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

The Apartment

June 26, 2013

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Film #360

Rating: 4 out of 5

The Lone Ranger

June 25, 2013

Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Film #359

Rating: 2 out of 5

Rudy

June 23, 2013

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

Film #358

Rating: 5 out of 5

American Gangster

June 23, 2013

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.

Film #357

Rating: 4 out of 5

Cinderella Man

June 22, 2013

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

Film #356

Rating: 3 out of 5

Erin Brockovich

June 21, 2013

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply.

Film #355

Rating: 4 out of 5

Pretty Woman

June 20, 2013

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets… only to fall in love.

Film #354

Rating: 3 out of 5

Green Zone

June 19, 2013

Discovering covert and faulty intelligence causes a U.S. Army officer to go rogue as he hunts for Weapons of Mass Destruction in an unstable region.

Film #353

Rating: 4 out of 5

The Adjustment Bureau

June 18, 2013

The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

Film #352

Rating: 4 out of 5

The Final Cut

June 17, 2013

Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people’s recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.

Film #351

Rating: 2 out of 5