A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia to seek what her father called “The Island Closest to Heaven” in Nobuhiko Obayashi’s travelogue melodrama; in a new Blu-Ray from Cult Epics.
Author Archives: Bob Foster
Wicked: Part 1 [2024]
Before The Wizard of Oz, Elphaba, future Wicked Witch of the West, travels to Shiz University, entering a rivalry and friendship with Galinda in John M. Chu’s musical extravaganza Wicked (Part 1).
It: Welcome to Derry Episode 4: The Great Swirling Aparatus of Our Planet’s Function [2025]
The kids try to share their revelations, and Halloran explores the history of Derry in another banger episode of It: Welcome to Derry, now streaming on HBOMax.
Keeper [2025]
Supernatural happenings disrupt a couple’s vacation to a secluded cabin in Osgood Perkins’ enigmatic Keeper.
Secret Mall Apartment [2025] [Music Box Films Blu-Ray]
Eight artists in Providence, Rhode Island, set up a secret apartment at a mall in Jeremy Workman’s aptly titled Secret Mall Apartment, produced and released on physical media by Music Box Films on November 18.
The Running Man [2025]
A desperate man tries to stay alive for 30 days while being hunted in Edgar Wright’s lacking The Running Man, adapted from the Stephen King novel.
Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein [1955-1961] [Radiance Films LE]
Radiance Films collects three films from Robert Hossein: “The Wicked Go To Hell,” “Nude in a White Car,” and “The Taste of Violence” is this fantastic new set.