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

Zombieland: Double Tap - Movie Review

The road trip through the zombie apocalypse continues

Gemini Man - Movie Review

Two Will Smiths aren’t any better than one

Joker (2019) - Movie Review

I hate the guy. This worked.

Downton Abbey (2019) - Movie Review

The Crawleys are Back!

Toy Story 4 (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

Midsommar (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Not a sweet little trip to the neighborhood IKEA

Annabelle Comes Home - Blu-ray Review

The creep factor is high in this one

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - 4K UHD Blu-ray review

NOT to be missed

New on Blu-ray

Stephen King's The Stand - Blu-ray Review

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

Ca-Ca-Crazy lives here and, if you are anything like me and my warped sensibility, you are gonna love it ...

Joker (2019) - Movie Review

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

Joker was frightening proposition for this reviewer, who has been a lifelong Batman fanatic. Firstly because it presumed to make the focus of its narrative on one of the greatest antagonists in storytelling history, without the hero; secondly because it wasn’t going to stick with ...

Replace - Movie Review

Details: Published: 02 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Kira feels alone. She seems to hide herself from the world. In fact, the world she chooses to live in feels slightly unreal; it’s as if it exists locked inside a dream. Everything is diffused in a hazy sort of reality . . . and she doesn’t dare scratch at the fibers ...

Gremlins 4K Ultra HD (1984, 2019) - Review

Details: Published: 30 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

To this day, Gremlins remains director Joe Dante’s most successful movie. That seems pretty damn incredible when you consider Dante’s inspired body of work. For my tastes, there’s not a dud in the bunch. From Explorers to Small Soldiers, The Burbs and ...

Beyond Evil (1980) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 29 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

If you are ever offered a place to live in called Casa Fortuna, just say no. If you don’t, then the wig wearing witch inside it might just swallow your soul and no amount of voodoo chants can reclaim it back from her laser-shooting ...

The Vineyard (1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 27 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Zombies from San Jose! Oh, snap. Is Oakland next? James Hong is a Hollywood Legend. Never heard of him? Well, you aren’t paying close enough attention to the voices and characters on your television screen. And, if you ...

Art of the Dead - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Beauty before bestiality! Greed. Envy. Gluttony. Lust. Sloth. Pride. Wrath. We all recognize these words as the Seven Deadly Sins. But what if these deadly sins were also the basis for a set of ...

The Day Shall Come - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Opening Friday, September 27th at the Screenlands Crossroads in Kansas City is the follow-up work of Four Lions’ Chris Morris. While not as trong as his previous film, The Day Shall Come is still very hilarious and on-point as a small time Miami street preacher finds himself funded by the ...

John Carpenter’s Vampires: Collector’s Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Jack Crow is on a mission. He wants to destroy ALL vampires. It’s a constant act of revenge. For him, it must be done. Without question. That’s the cost all these bloodsuckers pay for the deaths of his parents. And Crow, as the leader of a group of ruthless mercenary killers known as Team Crow, takes no prisoners. ...

Pan’s Labyrinth 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (2006, 2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Pan’s Labyrinth premiered at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival where it received a 22-minute standing ovation, followed by its North American premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. The critically-acclaimed film won multiple awards, including three Academy Awards, three ...