From the Couch Hole: I Hear You Calling, but I Can’t Come Home Right Now
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, on the road to Omaha, the running man found love so right. His companion carried the works ...
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The Newsroom: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Same As It Ever Was
By Steve Geise |
Even though this HBO dramatic series began broadcasting in 2012, it remains shockingly timely in 2025. Watching it for the ...
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Together Blu-ray Review: The Best Film David Cronenberg Never Made
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, the horror genre is perhaps the most consistent one, meaning that there ...
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Book Review: X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series by James Field
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the early 1990s team from Jim Lee's tenure on the X-Men comics, X-Men: The Animated Series featured Cyclops, ...
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Alec Guinness Masterpiece Collection 4K UHD Review: So Much More Than Obi-Wan
By Mat Brewster |
I'm of the generation that knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars movies. Older generations will know ...
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A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story Blu-ray Review: A Celebration of Its Ruby Anniversary
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released in 2016, Keith Maitland's A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story tells the tale of the what ...
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No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B & Scott B Blu-ray Review: Confrontational, Fearless, and Highly Original
By Davy |
During the unfortunately short-lived No Wave movement, New York filmmakers like Beth B and her husband Scott B were making ...
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Book Review: Shadows of the Sea by Cathy Malkasian
By Steve Geise |
A chance meeting of two grief-stricken social outcasts leads to a healing journey and hope for a new future. Cathy ...
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Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Tenderhearted Family Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Little House on the Prairie is a multimedia franchise that began with author Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's novel, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton Blu-ray Review: You’d Be Crazy Not to Love This
By Mat Brewster |
The Mad Miss Manton takes place during the Great Depression. It is about a rich socialite and her gaggle of ...
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The Prestige Movie Review: A Dark Study in Obsession
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige, based on the novel by Christopher Priest, is a ...
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Blu-ray Review: Belongs in Everyone’s Christmas Stocking
By Rons Reviews |
When I heard that legendary documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) was bringing us more, I couldn’t wait to see ...
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Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Review: A Tidy Midwestern Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Planning and executing the perfect crime is a wonderful movie trope. All the planning, scheming, and preparation so often go ...
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The Conjuring 4: Last Rites Blu-ray Review: The Long and Winding Road
By Steve Geise |
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return for a case so traumatizing it caused them to end their careers. That’s ...
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Book Review: Behind the Mirror: Inside the World of Big Brother by Taran Armstrong
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by M. J. Washington For years, those of us who obsess over the Big Brother live feeds have relied ...
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Out of the Fog Blu-ray Review: Into Beauty
By Mat Brewster |
Life is always hard on the gentle people. The poor people. The people who just want to have a moment's ...
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Book Review: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto
By Gordon S. Miller |
Authors John Tenuto and Maria Jose Tenuto have followed up their book Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The ...
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From the Couch Hole: Start Living for the Moment
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Rocky had a return to innocence when he went back to the future to the happy days ...
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Manhattan Melodrama Blu-ray Review: John Dillinger’s Favorite Movie
By Mat Brewster |
On the night of July 22, 1934, John Dillinger, one of the world's most famous gangsters, went to see a ...
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Went Up the Hill DVD Review: Fell Down
By Steve Geise |
Director/co-writer Samuel Van Grinsven’s sophomore feature is technically a ghost story, but plays more like a two-hander chamber drama. Vicky ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Blu-ray Review: It Tolls for Thee
By Joe Garcia III |
For Whom the Bell Tolls was penned by Ernest Hemingway and brought to the silver screen by producer/director Sam Wood ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” by Carl Barks
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Donald Duck “The Lonely Lighthouse on Cape Quack” is Volume 29 in Fantagraphics’s The Complete Carl Barks Disney ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her
By Shawn Bourdo |
By 1956, John Ford had already won four Best Director Oscars. He didn't have anything left to prove as a ...
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Burden of Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Madness and Art in the Jungle
By Mat Brewster |
Werner Herzog is one of cinema's greatest directors. His films are strange and wonderful. They are imbued with a sense ...
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Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes – Live from Sheffield Blu-ray Review: Veteran Rockers Prove You Can Go Home Again
By generaljabbo |
On May 22, 2023, more than 40,000 adoring fans packed Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England, for a triumphant homecoming concert ...
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The Ogre of Athens Blu-ray Review: A Noir-Tinged Greek Tragedy
By Mat Brewster |
Thomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) is an unassuming, shy, and completely unremarkable bank clerk. He is a man who has spent his ...
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Malpertuis Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Runs Wild
By Steve Geise |
Just when I think Radiance Films can’t possibly find any more amazing, largely unknown gems, they drop this genre masterpiece ...
