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

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

Winchester - Blu-ray Review

Winchester misfires

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Primal Scream (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Kiddos, when it comes to moviemaking, films RARELY get this ambitious. Primal Scream is what happens when Dashiell Hammett and Arthur C. Clarke get together, smoke a little weed, and decide to make a movie. Outside of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, there is ...

You Will be Rocked By the First Teaser Trailer for BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Details: Published: 15 May 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Mr. Robot's Rami Malek is on the verge of stepping into the spotlight in a major way when the Queen biopic called Bohemian Rhapsody releases in theaters this fall. But unfortunately for Malek those first steps must be taken in the shoes of iconic rock god Freddie Mercury... and what ...

Fright Night (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 14 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Even if you don't believe in vampires, sucking your way though town just got a hell of a lot classier. When you are 17-years-old, condoms aren’t the only protection needed when attempting to survive a ...

The Egg and I: 70th Anniversary Restored Edition (1947) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 14 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Because Speckled Sussex’s never looked this good before. That's why. “Hey, Betty, you better get cleaned up. That isn’t exactly perfume you are covered with.” That’s what a newly transported city dweller ...

The Devil Incarnate (1979) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

“It’s a beautiful world; I shall enjoy it,” says Spain’s Paul Naschy as he, playing The Devil himself, launches on a trek of mayhem across the countryside of 16th century Spain. He knows what will happen and he’s down for it; ALL of it as both virtue and vice come out from ...

The House That Dripped Blood (1971) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Doctor Who’s John Pertwee as an actor possessed by a vampires’ cape? Sign me up! From Amicus Productions comes one of the very best anthology tales to ever appear on the terror scene. Spooky and atmospheric, The House that Dripped Blood is a classy affair ...

Dead List (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 May 2018; Written by Loron Hays

"This book is your salvation, dude." With those uttered words, one supernatural book – with names of all the competing actors in a new Martin Scorsese film – completes one struggling actor’s destiny. He will do anything to land the part in it. Dead List, a sort of a ...

Life of the Party - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 May 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Like the Basket Weaving 101 class offered to help fulfill those elective credits in college, Life of the Party should have been a slam dunk. Just put the funny person in funny situations, roll camera, cut, print, and go to the bank. But there’s a reason I’m not a filmmaker. And it’s the same ...

Caged Fury (1990) - Blu-ray Review

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

Not everyone can fend off a rapist with a car cigarette lighter. Kat (Roxanna Michaels), as in Pussy, and Dollarhide (Rhonda Wallace) can, though, and, in this chicks-in-chains flick, it’s moments like that makes this unrated grindhouse flick a total gutter-dwelling keeper of a ...

The First Official Teaser Trailer for DOG DAYS Has Been Unleashed!

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

Do you love dogs? Then Dog Days just may be the movie for you. LD Entertainment just dropped the first trailer for its canine comedy that stars, among others, Nina Dobrev and Vanessa Hudgens. And boy does it pour on the big shiny eyes, and sloppy wet kisses. ...