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Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 4d

Adulting update:
Still faking it.
No signs of making it.
Might add it to my résumé anyway.

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 10d

🌟 Throwback Thursday 🌟

This week’s spotlight: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
🚲✨ One boy. One alien. One unforgettable friendship.
A story that still makes our hearts soar.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 11d

👽 Weird Wednesday 👽

This week’s spotlight: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
🌌 One alien. One mission. One human world full of chaos.
A film that challenges the way you see both Earth…and yourself.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 11d

🔪 Terror Tuesday 🔪

This week’s spotlight: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
💀 One family. One chainsaw. One nightmare you won’t forget.
Dare to watch… if you think you can handle it.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 11d

🔍 Mystery Monday 🔍

This week’s spotlight: Se7en (1995)
⚡️ Seven deadly sins. Two detectives. One terrifying city.
Are you brave enough to follow the trail of sin?

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 11d

🎩 Silent Sunday 🎩

This week’s spotlight: The Kid (1921)
🎥 A tramp, a child, and a bond that defined cinema.

Be prepared to laugh and cry.
Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 11d

🎭 Serious Saturday 🎭

This week’s spotlight: Good Will Hunting (1997)

🍂 Some minds are brilliant. Some hearts are broken. One story finds both.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 16d

🌎 Foreign Fridays 🌎
This week’s spotlight: City of God (2002) 🎥

One city. Countless lives. A story of survival, crime, and ambition.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 17d

👻💡 Imagine this: You’re trapped in Walmart at 2 AM, the lights are flickering… it's staffed by people from your old jobs. Forever. 🛒😱
That’s my kind of haunted house.
What’s your idea for a twisted haunted house scenario? Drop your scariest (or funniest) concepts below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 17d

💖 Throwback Thursdays 💖

This week’s spotlight: Pretty in Pink (1986)
🎀 Prom night. Heartbreak. New Wave. And one unforgettable pink dress.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 18d

🌙 Weird Wednesdays 🌙

This week’s spotlight: Mulholland Drive (2001)
🎥 Dreams, nightmares, and Hollywood illusions collide in David Lynch’s most haunting creation.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 18d

👻 Welcome to the official start of scary season (though we know it never really ends)

What’s the first horror movie scene that made you cover your eyes? 👀Mine was Pet Sematary, Zelda with spinal meningitis.

I thought I could handle it… nope. Still haunts me to this day. 🪦

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 19d

What was the R-rated movie you snuck into or rented when you were way too young? 🍿

Mine was a VHS copy of Alien at about 7 years old. The 80's were a wild time.

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 19d

👻 Terror Tuesdays 👻

This week’s spotlight: The Babadook (2014)
🎥 “If it’s in a word, or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook.”

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 20d

🔎 Mystery Mondays 🔎

This week’s spotlight: Rear Window (1954) 🎥

One man. One apartment. One deadly suspicion.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 21d

🎥 Silent Sundays 🎥

This week’s feature: Sherlock Jr. (1924)

🎬 Buster Keaton as a projectionist-turned-detective in one of the most inventive silent comedies ever made.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

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Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 21d

🎥 Special Selection 🎥

This week’s highlight: A Prelude to Fear (2022)

👀🔪 A young woman’s life unravels when her tutor disappears, pulling her into a chilling web of fear and secrets.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 22d

🎥 Serious Saturdays 🎥

This week’s feature: The Green Mile (1999)

🍿⚡️ A death row guard, a mysterious prisoner, and a story that asks big questions about justice, faith, and humanity.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 23d

🌍 Foreign Fridays 🌍

This week’s feature: The Lives of Others (2006)

🎥✨ Set in 1984 East Berlin, a Stasi officer begins spying on a playwright and his lover—only to find his own conscience awakening in the shadows.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 24d

Horror fans:

Who’s your favorite currently working horror director?
From masters of atmosphere to kings and queens of gore we want to know who’s your go-to.

Drop your pick (or picks!) in the comments — and tell us why they’ve earned the crown of horror today.

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 24d

🎬 Throwback Thursdays 🎬
Who you gonna call? 👻☎️

Ghostbusters (1984) From proton packs to Stay Puft, this supernatural comedy is as sharp, funny, and unforgettable today as it was in the ’80s.

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 25d

🌀 Weird Wednesdays 🌀

Tonight’s pick: A Clockwork Orange (1971) 🎥🍊 A dystopian dive into free will, morality, and the nightmare of being “cured.”

Check out the full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 26d

👻 Terror Tuesdays 👻

This week’s spotlight: Get Out (2017) 🎥🖤 When meeting the parents becomes a nightmare…

Check out our full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 27d

🕵️ Mystery Mondays 🔍

This week’s mystery pick: Memento (2000)

🎥 A man with no short-term memory. A murder to solve. Clues written on Polaroids and tattoos.

Full review below ⬇️

Real Reel Talk @realreeltalk.bsky.social · 28d

🎥 Silent Sundays 🎥

This week’s spotlight: The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) 🕊️

🔥 A silent masterpiece of faith, resilience, and raw human emotion.

Full review below ⬇️

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