Reel Reviews

What do bathtub toy boats and plastic helicopters have in common with a dude in a monster suit?  Hint: the action takes place in Japan.  That’s right.  Godzilla, the mother of all mega-monster movies, is returning to run rampage through your home entertainment ...

The “found footage” phenomenon hits an all-time low with this budget-friendly piece of horror schlock.  Mixing hand-held footage with scratchy camcorder video, The Devil Inside uses the medium of the stylized mockumentary well, but doesn’t have an ...

Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, does more to address the complex topic of illegal drugs in and out of this country than the actual “war” on drugs does. Considering the largely naïve and inadequate government policies since ...

Like its main character, Dee Rees’s Pariah is a fickle chameleon of a film, bearing a skin of many colors reflecting the viewer’s own world view. The coming-of-age drama will likely have a difficult time finding a wide audience as some will perceive it a...

There are a million reasons to list explaining why Real Steel shouldn’t work.  Much will be made of the obvious comparisons between Over the Top and its many Rocky punching bag beats.  So much so, the consensus will be that Stallone should ...

Awkwardly purposed and haphazardly constructed, Phyllida Lloyd’s biopic The Iron Lady takes a look at one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and influential political leaders, Great Britain’s former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. While certainly a significant genre switch for ...