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

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Drug Addiction Hits Home in Heartbreaking New Trailer for BEAUTIFUL BOY, Stars Timothee Chalamet and Steve Carell

Details: Published: 27 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Amazon follows up the earlier release of a couple of teaser trailers from its upcoming film with the first official trailer for Beautiful Boy, and it is absolutely heartbreaking ...

The Consoles Are Alive: Watch Out for Snakes’ UPGRADE - Music Review

Details: Published: 26 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Watch out for Snakes - Album Cover

Sometimes your weakness... becomes your greatest strength. An accident left you hospitalized and alone. Zero chance of survival. An ideal candidate for an experimental cybernetic implant surgery. But there were unforeseen... complications ...

Black Candles (1982) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

The evil eye might be bad luck but so is jacking off a goat, Boils and Ghouls. Tread lightly. Welcome this version of a fleshy and fantasy-ridden Hell, mofos! It is a place where touching yourself is permitted! Woot woot! This is Rosemary’s Baby with more skin, more Satan ...

Cut-Throats Nine (1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Cut-Throats Nine (1972) - Blu-ray Review

When the Italians go dark with their westerns, there’s no room for heroes. That’s what happens in Cut-Throats Nine, a serious-minded spaghetti western that is more Tarantino than the man himself. It is disturbed, gory, and twisted as hell and it tells one hell of a story ...

Night of the Lepus (1972) Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Rabbits. They aren’t as cute as they seem. Ask any Australian and they will tell you the truth: underground mutton. In Night of the Lepus, now on blu-ray thanks to the horror hooligans over at Scream Factory, these furry critters grow and grow and grow and then they ATTACK! ...

Lionheart: MVD Rewind Collection (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

“What I did tonight, I did for my family.” Print critics, back in the day, might have kicked its ass but, damn, people STILL love the characters in the highly-quotable Lionheart. It is, as far as Jean-Claude Van Damme is concerned, a very important film as it proved that he could ...

Distorted (2018) - Movie Review

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

Failure. Eliminate. Obey. Kill. Because we all go a little crazy sometimes. Beginning with a montage of rather extreme events, Distorted is a thrilling ride through the unconscious mind. The film, full of horrific images and deadly taunts, builds its own tower of paranoia that ...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Movie Review

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

Remember that invigorating sense of wild-eyed wonder and amazement we all felt the first time we saw a real dinosaur? Ok, it wasn’t “real” but it did seem like it when that Brachiosaurus stomped into the scene back in 1993’s Jurassic Park, chomping mouthfuls of leaves as Laura ...

Alien Predators (1987) - Blu-ray Review

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

Ridiculous. Funny. And now on blu-ray thanks to Scream Factory! Cheap and cheesy, Alien Predators, originally released on VHS as The Falling, was one of my many go-to flicks at the video store back in the day. Oh, to be held in the arms of the lovely Lynn-Holly Johnson ...