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

Geostorm (2017) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Tsunamis. Hurricanes. Firenados? Well, alrighty then. This is the largely uninspired world of Geostorm, a movie that phones in more than just a series of sad performances all trapped within the pages of a story that appears to have been written by a teenager who lets the ...

The House on Sorority Row (1983) Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

A killer cult classic gets cleaned up for its HD debut! And, no, I am not clowning around. Heh heh. Written and directed by Mark Rosman (The Blue Yonder), The House on Sorority Row is a slasher film about a wicked prank gone horribly wrong ...

Watch Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft in New TOMB RAIDER Trailer

Details: Published: 22 January 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent. ...

Stigma (1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Don Johnson has A Boy and His Dog long before there was any idea of Sonny Crockett. It’s only fair then, in those pre-Miami Vice days, that Philip Michael Thomas had an exploitative cult hit under his no-belted waist, too. Stigma, a movie that tackles a nasty sexually ...

Hands of Steel (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

"You have no future," read the signs and flyers populating this flick. With those words, a whole new world of arm-wrestling, cyborgs, truck drivers, and low-flying helicopter chases over bridges begins. Hands of Steel goes rogue soon after it begins and concerns itself ...

Eye of the Cat (1969) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Holy Frying Felines! How are YOU going to explain the C-A-T in the rotisserie? It is, of course, one of my favorite questions in this cat-centered cult classic that Scream Factory puts back into circulation this week. The bizarre film, with its lurking cats and mysterious music ...

Silver Bullet (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Finally. With this release from Australian home video company Umbrella Entertainment, a long requested top 10 horror film arrives on blu-ray. Stephen King’s Silver Bullet, starring Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Anne of Green Gables’ Megan Follows, and LOST’s ...

Small Town Crime (2017) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 15 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

If there is anything that growing up on my father’s steady diet of b-movie westerns taught me – and I’m talking every Sunday he’d sit and watch (and watch again) the same recycled footage of horseback riders passing the same big rock on the same dusty path in a completely ...

Yor, The Hunter from the Future: The 35th Anniversary Edition (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

“Yor’s world! He’s the man! Yor’s world!” With these puzzling lyrics, Oliver Onions, a duo best known for their cheesy soundtrack work, perfectly matches their cosmic melody with a downhill (and hilariously goofy) introduction to our hero. He’s trying really hard to be all ...

Matinee: Collector's Edition (1993) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 January 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Sick thrills for hotheaded teenagers! The Cuban Missile Crisis! Bring in the nuked and still marching ants, too! My God, I love this film. I, too, have a serious crush on William Castle, the producer the film is based upon. His independently made horror films, no matter how ...