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

Universal Details BLACKkKLANSMAN Blu-ray, Ultra HD Release

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

Universal has just released the date and details on the home video release of Spike Lee's BLACKkKlANSMAN. The film, based on the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth, will be available on Digital next month on October 23, followed on November 6th with the 4K Ultra HD and blu-ray debuts ...

The House With the Clock in its Walls Ticks to Weekend Box Office Win

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

Ads we approach Halloween, it should be no surprise that Eli Roth is making noise at the weekend box office. But what is surprising is that he's doing it with a conventional fantasy release. His The House With the Clock in its Walls beat expectations and ended up with a $26.8 million take ...

Cabin Boy: Special Edition (1994) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

ONCE UPON A TIME there was a spoiled snob of a young man named Nathaniel Mayweather (Chris Elliott). He wasn’t the nicest or the brightest of boys at school, but he got by well enough. At least no adult, tired of his mouth, had killed him yet. ...

Impulse (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It’s a damn funny thing what earthquakes can unleash. I remember feeling the ones here in Kansas that all the fracking in Oklahoma caused. There was a shift in my mood. I was on edge, just waiting for something else to happen. Things were weird for about 30 minutes ...

Looker (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Think Tron was the first to use computer graphics to create characters with? If you do, then Looker, now available on blu-ray thanks to the Archive Collection from Warner Bros, has the education you need. Released on the eve of Halloween in 1981, Looker might not have ...

Camp Death III in 2D (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

This movie is stupid. Its tagline is no lie. Seriously. It is also completely crackers with both its content and its gore. If you can’t tell from the title alone, Camp Death III in 2D, is a riotous parody of horror films like Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp. Full of really bad jokes ...

Criterion Collection Announces December Blu-ray Releases

Details: Published: 20 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

The Criterion Collection just announced the titles for its upcoming December slate of blu-ray releases... and it is a good one. Some of the titles on the schedule have been rumored to be coming for some time, such as

The Seventh Sign (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Demi Moore is apparently the world’s LAST best hope at surviving the end of days. At least, according to screenwriters W. W. Wicket and George Kaplan, Abby - the character she portrays (and she is quite good here) - possesses the only womb that can deliver the child ...

This Week on Blu-ray - September 18, 2018

Details: Published: 19 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Jurassic World Blu-ray The most anticipated blu-ray releases for the week of September 18, 2018 are Universal Studios Home Entertainment's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Shout! Factory's Steelbook Blu-ray Ultra HD release of 1986's Platoon, Warner Bros.'s Supergirl: The Complete Third Season. and one that really interests us, Kino Lorber's release of Pink Panther Cartoon Collection Volume 3

Hot Babes and Tremendous Moustaches: Nightshifter’s Sex, Drugs & Neon Lights

Details: Published: 18 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Nightshifter

In the immediate past, Hawaiians used the moon for navigation purposes. MacLane, wearing a loose fitting tropical shirt, only wants to use it to charm the pants off his date. Anything to take his mind off of Bianca. That girl is nothing but trouble ...