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

Avengers: Endgame - Movie Review

Did they give us an ending worthy of the series?

Shazam! - Movie Review

Definitely unique and worth watching

Pet Sematary - Movie Review

Won’t haunt you afterwards

The Best of Enemies (2019) - Movie Review

Never earns our honest emotions

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

Bumblebee - Blu-ray Review

Forget what came before. Please.

New on Blu-ray

The Strange Door (1951) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Deception! Trickery! And really bad wigs! There are two reasons why one steps foot through The Strange Door. They are two BIG reasons, mind you, being the over-the-top performances from Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, who spends a lot of time ...

See A Man of the Cloth Turn Jurassic in THE VELOCIPASTOR Trailer

Details: Published: 24 April 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Sure, there's a whole lot of noise coming from the impending release of Avengers: Endgame. But does that film feature a priest who is endowed with the ability to turn into a dinosaur? We think not ...

Escape Room (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 January 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

Fortunately, the Tide Pods Challenge went untouched by Hollywood. The same can’t be said about the escape room craze however, as Sony’s latest, called Escape Room is a clever little high-concept psychological horror film that plays off the raging escape room phenomenon ...

The Land Unknown (1957) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 April 2019; Written by Loron Hays

Fun with helicopter models and CinemaScope exploits! The Land Unknown arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber Studio Classics and while it is definitely C-grade 1950s entertainment – happiest when knocking off King Kong and The Lost World – the adventure film ...

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Movie Review

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

Eleven years ago, I snorted derisively at the audacity of the newly minted Marvel Studios plans. Without a single hit to their name, a grand plan had been hatched: they would release a litany of films, starring their various characters (that they still had the rights to) and combine ...

The Kid Who Would Be King (2018) - Blu-ray Review

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

Face it, you didn’t go see this film when it was released. The advertisements didn’t sell it well enough, did they? Well, this box office bomb is actually pretty damn good. It might be, for a kid’s movie, too long, but The Kid Who Would Be King has a great message and an even ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - April 23, 2019

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

And another friendly 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 April 23, 2019 ...

Superstition (1982) - Blu-ray Review

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

The blood! The guts! The wiggling limbs! I bet Artie (Bennett Liss) and Charlie (Johnny Doran), those poor souls, never expected to lose their heads and their legs when they decided to pull a prank on one of their friends one shadowy night. One gets microwaved and the ...

Malibu Express (1985) - Blu-ray Review

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

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...

The Manitou (1978) - Blu-ray Review

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

Completely mad. Absolutely bonkers. Those are some descriptions that are often used to describe this New Age-inspired flick of voodoo hoodoo transmissions. The Manitou is EXACTLY the pile of rock and schlock trash that you want it to be and now, thanks to Scream ...