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

Motherless Brooklyn (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Print
Email

Interior: DARK, GIN-SOAKED MOVIE THEATER CAMERA - SLOW PAN LEFT TO RIGHT. It was a dark and stormy night. Flickering frames of light pierced the smoky darkness, casting shadows on the tattered silver screen. The projector’s jittery rays revealed the forlorn faces of a checked-out audience while the stormy night’s deafening ...

A Perfect Host - Movie Review

Details: Published: 29 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Print
Email

Who knew a healthy body could produce such a diseased mind?! When picking the perfect place to rent for a getaway weekend, one should always be careful. Want isolation? Better check the “digs” out first, man. A Perfect Host, a new horror film from Three Hair Production ...

Terminator: Dark Fate - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Print
Email

There are few directors out there that have the distinction of making sequels to hit films that not only reach the quality of the original, but surpass it. James Cameron is one of them. He is an auteur that never rested on his laurels, always coming at things with a fresh take for a follow up and never settling for ...

John Henry - Movie Review

Details: Published: 25 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Print
Email

You’ve read the folk tale. You’ve heard of the man who became a living legend. Hell, you’ve probably heard the AWESOME Johnny Cash song, too. Now, thanks to a VERY charismatic Terry Crews in the title role, this steel-driving man hits the violent streets of Los Angeles and crushes his way toward bloody revenge ...

Goalie - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Print
Email

Out on the ice with the game on the line. That’s when Terry Sawchuck was truly alive. His words, heard here in Goalie, are totally believable, too ...

An Alien Invasion is Making People Crazy in Trailer for ALIEN OUTBREAK

Details: Published: 25 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

Print
Email

British visual effects guru Neil Rowe goes behind the camera to bring us Alien Outbreak, a sci-fi film that not only promises that the deadliest plague will come from above. but that also looks to deliver the goods with visuals that are all kinds of creepy ...

The Little Mermaid - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 January 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

Print
Email

With Disney’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in the animation realm, a series of costly underperforming features and the sure thing that used ...

Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy (1984, 1987, 1994) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Print
Email

The heat is BACK on! Long before Detectives Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) hit the streets in pursuit of crime and criminal activity there was plainclothes Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) bringing his rather chaotic (and hilarious) brand of law and order to the colorful streets of ...

House by the Cemetery: Blue Underground 3 Disc Exclusive Limited Collector’s Edition (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 January 2020; Written by Loron Hays

Print
Email

There couldn’t possibly be a creepier basement in the history of Horror films! Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery is re-opened once again thanks to Blue Underground. ...

Zombieland: Double Tap - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 October 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Print
Email

The road trip through the zombie apocalypse continues with Ruben Fleischer’s Zombieland: Double Tap, which comes some ten years after his Zombieland caught the front end of the zombie resurgence in the ‘90s and rode it into undead lore. ...