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

Widows - Movie Review

Mass audience appeal and brains

Elves - Movie Review

Once added to the naughty list, only death itself will take it off

The Girl in the Spider's Web - Movie Review

It is all quite the bore.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Movie Review

A thoroughly entertaining biopic.

Mandy - Blu-ray Review

An unforgettable experience

Skyscraper - Blu-ray Review

Skyscraper is indeed dizzying.

The Purge: 4-Movie Collection - Blu-ray Review

Keep telling yourself that it is only a movie

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Blu-ray Review

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

New on Blu-ray

Promised You A Miracle: The Motion Epic’s Midnight - Music Review

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

Motion Epic - Midnight

The sparkling keyboards! The percolating rhythms! The neon! And the voice. Yeah, that smoky-toned voice. The 1980s are alive and well thanks to the nostalgic work of The Motion Epic. Their moody debut album, dropping from Business Casual ...

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964) - Blu-ray Review

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

There is a chill to the proceedings of The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre that, thanks to a series of interesting shots and edits, bring a sense of dreadful beauty to the sight of a car going over a cliff as its driver falls along with those spinning four wheels and crashes below ...

Bohemian Rhapsody - Movie Review

Details: Published: 02 November 2018; Written by Christopher Symonds

There are few people in the world who don’t know the name Freddie Mercury, whether you’re a fan of Queen, born after he died, or have lived in a cave forever. As someone born the same year as one of Queen’s greatest hits, the title of this movie, it’s seems impossible ...

Time Trap (2018) Movie Review

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

Time travel. It is a tricky subject in film, offering ANY and EVERY chance for continuity errors in logic and in the script. Usually, we give its treatment, warts and all, a pass when it comes bouncing down the halls of science fiction from time to time. USUALLY. Only when ...

Christmas is Under Siege in New Trailer for ELVES

Details: Published: 31 October 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Christmas is under siege from a horde of evil elves in Jamaal Buden’s frighteningly fun Elves, on VOD and DVD this December! ...

Wake the Dead: Night Machine's Themes of the Dead - Music Review

Details: Published: 31 October 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Night Machine: Themes of the Dead

Maybe it is the choral voices that makes the chill of the introductory track, “Themata Ex Mortuis” so effective or perhaps it is the slow burn of “Old Dust (The Crypt)” as an environment is unleashed for our imagination to prowl upon. Whatever it ...

President Evil (2018) - Movie Review

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

The hair. The orange face. The tiny hands. And the number of former aides all indicted in the Trump-Russia probe. It is all here in President Evil, a parody of John Carpenter’s Halloween by way of some really sharp political satire ...

Disobedience (2018) - DVD Review

Details: Published: 31 October 2018; Written by Michelle Duy

When successful New York photographer Ronit (Rachel Weisz) finds out that her rabbi father died, she flies home to London and stays with her married friends, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and Esti (Rachel McAdams). The rest of the Orthodox Jewish community is ...

Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Blu-ray Review

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

The gore! The women! The style! The masterpiece that is Blood and Black Lace is now on blu-ray thanks to VCI Home Entertainment and their stunning BRAND NEW 2K restoration from the original film negative. ...

See the Earth Crack Open in New Trailer for THE QUAKE

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

If you happened to catch Roar Uthaug's thriller The Wave back in 2015, then you'll be glad to know that the sequel is coming this year in the form of The Quake ...