PIXIE (Barnaby Thompson) takes place in Northern Ireland, and as implied by its title, the story revolves around a young woman named Pixie Hardy (Olivia Cooke). Her mother was killed, but nobody really trusts her story, or her. She’s portrayed very much as a free spirit, and someone that never stops standing up for themselves. […]
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MONSTER HUNTER – It’s a Milla Spectacle!
MONSTER HUNTER, directed by Paul W. S. Anderson (known for the first RESIDENT EVIL movie) is a film adaptation of a long-running Capcom video game series. I have only a passing familiarity with the games, so I can’t speak to any Easter eggs, or backstory, that more experienced players might notice. The story establishes that […]
Ten Decades of Oscars: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)
Hello! And welcome to Ten Decades of Oscars where each week I watch the Best Picture winners in a given decade and then choose one to discuss at length. In case you haven’t done the math yet, that means ten movies in one week! And in case you’ve forgotten, there are seven days in a […]
RAYA & THE LAST DRAGON Review – Get Your Tuk-Tuks Out
I have always felt that these days, Disney-Slash-Pixar titles seem to get all of the attention in the animation game. Which in a way is alright (SOUL, the latest Pixar movie, was my #1 movie of 2020) but there is another aspect to Disney that gets overlooked these days is its Walt Disney Animation Studios department […]
MINARI review – A Slice of Life Presentation
It isn’t often that a movie can be described as endearing, yet that was the feeling that permeated MINARI (Lee Isaac Chung). The film has a ‘slice of life’ presentation, as it follows a tumultuous period for a Korean family. Moving from California, we join the family in their car, as they follow a moving […]
Ten Decades of Oscars: YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU (1938)
Hello! And welcome to the second installment of my weekly feature Ten Decades of Oscars where each week I’ll watch every Best Picture from a given decade, then choose one to discuss at length. This week, it’s Frank Capra’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU, which won top prize in 1938. The film follows the […]
Facebook Contest Weekend! Win copies of THE MAURITANIAN, THE WORLD TO COME, ZAPPA & THE END OF THE STORM!
It’s another weekend of Get Reel Giveaways over on our Facebook Page! We have FOUR new titles up for grabs! All are in separate posts on Facebook and you are welcome to enter all of them! See below for previews and information on each title. THE MAURITANIAN ABOUT: Directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on […]
A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX review – Free Your Mind
Ask yourself “Did you want to visit this website?” If you believe that our world might not exist, then your visit might be the result of forces beyond your understanding. A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX (Rodney Ascher) explores the belief of simulation theory. This idea is not new, and has been a mainstay of recent […]
Ten Decades of Oscars: WINGS (1927)
Hello! And welcome to a weekly feature I’ll be writing in the run-up to the 2020 Oscars on April 25th. I’m one of those idiots who still buys physical media—often an annual metric tonnage of it—and I’m also one of those idiots who can’t help but be swept up in the politics and the competition […]
ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI review: Praise the Talkers
A confident and elegant directorial debut from Regina King, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI recounts a fictional night in a hotel room between four cultural icons during the Civil Rights movement of the 60s. I don’t know if it’s the pandemic or mere happenstance, but there have been plenty of stage play-to-film adaptations this year—THE BOYS […]
Black History Month review – JUST MERCY
The story of JUST MERCY, directed and co-written by Destin Daniel Cretton (SHORT TERM 12), begins in a forest. A logger looks up at a patch of sky, obscured moments ago by the tree he just fell. This becomes a significant memory. The way the branches are described as dancers in the wind. It’s the […]
Facebook Contest: Win SUPERNOVA on Apple TV from Mongrel Media!
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway over on our Facebook page! Our media partners at Mongrel Media have sent over a few links for SUPERNOVA which will begin streaming on Apple TV on February 16th. ABOUT: Sam (Academy Award winner Colin Firth) and Tusker (Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci) are traveling across England in their old […]
JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH Review – Fred Turner is Revolutionary
A movie I have been waiting to see for quite a long time (I remember seeing a trailer for this last summer when TENET made its theatrical release), JUDAS & THE BLACK MESSIAH finally arrives in release at a very important time in our bizarre, always-changing world. With so many people all over the world […]
BARB & STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR – It’s Time For A Holiday!
I can’t believe that it has been almost a decade since BRIDESMAIDS was released into theatres. A combination of both FREAKS & GEEKS creator Paul Feig’s comedic styling along with Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumulo’s wickedly funny screenplay, I still remember laughing loud and long throughout the picture and revisiting it several times over the […]
THE LITTLE THINGS Review – Denzel + Rami + Jared = Oh My!
Starring three big-time Oscar winners all with very different personalities, THE LITTLE THINGS is a rare serial killer drama/thriller that I feel like we rarely see from the studio system anymore, though these types of movies mostly starred Denzel Washington in some form; immediate thoughts of THE BONE COLLECTOR and FRAILTY come to mind. There […]