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

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

Ant-Man and the Wasp - Movie Review

a fast-paced, funny, superhero romp

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.

Annihilation - Blu-ray Review

A strangely intoxicating mind trip of an adventure

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Rampage (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 April 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Rampage is really big. And really dumb. And, yes, really fun. The film works because NEVER EVER does it take itself seriously. How could it?! After all, this is a film whose only requirement is that it have a giant lizard (er, alligator), a giant wolf, and a giant ape pulverizing buildings into ...

Ready Player One (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 29 March 2018; Written by Loron Hays

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...

A Wonderful World is Waiting for You in New Trailer for Animated WONDER PARK

Details: Published: 09 July 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Paramount Pictures just released the first trailer and the first look image for its latest animated film called Wonder Park... and it looks absolutely wonderful! ...

TɅking Off like Fireworks: LɅNights Returns to SɅve the City - Music Review

Details: Published: 09 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

LA Nights - Save the City

This city breathes steel and spits fire. It is a dangerous place where even the strong struggle. But it is not without melody. You hear its voice caught falling from the night. Sleeping with the windows open, you feel fully aware and alive. The highs in its ...

Occams Laser and the New Blood: A Dark Wave Worth Riding - Music Review

Details: Published: 08 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Occam's Laser New Blood - Music Review

What if a form of control was manufactured through a synthetic new blood.  Recipients of this blood would only find out too late to change their fate.  Pumping cautiously through the veins of its host; taking hold like the gentle ebbing of the tide. Imprisoned from the inside, there’s no chance to escape the New Blood ...

Beat Street (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 08 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Beat Street Breakdown, RUUUUUAHHHH!!! Like it or leave it, Beat Street is back. This is the film which for many, including the entire country of Germany, brought breakdancing out of the shadows, off the cardboard, and into everyone’s life ...

Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Aaaaannnnnnd this is why boys should not fall in love with demon brides. Human sacrifices. Summoning ancient Gods. And hookers giving birth to mutant monsters. If demented killings with dildos and fan blades is your cup of homebrewed tea, then Call Girl of Cthulhu is ...

Sasquatch/Encounter with the Unknown (1977, 1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Bigfoot Country is certainly very scenic and so full of wildlife that it certainly becomes a spectacle. But, much life “squatching” itself, it can be a little … too quiet. The lead-off movie in this grindhouse drive-in combo seems to be suffering from the “you had to be there” syndrome. ...

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) - Movie Review

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

In the post-Thanos world of the MCU, it’s nice to be welcomed into the comforting arms of a film we can simply sit back and enjoy. And that’s certainly the case with Ant-Man and the Wasp, a fast-paced, funny, superhero romp that is light on emotion and heavy on humor ...

MacReady's 2600: The Year We Make Music - Music Review

Details: Published: 04 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

MacReady's 2600- Music Review

2600 is an expedition to the deepest reaches of space and time in search for past glory days that may not even exist. Does this leave the future destined for dystopia, or will a shred of hope be found at the end of this journey?”...