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

New on Blu-ray

Cold Pursuit - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 February 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Fear the snowplow! Though that's not the central message in Hans Petter Moland’s Cold Pursuit, it is certainly a bit of good advice that goes unheeded by a number of hapless victims in this quirky noir thriller that turns the genre on its head with a barrage of wry humor ...

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

This is a movie for anyone who has ever sent a voice message to themselves. Whether a warning or a reminder, there’s always an interesting collision of realities that occurs when the past offers insight into the Here and Now. William Faulkner suggested the past is never dead ...

Double Dragon: MVD Rewind Collection (1994) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 February 2019; 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 ...

The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) - Blu-ray Review

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

The opening scene of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the new film by director Fede Alvarez, hints at something really special. The darkened scene features actress Claire Foy’s character in full-on black leathers, with lighted cigarette dangling from her rigid lips, and shorn locks ...

Beat the Devil (1953) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Okay, okay, okay, Uranium deals in East Africa might not sound all that exciting, but when your business associates are Humphrey Bogart, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, and your location is Italy’s scenic Amalfi Coast, well you have the attention ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - February 5, 2019

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

And another hi-def hello to all our fellow physical media geeks out there. Welcome to the weekly look at our most wanted titles coming to blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD for the Week of February 5, 2019 ...

I Begin To Touch: Vector Graphics’ DESTINE Returns - Music Review

Details: Published: 01 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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No matter how many times it is said, the cosmic g-funk sounds of vaporwave are not dead. Fake news, y’all. That blissed-out merging of MALL MUSIC MUZAK, constant online consumerism, and sweet, sweet nostalgia is here for the long haul - especially now ...

Driving While Black (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 31 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

The personal anecdotes that make up Driving While Black, a hilarious but scathing commentary on police profiling, are based in reality. Frightening. That fact alone should make this film a must-see. The comedy, housed within Los Angeles, is unrelenting in its efforts to provide ...

Screamers (1996) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 31 January 2019; Written by Loron Hays

"Can I come with you?" Are the people around you really who they claim to be? This reality-bending question is at the heart of Screamers, a quiet little science fiction movie that, once seen, tugs at the back of the consciousness far more effectively than ...

Harley Quinn Returns in Trailer for BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN)

Details: Published: 30 January 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

With an incredibly lengthy (and remarkably strange) title that rivals some of the longest in Hollywood history, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) began filming last week. And to commemorate the moment and to whet the appetites of those ...