Netflix Your Weekend August 4.0
The final weekend of summer before school officially kicks off for most the United States. If you’re in the mood for one last hurrah before you head back to school, or your kids do, or if it doesn’t effect you…
Netflix Your Weekend August 3.0
As the summer movie season moves toward a close, you might be looking for something to watch this weekend. Fine reader, worry not! Our wonderful gaggle of contributors have unglued their eyes from their screens long enough to pass on…
Netflix Your Weekend, June 2.0
via JR Forasteros Zombeavers – The title is genius. The premise is exactly what it promises. And every time you think it can’t get any crazier, it does. Zombeavers deserves to join the pantheon of great B-horror films. Standard “you’re watching a horror…
Netflix Your Weekend, June 1.0
We’re trying something a little different for the month of June for our Netflix Your Weekend post. In an effort to broaden your options and tastes, we’ll have THREE options instead of one from three different regular contributors to Reel…
Netflix Your Weekend | The Boxtrolls
When The Boxtrolls came out last September, my weekly movie theater preview was smothered in skepticism. Even the general movie-going public’s opinion on this movie wasn’t even lukewarm. People were even more confused and slightly angry when it got an Oscar nod…
Netflix Your Weekend | Galaxy Quest
Friday nights, or Saturdays during High School football season, were movie nights at our house. More often than not, my dad would pull out his VHS box-set of the Star Trek movies and inevitably we would end up watching Star…
Netflix Your Weekend | Life Itself
Growing up in Milwaukee, I cannot recall exactly how I managed to get my hands on Roger Ebert’s reviews. Was it republished in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel? Did my grandma have a subscription to the Chicago Sun-Times? I honestly cannot…
Netflix Your Weekend| Groundhog Day
How do you POSSIBLY recommend a movie you have an insane and biased obsession with? Not just that, but it stars a comedic icon that is worth watching even in terrible movies! AND the movie shares a title and date…
Netflix Your Weekend – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Thomas Alfredson’s 2011 adaptation of John le Carre’s 1974 book, and the British TV series starring Alec Guiness of the same name, is not what you would expect from a spy movie. A “normal” spy movie, or more maybe more…