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

It Chapter Two - Movie Review

Gob-smackingly, brilliant

Brittany Runs a Marathon - Movie Review

Reminds us that we all have our own marathon to run

Gwen - Movie Review

Operates as a feminist folk tale

The Peanut Butter Falcon - Movie Review

Just so perfect

Booksmart (2019) - Blu-ray Review

A smart and funny female-centric romp

The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

Brightburn (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray!

The Biggest Little Farm (2019) - DVD Review

You’ll sit in awe

New on Blu-ray

Depraved - Movie Review

Details: Published: 12 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

When Mary Shelley started writing her Frankenstein novel, I wonder if she knew just how fluid and longstanding her masterpiece of fiction would prove to be. Probably not, right? I mean, that’s not the writer’s purpose. We, the audience, are the ...

HELLmington - Movie Review

Details: Published: 09 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Because secrets – especially those involving cold, cold corpses – don’t stay buried forever. This is where an independent feature like Hellmington, willing to get is hands dirty, gets its strength ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - September 9, 2019

Details: Published: 09 September 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

And another friendly hi-def hello to our fellow blu-ray geeks. Welcome to the weekly look at our most wanted titles coming to blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD for the week of September 9, 2019.

Satanic Panic (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 07 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Ca-Ca-Crazy lives here and, if you are anything like me and my warped sensibility, you are gonna love it ...

Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 September 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

We all have our marathons to run. Whether battling drug addiction, fighting a disease, or simply trying to raise a family the right way, life is hard and it presents many challenges that we must overcome to be happy with ourselves ...

It Chapter Two - Movie Review

Details: Published: 05 September 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

When Stephen King’s doorstop novel was adapted for TV in the 90’s, it accomplished what shouldn’t have been possible. King’s novel is a behemoth tome, with dozens of characters, and was one of his truly graphic forays into the horror genre for ...

Booksmart (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 May 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Whether for good or bad, we were all labeled in high school. And whether we liked it or not, one of the most awkward times of our lives undoubtedly became the indelible forehead stamp that each of us has tried to erase ever since ...

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You: The Complete Series - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

IT. HAS. ARRIVED. Fred Jones. Daphne Blake. Velma Dinkley. Shaggy Rogers. And a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. That’s right, kiddos, the Mystery Machine has pulled up in all-new (AND BOLD) colors! The details! The animation! And all the fun-loving, free-wheeling, sandwich-gobbling spirit ...

Clownado - Movie Review

Details: Published: 02 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

It’s over the BIG TOP fun when Big Ronnie (John O’Hara) and his Circus of A Thousand Wonders arrives in your town! Your ass better hightail it for the hills! Clownado, written and directed by Todd Sheets (Dreaming Purple Neon, Bonehill Road), knows exactly ...

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 31 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Hell Comes to Frogtown and only "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Sam Hell can save the day. I don’t know whose idea it was – cinematographer/director Donald G. Jackson or writer/producer Randall Frakes or, hell, the B-film minded souls over at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures – but strapping a bomb onto Piper’s ...