Posted in The Reel World by Jeremy Butler on October 18th, 2025
It’s been a long time since a movie gave me goosebumps. The last real time I can remember it happened is when I first watched Nightmare on Elm Street, which is pretty ironic, as there are some pretty clear parallels between that film and Black Phone 2. Taking place at a summer camp, the film […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 17th, 2025
You often hear it said that Tom Cruise is the hardest working actor in Hollywood. I don’t want to take anything away from Cruise, but I’d like to nominate Bob Odenkirk for the title. Yes, that Bob Odenkirk from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fame. He’s been wanting to do an action film through […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 15th, 2025
“It wasn’t a dream; at least that’s what I believe. The thing is I felt hurt and plenty sad, and there were times when I thought I couldn’t go on. But I know I’m not the only one suffering. I want to protect everyone’s future. I need to keep pushing forward. I feel that more […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 7th, 2025
“There are no industry secrets. We can always meet our life partner out in the wild or swiping on apps, but the happy ending to a first date is not the second date. It’s changing each other’s diapers and burying each other. You’re looking for a nursing home partner and a grave buddy. Who our […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 23rd, 2025
“Everybody deserves a second chance.” In some parts of the country there’s a saying. If you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes. It’ll change. That’s exactly how I felt by the time my two hours watching M3GAN 2.0 was through. It was entertaining, to be sure, but I felt like I had been […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 11th, 2025
“I can guarantee your safety … more or less.” Some things cannot be beat, and they sure as heck can’t be repeated. An old vintage cola commercial used to tell us, “Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.” And Jurassic World Rebirth is going to do anything it can for 134 minutes to try and […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 25th, 2025
Ultraman is a huge part of Japanese culture and pretty much has been since the original live-action show in 1966. Perhaps Godzilla started the ball rolling, but Ultraman brought us these monsters on a regular basis. In Japan, Ultraman is like our Superman. He’s an iconic hero and a huge part of the pop culture. […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on July 2nd, 2025
“I can guarantee your safety… more or less.” Some things can not be beat, and they sure as heck can’t be repeated. An old vintage cola commercial used to tell us, “Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby”. And Jurassic World Rebirth is going to do anything it can for 134 minutes to try and […]
Posted in Uncategorized by Gino Sassani on June 28th, 2025
“Everybody deserves a second chance.” In some parts of the country there’s a saying. If you don’t like the weather wait a few minutes. It’ll change. That’s exactly how I felt by the time my two hours watching M3GAN 2.0 was through. It was entertaining, to be sure, but I felt like I had been […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on June 19th, 2025
“In the beginning there was blood.” Dexter Morgan is a forensic lab rat for the Miami-Dade Police. He really knows blood splatter. He should, because he moonlights as a killer. It seems that poor old Dex just can’t help himself. His parents were criminals, and he witnessed his mother’s brutal slashing by a chainsaw gang […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on June 6th, 2025
“Needing to know. That’s what got us kicked out of the Garden Of Eden… Eve.” Ballerina takes place in the rather colorful world of John Wick, and it almost appears to me that it’s being sold as a kind of John Wick 4/2 or perhaps more accurately John Wick 3 ½. With Keanu Reeves seeming […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on April 30th, 2025
“I’m not feeling motivated to be valuable to anyone but myself.” When Alex Kurtzman took over the television side of Star Trek, he started with Star Trek: Discovery. Michelle Yeoh played one of the better characters on the series. She started as a ship’s captain and was soon killed off. But then the ship heads […]
Posted in The Reel World by Jeremy Butler on April 8th, 2025
“When you can lie about everything, when you can deny everything, how do you tell the truth about anything?” That is essentially the theme of Black Bag. When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband — also a legendary agent — faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on March 20th, 2025
“Ever since I was a young boy, I played the silver ball, From Soho down to Brighton, I must have played them all, But I ain’t seen nothin’ like him, In any amusement hall, That deaf, dumb and blind kid, Sure plays a mean pinball.” I was first introduced to The Who through the original […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on December 31st, 2024
With the end of the year upon us, I felt this was the best time to talk about what I feel was the best film of 2024. First I want to start by saying that this hasn’t been my favorite year for cinema, especially when you look at the kind of films you see at […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on December 18th, 2024
Director Jaume Collet-Serra has been a director I’ve been following for some time now. For me he just consistently puts out films that are in my wheelhouse that I just know I’ll have fun with. His films just remind me of what it was like to watch the action films of the 90s, and I […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 21st, 2024
“You know the Butcher? That freakin’ nutjob that goes around just chopping people up? Well, the feds or whatever heard that he’s gonna be here today, so they set up a trap for him. This whole concert? It’s a trap. They’re watching all the exits, checking everyone that leaves. There’s no way to get out […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on November 11th, 2024
“Nuns, guns and gasoline.” Mike Mendez released his first film in 1997. Killers was also just released on Blu-ray from Synapse films. The better of this Synapse double release is The Convent. For me this was the peak of Mendez’s low-budget horror films. Synapse must agree with that assessment, because they decided to give The […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 17th, 2024
“How much do you know about the family business?” Well, for over 20 years, the family business over at CBS has been the NCIS franchise, and another decade longer if you consider it was a spin-off of JAG, which lasted 10 years on its own. It’s been a busy 20 years, I can tell you […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 17th, 2024
“Everything is always about Sheldon.” Warner Brothers is very familiar with superheroes. That goes double for the character of Sheldon, played by Jim Parsons on The Big Bang Theory. A common thread in the superhero business, of course, is the origin story. With the popularity of The Big Bang Theory, and the Sheldon character particularly, […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jeremy Butler on October 16th, 2024
“It’s good to be back.” It’s the little things I supposed. When forced to confront the prospect of your own death, what will you do with the time you have left. Some fight against their own extinction. Some seek help from a higher power. While some cling to the past and seek comfort in their […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 1st, 2024
Paramount has been getting into the Halloween horror spirit each October. Last year they released a group of horror films on UHD/4K and called it Paramount Scares. I didn’t get a chance to check out that set but they’re back again with a Paramount Scares Vol. 2 and we got a look at it here […]
Posted in The Reel World by Jeremy Butler on October 1st, 2024
“Although this feels less like a reunion and more like a reboot.” I can echo that sentiment, as this continuation movie for the popular SyFy series, which concluded in 2021, has the distinct feeling of a long episode. I’m not complaining, because it means that all the elements that made it work as a television […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on September 18th, 2024
“You do not mess with the special investigators.” Someone didn’t get the memo. The result is a second season of Reacher based on the Jack Reacher character found in a collection of novels by Lee Child, who is really British writer Jim Grant. We were introduced to Jack Reacher in the novel The Killing Floor. […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 30th, 2024
“In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people. We are all indeed very fortunate.” – Gene Roddenberry I should confess from the […]
