{"id":631239,"date":"2026-05-08T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631239\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:46:11","slug":"the-drama-send-help-exit-8-and-andre-is-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631239\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and Andr\u00e9 Is an Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week\u2019s selections below and past round-ups\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9\u00a0Is an Idiot\u00a0(Tony Benna)<\/p>\n

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There is an unbridled honesty to\u00a0Andr\u00e9\u00a0Is an Idiot\u00a0that is admirable, even if all of it doesn\u2019t really work. It\u2019s a simple, stark subject for a documentary: accomplished advertising creative Andr\u00e9 Ricciardi neglected to get a colonoscopy at the recommended age and when he finally\u00a0did\u00a0get one he learned he had Stage 4 Colon Cancer. In response to this death sentence, Andr\u00e9 decided to make a film about dying. It\u2019s a bold idea, reflective of many of his ideas for commercials and otherwise. \u2013 Dan M. (full review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Where to Stream: VOD<\/a><\/p>\n

The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli)<\/p>\n

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Some critics are going to say\u00a0The Drama\u00a0is not about race, or that if it is, this is simply an accident born of colorblind casting. There is a reveal\u2014the reveal the entire premise hinges on\u2014early in the film that would perhaps make more sense to people if it had come from a white person. It\u2019s definitely something that, historically, is more associated with troubled white American men. But this is a film, not real life, and\u00a0The Drama\u00a0presents us with a character viewers have never seen on the big screen before.\u00a0\u2013 Jourdain S. (full review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Where to Stream: VOD<\/a><\/p>\n

Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)<\/p>\n

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Gameplay simplicity and use of the trendy liminal horror subgenre made\u00a0The Exit 8\u00a0a viral success\u2013\u2013currently the game has sold over 1.5 million copies\u2013\u2013which also saw a boost in popularity from streamers whose videos have amassed millions of views. But how do you create a feature-length film out of a game that could be beaten in a matter of minutes? For director and co-writer Genki Kawamura, it\u2019s to rely on horror\u2019s tried-and-true method of leaning into allegory, with\u00a0Exit 8\u2019s premise becoming a representation of how routines can trap us in cycles of bad behaviors. The film\u2019s main character is The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya), who we see on his daily commute in the Tokyo subway. While navigating the labyrinthine system of pedestrian tunnels, he gets a call from his recent ex-girlfriend who tells him she\u2019s pregnant, and he has to tell her if he wants her to keep the baby.\u00a0\u2013 C.J. P. (full review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Where to Stream: VOD<\/a><\/p>\n

Ragamuffin (Kaitlyn Mikayla)<\/p>\n

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In her first short, this director takes inspiration from her experiences as a childhood motocross champion.\u00a0Ragamuffin\u00a0(Sundance, 2025) focuses on a 12-year-old dirtbike rider who must navigate a male-dominated landscape while contending with her own sense of femininity. Shot on grainy 16mm, Mikayla\u2019s film offers a vivid and authentic look at life on the racetrack.<\/p>\n

Where to Stream: Le Cin\u00e9ma Club<\/a><\/p>\n

Send Help (Sam Raimi)<\/p>\n

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New Sam Raimi films are few and far between these days, but when one appears, the debate as to whether he\u2019s an inherently mean-spirited director invariably rears its head. His last pure horror movie, 2009\u2019s\u00a0Drag Me to Hell, is often deployed as the smoking gun for this argument, even though its protagonist represents everything audience members should root against: a loan manager desperate for a promotion who wills evil into her life after making an elderly woman homeless. Released in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, it was a characteristically goofy and gross ghost story that managed to meet its moment, slowly joining the ranks of Raimi\u2019s best-regarded films in subsequent years, where it remained stubbornly topical.\u00a0Send Help\u00a0is being heavily trumpeted as Raimi\u2019s first horror effort since, but is far more tantalizing when viewed as a return to that nihilistic strain of corporate satire where anybody who wants to climb the ladder is mercilessly punished for their shameless capitalist aspirations.\u00a0\u2013 Alistair R. (full review<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Where to Stream: Hulu<\/a><\/p>\n

Also New to Streaming<\/p>\n

Hulu<\/p>\n

Rosemead<\/p>\n

Kino Film Collection<\/p>\n

American Delivery
Monk in Pieces<\/p>\n

MUBI<\/p>\n

Abouna
Monangambeee
Our Grand Despair
Taxi zum Klo<\/p>\n

VOD<\/p>\n

Fantasy Life
Lorne
Love Letters
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-631239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}