Dead of Night (1945) Blu-ray Review: Something Spooky This Way Comes
By Steve Geise |
When a group of strangers mysteriously meet at a secluded country estate, they resort to recounting stories of the supernatural ...
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Lucifer: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hell of a Ride
By Steve Geise |
Bored with ruling Hell, Lucifer Morningstar decamps to Los Angeles, where he teams up with the LAPD to take down ...
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From the Couch Hole: Ooh, It’s Hard on the Man
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the lady in the lake fought one battle after another for the family and a right and ...
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All the President’s Men 4K UHD Review: Follow the Money in High Definition
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington There is a specific kind of tension that only a true-life political thriller can conjure, ...
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The Dark Half Blu-ray Review: Stephen King’s Tale of the Evil That Lurks Within
By Joe Garcia III |
The Dark Half finds legendary horror director George A. Romero behind the camera on his third adaptation of a Stephen ...
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Deathstalker (2025) Blu-ray Review: A Cut Above the Rest
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington In 1983, Roger Corman gave the world Deathstalker, a slice of sword-and-sorcery schlock that became ...
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Dillinger (1973) Blu-ray Review: Print the Legend
By Mat Brewster |
The American Myth was built on outlaws. We love our anti-heroes. Think of the Wild West and folks like Billy ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy 4K UHD Review: That’s a Wrap on Their Monster Movies
By Gordon S. Miller |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was the comedy duo's last movie for Universal, their second-to-last together, and their ninth ...
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Diva 4K UHD Review: The Queen of Color
By Steve Geise |
I’d never seen Diva before this new 4K release, and I’m glad I waited. Powered by exquisite cinematography punctuated by ...
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Man in a Cocked Hat Blu-ray Review: The Empire Strikes Out
By Steve Geise |
When the British Empire learns of valuable mineral deposits in one of their long-forgotten territories, the Foreign Office dispatches bumbling ...
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From the Couch Hole: When Your Day Is Long
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, murder, she said, because everybody's got to learn sometime about the monogram murders. The seven dials were ...
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Come Closer DVD Review: Garden of Eden
By Steve Geise |
Israeli writer/director Tom Nesher channels her personal trauma into a remarkable feature film debut. She initially introduces us to Nati, ...
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Red Dust Blu-ray Review: Love and Lust on a Rubber Plantation
By Mat Brewster |
Any movie fan will tell you that you have to learn to suspend your disbelief from time to time. Movies ...
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Yes: Symphonic Live Blu-ray Review: Performing at a High Level in 2001
By Gordon S. Miller |
Yes – Symphonic Live finds the band (vocalist Jon Anderson, lead guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan ...
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Shameless: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hefty Load of Gallaghers
By Steve Geise |
Like the original UK series, Showtime’s U.S. version of Shameless followed the misadventures of a scrappy family of siblings headed ...
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The Sin of Nora Moran Blu-ray Review: A Pre-code Marvel
By Mat Brewster |
The Sin of Nora Moran is a little low-budget melodrama about a girl who is born into poverty, fights just ...
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The Dead Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Intimately Haunting Portrait of Memory and Humanity
By Davy |
Legendary, maverick filmmaker John Huston was always one of cinema's greatest storytellers. He never stuck to one genre; he had ...
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Blu-ray Review: Brings the Nightmare Front and Center
By Joe Garcia III |
Written and directed by Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 casts an eye-opening spotlight on the life and work of the author ...
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James Stewart 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Four Great Films at a Great Price
By Mat Brewster |
A couple of years ago, me, my wife, and my brother were in one of those old-fashioned diners - the ...
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Keeper 4K UHD Review: Weird Movie, Fantastic Direction
By Kent Conrad |
Liz is pretty excited to go on a weekend trip to Malcolm Westbridge's cabin. Kind of, because though she's pretty ...
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Fackham Hall Blu-ray Review: One Joke After Another
By Mat Brewster |
My wife and I are big fans of British panel shows. These are basically game shows, but with celebrities (mostly ...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie Blu-ray Review: An Uneven Affair
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Rod Serling's iconic TV series, Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology of four stories, a new one ...
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Blue Moon (2025) Blu-ray Review: Hawke and Kaplow Outshine Rodgers and Hart
By Steve Geise |
I was fully prepared to dislike this film, or even worse, be totally unmoved by it. From Ethan Hawke’s distracting ...
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From the Couch Hole: Change Your Heart, Look Around You
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, I got the time to kill because I saw the Christmas invasion from the high window. The ...
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Manpower (1941) Blu-ray Review: Great Cast, Disappointing Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Sometimes a film disappoints you for what happens on the screen. Sometimes a film disappoints for what it could have ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4K UHD Review: A Good Balance of Horror and Comedy
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Victorian England, a series of murders terrorizes London and it's clear from the film's title, Abbott and Costello Meet ...
