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

New on Blu-ray

Won't You Be My Neighbor (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

If you only take away one thing from Morgan Neville’s new documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor, it should be that Fred Rogers, the man behind the long-running PBS children’s show Mister Rogers Neighborhood, was exactly what we always thought he was – just an all-around ...

Michael Myers Dons the Mask Once Again in First Trailer for HALLOWEEN

Details: Published: 08 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

We can't recall the level of anticipation for a trailer's release ever being quite this high, but it is certainly that with the tweets and "grams" having reached a pinnacle this week as the release of the first trailer for the Halloween reboot has finally arrived. We received a short one minute ...

Ocean's 8 - Movie Review

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

Because crime is a family affair. I’m not going to say that we needed an Ocean’s 11 spin-off. All I am going to say is that, as an avid fan of Steven Soderbergh’s style-centric comedic heist films starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon, I am just thrilled to see the franchise ...

It Has Been Five Years Since Everything Was Awesome in New Teaser Trailer for THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART

Details: Published: 06 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Warner Bros just dropped the new teaser trailer for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 2 which picks up five years after the events of 2014's original which saw construction worker Emmett (Chris Pratt) and Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks) recruited to stop an evil dictator from ...

Shocking Dark (1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Venice is now a dead city. No, I am not talking about “Vexit” or any other number of concerns that currently plague Italy’s beautiful city. I’m talking solely about director Bruno Mattei’s 1989 Italian science-fiction rip-off of two of the most awesomely awesome films ...

Neon Maniacs (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Get those squirt guns loaded, Freaks and Geeks! There are nuclear age creatures living below San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. These psychotic dudes are fierce, too. When not munching on oversexed teenagers, they eat pigeons and are armed to the teeth ...

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 02 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Where’s Sweetback? He started from the bottom now he's here, man. I t is a movie made for the cool in you. Yes, Babyface, I am copping that title as well for this review. You see, this landmark movie, written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed ...

Annihilation - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 02 March 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

What does it mean to be human? What separates us from other life forms? Does the same self-destruction that plagues us humans show up outside the human world? All grand questions to which the answers are really unknown. Or, at least, largely unproven. That does not ...

The Disappearing Act: Inquis’ Dream Walker - Music Review

Details: Published: 01 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Inquis There is a lone figure walking the street of this nameless city. No other soul dares walk this stretch of road so early in the morning. Not when the fog is this thick. Traffic lights aren’t even visible. But this man, wrapped in a trench coat, navigates the ...

Gun Crazy (1950) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Because a life on the run is never that much fun! America loves its guns. It is possible that this film noir classic, featuring a bevy of fascinating performances, best explains why. The power they wield is an attraction that cannot be matched. Bang, bang, ...