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

Crawl (2019) - Movie Review

Pure flesh-eating B-movie delight.

Midsommar (2019) - Movie Review

Not a sweet little trip to the neighborhood IKEA

Black Bridge - Movie Review

Definitely worth the trip

Spider-Man: Far From Home - Movie Review

A breezy sit through that does emotionally resonate

Shazam! - Blu-ray Review

Packed with heart and laughs

Pet Sematary - Blu-ray Review

Won’t haunt you afterwards

The Best of Enemies (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Never earns our honest emotions

Us (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Delightfully exhilarating, and at times terrifying

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And Not a Box Office Record Was Left Standing as Avengers: Endgame Crushes in Debut Weekend

Details: Published: 29 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Avengers: Endgame

Not only has Disney/Marvel's Avengers: Endgame come out on top of the weekend box office race, but it broke more than a dozen box office records while doing so. ...

I Spit on Your Grave: Déjà vu (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

The horror of that fateful day in 1978’s I Spit on Your Grave returns thanks to writer/director Meir Zarchi, He did the first film, remember? In fact, the one and only Camille Keaton as Jennifer Hills is also back doing what she does best: getting revenge. This time, though ...

You Can Hide But You Can't Run From the Skinless Creatures in New Trailer for WINTERSKIN

Details: Published: 26 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Beware of crazy old ladies holed up in remote cabins. Nothing good can ever come of it. But that's exactly what we will get this May, when High Octane Pictures unleashes the horror film Winterskin upon the masses ...

Room for Rent - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Indie horror films are, thankfully, on the rise and when they are of this quality, well, they can be damn remarkable with both their chills and spills. Room for Rent is a thriller from Arizona-based filmmaker Tommy Stovall that works on many levels, putting sort of Air B&B spin ...

The Curse of La Llorona (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

An angry woman scorned eerily stalks the world’s rivers and waterways by night wearing a threadbare wedding gown as she looks for children to drown. This is the subject of the age-old Latin American folktale of La Llorona or “The Weeping Woman” that has fueled the ...

The Strange Door (1951) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Deception! Trickery! And really bad wigs! There are two reasons why one steps foot through The Strange Door. They are two BIG reasons, mind you, being the over-the-top performances from Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who spends a lot of time ...

See A Man of the Cloth Turn Jurassic in THE VELOCIPASTOR Trailer

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

Sure, there's a whole lot of noise coming from the impending release of Avengers: Endgame. But does that film feature a priest who is endowed with the ability to turn into a dinosaur? We think not ...

Escape Room (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 January 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Fortunately, the Tide Pods Challenge went untouched by Hollywood. The same can’t be said about the escape room craze however, as Sony’s latest, called Escape Room is a clever little high-concept psychological horror film that plays off the raging escape room phenomenon ...

The Land Unknown (1957) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Fun with helicopter models and CinemaScope exploits! The Land Unknown arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber Studio Classics and while it is definitely C-grade 1950s entertainment – happiest when knocking off King Kong and The Lost World – the adventure film ...

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Movie 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 ...