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The Day of the Jackal: Season One Blu-ray Review: Redmayne Conquers TV
By Steve Geise |
When a rogue billionaire vows to release a disruptive technology that will forever level the playing field of capitalism, another ...
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The Grifters Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Pitch-Black Film Noir
By Greg Hammond |
In Stephen Frears' The Grifters, Roy (John Cusack) is a 25-year-old conman, a grifter who makes his living running petty ...
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From the Couch Hole: And If You Want, Then Start to Laugh
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, Bugonia lived in a house of dynamite because who wants to live forever. We went beyond the ...
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Flash Point (2007) Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Flash, Not Much Point
By Steve Geise |
Donnie Yen’s slickly produced, lightly plotted 2007 actioner hearkens back to the 1980s-'90s glory days of Hong Kong cinema. In ...
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Howards End 4K UHD Review: A Confounding “Romance”
By Greg Hammond |
Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, and directed by James Ivory, is a visual treat filled ...
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Dust Devil (1992) 4K UHD Review: Beautiful, Baffling African Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Richard Stanley's career has been haphazard at best. He started making videos for the weird goth-cowboy British band Fields of ...
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Scoop (2006) Blu-ray Review: London Murder Mystery
By Gordon S. Miller |
After directing Scarlett Johansson in the well-received Match Point, Woody Allen appeared with her on screen for his next film, ...
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Book Review: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish
By Steve Geise |
After two lavishly painted graphic novels, Parrish takes a step back to present an archival collection of short stories rendered ...
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Blu-ray Review: A Stealth Elmo Lincoln Double Feature
By Gordon S. Miller |
Film Masters presents Tarzan of the Apes. Based on the first part of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel of the ...
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Book Review: Reflections on Cinematography by Roger Deakins
By Gordon S. Miller |
For those interested in how movies look, the cinematographer, or director of photography, is an integral crew member in helping ...
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Relay Blu-ray Review: Long Live Conspiracy Thrillers
By Steve Geise |
Relay hearkens back to the paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, despite its present-day setting. Riz Ahmed stars as a shadowy ...
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From the Couch Hole: The World Has Only One Sweet Moment Set Aside for Us
By Shawn Bourdo |
Previously on FTCH, we said welcome to Derry even though it's no country for old men. Honey don't forget that ...
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Frightmare (1974) Blu-ray Review: Cannibal Mother on the Loose
By Joe Garcia III |
Frightmare is a British, pre-slasher horror movie directed by Pete Walker and stars Sheila Keith as a cannibal mother recently ...
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Love, Brooklyn DVD Review: A Portrait of a Rapidly Changing City
By Davy |
When it comes to love, some people just really have to grow up, and that's the basis of Love, Brooklyn, ...
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Matter of Time Movie Review: Eddie Vedder Concert Raises Funds in Search of a Cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa
By Jade Blackmore |
Matt Finlin’s documentary of Eddie Vedder’s 2023 solo concert in Seattle to raise money to cure the skin disease epidermolysis-bullosa ...
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X Trilogy: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Box Set Review: Half Bad Over, and Over, and Over Again
By Greg Hammond |
Ti West decided to make a horror trilogy which pays homage to the likes of Texas Chain Saw Massacre: X, ...
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Book Review: Walt Disney’s Goofy: “Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks”
By Gordon S. Miller |
Walt Disney’s Goofy “Super Goof and the Strange Case of Dr. Syclocks” collects stories from Super Goof #1-6 plus select ...
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Dan Curtis’ Dead of Night (1977) Blu-ray Review: Trilogy of Terror Redux
By Kent Conrad |
Throughout the '70s, Dan Curtis was the go-to man for network TV horror. From Dark Shadows to The Night Stalker ...
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Shari & Lamb Chop DVD Review: A Comedy Team of One
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director Lisa D'Apolito follows up her documentary Love, Gilda with another film about a female television icon. Shari & Lamb ...
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Book Review: Nocturnos by Laura Pérez
By Steve Geise |
In Laura Pérez’s ethereal third U.S. graphic novel, characters and colors swirl through a nighttime setting with no clear dividing ...
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Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Fun Cartoon Filled with Heroic Slapstick
By Gordon S. Miller |
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum is one of three cartoons, along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion and Hardy ...
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The Curse of Frankenstein 4K UHD Movie Review: The Dawn of Hammer Films
By Greg Hammond |
Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein, stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein. It was the first Hammer horror film in ...
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Book Review: Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: Civil War by Jacob Johnston
By Gordon S. Miller |
Marvel Studios: The Infinity Saga – The Art of Captain America: Civil War is the 12th release in the 22-book ...
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