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A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection 4K UHD Review: A Dream Come True

By Mat Brewster | Oct 19, 2025

When I was in seventh or eighth grade, I had an 8-foot tall poster of Freddy Krueger that I displayed ...

From the Couch Hole: Moving Through the Doorway of a Nation

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 19, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the dream on becoming a guinea fowl went from highest to lowest for Stranger pizza Doritos. The ...

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Blu-ray Review: Entertaining, Educational, and Essential

By Davy | Oct 18, 2025

The great Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning actress, activist, and author, made history as the first Deaf individual to win an ...

7 Women Blu-ray Review: Seven Who Defied What No Man Dared

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 18, 2025

The 50-year directing career of John Ford didn't end in Monument Valley as would have been appropriate. He finished his ...

Daiei Gothic Vol. 2: Japanese Ghost Stories Blu-ray Box Set Review: Ghoulish Delights

By Steve Geise | Oct 18, 2025

Just in time for spooky season, Radiance brings us their second volume of classic Japanese supernatural films from the vaults ...

Radioland Murders Blu-ray Review: Goes Down Like Cotton Candy

By Mat Brewster | Oct 17, 2025

Radioland Murders is a throwback to the days when radio ruled the air and television was still years away. It ...

Tormented (1960) Special Edition Blu-ray Review: You’ll Lose Your Head Over It

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 17, 2025

Writer/director Bert I. Gordon (Empire of the Ants, Food of the Gods) steps away from giant insects and mutated monsters ...

Errol Flynn Collection Blu-ray Review: A Wonderful Overview of a Fine Actor

By Mat Brewster | Oct 16, 2025

"In like Flynn" they used to say. Or so they say they used to say. I don't actually remember people ...

Black Samson Blu-ray Review: There’s a Riot Goin’ On

By Steve Geise | Oct 16, 2025

As the unelected ruler of a Los Angeles neighborhood, Samson (Rockne Tarkington) speaks softly and carries a big, big stick. ...

The Nun II Review: Nun of the Fun of the First Movie

By Greg Hammond | Oct 15, 2025

Michael Chaves directed The Nun II, a direct sequel to The Nun, and the eighth iteration of the Conjuring Universe ...

The Bad Guys 2 Collector’s Edition 4K UHD Review: A Sequel That Strikes Gold

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 14, 2025

The Bad Guys are a quintet of five traditionally bad animals: Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Tarantula (Awkwafina), Snake (Marc Maron), Shark ...

F1 The Movie 4K UHD Review: Brad Pitt Feels the Need for Speed

By Steve Geise | Oct 14, 2025

What is it about veteran actors and racing movies? With F1, Brad Pitt joins a club including James Garner in ...

Roofman Movie Review: Interesting Tale but It Takes Too Long to Tell

By Rons Reviews | Oct 14, 2025

If you think it would be boring hiding in a Toys "R" Us for six months, try watching a movie ...

Last Known Address Blu-ray Review: Shoe-Leather Policing at Its Finest

By Mat Brewster | Oct 12, 2025

Hard-nosed detective Marceau Léonetti (Lino Ventura) makes the mistake of arresting the son of an influential lawyer. For his trouble, ...

From the Couch Hole: One Half Won’t Do

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 12, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the trilogy of terror happened when you shut your eyes and you dreamed of electric sheep. Ultraman ...

The Hard Way (1943) Blu-ray Review: Easy to Watch

By Mat Brewster | Oct 11, 2025

While watching The Hard Way, I kept thinking about another film, All About Eve - a movie about the complicated ...

Book Review: Rewinding the ‘80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War by John Malahy

By Lorna Miller | Oct 11, 2025

I love the ‘80s; it is the decade that shaped and created my interest in movies. Rewinding the ‘80s: Cinema ...

Emergency!: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: The Paramedic Adventures of Gage and DeSoto

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 11, 2025

Robert A. Cinader assisted Jack Webb in producing the 1967–70 revival of Dragnet. Together, they created Adam-12 (1968–1975), another Los ...

Body Puzzle Blu-ray Review: Missing Some Pieces to Be Considered Great

By Mat Brewster | Oct 10, 2025

Body Puzzle is generally considered Lamberto Bava's last film in the giallo genre (at least according to the Letterboxd review ...

The Lake Trilogy DVD Review: Nordic Noir Moves South

By Steve Geise | Oct 10, 2025

I know nothing about Slovenia, but this new DVD set billed as “the first Slovenian crime noir series” caught my ...

