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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Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 30 April 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Saipan. Google it. The place is a dream. The ocean is the lightest color of blue and the island is a beautiful oasis of sun-drenched highs. Off the coastline of Japan, this place is a paradise for those who don’t realize the secrets its trappings hide. And the five fools headlining this ...

Savage Attraction (1983) - Blu-ray Review

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

It begins like a bomb going off. Frantic and haphazardly edited together, two unrelated scenes – a truck barreling down the highway and a woman about to be beaten – converge to create a fast paced beginning to this Ozploitation flick. Savage Attraction (aka Hostage) is a ...

Shakma (1990) - Blu-ray Review

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

The study of human aggression goes astray when the experimenting turns toward a primate. At least that is what we are led to believe. Poor Shakma. The biggest baboon in the room just got spinal tapped and he’s not too happy about it. In fact, this damn primate ...

Doctor Detroit (1983) - Blu-ray Review

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

ETA to splashdown in 2 seconds! With those words, after an innocent night of drugs and partying with a pimp and some ladies of the night, one supreme geek finds his inner super pimp and becomes a demented agent of change named Doctor Detroit. ...

Mermaids (1990) - Blu-ray Review

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

Because you don’t mess with Cher. Just ask director Lasse Hallström or Frank Oz, who was first originally hired to take over the reigns from Hallström before he, too, was booted. And then there is Emily Lloyd. Poor Lloyd got dropped so suddenly (due to Cher’s whim about ...

House on Elm Lake - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 April 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

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 Boneyard (1991) - Blu-ray Review

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

Get forklifted, baby! Poodle zombies are on the loose! It’s the damn giggling that always gets me. Mummified children brought to life on a fog-drenched night be terrifying enough for some people, but when they fucking snicker in high-pitched delight as they approach ...

Avengers: Infinity War (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 April 2018; Written by Christopher Symonds

This reviewer has been around the block for over ten years. In that time nothing had been more irksome to me than a studio announcing a grand plan for multiple movies before the first one has even left the gate. I have always felt—and for the most part still do—that is pure ...

Cyborg: Collector's Edition (1989) - Blu-ray Review

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

Cyborg is a prime of example of why the action flicks of yesteryear kicked so much damn ass. With a charismatic performance from Jean-Claude Van Damme and more than a fair share of gnarly and over-the-top action sequences, it’s no wonder that this flick is a top request ...

Watch the First Teaser Trailer for CRAZY RICH ASIANS

Details: Published: 25 April 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Fans of Kevin Kwan's best-selling romance novel will finally get their big screen fix when Warner Bros. releases Crazy Rich Asians later this summer. And from the looks of the trailer, it will be as extravagant as its name ...