The mid-winter dumping ground of movies gives Be Reel a chance to examine the weird, medium-budget genre fare Hollywood throws at the wall, as well as some of the better movies that set the table. On this episode, we unbox the newly released “Escape Room,” plus two of its thrilling enclosed-space predecessors in 2002’s “Panic Room” and the 1954 classic “Rear Window.”

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