A squabbling set of mismatched cops solve a case and woo a pair of girls in Joe Cheung’s action-comedy Rosa, now on a new Blu-Ray via 88 Films.
Author Archives: Bob Foster
Oh. What. Fun. [2025]
An underappreciated mother goes on the run in Michael Showalter’s dreadful Oh. What. Fun, now on Amazon Prime.
Triple Threat: Three Films with Sammo Hung” [1974-1991] [Eureka! LE]
“Triple Threat: Three Films with Sammo Hung” from Eureka! Video has gathered three Sammo Hung films from three decades: The Manchu Boxer, Paper Marriage, and Shanghai, Shanghai. Continue reading
Merrily We Roll Along [2025]
A composer’s rise to success and the loss of everything else is followed backwards in time in Merrily We Go Along, directed by Maria Friedman in a proshot of the 2023 Tony Award-winning Sondheim musical (originally produced in 1981).
Splendid Outing [1978] [Radiance LE Blu-Ray]
A powerful, independent Korean businesswoman’s world is upended when she’s kidnapped to act as the wife of a brutal fisherman on a secluded island in Kim Soo-yong’s 1978 Spendid Outing in a spiffy new release from Radiance Films.
IT: Welcome to Derry – Episode 6: In The Name of the Father [2025]
All parties deal with the fallout of the sewer exploration, and Mrs. Kerch’s backstory is expanded upon in It: Welcome To Derry – Episode 6: In the Name of the Father.
Reflection in a Dead Diamond [2025]
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