Lost in the Reel's video review for Bottoms Bottoms comes from second-time feature director and writer Emma Seligman, whose first film Shiva Baby was a critical and cult favorite just three years ago. Now, I was in the minority and did not love Shiva Baby like everyone else seemed to, but I
The holiday season is heading for us! Kicking off the spirit is an adorable new rom-com About Fate. The film stars Emma Roberts as Margot Hayes, a young girl who wants nothing more than to prove to her family that she’s not a complete mess. When going to dinner with her boyfriend of 3 months, she
Lost in the Reel's video review for Samaritan The new film Samaritan shares very similar DNA to Rocky Balboa and Creed, except with superheroes in the mix. So, it's pretty fitting that Sylvester Stallone is headlining this Amazon Prime flick. It also has nearly the same plot as another
Licorice Pizza is a coming-of-age dramedy by Paul Thomas Anderson. The film centers around the relationship between ambitious high school student Gary Valentine and Alana Kane, a photographer’s assistant in her 20s, who Gary meets on school picture day. Together, they go on various journeys
Jennifer Hudson already earned an Oscar for her performance in Dream Girls (2007), but the outcome of another Academy Award is likely with this deeply moving performance in Respect. Hudson’s ability to channel Franklin through speaking voice and movement was astounding, and while
Bill and Ted: Face The Music should have gone the way of so many reboots and sequels that get made years after the original films. The film instead takes a well tread path down a nostalgia trip that also adds to the original mythos of the film. For a film about two idiots that travel through time,
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
Daemons of the Shadow Realm reveals the depths a certain hunter named Ivan has in Ep. 20 "The Hunted and the Hunter". It's very bloody and dark depths, but it does show that Ivan will likely be a major recurring villain in the story, and will play a major role in that story somehow. As well as
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
