An underappreciated mother goes on the run in Michael Showalter’s dreadful Oh. What. Fun, now on Amazon Prime.
Tag Archives: Drama
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.
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.
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.