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

Bad Boys For Life - Movie Review

Just a whole lot of fun to watch!

1917 - Movie Review

Big, bold, dangerous, and full of numerous iconic scenes

Like a Boss - Movie Review

Nothing to see here, folks

Just Mercy - Movie Review

a story that, sadly, still needs to be told

Gemini Man - Blu-ray Review

Two Will Smiths aren’t any better than one

Joker (2019) - 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review

I hate the guy. This worked.

Downton Abbey (2019) - Blu-ray Review

The Crawleys are Back!

The Peanut Butter Falcon - Blu-ray Review

Just so perfect

New on Blu-ray

Bourne: The Ultimate Collection - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 December 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

The Bourne series is currently five films in (as of the writing of this article) and had definitively made its mark in the action/spy genre. In a perfect storm of confluences, it hit its mark with an audience desperate to break with convention and be given something unseen in the ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Movie Review

Details: Published: 17 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

If one of the final moments of director J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - two lightsabers sinking into the sands of Tattooine - hits you rather hollow, it is by the director’s choice. The Skywalker Saga is over with this film, but what’s shocking is that it really doesn’t feel ...

Inner Ghosts - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Just in time for the new decade comes a new way to haunt! Inner Ghosts has arrived. ...

Watch the New Trailer for TOP GUN: MAVERICK. That's An Order!

Details: Published: 16 December 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a ...

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name 1917 Best Picture of 2019

Details: Published: 16 December 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

1917 The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the war epic 1917 as the best film of 2019, according to the results of its 26th annual critics’ poll released today. Following is a complete list of award winners, with choices listed in order ...

The Fly Collection (1958 - 1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 10 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Containing one of the most sickening and shocking unveiling scenes in horror history, Kurt Nuemann’s The Fly lands on Blu-ray this week alongside the other Fly-inspired movies. I’m talking The Return of The Fly, The Curse of The Fly, David Cronenberg’s The Fly, and The Fly II from ...

Crypsis - Movie Review

Details: Published: 10 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

You can run! You can hide! There’s no escaping the terror that awaits on this island of horrible things. We learn this from the wild and wicked opening of Crypsis as a woman, tripping over herself to get away from ...

Big Trouble in Little China: Collector's Edition (1986) Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 08 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

“1, 2, 3 . . . we may be trapped.” - Jack Burton. Truck driver Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is having a real lucky day upon arriving in downtown San Francisco. He’s winning every single card game and now, thanks to his friend Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), he’s just doubled his ...

Knives and Skin - Movie Review

Details: Published: 05 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...

Anyone Home? - Movie Review

Details: Published: 04 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Suburbia? More like disturbia! Sometimes that American Dream that we all chase can become a living, breathing nightmare. Don’t believe me? Just watch the social criticism that is the backbone of first time director Patrick Cunningham’s new independent horror film, Anyone Home?, now ...