By: Tom Magennis Marvel and Netflix’s Iron Fist is bad. Not awful, but fairly bad. To be fair to it, it’s no Suicide Squad. I sat through Suicide Squad. Seven thousand, three hundred, and eighty seconds of my life I will never get back. An interminable offence against the very concept of filmmaking, a two […]
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Why the Real “Monuments Men” Were So Important
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat All the way back in November I entered a Remembrance Day essay contest here in Canada that was province wide. I wrote an essay titled; “The Monuments Men”. First thing that would come to mind for a lot of you is the movie starring George Clooney and Matt Damon. But I was […]
Ranking Movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat Ranking your favourite Marvel movies is an impossible task. They create so much fun and exciting content that it’s impossible to narrow it down. But I like making the impossible possible. So here’s my attempt at not pissing off all Marvel fans and putting together my favourite Marvel movies up to now (it […]
The Best of Netflix: Sin City (2005)
By: Tom Magennis Hello there ladies, gentlemen, this is Get Reel Movies’ Best of Netflix, a series, dedicated to helping readers who can’t be bothered to go to the Cinema to get the full value out of that most wonderfully addictive streaming service, Netflix. This week, I’m recommending Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City. Dark, Grim, Gritty, […]
Top 10 Movies of 2015
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat 2015 was a fantastic year for movies. There were brilliant popcorn flicks, (Ant-Man, Kingsman: The Secret Service and Furious 7) thought provoking dramas (Spotlight, Sicario and Bridge of Spies) and all around intriguing films (The Revenant, The Assassin and Chi-Raq). When judging my top 10 movies of 2015 I tried to find the balance between the most […]
Top 10 Most Anticipated Dramas of 2016
The Oscars are now long gone in the eyes of Hollywood and now we all look on towards the 2017 Oscars (AKA the 89th Academy Awards). Will there be a big change after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and the cry for equality in film? Or will there be another All White nominees list? My guess is […]
The Best of Netflix: There Will Be Blood (2007)
By: Tom Magennis Hello there ladies, gentlemen, this is Get Reel Movies’ The Best of Netflix, a new series, dedicated to helping readers who can’t be bothered to go to the Cinema to get the full value out of that most wonderfully addictive streaming service, Netflix. This week, I’m recommending Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will […]
Top 10 Most Anticipated Blockbusters of 2016
Big event movies aren’t dead yet… Sure, we live in a Golden Age of television right now. Stretching from Fargo to American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson through to the recently finished Breaking Bad and Mad Men. But let’s not count out the blockbuster yet. There are so many exciting and thrilling movies on the horizon. 2016 alone has […]
Top 10 Alan Rickman Movies
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat The world was shocked by the news a few months ago, that Alan Rickman, an acting legend had passed away from cancer at the age of 69. This was only a few days after losing the music legend David Bowie. The world was obviously in shock and the tributes were in their […]