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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Spaceballs (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 May 2018; Written by Christopher Symonds

By the 1980s, cinema was in well and truly in the post Star Wars world. Its monster success and permeation into the cultural zeitgeist still looms large over movies today. Like any profitable venture, those left bobbing about aimlessly in the wake of such a phenomenon try to ride that ...

Winchester - Blu-rayReview

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

The only thing more confusing and carelessly constructed than the Winchester mansion itself, is the story that tries to explain why the house was built in such a haphazard manner in the first place. Construction began on the real-life Winchester House in 1886 and was never ...

Who's Watching Oliver (2018) - Movie Review

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

Sickly sweet trashterpieces made for Gore-Gore Gorillas and Horror Hounds are rarely this good. We tend to like them because we laugh at them and understand the humor involved; some of us appreciate the lo-fi vibe of such DIY efforts. Others just dig the grit and ...

Wild At Heart: Collector's Edition (1990) - Blu-ray Review

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

"You move me, Sail, you really do. You mark me the deepest," says Laura Dern as Lula to Nicolas Cage. It is a haunting moment in an equally haunting tale that features an unforgetable Willem Dafoe as an accident prone bank robber, a blonde-haired Isabella Rossellini ...

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Movie Review

Details: Published: 16 May 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Much of the fun and joy of watching a Star Wars movie these days comes not from discovering something new, but rather from revisiting everything old with a new set of eyes. Whether the original series of sequels and prequels or within the Star Wars Story ‘tweeners, ...

Time to Run: Dimi Kaye’s Dangerous - Music Review

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

Dimi Kaye's Dangerous

Do you always drive by night?" She said, looking at him with a worrying gaze. "Yes." He took a drag from his half burned cigarette while gazing the city lights below. "Isn't that dangerous? Especially in your line of work?" She turned her eyes to the city ...

Trailer for PAPILLON: Our First Look

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

Bleecker Street just released the first trailer and poster for its forthcoming remake of the classic 1973 film Papillon. And you can check it out below. The film is based on the international best-selling autobiographic books Papillon and Banco that tell the story of Paris underworld criminal Henri "Papillon" Charrière who is ...

211 (2018) - Movie Review

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

Nicolas Cage plays a retiring cop in professional snowboarder turned director York Alec Shackleton’s 211, a fictionalized version of one of the deadliest (and bloodiest) bank heists in America’s history. Haven’t heard about this one yet? Cage made like five films last year alone that ...

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) - Blu-ray Review

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

Nipples. Why’d it have to be nipples? From the very beginning of this Italian sexploitation-cannibal flick, nipples are the target. They don’t stop being one either. Of course, that’s after a flaccid penis has been hacked off and fed to a bunch of cannibals. Nom nom nom. ...

Andy Serkis' MOWGLI Gets its First Trailer

Details: Published: 21 May 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Warner Bros. just released the trailer for Mowgli, its new, big-screen, 3D adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book. The film is a motion capture CGI and live action hybrid which looks a lot like xxxx's The Jungle Book from 2015, only this time around basically everything is real except ...