Day 2 of the virtual #WFF20 is upon us. Normally this is the day that I would wake up in my hotel room after the opening night party, fully exhausted after covering the opening night gala and party, fully ready to brew an entire pot of coffee and continue live-blogging. Alas, I am sitting at […]
Whistler Film Festival Day 1: Virtual Starter & Sugar Daddies
I love everything about film festivals. Having written about them for nearly 20 years now, it’s not only a personal passion but I also enjoy spreading the word of the movies I see to an audience. Getting to see movies throughout a select amount of days, meeting the filmmakers, talking movies and shop with fellow […]
Apple TV Review – The Personal History of David Copperfield
The latest movie by IN THE LOOP slash VEEP slash THE DEATH OF STALIN filmmaker Armando Iannucci, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD is a very light-hearted and modern take on the old Charles Dickens classic, this time focusing on the early years of the title character, here played by Dev Patel as we experience […]
Review – THE WAR WITH GRANDPA – DeNiro Hits The Lowest Common Denominator
THE WAR WITH GRANDPA is a very insulting experience; insulting to those who watch it but even more insulting to the people who acted and made it. It feels like every moment of watching this movie my IQ dropping and my intelligence obliterated, right to the point of the Even from the very first scene, […]
Review – Bruce Springsteen’s LETTER TO YOU Is An Absolute Gift.
“I started playing the guitar because I was looking for someone to correspond with. And after all this time I still feel that need to talk to you.” — The Boss. The best movie I saw in a cinema in 2019 was WESTERN STARS, a complete masterpiece of a concert film that I likened to […]
Review – HONEST THIEF: Neeson as less-tough-than-usual bad guy
Will someone just let Tom Carter turn himself in already? That’s the interesting premise behind HONEST THIEF, a more slowed-down actioner featuring yet another gruff lead performance from the always reliable Liam Neeson. I feel like every couple of months, even during this current pandemic, that he suddenly appears in a movie and I want […]
Fantasia Film Festival Review – 12 HOUR SHIFT
I love films that take place in a single night like After Hours, Miracle Mile, Adventures in Babysitting and many others. 12 Hour Shift lives up to the expectations of my love of this subgenre. It has a great cast and I love the use of its hospital location. This film is an amazing comedy […]
Apple TV Review – THE HIGH NOTE
Yet another movie that was supposed to shine across cinema screens across the country in 2020, the recently online-released THE HIGH NOTE truly is, if you’ll forgive the cliche, a “feel great movie”. It tells what could have been a familiar meet-cute romantic drama but takes on a terrific power with strong characters you care […]
Film Review – GREYHOUND
GREYHOUND, which was originally supposed to have a release to theaters this summer until a certain pandemic hit our planet, will instead make its way to Apple TV+ as an Apple Originals release. In a way this is a bit on the sad side as this WWII actioner is a big screen experience with incredible […]
THE HIGH NOTE – Join the Twitter Party!
We at Get Reel Movies are big fans of the recently released THE HIGH NOTE starring Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Kelvin Harrison Jr. Even MORE excited that on Friday night the filmmakers are hosting a Twitter Party screening of the movie. ABOUT: We’ll have participants from all over watching together at 6:30pm PST […]
4k/Blu Ray Review – TROLLS WORLD TOUR
Arriving on 4k/Blu Ray from Universal this week is TROLLS WORLD TOUR, the sequel to the hit 2016 movie TROLLS which I thought was a colorful, lively and just slightly “weird” animated feature that had a positive message about being happy and true to yourself, set to the tune of fun riffs on popular music. […]
Blu Ray Review – THE HUNT
“One of the most talked about movies that no one has seen yet”, read the advertising tagline of THE HUNT when released earlier this year. Originally scheduled for a fall 2019 release, the movie hit up some controversy due to its subject of explicit violence against political parties What was originally thought of as a […]
4k Blu Ray Review – THE INVISIBLE MAN
THE INVISIBLE MAN is one of the best recent examples of horror/thriller cinema. More in the vein of Hitchcock, this is a remake produced by Jason Blum’s production company, Blumhouse Pictures, which I take as a sign of quality with a slight nod to Roger Corman. Most of their titles are low budget with an […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – MAKE UP director Claire Oakley
“MAKE UP is a psychosexual coming-of-age movie infused with suspense, mystery and elements of horror. It follows Ruth, 19, who moves in with her boyfriend, Tom, on the remote caravan park where he works. It is a strange and almost deserted place on the edge of the sand dunes where the locals speak in dialect […]
SxSW 2020 Interview – TOPSIDE filmmakers Logan George and Celine Held
“Deep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a sudden police-mandated eviction, the pair are forced to flee aboveground into a brutal winter night. Determined to return home, they fight to find shelter […]