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Reeling in the Years of Film
Looking for a good film? At Reel Reviews and Recommendations, we love movies and are dedicated to bringing you honest reviews and recommendations from across the cinematic world. From Hong Kong comedies to Hollywood dramas, forgotten classics to the latest releases, here you might just find something for your watchlist.Thank you for visiting the site, we hope you enjoy our content and continue to follow as we embark on this journey into the unknown.
REVIEWS


The Monkey (2025) Review
There are few writers whose output is as prodigious as Stephen King. With over 65 novels and countless short stories to his name, the...
May 6, 20254 min read


13: Game of Death (2006) Review
They say there’s nothing new under the sun. This is especially pertinent to cinema, where originality is often hard to come by....
Apr 24, 20253 min read


Wake in Fright (1971) Review
John Grant is a schoolteacher in a remote town deep in the Australian outback. It's the Christmas holidays, and he plans to go to Sydney...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Death Game (1977) Review
It is 1975, and George Manning is a happily married man living in San Francisco. On his 40th birthday, a family emergency necessitates...
Mar 17, 20254 min read


The Brood (1979) Review
Nola Carveth is a patient at the Somafree Institute under the care of Dr. Hal Raglan, a leader in an experimental form of therapy known...
Mar 17, 20254 min read


The Face of Another (1966) Review
Okuyama is an engineer whose face was horribly mutilated in a workplace accident. Feeling shunned by society and rejected by his wife, he...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001) Review
Some directors have a clearly defined and instantly identifiable style that makes their films impossible to mistake as the work of...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Review
In the English countryside there stands a house, a seemingly benign, ramshackle abode nestled amid the undergrowth and enveloped in...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Society (1989) Review
Bill Whitney is a teenager who feels he doesn’t fit in with his upper-class family. He thinks they might be hiding something evil, and...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Suspiria (1977) Review
On a cold and rainy night, American student Suzy Bannion travels to a prestigious dance school in picturesque Freiburg to study the art...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


House (1977) Review
The Summer holidays have arrived, and a young schoolgirl known as Gorgeous can't wait to spend time with her film composer father in...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


The Killer Shrews (1959) Review
Long before Alexander Payne's 'Downsizing,' Ray Kellogg brought us this science-fiction epic about Baruch Lumet's cunning plan to curb...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Blue Lake Girl (1986) Review
Nagare is a painter who falls in love with Mizue, the wife of his friend Kanji Takigawa. Nagare and Mizue decide to commit suicide...
Mar 17, 20252 min read


Infinity Pool (2023) Review
James Foster is a one-novel author struggling with writer's block. He and his wife Em are vacationing at a resort on the idyllic,...
Mar 17, 20252 min read


Cargo (2017) Review
In the midst of a viral outbreak, Andy Rose, his wife Kay and their daughter Rosie have found temporary sanctuary on a houseboat in rural...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


Gozu (2003) Review
From the twisted minds of Takashi Miike and Sakichi Sato comes this atmospheric and absurd crime comedy about a Yakuza underlings' quest...
Mar 17, 20252 min read


Mute Witness (1995) Review
Billy Hughes is a mute, American make-up artist working on a low-budget slasher in Moscow, directed by her sister’s boyfriend. One night,...
Mar 17, 20253 min read


High Tension (2003) Review
Sometimes, a twist can make a good horror all the better. Films like Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho,’ Bong Joon Ho’s ‘Parasite’ and Park...
Mar 15, 20253 min read


Audition (1999) Review
There is no one quite like Takashi Miike. His films drag you kicking and screaming into the bowels of the subconscious, wading through...
Feb 6, 20255 min read


Presence (2024) Review
Throughout his career, Steven Soderbergh has dabbled in many different genres, to varying degrees of success. Take a glance at his...
Feb 4, 20254 min read
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