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

Crawl (2019) - Movie Review

Pure flesh-eating B-movie delight.

Midsommar (2019) - Movie Review

Not a sweet little trip to the neighborhood IKEA

Black Bridge - Movie Review

Definitely worth the trip

Spider-Man: Far From Home - Movie Review

A breezy sit through that does emotionally resonate

Shazam! - Blu-ray Review

Packed with heart and laughs

Pet Sematary - Blu-ray Review

Won’t haunt you afterwards

The Best of Enemies (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Never earns our honest emotions

Us (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Delightfully exhilarating, and at times terrifying

New on Blu-ray

Angel Unchained (1970) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 June 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Donald Lee Stroud. Actor. Surfer. Drummer. Is there anything this screen legend of B-grade motion pictures can’t do? According to Angel Unchained, a biker flick directed by Lee Madden, a pro at making biker-themed action flicks, there really isn’t anything or anyone Stroud as Angel ...

Universal Horror Collection Volume One: The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), and Black Friday (1940) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 June 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Karloff. Lugosi. What’s not to love about this pairing? Absolutely nothing at all and the proof is Scream Factory's new 2K scanned release of the films that make up the Universal Horror Collection, Volume One. ...

The Monolith Monsters (1957) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 22 June 2019; Written by Loron Hays

It is an invasion that never ends! From Shout! and Scream Factory, The Monolith Monsters arrives to once again stomp out all those poor souls unfortunate enough to run into (or over) strange, black fragments of meteors that have fallen to earth. Once exposed to water ...

Toy Story 4 (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Bad news: Toy Story 4 is Pixar’s biggest money grab to date. Good news: This is Pixar, so it never feels like one. It is not a stretch to say that the company couldn’t make a bad movie if it tried. After all, none of its films ...

There's Danger Afoot in Creepy New Trailer for BLINDSIDED

Details: Published: 19 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Vacation, a blind girl, an isolated house, a baby sitter, a party, spin the bottle (with a knife). What could possibly go wrong? From director Johnny Mitchell comes a terrifying, first-rate horror-thriller from Canada called Blindsided....

Us (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 March 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Part home invasion thriller, part horror, and part social commentary, the only thing more impressive than the number of genre elements at play in Jordan Peele’s newest film, Us, is the total body count. Well, that and the incredible attention to detail the filmmaker pays to every ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - June 18, 2019

Details: Published: 17 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

And another friendly hi-def hello to our fellow blu-ray geeks. Welcome to the weekly look at our most wanted titles coming to blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD for the week of June 18, 2019.

Another Bad Weekend for Sequels as MEN IN BLACK and SHAFT Fail to Meet Expectations at Box Office

Details: Published: 17 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Men in Black: International

For the second week in a row, it was a down weekend for sequels as Men in Black: International and Shaft both underperformed at the weekend box office. This follows a similar pattern to last weekend which saw both The Secret Life of Pets 2 and Dark Phoenix both fail to meet expectations ...

Ghostbusters 1 & 2 35th Anniversary Ultra HD Steelbook Limited Edition (1984,1989) - Blu-ray Review

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

Die-hard Ghostbusters fans, rejoice! What’s old NEVER goes out of style. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has done us a solid with their handling of the classic two films in the Ghostbusters franchise. That’s right, the original team ...