Category: Review

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE review

About the film (courtesy of Columbia Pictures): This Summer, the world’s favorite Bad Boys are back with their iconic mix of edge-of-your seat action and outrageous comedy but this time with a twist: Miami’s finest are now on the run. Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the fourth installment in the action-comedy franchise, brings back the …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel IF review

About the film (courtesy of Paramount Pictures): From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends – and what she does with that superpower – as she embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids. John Krasinski’s IF is a …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE FALL GUY review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): He’s a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel BOY KILLS WORLD review

About the film (courtesy of Roadside Attractions): Bill Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who vows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel ABIGAIL review

About the film (courtesy of Universal Pictures): Children can be such monsters. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE review

About the film (courtesy of Lionsgate): Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, This is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author Ian Fleming. …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel CIVIL WAR review

About the film (courtesy of A24): From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House. Alex Garland’s Civil War isn’t just a film; it’s a brutal, poetic, and somewhat thought-provoking …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel STING review

About the film (courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment): After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster. Let me tell you, as someone who gets the shivers at the mere mention …

Review, Theatrical

Time for a Reel THE FIRST OMEN review

About the film (courtesy of 20th Century Studios): When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate. The First …