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David's Reel Reviews

Reel Review: Snowden

Director Oliver Stone has never turned away from controversial subjects in his films. From his take on the Vietnam war in his Academy Award-winning Platoon as well as Born on the Fourth of July to the ultimate conspiracy in JFK, Stone […]

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#TBT Reel Review: JFK

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is one of the most controversial subjects in American history. While many want you to believe Lee Harvey Oswald was the man that pulled the trigger, there have […]

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Reel Review: Don’t Breathe

Despite the numerous home invasion films done before, Don’t Breathe is an original nerve-racking thrill ride that doesn’t stop coming at you until its final moments. From the director of 2013’s Evil Dead remake, Fede Alvarez brings us […]

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#TBT Reel Review: Clerks

Today’s #TBT Reel Review takes us to Leonardo, New Jersey where a young director brought us a memorable script, great characters, and the ongoing debate on whether or not the independent contractors on the Death […]

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Reel Review: Jason Bourne

Originally intended to be a trilogy, the Jason Bourne franchise deviated from that script when it released 2012’s The Bourne Legacy concentrating on a new character (Jeremy Renner) within the Bourne universe, similar to the direction taken […]

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Shrek is Coming Back in 2019!

NBC Universal recently  announced their $3.8 billion acquisition of DreamWorks Animation. After the purchase, the rumors began to swirl that Universal was pushing DreamWorks to revive their hugely popular Shrek franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shrek […]

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Reel Review: X-Men: Apocalypse

Bryan Singer has made a career with the X-Men franchise up to this point. After the failure of Batman and Robin, studios were not releasing comic book/superhero films for a few years. It looked like the genre […]

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Reel Review: The Conjuring 2

James Wan has shown his mastery of the horror genre throughout the years. Starting with Saw in 2004, he took a genre that had been turned into a laughing stock with films filled with mild jump […]

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Reel Review: Sing Street

There is not a more satisfying feeling for a cinephile than having mild to no expectations for a film, yet at its conclusion, you are not just pleasantly surprised by its greatness, but the film […]

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Reel Review: Finding Dory

While Pixar has made it the norm to create original stories in their long history, lately the popular animation studio has begun to concentrate on their already established films and create new stories for them. While […]

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Reel Review: 30 for 30: OJ: Made in America

ESPN’s 30 for 30 sets the bar high consistently for excellent and informative sports documentaries and they’ve done no differently here. Their latest installment, O.J.: Made in America is one of the greatest documentaries ever made. […]