Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on January 24th, 2019
“You ready to stir some s— up?” In The Hate U Give, the fatal shooting of a young, unarmed black man by a police officer serves as the catalyst for a story about racial identity, police brutality, and much more. The film features some undeniably powerful performances and moments that, quite frankly, spoke to me […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by John Delia on December 20th, 2018
Children’s fairy tales have taken a new drift with the film The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Packed with exciting action adventure, the movie, based on the book by John Bellairs, envisions the story with an incredible amount of CGI. You could almost call the film animated, but that’s a good thing here […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on December 6th, 2018
As a fan of The Conjuring films, I keep hoping that these spinoff films will manage to step up and be on par with The Conjuring, but instead they just keep letting me down. But that doesn’t stop the hordes of fans from still seeing these films; after all, the pair of Annabelle films were […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on November 29th, 2018
“I get it. You’re taking me back in time to show me my mother and father, and I’m supposed to get all goosey and blubbery. Well, forget it, pal…you got the wrong guy!” Bill Murray was the absolute best at being a jerk on screen during the 1980s, which made him the right guy to […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on November 1st, 2018
“Is this the real life or is this just fantasy?” I think even Queen’s biggest fans might have trouble distinguishing between the two in the Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. And that’s absolutely okay. If you look at the film’s trailers, the movie looks less like a bio-film and more like a celebration, and that’s […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on October 3rd, 2018
“The world doesn’t want any more saints.” Maybe the world didn’t want any more Exorcist movies…at least not any that looked like Exorcist II: The Heretic. This follow-up to William Friedkin’s 1973 genre-defining horror classic is not only regarded as one of the weakest sequels of all-time, but some consider it to be one of […]
Posted in The Reel World by John Delia on September 23rd, 2018
Children’s fairy tales have taken a new drift with the film The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Packed with exciting action adventure, the movie, based on the book by John Bellairs, envisions the story with an incredible amount of CGI. You could almost call the film animated, but that’s a good thing here […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on September 1st, 2018
Social media, along with our growing number of mobile devices, are dominating our lives. Today it’s how we shop. It’s how we communicate. Hell, it’s how we date. For many of us, our devices have become how we see and experience the world around us. The new electronic culture has also changed our movie experience, […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on August 16th, 2018
“Nothing…no one…will ever separate us. We are one.” Four young siblings take this vow shortly after arriving in America from Great Britain, having just experienced their latest tragedy. Unfortunately for them, these words are spoken less than 10 minutes into Marrowbone, so you just know their vow is bound to be severely tested. But while […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on June 26th, 2018
“Who is Jack Reacher? Born Jack, not John. No middle name. He’s a ghost. Served in the military police. A brilliant investigator, troublemaker, too. And two years ago he disappears. You don’t find this guy unless he wants to be found.” We’ve found him. The character of Jack Reacher comes from a series of thriller […]
Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on June 12th, 2018
Summer continues to heat up, and so does our weekly Tuesday Round Up! This week’s crop of releases features action, comedy…and titles that contain plenty of both! Warner Bros. goes digging for adventure with Tomb Raider (4K), the big-screen reboot of the mega-popular videogame franchise. If you’re looking for laughs AND action, Paramount has you covered […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on June 9th, 2018
There has been so much hype around Hereditary since its debut at Sundance that by the time I got to watch it, I didn’t believe it was possible to live up to this hype. For months I’ve followed this film, hearing it being compared to The Exorcist and being proclaimed the scariest film of all […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on February 25th, 2018
“Welcome to game night”. Everybody loves playing games. OK, most people like playing games. Friends have been getting together for game nights since there have been games. From the couples’ bridge days of the 1950’s to poker night with the guys, most of us have gotten together to play some kind of a game with […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on January 17th, 2018
In case you’ve been living beneath a rock and out of contact with any and all social media, this weekend the long-awaited film adaption of Stephen King’s It releases. Some of my friends look at the trailer for the new film and instantly reject what they see; they immediately cling to their memories of how […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jeremy Butler on January 15th, 2018
Most people that survive a near traumatic experience don’t go back for seconds. Most people that is. For the group in The House October Built 2, I guess they were adhering to the logic that lightning doesn’t strike the same way twice. Or does it? Embarking on what I can only describe as a horror […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by John Delia on January 9th, 2018
The crime drama Brawl in Cell Block 99 makes its way onto Blu-ray, DVD and 4K. The film tops the charts as one the most excruciatingly brutal movies to be released this year. If you are not offended by extreme violence and don’t get queasy from the sight of blood and cruelty, then this film […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on January 5th, 2018
“You can’t get rid of me that easy.” Elise Rainier was the only casualty in 2010’s Insidious, but the character has proven to be impossible to kill. In fact, Lin Shaye’s sympathetic psychic quickly evolved into the main character of this low-budget, high-box office horror franchise. Chapter 2 brought her back in spectral form, while Chapter […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on October 10th, 2017
It’s hard to believe it has already been twenty years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first aired on television. I was still in high school at the time, and when I first heard about the show, I couldn’t have been any less excited. All I could think about was the cheesy movie that had Luke […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on October 5th, 2017
“This is a corpse infected with the plague. It is uncaring, unfeeling.” When it comes to the overwhelming majority of zombie fiction, it’s all about brains (or rather, BRAAAINS!!!) It’s what the undead hunger for, and a well-placed headshot is usually the only way to kill them (again). And that doesn’t even cover the popular […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on September 9th, 2017
In case you’ve been living beneath a rock and out of contact with any and all social media, this weekend the long-awaited film adaption of Stephen King’s It releases. Some of my friends look at the trailer for the new film and instantly reject what they see; they immediately cling to their memories of how […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 7th, 2017
“Survival of the fittest. It’s the law of the jungle. There’s always someone trying to take what’s yours. How do I know? It almost happened to me.” Where the heck has Alec Baldwin been lately? I seem to recall he was a pretty hot A-list movie star actor at one time. There was The Hunt […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on June 8th, 2017
“Who could ever learn to love a beast?” Although it’s not quite a tale as old as time, people around the world have been enchanted by the story of “Beauty and the Beast” for centuries. The French fairytale was first published in 1740 and has subsequently spawned everything from a classic 1946 big-screen romance to […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on May 8th, 2017
When The Ring (2002) first came out, if you looked hard enough you could still find movies on VHS, so the thought of a mysterious tape that kills you seven days after watching it wasn’t so entirely farfetched. Now that we are in 2017, if someone were to find a mysterious VHS tape, well, they’d […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on March 16th, 2017
– “OK, first, I’m not a princess…” – “If you wear a dress and you have an animal sidekick, you’re a princess.” Disney Animation’s 1990s renaissance was followed by an early 21st century lull for its non-Pixar offerings. The princess-centric formula was played out, so Disney pivoted and started doing things like giving Rapunzel and […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on February 15th, 2017
Have no fear, Michael Jai White is here, in a role that is outside the norm that has been established for him in recent years. You know the one, kicking ass and taking names, usually without a shirt on. However, in The Crooked Man, a horror film, he is doing quite the opposite, and also […]
