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

1917 - Movie Review

Big, bold, dangerous, and full of numerous iconic scenes

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Movie Review

Just so darn sweet and engaging

The Irishman (2019) - Movie Review

A true masterpiece

Midway - Movie Review

An embarrassing disservice

The Peanut Butter Falcon - Blu-ray Review

Just so perfect

Good Boys - Blu-ray Review

Perfect blend of shocking and poignant

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw - Blu-ray Review

Crashes and Burns

Crawl (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Pure flesh-eating B-movie delight.

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The Lion King (2019) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Although this isn’t the first of Disney’s attempts to redo their animated back catalogue, I think it had the hardest job. The mastery of motion capture technology and the sophistication that computer generated animation has reached allows them to deliver ...

Rambo: First Blood Part II - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

For a very long time, I wished that First Blood had been a one and done deal. But it arrived in the 1982, and anything from the 80s onward that made the studios money would like get a sequel with a roman numeral next to it. The remainder of that decade saw ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

There are things you probably know when approaching a scary-looking house that has long been abandoned. If you have to break a lock in order to get in, then you should probably run in the opposite direction. Quickly. The teenagers in this horror film, from producer ...

Rambo III (1988) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Three years would pass before another go around with John Rambo and produce the most (at the time) violent action movie ever made. It marked a continued tonal shift of the character that had good intentions hidden in cartoonish, ham fisted ...

Rambo (2008) - 4K blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

If the last couple of years have taught us anything it should be never underestimate Sylvester Stallone. He was mocked at the beginning of his career and brought us Rocky. His popularity waned in the late 90’s and when word trickled down he was reviving not only his famous ...

Road Games: Collector's Edition (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Butchering babes in motel rooms and burying them alongside the road. That’s what you get here in this intelligently made thriller from Patrick’s Richard Franklin and smartly-written script from Everett De Roche. ...

The Irishman - Movie Review

Details: Published: 15 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

In a scene from The Irishman, the new film from Martin Scorcese, union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino) says to mob hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert DeNiro), “I heard you paint houses.” Frank does indeed paint houses… but not how you might expect. Frank is a mob hitman and he paints walls ...

Pickaxe - Movie Review

Details: Published: 13 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

It is during the hunt for killer Alex Black’s amulet; that’s how this slasher opens. A young couple Paul and Dana Farmer are walking around in a forest after dark. They are hoping to find a piece of this serial killer’s property to ...

Blinded By the Light (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 14 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Bruce Springsteen. The name alone creates a number of iconic images. The fist raised in the sky. The bandana. The cut-off sleeves. Asbury Park.The BIG man on the sax. That worn guitar. The cars and the girls. Whatever it is for you, I assure you ...

The Peanut Butter Falcon - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Featuring a special needs character in a film is always a risky proposition that has the potential to cross that fine line between exploitation and exposition. ...