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

Deadpool 2 - Movie Review

Absolutely spectacular sequel

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Movie Review

Have no fear, this far, far away galaxy is still in great shape.

Life of the Party - Movie Review

Feels as though it has taken the entire semester off.

Dead List - Movie Review

neither frightening enough nor funny enough

Black Panther - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

12 Strong - Blu-ray Review

A solid entry in the genre.

Proud Mary - Blu-ray Review

Bang. Bang. Shoot. Shoot. With results this forgettable, who really cares?

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - Blu-ray Review

Everything works

New on Blu-ray

Watch the Heartfelt New Trailer for LOVE, SIMON

Details: Published: 29 November 2017; Written by Frank Wilkins

20th Century Fox just released the first trailer for Love, Simon which is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Becky Albertalli. It that tells the story of seventeen-year-old high school student Simon Spier (Nick Robinson), who is struggling with how to tell his family and friends that he is gay. He's also recently fallen for a fellow classmate...

See all of Marvel's Heroes Join Forces in First Avengers: Infinity War Trailer

Details: Published: 29 November 2017; Written by Frank Wilkins

A few lucky Disney Fan Club members had the opportunity to see some actual footage from Avengers: Infinity War earlier this month at the D23 Expo in Anaheim. Well, now it's your turn. Fresh off the Marvel movie-making machine is the first trailer for its superhero mashup it is calling ...

Strange Invaders (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 November 2017; Written by Loron Hays

Are your neighbors really who they say they are? That question – thanks to an unhealthy amount of horror films at an early age – always comes to mind when I meet someone new. Thankfully, I live out in the country and there’s literally no one around for miles. But ...

Lucky (2017) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 November 2017; Written by Loron Hays

No one gets out of here alive. Not even Harry Dean Stanton. Lucky, with its fine textures and perfectly lived-in routine, is the flawless ode to the life and times of Harry Dean Stanton (Pretty in Pink, Twin Peaks, Paris, Texas). Few actors get ...

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 July 2017; Written by Loron Hays

While director Luc Besson is often times all about the flash and dazzle of the movies, it wasn’t always that way. Think of 1988’s The Big Blue or Léon: The Professional from 1994. He’s kind of been all over the genre scene and usually – in spite of the critical condemnation ...

Wind River - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 August 2017; Written by Frank Wilkins

Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan concludes his American frontier trilogy with Wind River, a suspenseful murder mystery set in the snow-covered barrens of Wyoming. Sheridan burst on the scene with his blistering essay on the epidemic of violence along the Texas/Mexico border with ...

Inoperable (2017) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 25 November 2017; Written by Loron Hays

Whatever you do, do not die in this hospital. A place of healing it is not. Full of bizarre doctors with too much time on their hands to experiment on their patients, this is absolutely not a place you want to be a patient of for very long. Some people don’t have a choice, though ...

Lady Bird (2017) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 24 November 2017; Written by Frank Wilkins

When asked where she’s from, the titular character in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird betrays her home town of Sacramento for the opportunity to look just a little bit cooler in the eyes of a potential suitor. She says, “San Francisco.” We’re all just a tiny bit ashamed of our roots ...

Hangover Square (1945) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 November 2017; Written by Loron Hays

Imagine you suffered from what the main character in this black-and-white atmospheric chiller suffers from when it comes to auditory vibrations. A series of loud sounds – whether they are the breaking of dishes on the floor or the crashing of a car out on the street – sends ...

The Old Dark House (1932) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 November 2017; Written by Loron Hays

James Whale. Boris Karloff. The year after Frankenstein was released. Need I say anything more on why, even today, The Old Dark House absolutely slaughters its audience? The tension and the creep factor are ratcheted up to levels that seem astounding considering the ...