A retired spy recalls his exciting past in Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani’s wonderfully realized violent Euro-spy-thriller throwback, Reflection in a Dead Diamond, premieres in select theatres and on Shudder the first weekend of December. Continue reading
Author Archives: Bob Foster
The House With Laughing Windows [1976] [Arrow LE 4K & Blu-ray]
An expert in art restoration works on a strange fresco in a church, awakening a town’s memory of an old serial killer in Pupi Avati’s 1976 giallo The House with Laughing Windows; presented in a new special edition from Arrow Video.
Rental Family [2025]
An actor begins work for an agency that hires stand-in roles for strangers, making unexpected connections in Hakiri’s feel-good tragicomedy Rental Family.
Hamnet [2025]
William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children deal with the ups and downs of life in the poignant and powerful Hamnet, directed by Chloe Zhou from the Maggie O’Farrell novel.
It: Welcome to Derry – Episode 5: 29 Neibolt Street [2025]
In the 5th episode of It: Welcome to Derry, “29 Neibolt Street,” both ends of the story converge in the sewers to try to face and/or capture Pennywise.
Wicked: For Good [2025]
Elphaba, “The Wicked Witch of the West”, is hunted by various forces, including The Wizard of Oz and her BFF Glinda the Good, in John M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the lesser second half of the Broadway adaptation.
Blue Moon [2025]
A mesmerising Ethan Hawke stars as lyricist Lorenz Hart as he talks his life and troubles to anyone who will listen on an eventful 1943 night in Richard Linklater’s incredible Blue Moon.