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The Verdict (1946) Blu-ray Review: Watch Lorre and Greenstreet One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
Between 1941 and 1946, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in nine different films together. Their first pairing was The ...
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Captain Blood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Errol Flynn’s Swashbuckling Lead Debut
By Joe Garcia III |
Captain Blood (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz, is a fast-paced pirate film based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and ...
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Falling Skies: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Wyle Sans Scrubs
By Steve Geise |
Between his acting stints in the ER, Noah Wyle headlined this TNT series about humans battling an alien invasion. While ...
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Book Review: The Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood by William J. Mann
By Darcy Staniforth |
Elizabeth Short was murdered and her case is still unsolved. On January 15th of 1947, in the early morning hours, ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Animation Sets to Date and That There Will Ever Be
By Gordon S. Miller |
As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera’s Tom and Jerry franchise, Warner Bros. Entertainment has released Tom and ...
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Book Review: The Pass by Katriona Chapman
By Steve Geise |
Katriona Chapman’s third graphic novel takes a stunning leap in artistry over her prior works, announcing the arrival of a ...
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Arco Movie Review: Little Nemo in Timberland
By Steve Geise |
Ugo Bienvenu’s Oscar-nominated animated film is finally starting to move from the festival circuit to limited theatrical release in the ...
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From the Couch Hole: When I’m Feeling Slow, You Gimme Rock ‘n Roll
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, seasons come, seasons go for Marty Supreme during adolescence. It was time to get Shorty and some ...
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One Battle After Another Blu-ray Review: Bizarre Love Triangle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is an action thriller that tells a ...
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Illustrious Corpses Blu-ray Review: A Slow-burning Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
The 1970s were a tumultuous time in American history. There were gasoline shortages and high crime in the cities. The ...
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Comic Book Review: Uncle Scrooge: Issue #04: The McDuck Journals: The Klondike Years by Kari Korhonen
By Gordon S. Miller |
As explained in editor David Gerstein' note to readers, “Finnish writer/artist Kari Korhonen began The McDuck Journals—a new series of ...
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O.C. and Stiggs Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s Teen Comedy
By Steve Geise |
If you weren’t aware that esteemed director Robert Altman made an ‘80s teen comedy, blame MGM’s decision to largely shelve ...
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Book Review: Atlas Comics Library No. 8: SNAFU: The Funniest Magazine in the World!
By Greg Hammond |
Fantagraphics continues its phenomenal series in collaboration with Marvel Comics by publishing its eighth entry in the Atlas Comics series, ...
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Laurel & Hardy: Year Three – The Newly Restored 1929 Silents Blu-ray Review: The End of a (Silent) Era
By Gordon S. Miller |
Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films round out their series of restored shorts with the two-disc set, Laurel & Hardy: Year ...
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Köln 75 Blu-ray Review: Two Movies in One
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Ido Fluk spins his imagining of Keith Jarrett’s 1975 improvised concert performance into an energetic but bipolar film. For ...
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Death on the Nile (1978) 4K UHD Review: Poirot in High Definition
By Mat Brewster |
A little over 20 years ago, my wife and I spent about 10 days in Paris over the winter holidays. ...
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Italia: Fire and Ashes Blu-ray Review: Italy’s Film Heritage Reborn Like a Phoenix
By Steve Geise |
Snippets of random silent film reels dance across the screen, transporting us to the earliest days of Italian cinema. Without ...
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Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy This Is Available
By Gordon S. Miller |
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, along with Wally Gator and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, was a part ...
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From the Couch Hole: A Tender Blade of New Green Grass
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the voice was shining darker than amber against the dreadful lemon sky. There were stranger things afoot ...
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Beyond Graceland: Ladysmith Black Mambazo DVD Review: A Great Look at the Group with a Distinct Sound
By Joe Garcia III |
Beyond Graceland: Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a 2023 documentary that does a magnificent job of turning the spotlight back onto ...
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Book Review: Ducktales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp and Other Stories: The Disney Afternoon Adventures Vol. 06
By Kent Conrad |
This is the latest of the Fantagraphics hardcover collections of reprinted Disney comics based on the block of cartoons that ...
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Wally Gator: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Complete but Swampy
By Steve Geise |
Right before I started watching this set, I finished watching The Huckleberry Hound Show Blu-ray collection, a pristine release with ...
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Evil Under the Sun 4K UHD Review: Exactly What I Want from an Agatha Christie Adaptation
By Mat Brewster |
Peter Ustinov portrayed Agatha Christie's great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, a total of six times from 1978 to 1986. The ...
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Alef DVD Review: Turkish Delight
By Steve Geise |
Aside from its Istanbul setting, this Turkish crime drama initially seems very much like any typical European crime series. The ...
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