Connecting more with the anguish and anxiety of age rather than the concerns a child might feel, The Incredibles flexes its muscles as Pixar’s grand attempt (an experiment of sorts that led...

Danny McBride is my knight in shining armor. His comedic chops and loopy characters, always with their undeserved swagger, can rescue me from any prolonged mood of supernatural dourness...

Attention Horror Hell Hounds and Hordettes!!! The annual Texas Frightmare Weekend 2011 – now in its sixth year – is almost upon us. Reel Reviews will be there covering all the twisted...

Even if you have never seen director Richard Fleischer’s Soylent Green from 1973, you know its ending. Quoted in everything from television’s Barney Miller to the mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous , the...

Dario Argento calls this film his most sincere. Fans of Argento call it his most incomprehensible. Inferno is both. Highly charged with a rich atmosphere and a poor sense of narrative structure, the f...

Disney’s 50 th animated feature, Tangled , really wants to be ranked with their very best. While it has its moments of hilarity and sparkling computer animation, the story is a bit of a soulless journ...

Putting aside the bone-splitting and gory implements of the Saw franchise, those same writers give their audience the most terrifying thing of all with Insidious : the unknown. Since comparisons will...

Source Code proves that director Duncan Jones and his particular brand of minimalist sci-fi is not the product of flash-in-the-pan gimmickry. Jones, in his second movie out of the gate, proves that he...

Borrowing a riff from Harold Lloyd’s Grandma’s Boy , Buster Keaton perfects the lovable loser’s battle for the girl – a plot line that is still in play in most comedies today - in this 1923 classic fr...

The film opens upon a closed stage curtain. Slowly, the dull curtain opens to reveal a lone figure on its dusky stage. With back to the audience, Sucker Punch – hiding what it truly is - begins its dr...

Coming straight out of another era of filmmaking, Sharktopus begs to ask the tough question that Hollywood won’t. What’s wrong with a slice of sci-fi cheese? If you ask famed producer of all things mi...

Written by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, Paul sucks upon the Spielberg/Lucas tit until all the milk and laughs have run dry – and then it keeps on sucking for good measure. Amusing although a little too...

Positioning itself in a believable world where the apocalypse is brought about by soulless zombies, AMC’s The Walking Dead took cable television by storm last year. The show juggled itself between mom...

As the FBI warning flittered across my television screen, I wondered just what impact this movie would have upon me. I had heard the stories; heard just how maddening the documentary was; heard just h...

There’s a sense of timeless purity that encases Walt Disney’s Bambi in a shell of cinematic quality. From the kids’ voices that grace the beginning of Bambi’s life to the first...