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

Good Boys - Movie Review

Perfect blend of shocking and poignant

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Crashes and Burns

D-Railed - Movie Review

All aboard!

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood - Movie Review

A beautifully crafted love letter to TV and film of yore

Avengers: Endgame - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

The Curse of La Llorona (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Takes itself way too seriously

Long Shot (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Offensive yet unexpectedly charming

Alita: Battle Angel - Blu-ray Review

Heartfelt, beautiful, relatable

New on Blu-ray

4D Man (1959) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Atomic fusion gets jazzed up! Thanks to a righteously jazzy score from composer Ralph Carmichael and an off-kilter (but campy) vibe, an underappreciated science fiction gem gets the blu-ray treatment courtesy of Kino ...

Grandmother's House (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

I mean, it isn’t every day you see a body being dragged on the ground by your grandparents. That’s just one of the MANY shocks in this creepy gem from the video store. Newly scanned and remastered in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative, Vinegar Syndrome gives us another ...

The Nightingale (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

The trees on this godless land are bare throughout The Nightingale. They look like crooked fingers stretching up toward an empty sky that offers nothing but darkness. So, too appears the land surrounding Clare Carrol’s (Aisling Franciosi) home. She’s an Irish convict trying to get clear of Tasmania ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - August 20, 2019

Details: Published: 19 August 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 August 20, 2019.

Radioland Murders (1994) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Because maybe the Easter Bunny DOES crap colored eggs! Radioland Murders, directed by Mel Smith (The Tall Guy, Bean) and co-written by George Lucas, is a throwback to another era of comedy. Unfortunately, none of that was recognized when the film was ...

The New Kids: Retro VHS Look (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Bloody rabbits do not belong in the shower! That’s one lessen to learn here with this flick. The other is that you simply do not mess with a bleach-blonde James Spader. You are simply asking for a whole hell of a lot of trouble ...

Good Boys - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

One of the kids at the center of the new comedy Good Boys confidently tells his two best friends, “It’s a tampon. Girls shove it up their butts to stop babies from coming out.” The object in question is indeed a tampon, they got that part right. But, of ...

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 April 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Eleven years ago, I snorted derisively at the audacity of the newly minted Marvel Studios plans. Without a single hit to their name, a grand plan had been hatched: they would release a litany of films, starring their various characters (that they still had the rights to) and combine ...

Weird Science (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

You’re dead meat, Pilgrim. Highly quotable and completely off its rocker in all the best ways possible, Weird Science is back in circulation thanks to the lovable charm of two high school losers as they go from zeroes to heroes for one fantastical weekend in a ...

The VelociPastor (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Your new favorite monster movie, clocking in at a zippy 75-minutes, will have you stomping your way toward extinction thanks to laughing so damn hard at its rubber-suited antics, its 1980s shock and schlock kicks ...