Reel Reviews - Movie Reviews, blu-ray/DVD reviews

BlacKkKlansman - Movie Review

It is messy. It is brash. It is offensive. And it is as subtle as a flying brick.

Skyscraper - Movie Review

Skyscraper is indeed dizzying.

Sorry to Bother You - Movie Review

A purposeful exercise in discomfort and painful soul-searching. And it works

The First Purge - Movie Review

Keep telling yourself that it is only a movie

A Quiet Place - Blu-ray Review

Makes a whole lot of noise in the horror genre.

Isle of Dogs - Blu-ray Review

A masterpiece of stop-motion that is not to be missed.

Rampage - Blu-ray Review

Really big. And really dumb. And, yes, really fun

Ready Player One - Blu-ray Review

Spielberg makes this chaos work.

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Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidora Appear in New Trailer for GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS

Details: Published: 21 July 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Netflix follows its short teaser that debuted earlier this month with the full trailer for the reboot of Benji, the popular Joe Camp written and directed film of the '70s that launched Benji-mania into American consciousness and carved a place for scruffy little puppies into the hearts of ...

Doom Asylum (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

“What have you done to Judy?!” It begins with a godawful cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and it ends with the world’s longest (and highly preventable) head-on collision as Judy LaRue (Penthouse's own Patty Mullen) and her fiancee are ...

BlacKkKlansman (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 20 July 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Spike Lee follows up his keenly poignant comedy/drama/musical Chi-Raq with BlacKkKlansman, another film that shares the same frustratingly uneven tone and disjointed structure yet always manages to slap its intended target squarely upside the head. And that target is ...

Casual Sex? (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Big hair. Shoulder pads. Casual sex. And Andrew Dice Clay. Anyone else miss the 1980s? I mean, who’d have thought the words “safe” and “sex” would ever appear in the same sentence? ...

Get Connected: The Everending Summer of Die Scum Inc. - Music Review

Details: Published: 18 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Die Scum Inc. - Everending Summer

Do you always drive by night?" She said, looking at him with a worrying gaze. "Yes." He took a drag from his half burned cigarette while gazing the city lights below. "Isn't that dangerous? Especially in your line of work?" She turned her eyes to the city ...

A Quiet Place - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 April 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

The horror genre is going to some interesting new places of late. With the recent critical and box office success of last year’s Get Out, the acceptance of last month’s intoxicating mind trip Annihilation, and now with A Quiet Place’s rousing world premier at Austin’s SXSW ...

See Nazis and Zombies in First Trailer for WW2 Movie, OVERLORD

Details: Published: 18 July 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production arm steps into the military/zombie genre (yes, that's a thing) when a new film called Overlord hits theaters later this year on October 26th. ...

Isle of Dogs (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Foundations need to be shaken. Whatever happened to man’s best friend? Isle of Dogs, written and directed by Wes Anderson, has the answer and it comes into focus via stop-motion. This is Anderson’s second stop-motion feature but it might ...

Watch the New Full Trailer for BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Details: Published: 18 July 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

We got our first look at 20th Century Fox's upcoming Bohemian Rhapsody last month when the teaser trailer debuted. And it looked spectacular with the most pleasant surprise coming from how well Rami Malek pulled off the look of the flamboyant Queen front-man Freddie Mercury ...

The Incantation (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Sometimes fairy tales can be very real. Even the most terrifying ones. The Incantation, starring Dean Cain and Sam Valentine, dusts off the idea of the power of fairy tales with a horrific look at just how demented they actually are. Page by page, inspired by a child’s story ...