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

Widows - Movie Review

Mass audience appeal and brains

Elves - Movie Review

Once added to the naughty list, only death itself will take it off

The Girl in the Spider's Web - Movie Review

It is all quite the bore.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Movie Review

A thoroughly entertaining biopic.

Mandy - Blu-ray Review

An unforgettable experience

Skyscraper - Blu-ray Review

Skyscraper is indeed dizzying.

The Purge: 4-Movie Collection - Blu-ray Review

Keep telling yourself that it is only a movie

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Blu-ray Review

Have no fear, this far, far away galaxy is still in great shape.

New on Blu-ray

The Evil (1978) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It’s not the house! It is something IN the house! This is why, when looking at homes to purchase, I avoid considering much older homes to live in. In my family, it’s not even up for discussion. Watching the defunct furnace in The Evil suddenly spring to life ...

One Good Scare: Caspro’s Dark Digital Comes Knocking - Music Review

Details: Published: 27 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Caspro - Dark Digital

“I got a rock.” Dressed as the bride of Frankenstein, Cindy never expected that her friends would ditch her on Halloween night. She also never expected to be going through her trick or treat bag on the corner of the street. But that’s exactly what she was doing. She pulled ...

Summer '03 (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

There’s a moment in a pool in Summer ’03 which I absolutely love. It is a slow motion sequence of Jamie, our lead character, just floating in the pool. She’s underwater watching as other people jump in. It is as if she is suspended there, taking everything in, and not ...

Absurd (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Death by kitchen oven! A band saw straight to the skull! Headaches caused by drills! Leave it to Joe D’Amato, Italian exploitation and porno filmmaker, to take the emerging slasher craze in America and grind the shit out of it for Italian audiences. Absurd, his faintly ...

Brain Dead (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It's time to get weird. A cult classic of the cerebellum is upon us! Directed by Adam Simon, executive producer of Salem, and way too smart for its limited B-movie budget, Brain Dead lives again! It is the crazy ...

Warner Announces Donner's SUPERMAN 40th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray Release

Details: Published: 26 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Superman 1978 Blu-ray 40th Anniversary

Superman is turning 40 and to celebrate the Man of Steel's birthday, Warner Bros. have announced that it is giving the Richard Donner classic 1978 film Superman a brand new 4K blu-ray treatment that will be available for purchase on November 6th in the form of an Ultra-HD Blu-ray combo and digital pack ...

Scream for Help (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Hilariously awful and unfortunately dense, Scream for Help might just be one of the best worst made flicks you’ll see this Halloween season. It certainly had me in stitches. Not laughing yet? Keep drinking and you will be. ...

Get Lost Like This: Electra Diamond’s Bayview Airlines - Music Review

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

Electra Diamond's Bayview Airlines

The traffic out of the city is bad. Seems everyone is happy going nowhere. The car windows are down. I keep the car pointed forward in spite of the traffic. A red light makes me pause. ...

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 16 May 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Much of the fun and joy of watching a Star Wars movie these days comes not from discovering something new, but rather from revisiting everything old with a new set of eyes. Whether the original series of sequels and prequels or within the Star Wars Story ‘tweeners, ...

Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - September 25, 2018

Details: Published: 24 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

There are tons of horror titles ready to take a creaky stroll into the light of blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD this week with John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween leading the pack while Christian Bale's American Psycho, the revival of the Puppet Master franchise in the form of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, and John Boorman's Exorcist II; The Heretic close behind