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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Let Dumbo the Flying Elephant Steal Your Heart in the First Trailer for Disney's DUMBO

Details: Published: 13 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

From the deep purse strings of Disney and the imagination of Tim Burton comes the first teaser trailer for the remake of the Disney classic Dumbo, about a flying elephant who saves a struggling circus. And you can watch it below....

Spetters (1980) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Paul Verhoeven does not make bad films. Argue with me all you want to about the massive raspberry that you claim is Showgirls and I will defend it to my last breath. It is everything that it is BY DESIGN. Verhoeven, the Dutch filmmaker that gave us RoboCop, Total Recall ...

Get Back in Time with Jack Maniak’s Code 403 - Music Review

Details: Published: 12 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Jack Maniak Coce 403 - Music Review

This is a landscape of ash. Dark sunrises and even darker sunsets await those who venture out into this toxic wasteland. Some occupants, too poor to afford the rent as an off-lander, have no choice but to wander below as ravagers with breathing apparatuses covering ...

The Hurricane Heist (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 10 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

First and foremost, director Rob Cohen's latest flick does NOT rock you like a hurricane. It might, in fact, do the opposite and put your ass to sleep. Somehow the director of The Fast and The Furious, Dragonheart, xXx, and Daylight inexplicably drains the mighty ferociousness ...

Tomb Raider (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

At least the filmmakers got the character right. Fist pumping all the way out of the theater this March, that was my big takeaway from this reboot. Finally, a Lara Croft film that felt EXACTLY like the character should. She just needed a better storyline. Maybe next time, right? ...

Zombie 4: After Dark (1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 09 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Because there is life after death … if you are a zombie! Director Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2) returns the zombie lore back to basics with a tale of voodoo (Who do? You do!) and a curse that has widespread repercussions in this Italian trashterpiece of island schlock rock. With this hot and ...

Game Night (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 February 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

We all have that one friend. That over-stimulated, under-acknowledged, hyper-competitive jerk to whom everything in life is a game with an undeniable winner and a loser. There are a whole bunch of those kind in Game Night, the latest film by 2015’s Vacation reboot ...

Zombie 3: Limited Edition (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 09 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

When birds attack! Being pecked in the face repeatedly is no laughing matter. I once had a run-in with a chicken when I was a small boy. It’s no fun. Those dinosaur descendants will peck your eyes out if you aren’t careful. In Zombie 3, now on blu-ray thanks to ...

Morning Waves & Evening Babes: Neon Black’s Wet Dreams - Music Review

Details: Published: 08 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Neon Black's Wet Dreams

It is a bright summer morning. Mom and Dad are at work. You have the house all to yourself. The day ahead is full of endless possibilities. Baseball at noon. Biking up to the dam in an hour. Whatever you want. But you can’t get your mind off of the mystery ...

Death Ship (1980) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

“It’s as if it is deliberately trying to ram us!” When it comes to farewell lines in seafaring history, there might not be a more prophetic sentence spoken… unless, of course, someone on the Titanic uttered something about needing ice for a drink mere seconds before the ...