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

After the Fall of New York (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 02 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

To the victor, long life and happiness! And, in a movie about the search for the last fertile human woman on the planet (with over 500 uncontaminated eggs in her ovaries), that life had better be a damn good one. Welcome to the New Middle Ages on this garbage dump of ...

Super Fly (1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 02 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Know this, brothers and sisters: the underworld ALWAYS drags you down. Curtis Mayfield knew how to hit you hard with his soft voice. He knew all about challenges and what is right and wrong for a society ...

A Breed Apart (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 July 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It has to suck to watch a film suffer in its comprehension due to a missing reel. It almost screams of sabotage. But such is the case for A Breed Apart, now on blu-ray thanks to Shout Factory. Featuring Rutger Hauer protecting an island sanctuary and crawling nude ...

Terminal Island (1973) - Blu-ray Review

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

Celebrities Tom Selleck and Roger Mosley, before they starred in Magnum P.I. together, were stuck on a different island located on a different sea. And it definitely was not as scenic as Hawaii. Well, Phyllis Davis (Sweet Sugar) was there so I guess there were definitely massive ...

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) - Blu-ray Review

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

There is a disturbing loneliness that is central to this low budget horror flick from 1975. Its subject matter is disturbing. Its sexuality is raw. It is a movie about a vampire with no fear of crosses or garlic. And in Mexico, there is no escaping the sun. An American Vampire ...

When EDM Grows Up: DARKNAUT’s Afterdark Machine - Music Review

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

Darknaut Afterdark Machine - Music Review

It was due to the constant sense of moving. That’s why Scott Anchors became an astronaut. He dreamed of bursting through the force that held him in place for so long. He never thought it would end up like this. Captured. Probed. Studied. ...

The Curse of the Cat People (1944) - Blu-ray Review

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

Because sometimes that wild animal magnetism doesn’t stay dead. “We never have any fun with Amy. She spoils everything,” is the general consensus about one young girl. She’s a bit odd. Her parents have noticed certain things in her that cause concern ...

Sicario: Day of the Soldado - Film Review

Details: Published: 29 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Italian television director Stefano Sollima couldn’t have taken on a more difficult project to mark his big screen directorial debut than he does with Sicario: Day of the Soldado, a film about the merciless war between Mexican drug cartels in the border area between the two countries ...

Grave Robbers (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 27 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Some girls have all the luck. Nora Mae Edwards (Elizabeth Mannino), a bummed-out waitress at an all-night diner, just accepted an offer for marriage from a well-dressed dude who likes his women a little cold. Okay, so maybe she’s not so lucky, but the dude ...

Body of Evidence (1993) - Blu-ray Review

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

“Have you ever seen animals make love?” The question is not as innocent as it sounds. Neither is the answer. Especially when Madonna, portraying a suspected bedroom murderer, is the one asking the questions. She’s being accused of fornicating a rich man to ...