Reel Matt

This blog started as my movie marathon — watching a movie a day for a whole year — and has continued as a place for me to write reviews about movies, TV, and various other items.

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This is still a work in progress as I migrate from my old platform at Tumblr. For now, you can still access the whole backlog of posts there at http://reelmatt.tumblr.com

Duplicity

August 18, 2013

A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.

Film #386

Rating: 3 out of 5

Eat Pray Love

August 18, 2013

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to “find herself”.

Film #385

Rating: 3 out of 5

Elysium

August 8, 2013

Set in the year 2154, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Film #384

Rating: 5 out of 5

Contraband

August 7, 2013

To protect his brother-in-law from a drug lord, a former smuggler heads to Panama to score millions of dollars in counterfeit bills.

Film #383

Rating: 4 out of 5

2 Guns

August 4, 2013

A DEA agent and a naval intelligence officer find themselves on the run after a botched attempt to infiltrate a drug cartel. While fleeing, they learn the secret of their shaky alliance - Neither knew that the other was an undercover agent.

Film #382

Rating: 3 out of 5

Source Code

August 3, 2013

An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

Film #381

Rating: 5 out of 5

Game Change

August 3, 2013

Follows John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election.

Film #380

Rating: 5 out of 5

Too Big to Fail

August 2, 2013

Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Film #379

Rating: 3 out of 5

The Spectacular Now

August 1, 2013

A hard-partying high school senior’s philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical “nice girl.”

Film #378

Rating: 3 out of 5

Due Date

July 28, 2013

High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time.

Film #377

Rating: 3 out of 5