Moses the Lawgiver DVD Review: A Spaghetti Biblical Epic
By Joe Garcia III |
Burt Lancaster is Moses the Lawgiver in the six-part, six-hour TV miniseries that originally aired in 1974. This gritty, Italian-produced ...
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Bringing Out the Dead 4K UHD Review: Long Night’s Journey into Night
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Joe Connelly's novel of the same name, screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese reteam in Bringing Out ...
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The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece
By Steve Geise |
Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...
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From the Couch Hole: Things Is Coming Much Too Slow
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Miss Marple discovered that Supergirl was a runaway from the drama of the Regatta Mystery over the ...
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: For the Birds
By Steve Geise |
Warner Archive continues their Blu-ray upsells of classic Hanna-Barbara animated series with this 1969 oddity, previously only available on DVD. ...
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Night and Day Blu-ray Review: Cole Porter Vanishes Behind Cary Grant’s Star Power
By Steve Geise |
This biopic about Cole Porter boasts more than 20 of his songs. If that sounds like a lot, it is, ...
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A Man Named Rocca / La Scoumoune Blu-rays Review: Same Story, Same Actor, Very Different Films
By Mat Brewster |
In 1962, French author José Giovanni wrote a novel entitled L'Excommunié about an ex-gangster who comes to Marseilles to help ...
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Difficult People: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Series Close to My Heart
By Davy |
Every now and then, there is a show that comes along and really wins me over (despite the fact that ...
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The Black Shield of Falworth Blu-ray Review: Men in Tights
By Steve Geise |
This 1954 swashbuckler is most notable for the romantic pairing of real-life married couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis ...
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Book Review: Prince Valiant: Peril of the Round Table by Paul S. Newman and Bob Fujitani
By Steve Geise |
The Prince Valiant character will forever be associated with his ongoing weekly comic strip, but he has occasionally ventured beyond ...
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From the Couch Hole: Sun Is Comin’ and It’s Getting Warmer
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the toy story was a Cornish mystery of the murder in paradise of Wuthering Heights on disclosure ...
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Book Review: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec Vol. 1 by Tardi
By Mat Brewster |
My wife is a Francophile. She started studying French when she was in high school. She lived in French-speaking Montreal ...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Kiss of Death
By Steve Geise |
Bill Condon’s much-maligned film adaptation of the musical of the movie of the play of the novel arrives with considerable ...
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Book Review: Nancy For All Seasons by Ernie Bushmiller
By Gordon S. Miller |
Nancy For All Seasons, which collects comic strips from the years 1951–1952, is the second installment in the Fantagraphics Nancy ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Blu-ray Review: Just Over Two Hours on Your Television Screen
By Mat Brewster |
Just over four months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 15 American B-25 bombers took off from aircraft carriers in ...
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Amrum DVD Review: How to Survive the End of Fascism
By Steve Geise |
Despite boasting globally recognized star Diane Kruger in the cast, this WWII-adjacent film focuses entirely on the effects of wartime ...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with a Social Conscience
By Mat Brewster |
From a certain angle, it seems absolutely bonkers that a film starring Rock Hudson, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, and Roddy ...
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Book Review: Heaven by Katie Skelly
By Mat Brewster |
Dolly is a lonely 18-year-old high school senior. She's become adrift since she had to drop out of gymnastics due ...
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Come Live with Me Blu-ray Review: A Very Relaxed Film
By Mat Brewster |
World War II-era films are fascinating to me. Especially those made in America before the USA entered the war. There ...
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Hang ‘Em High 4K UHD Review: An Important Film for the Western Genre in America
By Shawn Bourdo |
In 1968, Clint Eastwood was in the midst of his evolution from a television star in Rawhide to an International ...
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Strange Cargo Blu-ray Review: Weird Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable starred in eight films together, all for MGM. Strange Cargo was the final one. It ...
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High Art Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Queer-film Aficionados and Indie-film Buffs
By Davy |
Pride month is over, but it's really not. Resilience and resistance are key to our survival as LGBTQIA+ people, especially ...
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Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma
By Joe Keaton |
Brian De Palma’s fourth feature, Hi, Mom!, is the suspense master’s first—and arguably best—full-blown comedy. Loose, politically charged, and eager ...
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Stuff Going On
By Greg Hammond |
Three years after The Super Mario Bros. Movie turned Nintendo's mascot into a box-office powerhouse, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ...
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From the Couch Hole: Out on the Wily, Windy Moors
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the scream came in the shadows of the night in Cape Fear of the empty Copper Sea ...
