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

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Saving Private Ryan - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

I don’t cry in movies. It’s just not my way. But I have to confess that twenty years ago, upon sitting down to watch Steven Speilberg’s World War II magnum opus, the recreation of the Normandy invasion put a lump in my throat and fogged my eyes with tears for its ...

The Fare (2019) - Movie Review

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

Ever met a complete stranger and felt you already know them? What if you kept bumping into them on the same stretch of road? What if, in a couple of blinks of the eye, they simply disappear? Intrigued yet? If so, then The Fare is your ticket to ride, dear readers. Buckle up, though, because this ...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Movie Review

Details: Published: 22 November 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

There’s a key scene about halfway through A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in which cynical journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), utters under his breath, "he's about the nicest person I've ever met.” Of course, Lloyd is talking about Fred Rogers, the host of ...

This is Our Home - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

FINALLY! I absolutely love it when horror films beg for dissection. And the cuts that you will make in This is Our Home SHOULD BE deep and exhausting. This is how horror - true and natural horror - should be seen and discussed and, yes, revisited. There is a ...

Ratatouille (2007) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Pixar never cease to surprise me. On the sole summary of one of their stories, I almost never get a sense of just how much I may fall in love with whatever they’re dishing out. Toy Story, The Incredibles, Coco, you name it, I’ve underestimated their power to completely ...

Animal Among Us - Movie Review

Details: Published: 19 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

This is a story about a monster. If you are reading this, you might feel that, in a horror movie like this one, that much is clear, but just what kind of monster is the real subject of this horror flick. With a hillside camp setting and a domestic betrayal ...

The Lion King (2019) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

Although this isn’t the first of Disney’s attempts to redo their animated back catalogue, I think it had the hardest job. The mastery of motion capture technology and the sophistication that computer generated animation has reached allows them to deliver ...

Rambo: First Blood Part II - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

For a very long time, I wished that First Blood had been a one and done deal. But it arrived in the 1982, and anything from the 80s onward that made the studios money would like get a sequel with a roman numeral next to it. The remainder of that decade saw ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 November 2019; Written by Loron Hays

There are things you probably know when approaching a scary-looking house that has long been abandoned. If you have to break a lock in order to get in, then you should probably run in the opposite direction. Quickly. The teenagers in this horror film, from producer ...

Rambo III (1988) - 4K Blu-ray Review

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

Three years would pass before another go around with John Rambo and produce the most (at the time) violent action movie ever made. It marked a continued tonal shift of the character that had good intentions hidden in cartoonish, ham fisted ...