater ...
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TV Review: Diary of the Grizzly Man
By Darcy Staniforth |
Many people were first introduced to the work, life, and horrific death of Timothy Treadwell through the 2005 Werner Herzog ...
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Out of the Blue Movie Review: Into the Black
By Jack Cormack |
As a director, Dennis Hopper used to strike me as a case study on how not to direct. His breakout ...
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From the Couch Hole: It’s Only a Heartbeat Away
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, your last regular episode featured a doggy named Bobby and cookies with a doggy named Snoopy on ...
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Shadow of the Thin Man Blu-ray Review: Bask in the Laughs and Intrigue
By Gordon S. Miller |
Shadow of the Thin Man is the fourth title in the six-film series featuring the detective team of Nick (William ...
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Live at Mister Kelly’s DVD Review: A History of Chicago Told Through a Nightclub
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Theodore Bogosian's Live at Mister Kelly's tells the story of Mister Kelly's, a famous Chicago nightclub, which existed on ...
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High Sierra Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Raoul Walsh Tells a Story Twice
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on W. R. Burnett's second novel, director Roaul Walsh's High Sierra (1941) is a captivating crime drama notable for ...
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Book Review: The Unseen Photos of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street by Trevor Crafts
By Gordon S. Miller |
If you are the kind of person who not only enjoys magic tricks, but wants to know how they saw ...
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From the Couch Hole: Best of TV/Streaming 2021 – Like a Rainbow Crafted by a Drunken Leprechaun
By Shawn Bourdo |
From 2005 through 2013, my Sunday Morning Tuneage blog punctuated each year with an ever increasingly complex Best Of List. ...
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Giallo Essentials [Yellow Edition] Blu-ray Review: Masked Killers, Disrobed Victims
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video’s second box set collection of giallo classics is now available, arriving less than a month after the first ...
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The Old Fashioned Way / It’s a Gift / The Bank Dick Blu-rays Review: A Trio of W. C. Fields Comedies from KL Studio Classics
By Gordon S. Miller |
W. C. Fields got his start in vaudeville as a juggler. He went on to create an iconic comic persona, ...
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The Learning Tree Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Semi-Autobiographical Story from Gordon Parks
By Davy |
There have been so many films about growing up where characters (mostly youth) deal with first love, family issues, peer ...
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Giallo Essentials [Yellow Edition] Blu-ray Review: Trilogy of Sleaze
By Davy |
As I mentioned in my review for the Red Edition of Arrow's Giallo Essentials, Giallo is a subdivision of Italian ...
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TV Review: The Flash: ‘Armageddon, Part 5’
By Cinema Sentries |
The tradition continues as the Sentries team up to cover the seventh annual CW/Arrowverse crossover event. This season the five-part ...
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World Series 2021 Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Almost All the Highlights and Footage a Fan Could Ask For
By Todd Karella |
Growing up in a small town in the middle of nowhere, we didn’t have a local MLB team, and it ...
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Cry Macho Blu-ray Review: Back in the Saddle Again
By David Wangberg |
It’s been some time since Clint Eastwood made a movie that is simply just enjoyable and doesn’t become something weighed ...
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The Last of Sheila Blu-ray Review: A Stylish Whodunnit
By Elizabeth Periale |
Fans of games, puzzles, and mysteries will enjoy the 1973 film The Last of Sheila. Written by the dynamic duo ...
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Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People Movie Review: Punk is NOT Dead
By Kent Conrad |
Angeli is an apparently extremely famous cartoonist in Brazil. He has created several iconic characters that are, and combined shock ...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: An Amazing Movie from the MCU Spider-Verse
By Gordon S. Miller |
To paraphrase the Spider-Man comics, with great characters comes great responsibility and the Sony/Marvel partnership has met that challenge by ...
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From the Couch Hole: Keep On Keeping On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we walked with Hendrix, Who, and Woo. There were hot almonds, sour corns, and gingerbread candy bars. ...
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To What Remains Movie Review: A Moving and Beautiful Story
By Darcy Staniforth |
My brother Robert is a combat veteran. He served as a tank gunner in the U.S. Army during the Gulf ...
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Krampus: The Naughty Cut 4K Ultra HD Review: Anti-Santa Extended Edition
By Kent Conrad |
A fan of folklore often feels a pang of loss when one of the creatures or legends you cherish suddenly ...
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Harold and Maude Blu-ray Review: Funeral Freak Flag
By Jack Cormack |
A cult comedy, Harold and Maude (1971; 91 minutes; dir. Hal Ashby) tries a mite too hard to be unusual. ...
