Our contests keep rolling right along for March, and we have a few Digital Copy links for TIN CAN from LevelFilm! As always, read our contest instructions and enter via the form below! ABOUT: As the world faces a deadly plague, a front-lines parasitologist is imprisoned in a life-suspension chamber. To escape she must destroy […]
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THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES on Blu Ray – Katie Mitchell’s Cry for Physical Media
By far the best animated movie to come out in 2021, THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES is delightfully bonkers, high energy and the type of animated feature that adults will enjoy on every level that kids will also love. Our writer Dustin Buursma wrote about THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES last year, and it took […]
Studio 666 Review – It’s All In The Gore & Grohl
I don’t really know if there was a big demand for a movie featuring The Foo Fighters that is part music and part a gory slasher fest, but here we are with STUDIO 666, a horror comedy that somewhat confused me at the start as it starts with a SCREAM-like horror stinger to get the […]
Contest: Win Run of Engagement Passes to see THE CURSED from Elevation Pictures!
We have another contest for you this weekend and it’s to help you get back to movie theatres again! Enter at the email below to win (and please read instructions)! ABOUT: In the late 1800s, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal but discovers a much […]
Contest: Win Digital Copies of INDEMNITY & CATCH THE FAIR ONE!
It’s another Get Reel Giveaway and we have two new releases from our partners at Mongrel Media up for grabs! Enter below to win copies of new releases INDEMITY and CATCH THE FAIR ONE, which are coming out on Friday. Note that for this contest we are doing these individually rather than as a package, […]
SCREAM (5) Review – Wes Craven & Parallels
I can’t believe it has been over 25 years since SCREAM, the influential and endlessly quotable and overall fun horror comedy from the late great Wes Craven, was a surprise hit at the box office and spawned a franchise that had a sequel one short year later, then a heavily delayed third movie, then a […]
Ten Underdogs to Check Out in 2022
Genre films are the staple of many lists of anticipated films for the new year, and not everyone is keen on seeing them. More often than not, documentaries are overlooked and what I offer are releases designed more to enlighten than to entertain. Another thought I had in mind when putting together this catalogue is […]
DUNE 4k Blu Ray Review – The Spice Reigns In Ultra High Definition
Certainly a movie that has taken a LONG time to get off the ground, DUNE is a movie that comes with a lot of history and many attempts to get it to the big screen. I remember seeing the 4k laser IMAX screening of Dune at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival where it made […]
LICORICE PIZZA Review – A 70s Tale of Pinballs & Waterbeds
There’s an early moment in Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest picture LICORICE PIZZA that I feel like I haven’t seen in a movie in years. A character needs to get in touch with another character so they call them on the phone, hoping they are home. Someone else picks up the phone on the other end, […]
BEING THE RICARDOS Review – Never Say It Was Easy
Lucille Ball was more than just a comedian, studio executive, and producer. To remain a starlet on the big screen is tough, so she turned to producing and being involved in every part of the development process of a successful sitcom. Even today, not many talents are as beloved as this actress–who passed away in […]
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN Review – Getting To Know The Tramp & Tribulations
Showtime’s attempt to reveal who Chaplin is in THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN is terrific. Not only do we get to know more about the boy facing problems as his family was falling apart, but also we get a sense of how that strengthened him, for better or worse. Chaplin Senior abandoned his child and wife. […]
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS Review – Neo & Trinity Reminiscence
Oh, THE MATRIX. The 1999 Oscar winning triumph was equal parts a visual effects benchmark, a trippy mind-bender with Buddist teachings is a movie that is still referenced by many today, especially in the “Blue Pill” and “Red Pill” philosophies. It has been quoted, referenced and even spoofed to death over the years, even more […]
SPIDER-MAN NO WAY HOME Review – It’s A Spider Mash!
Are you ready for a BIG movie, world? Those big blockbuster movies you pay to see in a movie theatre and line up for, even after nearly two years of the world being in chaos? Remember the experience of seeing something BIG and HUGE on the big screen? Boy do I have something fun for […]
WEST SIDE STORY Review – Spielberg Knows The Words & The Music
In what could have been described as a “Here We Go Again” moment, one of the finest and most beloved musicals has a new cinematic adaptation with much controversy by one of the finest filmmakers of our time nearly sixty years later. What takes this to another level is that after all this time, you […]
THE BEATLES: GET BACK Review: Clear Your Schedule
I wish that right this second, I could meet your face across the universe of a theatre lobby to unite in our “Dammit-that-was-freakin-exquisite”! disbelief head-shake as we merge with the sea of people exiting the aisles, acclimating into a single file of bright lights, real-time, space, sound and existence so we could find each other […]