Reel Reviews - Movie Reviews, blu-ray/DVD reviews

John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum

Crazy good fun

The Biggest Little Farm (2019) - Movie Review

You’ll sit in awe

Winterskin (2019) - Movie Review

All sorts of throwback gristle and grit fun

The Hustle (2019) - Movie Review

Don't fall for the con!

Happy Death Day 2U - Blu-ray Review

A new time loop begins.

Escape Room - Blu-ray Review

A white-knuckle thriller. Now on sparkling blu-ray

The Kid Who Would Be King - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

Glass (2019) - Blu-ray Review

A phony mess of a comic book movie wannabe

New on Blu-ray

Burton's DUMBO Soars Past Peele's US at Weekend Box Office

Details: Published: 01 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Dumbo - Movie Review

Audience's were all ears this weekend as Disney's live action reimagining of its classic elephant tale, Dumbo flew straight to the top of the box office with a $45 million take that knocked Jordan Peele's Us from the top spot. The horror thriller managed another ...

Aquaman (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

In order to fully appreciate just how CRAZY Aquaman is, I suggest you being four or five beers deep. Seriously. DC needs James Wan. The proof is just how enjoyably bonkers Aquaman is, which Wan directed. Finally free from the brooding destruction of Zach Snyder’s spin on ...

Androids Do Dream: Simpler Times’ Replicants - Music Review

Details: Published: 30 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Simpler Times - Cover

What do YOU dream of? That’s the opening question in the debut EP from Simpler Times. Named Replicants, this EP is a pulse-pounding trip back in time to a Berlin dance floor from the early 1980s. Bowie-esque, think of his production on Iggy Pop’s The Idiot, and you ...

Detour: The Criterion Collection (1945) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Mesmerizing pulp fiction. There simply is no other way to describe the powerful impact of Detour, a low budget gem from Poverty Row Pictures. Truthfully, the movie shouldn’t work as well at it does ...

The Body Snatcher (1946) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 27 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Val Lewton, making 1940s B-flicks look nothing like other horror films of the 1940s, is a certifiable genius of the cinema. His ability to plunge audiences straight into nightmares is uncanny. Madness and death, there’s our recurring fear factor in ...

Mummy Reborn - Movie Review

Details: Published: 27 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Finally, a reintroduction to the mythos of the mummy with cheeky humor and excessive gore! Beginning with a quote from Kanye West, “Nothing in life is promised except death”, Mummy Reborn has quite the ...

If Beale Street Could Talk - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 14 December 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Long thought untouchable for theatrical adaptation due to its tenuous structure and ethereal nature, author James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk gets the big screen treatment from Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins. And what a perfect combination ...

Mary Poppins Returns - Blu-ray Review

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

There is something very honorable in modesty and not needing to always take credit for the joy one gives to those we love. The gallantry of self-sacrifice and doing for others quite often speaks for itself and doesn’t need the “hey, look at me” arrogance so prevalent in today’s ...

Drowning Echo (2019) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 March 2019; Written by Loron Hays

I don’t know about you and your family, but I can tell you that, when I go on vacation, the first place my child checks out is the pool. I haven’t even parked the damn car and his ass is out the car door, shredding clothes, and running toward the pool. He cannonballs into the ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - March 26, 2019

Details: Published: 25 March 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

And another hi-def hello to our fellow blu-ray geeks. Welcome to the weekly look at our most wanted titles coming to blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD for the week of March 19, 2019.