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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From the Couch Hole: Beautiful Faces and Loud, Empty Places
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we returned to Dune for chocomania with the Shogun. The blade runner said, "Wish you were here" ...
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The Lady Eve Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Preston Sturges Presents a Two-Sided Love Triangle
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Monckton Hoffe's “Two Bad Hats,” The Lady Eve is Preston Sturges's third outing as writer/director, and with it, ...
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Suits: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Game of Phones
By Steve Geise |
Suits completed its nine-season broadcast run in 2019, but following its addition to Netflix last year, it’s more popular than ...
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Death Rides a Horse Blu-ray Review: Revenge Riders of the Dust Storm
By Jack Cormack |
In Death Rides a Horse (1967; dir. Giulio Petroni), Bill (a stiff but watchable John Philip Law) is a young, ...
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Much Ado About Dying Movie Review: Beautifully Uncomfortable
By Darcy Staniforth |
The burden of care-giving for another person at the end of their life is not something everyone will have to ...
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Frida (2024) Movie Review: An Artistic Tribute to Kahlo from Kahlo
By Darcy Staniforth |
Frida Kahlo used herself as the subject of many of her paintings because, as she said, “I am the subject ...
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Bombs Over Burma DVD Review: Chungking Express
By Steve Geise |
Anna May Wong stars as an elementary school teacher in China who moonlights as a World War II spy. The ...
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Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend Blu-ray Review: I’m Honestly at a Loss After Watching This
By Darcy Staniforth |
Bigfoot: Beyond the Legend looks at the legend of Bigfoot using historical accounts, testimony, and information from Bigfoot experts and ...
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Here’s Flash Casey DVD Review: His Girl Friday, The Big Sleep, and Andy Hardy Walk into a Bar…
By Joe Garcia III |
Here’s Flash Casey (1938), directed by Lynn Shores (Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum), stars Eric Linden and Boots Mallory ...
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The Great Ziegfeld Blu-ray Review: There’s No Business Like Show Business
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Great Ziegfeld, winner of three Academy Awards including Best Picture, tells a story that, in quite an unusual on-screen ...
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Witness Blu-ray Review: Harrison Ford Among the Amish
By Joe Garcia III |
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGinnis, and Lukas Haas star in Witness (1985), a crime thriller that takes place mostly in the ...
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Book Review: Tender by Beth Hetland
By Greg Hammond |
Tender, Beth Hetland’s first graphic novel, is a psychological thriller with a big dose of body horror. It is meant ...
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The Prince of Egypt: The Musical Blu-ray Review: Holy Moses
By Steve Geise |
DreamWorks makes another attempt at a live musical theater adaptation of one of their animated films, this time reaching all ...
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The Whip and the Body Blu-ray Review: Colorful Kink from Mario Bava
By Mat Brewster |
The thing about Mario Bava is that he became something of a bridge between classical and modern horror. He made ...
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From the Couch Hole: Same Old Show, In a Different Town, On Another Time
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, inside Llewlyn Davis they found Coca-Cola spiced with hot honey. The drive-away dolls have been searchin' such ...
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Driving Madeleine Blu-ray Review: Driving Madame Daisy
By Steve Geise |
Wait, haven’t we seen this movie before? Yes, the concept is similar to Driving Miss Daisy, with shades of Green ...
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The Rolling Stones: Live at the Wiltern Blu-ray Review: 20 Licks Up Close and I Like It
By Gordon S. Miller |
To commemorate the band's 40th anniversary in 2002, the Rolling Stones released Forty Licks, notable among the many Stones compilations ...
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Book Review: The N-Word of God by Mark Doox
By Greg Hammond |
Two-thirds of the way through Mark Doox’s The N-Word of God, the character Saint Sambo asks if you consider yourself ...
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Jeanne Moreau, Filmmaker Blu-ray Review: Girl Power
By Steve Geise |
Any casual fan of French cinema recognizes the name of esteemed actress Jeanne Moreau. Of far less common knowledge is ...
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Archangel (1990) Blu-ray Review: Dreamlike Semi-silent Melodrama
By Kent Conrad |
Guy Maddin does not make movies in any particular genre. He makes "Guy Maddin" movies, which are unlike anything else ...
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny Blu-ray Review: A Must-own for Fans of the D
By Gordon S. Miller |
The comic hard-rock duo Tenacious D (Jack Black and Kyle Gass) teamed up with director Liam Lynch to write and ...
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Book Review: Reading Love and Rockets by Marc Sobel
By Steve Geise |
Continuing their celebration of four decades of Love and Rockets, Fantagraphics presents this comprehensive overview of the first 50 issues ...
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Afire Blu-ray Review: A Mixed Portrait of Uneasy Relationships
By Davy |
Some films have ideas that are so obvious that they are impossible to ignore once you discovered them. Unfortunately, Christian ...
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Migration Blu-ray Review: Funny but Flies South Quick
By Greg Hammond |
Benjamin Renner’s Migration is an animated adventure story from Illumination. It concerns itself with a family of mallards who have ...
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The Bridge: The Complete Series DVD Box Set Review: The Saga of Saga
By Steve Geise |
After a four-season, 38-episode run originally broadcast between 2011-2018, the full story of Swedish detective Saga Noren is now available ...
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From the Couch Hole: Good Things in Life Take a Long Time
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, the Lord of Light arrived in his midnite cruiser with maple syrup grahams. On Dune, the color ...
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