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

New on Blu-ray

The Cheerleaders (1973) - Blu-ray Review

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

So maybe 3000 birth control pills are hard to come by. Code Red; however, doesn’t have a problem supplying us with the goods thanks to its handling of this all new high definition transfer of a cult classic. ...

Grizzly (1976) - Blu-ray Review

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

When bears attack. That’s a thing, right? Because that’s EXACTLY what this movie is selling. But it’s not just any bear. No. The killer at the center of this horror film is a hungry 15-foot grizzly bear that is damn deadly with his paws and its attitude. Thankfully, we have female ...

We Finally See Venom in the New Trailer and Poster for Marvel's VENOM

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

Marvel and Sony today rolled out their first attempt at righting the ship after enduring the vicious fanboy backlash which followed the release of the teaser trailer for Venom back in February. All the hullabaloo stemmed from the fact that the trailer was missing a key ingredient ...

Feel the Burn: The Sizzling Synthwave of Le Louvre - Music Review

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

Le Louvre - Music Review

A man with a slick hairstyle, neat and clean around the edges, chomps down on a loaded burrito. He’s standing at the corner of a crowded street. Some of it falls to the cracked sidewalk at his loafers. Thankfully, it misses his suit. The other cop, in a Hawaiian shirt and cool shades, grimaces ...

Blue Vengeance: Limited Edition (1989) - Blu-ray Review

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

If I ever needed a ride and the driver of the car that stopped to pick my broke ass up greeted me with a casual line like “you’d complete my collection”, well, I do believe I’d start running quickly away. Fuck this and fuck you; I’m out. Blue Vengeance would have been a quick ...

The Awful Truth: Criterion Collection (1937) - Blu-ray Review

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

Cary Grant. Irene Dunne. Together again or – if we are speaking chronologically – for the very first time as The Awful Truth, being originally released in 1937. It is, as film historians recognize, a cinematic match made in Heaven as these two talented individuals run circles around each other ...

The Working Girls (1974) - Blu-ray Review

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

“What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen a banana before?” With those words, one nude man greets Honey (Sarah Kennedy), who is new in town and in the apartment where Denise (Laurie Rose) has invited her to stay. You see, times are tough; the economy is in the tank ...

Paddington 2 (2018) - Blu-ray Review

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

The must huggable and snuggable bear is back spreading optimism as if it was marmalade itself! Paddington (voiced again by Ben Whishaw) returns in this brilliant sequel that both kids and adults will absolutely love. Paddington 2, directed again...

12 Strong - Blu-ray Review

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

It has been a while since American military forces have deployed a good old-fashioned 19th-century horseback cavalry charge as an effective battlefield tactic. But that’s exactly what happened in the days immediately following the 9/11 tragedy as an elite U.S. Special ...

Silk (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 April 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Jean jackets, big guns, and some backdoor action. Oh my! When the hits are this hard, it helps for them to be delivered by a woman "so fucking smooth" like this wiseass cop. Her name is Silk and she’s no joke. Her slick hair, pulled tight into a bun, tells you all you need to ...