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

Shazam! - Movie Review

Definitely unique and worth watching

Pet Sematary - Movie Review

Won’t haunt you afterwards

The Best of Enemies (2019) - Movie Review

Never earns our honest emotions

The WInd - Movie Review

shockingly unsettling portrait of frontier life

Glass (2019) - Blu-ray Review

A phony mess of a comic book movie wannabe

Bumblebee - Blu-ray Review

Forget what came before. Please.

If Beale Street Could Talk - Blu-ray Review

Rather than simply seeing the film, we feel it

Mary Poppins Returns - Blu-ray Review

Poppins pops

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The Manitou (1978) - Blu-ray Review

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

Completely mad. Absolutely bonkers. Those are some descriptions that are often used to describe this New Age-inspired flick of voodoo hoodoo transmissions. The Manitou is EXACTLY the pile of rock and schlock trash that you want it to be and now, thanks to Scream ...

Hellboy (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 April 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

As a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro’s 2004 original adaptation of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, I was disappointed that he didn’t get to round out his trilogy in this universe. But, as with most things that make a buck these days, it was inevitable that someone would take up ...

Glass (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 January 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

With his latest film called Glass, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, has actually managed to pull the rug out from under us yet again with one of his biggest and most amazing twists to date. I’m not kidding here, folks. This one is a doozy. ...

Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 16 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

“Isn’t it gorgeous, babe?!” That’s the pervading sentiment in Hard Ticket to Hawaii, a bleach-blonde action flick in which hot babes do their best thinking in Jacuzzis and, after insulting a bunch of horny men, start kicking lots of ass ...

The Street Fighter Collection (1974) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 16 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Clash, Killer Fist! A legend has returned. If you are not yet one with the madness that is the martial arts film, then let this release be your starting point. Why? Because from the years of 1973 to 1976, at the height of the martial arts movie and its influence of sheer insanity and nastiness ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - April 16, 2019

Details: Published: 15 April 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 April 16, 2019 ...

HELLBOY Gets Burned by SHAZAM! at Weekend Box Office

Details: Published: 15 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Shazam!

DC remains at the top of the box office for the second week in a row with its superhero comedy Shazam! staving off two big tentpole newcomers in the Hellboy remake and Laika's stop-motion animated film Missing Link, which brought in $12 million and $5.8 million respectively, and the Regina Hall comedy ...

Bumblebee (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 December 2018; Written by Loron Hays

The greatest thing that ever happened to the Transformers movie franchise was Michael Bay’s departure. Fact. Let the reboot begin! Bumblebee has arrived and it, operating as a prequel (or as like to consider it: THE ONLY TRANSFORMERS LIVE-ACTION FILM), ushers in a ...

Check Out the First Teaser Trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Details: Published: 12 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

The highlight of the Star Wars Celebration in Chicago today was easily the release of the first teaser trailer which not only gives us us our fist look at some footage from the next episode in the Star Wars saga, but also the film's title: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ...

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 10 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Being the ninth and final film in Hammer’s Dracula series, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires definitely holds a special place in horror history. That’s not the limit of its legacy, though. Not by a longshot ...