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Gilmore Girls: The Series Blu-ray Review: Days of Their Lives
By Gordon S. Miller |
Gilmore Girls: The Series collects the previously released seven seasons (1-6, The WB / 7, The CW) and revival miniseries, ...
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The Mastermind Blu-ray Review: That Title Might Be Sarcastic
By Mat Brewster |
On the outside, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor) has a pretty good life. He's got a nice wife (Alana Haim) and ...
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Born a Ninja / Commando the Ninja Blu-ray Review: Recycled Ninja Trash but Fun
By Kent Conrad |
It's an interesting challenge to write a review on a movie, or pair of movies, when the liner notes in ...
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Eagles of the Republic Blu-ray Review: The Folly of State-Controlled Media
By Steve Geise |
When Egypt’s biggest movie star gets an offer to star in a state-funded biopic about the current president, he has ...
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La Tête Contre les Murs Blu-ray Review: The First Film from a French Master
By Mat Brewster |
George Franju cut his teeth making political documentaries. One was a blood soaked look inside a slaughterhouse. Two others were ...
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Unearthly Stranger Blu-ray Review: Strange, But Entirely Earthbound
By Steve Geise |
This 1963 British sci-fi film ratchets up tension by keeping alien threats completely hidden, with the increasingly stressed characters racing ...
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Book Review: The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: The Idiots Abroad and Other Follies (Volume 6) by Gilbert Shelton & Paul Mavrides
By Gordon S. Miller |
Created by Gilbert Shelton, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers was a popular underground comix that presented the wacky, drug-fueled (or ...
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Inspector Maigret Collection Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Closes Three Cases
By Steve Geise |
French film titan Jean Gabin starred as Inspector Maigret in three films, which have all been collected in this new ...
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From the Couch Hole: So, Baby, Take My Hand, You’ll Be Alright
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the bizarre love triangle in the backrooms was discovered by the sheep detective during playback. That's a ...
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The Gay Divorcee Blu-ray Review: Astaire and Rogers. Together Again for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, The Gay Divorcee is the second of the ten movies Fred Astaire and ...
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Brit Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: A Jack Hawkins Triple Feature
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly five years ago, I reviewed a DVD collection of British noir films. I was not particularly enthused by it. ...
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Shutter Island Movie Review: The Heart of Darkness
By Greg Hammond |
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, is a neo-noir / psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio ...
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Book Review: Yan Vols. 1-3 by Chang Sheng
By Steve Geise |
The third and concluding volume of Chang Sheng’s Eisner-nominated manhua epic was recently published, making this an ideal time to ...
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Solo (1970) Blu-ray Review: A Character-driven Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
A group of rich, elderly men are having a sex party with a bunch of underage girls. Suddenly, there is ...
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Lorne Blu-ray Review: Less Than You Are Looking For
By Greg Hammond |
For nearly 50 years, Lorne Michaels has occupied a unique spot in American entertainment. As the creator and guiding force ...
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White Zombie (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Fun, Spooky Relic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Victor Halperin's White Zombie is a pre-Code horror film, credited as the first full-length zombie movie. While some characters make ...
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Waves of Lust Blu-ray Review: A Tsunami of Female Nudity
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a younger man, I loved low-budget horror films and exploitation flicks. There was something so exciting about ...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao Blu-ray Review: Cabinet of Curiosities
By Steve Geise |
Tony Randall got the opportunity to show vast range in this 1965 fantasy fable, playing seven distinct characters in such ...
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From the Couch Hole: I Feel Shot Right Through with a Bolt of Blue
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the invictus was more than a feeling about the man and the movies in the studio. We ...
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Minority Report 4K UHD Review: One of Spielberg’s Best Films of the Century
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 short story of the same name, Steven Spielberg's Minority Report is a captivating techno-thriller ...
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Scream 7 4K UHD Review: Neve Campbell Steals the Show
By Davy |
Scream 7, directed by the original film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, has Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) living a new life far ...
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Sirat Blu-ray Review: The Journey Is the Destination
By Steve Geise |
A desperate elderly father shows up at a remote rave in the Moroccan wilderness in the hopes of locating his ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 9: Adventures Into Weird Worlds, Vol. 1
By Greg Hammond |
Atlas Comics Library No. 9 comprises Adventures Into Weird Worlds issues 1 - 10 (56 stories: January - September 1952) ...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet Blu-ray Review: Character Study of a Loser
By Mat Brewster |
Kiyoshi Koike (Tsunehiko Wasabe) is a schmuck. A big time loser. He used to be a chef, but now he ...
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Million Dollar Legs (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code International Farce
By Gordon S. Miller |
Originally developed by co-screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz for the Marx Brothers, who passed on it, Edward Cline's Million Dollar Legs ...
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