A jerk corporate executive and a frumpy analyst with survival skills are marooned on an island in Sam Raimi’s deliriously entertaining horror-comedy story of power dynamics: Send Help.
Author Archives: Bob Foster
Mercy [2026]
A cop accused of murder has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to an AI judge in Timur Bekmambetov’s painfully bad Mercy.
King of Beggars [1992] [Eureka! LE Blu-Ray]
Stephen Chow is Beggar So, a talented but lazy nobleman’s son who loses everything and has to rebuild himself in Gordon Chan’s 1992 martial arts dramedy King of Beggars, now on Blu-Ray from Eureka!
Illustrious Corpses [1976] [Radiance Films LE]
A police detective tries to solve the killing of judges in Francesco Rosi’s wonderful 1976 political thriller, Illustrious Corpses, re-released on Blu-ray by Reliance Films.
Blood of Revenge [1965] [Radiance Films LE]
The politics and rivalries of crime, business, and personal wants come to a head in Tai Kato’s lush 1965 yakuza melodrama Blood of Revenge, on its first Blu-ray via Radiance Films.
Mother of Flies [2026]
A young woman and her father seek a cure for her illness via a strange and dangerous witch in The Adams Family’s affecting folk horror Mother of Flies, now streaming on Shudder.
Cheap Thrills [2013] [Arrow Video LE Blu-Ray]
Two down on their luck guys perform increasingly dangerous dares for cash in E. L. Katz’s wonderfully nasty 2013 dark comedy Cheap Thrills, now with a new LE Blu-Ray from Arrow Video.