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Angels with Dirty Faces Blu-ray Review: A Seminal Gangster Classic
By Davy |
James Cagney was one of the great actors of his time, and for all-time. He had a scowl that would ...
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TV Review: VOIR: Season One
By Darcy Staniforth |
From executive producers David Fincher and David Prior comes VOIR. Season One of this new Netflix series is a collection ...
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain DVD Review: Not the Biopic That Some Might Think
By Darcy Staniforth |
I have had to sit for a while figuring out how to write about and review Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony ...
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West Side Story (2021) Movie Review: Spielberg Keeps It Real
By Steve Geise |
In Steven Spielberg’s vision of 1950s New York City, the West Side resembles a bombed-out warzone. That’s largely due to ...
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TV Review: The Flash: ‘Armageddon, Part 4’
By Cinema Sentries |
The tradition continues as the Sentries team up to cover the seventh annual CW/Arrowverse crossover event. This season the five-part ...
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It’s a Wonderful Life Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful Film with an Interesting 75th Anniversary Release
By Rons Reviews |
It's a Wonderful Life endures as a Christmas classic after 75 years, though it has taken a backseat to more ...
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Giallo Essentials [Red Edition] Blu-ray Box Set Review: Mixed Bag, Solid Box
By Steve Geise |
Just in time for the holiday gift giving season, Arrow Video has repackaged three individual Blu-ray releases from 2018/19 into ...
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From the Couch Hole: So Now You’ve Caught On
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we dove into sad ads with Apple and cheesy wings at Applebee's. With King, we went through ...
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David Byrne’s American Utopia Movie Review: Beautifully Filmed but Imperfect Concert
By Kent Conrad |
David Byrne is one of those typical outsider becoming insider American stories. He set out to make oddball music, and ...
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Wife of a Spy Blu-ray Review: Understated Japanese Spy Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Wife of a Spy is the latest film by Japanese craftsman Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He was one of several filmmakers, along ...
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TV Review: The Flash: ‘Armageddon, Part 3’
By Cinema Sentries |
The tradition continues as the Sentries team up to cover the seventh annual CW/Arrowverse crossover event. This season the five-part ...
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Night Gallery Season One Blu-ray Review: Rod Serling’s Other Series Gets a Fresh Coat of Paint
By Steve Geise |
Rod Serling will always be most closely identified with The Twilight Zone, but his follow-up series is finally getting Blu-ray ...
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Party Girl (1958) Blu-ray Review: Neon Underworld
By Jack Cormack |
Fans of director Nicholas Ray (best known for the James Dean vehicle, Rebel Without a Cause) should enjoy Party Girl ...
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Mad Max Anthology 4K Ultra HD Box Set Review: Work in Progress
By Steve Geise |
You know how all major video games launch with issues that have to be fixed after release? Well, sometimes it ...
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The Ghost Ship/Bedlam Double Feature Blu-ray Review: Two Val Lewton Suspense Thrillers
By Kent Conrad |
Val Lewton ran the horror film unit at RKO Picture from 1942 to 1946. The massive success of Cat People, ...
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The Beast Must Die Blu-ray/DVD Review: A Somber Film Noir
By Davy |
Film noir is definitely an influential genre of cinema, one steeped with seedy characters, grim atmosphere (with often incredible cinematography), ...
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From the Couch Hole: Put a Smile on Your Face
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we pursued amusement parks, big drivers, and presidential assassinations with Stephen King, and along the way sampled ...
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Black Friday Movie Review: Needed More Bruce Being Bruce
By Todd Karella |
It’s Thanksgiving night and the store associates at We Love Toys are getting ready for the annual Black Friday sale. ...
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TV Review: The Flash: ‘Armageddon, Part 2’
By Cinema Sentries |
The tradition continues as the Sentries team up to cover the seventh annual CW/Arrowverse crossover event. This season the five-part ...
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Some Came Running Blu-ray Review: ’50s Melodrama Feels Familiar
By Kent Conrad |
Prestige dramas in each decade in American cinema each tend to have their own flavor, and in the '50s, it ...
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Freud Blu-ray Review: Montgomery Clift Exorcises His Demons
By Steve Geise |
This mid-career effort by legendary director John Houston is overlong, clinical, and ponderous, and yet Montgomery Clift’s tortured lead performance ...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles Limited-Edition Blu-ray SteelBook Review: This Ain’t No Turkey Trot
By Jack Cormack |
Its premise is simple. And yet, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987; dir. John Hughes) is cast to perfection, balancing moments ...
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