Courtesy of VVS Films there are 3 Blu-Ray copies of Jane Got a Gun up for grabs across Canada. The contest will run from May 24th until May 31st when the winners will be announced across Get Reel Movies‘ social media platforms. Synopsis: Jane Got a Gun centers on Jane Hammond, who has built a new life with her husband […]
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The Nice Guys – Supreme Comedy Noir
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat Shane Black is a fantastic writer. For me that is a fact that is undeniable. With the likes of Lethal Weapon, The Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight all being penned by Black. But it wasn’t until Kiss Kiss Bang Bang that Black showed his directorial prowess as well. With The Nice Guys he has once again captured […]
High-Rise – A High Octane, Gory Experience
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat High-Rise is the typical Ben Wheatley movie. It’s super violent, really funny and its premise challenges the audience to actually think while watching it, which is a big plus in my mind. But the big difference with High-Rise is that Wheatley has been given a bigger budget and an amazing cast of well known actors […]
Captain America: Civil War – The Godfather of Superhero Movies
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat “Compromise where you can. Where you can’t, don’t. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say ‘No, you move!’.” Who knew […]
Classic Review: ’71 (2014)
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat In October of 2014 I ventured to the cinema in the UK (I was there on an exchange program). ’71 was a movie I had been following closely for months for two reasons. One it had one of the hottest new young actors in it in the form of Jack O’Connell. Secondly […]
Classic Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat From the moment Captain America kicked someone off a ship you knew this wouldn’t be a typical Marvel movie. As of late Marvel had been struggling with superhero movie fatigue and Marvel projects like Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D were not up to the standard that Marvel had established […]
Equals – A Sci-Fi Love Story Implodes
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat Produced by Ridley Scott, Equals is a Romeo/Juliet type love story. It’s plot is simple enough and it had the chance to stun its audiences with amazing story telling and the chance to one-up The Giver. Instead it leaves the audience feeling unsatisfied and uneducated as they leave the theater wondering, “What happened?!”. An […]
Podcast: Nick Serino and Sleeping Giant
In the first interview on the Get Reel Movies Podcast I interview Canadian Screen Award winning Nick Serino, the star of the Canadian hit film Sleeping Giant. A movie that has been likened to the ultimate coming of age story Stand by Me, Nick and I discuss the coming of age story and what makes Sleeping Giant stand out. We […]
Everybody Wants Some!! – A Special Director Makes a Special Film
By: Matt Neglia Richard Linklater is a very special director. More so than many of his colleagues, he makes films that can be considered time capsules. They fully capture what it not only means to be human, but to be alive during a specific time period. He captures this through attitudes and feeling. He struck […]
Beasts of No Nation – Emotions Required
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat Brutal. Powerful. Brilliant. Funny. Heartwarming. Heartbreaking. These are words you don’t usually see together when describing a movie about child soldiers. Beasts of No Nation however is no normal beast. Somehow it let the audience feel all these emotions and create one of the most powerful films of the year. Based on the book, Beasts […]
The Big Short – A Perfectly Mixed Comedy and Tragedy
By: Daniel Chadwick-Shubat The financial crisis of 2008 was one of the most disastrous in modern history. But did any of you know that a few men of Wall Street saw it coming? This is what The Big Short is about and it is definitely one of the biggest surprises of the year, something that no one […]
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – A Comic Failure
By: Matt Neglia It’s finally here. The epic clash between two of the greatest superheroes to come from DC Comics has finally hit the big screen. And as a Batman film, director Zack Snyder does a fairly decent job. As a Superman film, it’s about as good as Man Of Steel. But as an overall […]
Contest: Enter to Win Advanced Passes to See “Everybody Wants Some!!”
Paramount Pictures Canada and Get Reel Movies want to take readers and listeners to an advanced screening of Everybody Wants Some!! The screening will be taking place in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Synopsis: A “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused set in the world of 1980 college life, Everybody Wants Some is a comedy that follows a […]
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 […]