Peter Gabriel: Taking the Pulse Blu-ray Review: All Strings Attached

By Kent Conrad | Oct 10, 2025

When I was growing up, it was a sign of a rock band's senescence when they played their hits with ...

The Strange Woman Blu-ray Review: An Even Stranger Movie

By Mat Brewster | Oct 9, 2025

The Strange Woman is a strange movie. The plot involves an "evil" woman who takes what she wants by any ...

Book Review: Witchcraft by Sole Otero

By Steve Geise | Oct 9, 2025

Sole Otero’s second release from Fantagraphics is, in a word, astonishing. Her puzzle box of a tale centers on a ...

Tron: Ares Movie Review: Never Digs Beyond the Surface

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 9, 2025

Tron: Ares is the third film of the franchise and it steps away from the Flynn family who were a ...

Book Review: Shiver As You Read!: Atlas Comics Library No. 6

By Kent Conrad | Oct 9, 2025

I do not know if the introduction of the censorious Comics Code really ruined American comics. It came in around ...

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Movie Review: But Can the Devil Make You Believe It?

By Greg Hammond | Oct 8, 2025

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the sequel to the films The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 ...

The House of Sand Blu-ray Review: Art Imitates Life in the Brazilian Desert

By Steve Geise | Oct 7, 2025

Wait, there’s a desert in Brazil? Well, sort of, with the sandy expanse of Brazil’s remote northern coast stretching to ...

Materialists Blu-ray Review: No Sophomore Slump Here

By Steve Geise | Oct 7, 2025

Celine Song announced her arrival as the writer and director of the highly acclaimed Past Lives, putting her in the ...

From the Couch Hole: Shut Your Eyes and Think of Somewhere

By Shawn Bourdo | Oct 5, 2025

Previously on FTCH, the Time Lord was on the road to Gandolfo for his trial. The monkey heard the rhythm ...

Drugstore Cowboy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: It’s Hard Being a Dope Fiend

By Gordon S. Miller | Oct 4, 2025

Based on James Fogle's then-unpublished autobiographical novel of the same name, Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy presents an insightful, authentic ...

Annabelle Comes Home Movie Review: All Dolled Up

By Greg Hammond | Oct 4, 2025

Annabelle Comes Home, directed by Gary Dauberman, is the third Annabelle film (Annabelle and Annabelle: Creation), and is the sixth ...

The Amazing Mr. X Blu-ray Review: A Poverty Row Masterpiece

By Joe Garcia III | Oct 3, 2025

The Amazing Mr. X (1948), aka The Spiritulist, is a horror/suspense thriller with a film-noir twist starring Turhan Bey as ...

Are We Good? Movie Review: A Natural Extension of Who Marc Maron Is and How He Works

By Darcy Staniforth | Oct 3, 2025

"Everything was supposed to work out and it didn't." - Marc Maron Are We Good? the new documentary, directed by Steven Feinartz, gets ...

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 4K UHD Review: Such a Beautiful Nothing

By Kent Conrad | Oct 2, 2025

I do not know Tim Burton (in high school one of my classmates claimed his aunt dated him). I do ...

Book Review: The Spawn of Venus and Other Stories, Illustrated by Wallace Wood

By Steve Geise | Oct 2, 2025

If you’ve been following along with Fantagraphics’ ongoing releases in their EC Comics Artists Library series, this title might seem ...

The Nun (2018) Movie Review: These Could Become a Habit

By Greg Hammond | Oct 1, 2025

The Nun, directed by Corin Hardy, is a spin-off from the Conjuring Universe of films which also include the Annabelle ...

The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series Blu-ray Review: A Cartoon Classic from the Vaults

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 30, 2025

The Huckleberry Hound Show: The Complete Original Series presents all four seasons, 68 episodes across eleven Blu-ray discs, of the ...

Misericordia Blu-ray Review: Misery Loves Company

By Steve Geise | Sep 30, 2025

Writer/director Alain Guiradie’s latest film is patly marketed as a comic thriller, which widely misses the mark on a nuanced ...

Dogtooth 4K UHD Review: Deeply Weird but Satisfying

By Mat Brewster | Sep 30, 2025

As the parent of a teenager in these times, I have to admit I feel a great deal of anxiety ...

Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics Blu-ray Review: This Set Is So Good, It’s Criminal

By Gordon S. Miller | Sep 30, 2025

Ultimate Gangsters Collection: Classics repackages previously released Blu-rays of Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, The Petrified Forest, and White Heat, ...