Serpico
May 27, 2013
The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Film #330
Rating: 5 out of 5
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.
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
May 27, 2013
The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Film #330
Rating: 5 out of 5
May 27, 2013
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions.
Film #329
Rating: 3 out of 5
May 26, 2013
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
Film #328
Rating: 4 out of 5
May 26, 2013
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally-wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.
Film #327
Rating: 1 out of 5
May 25, 2013
A drama centered on three people – a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy – who are touched by death in different ways.
Film #326
Rating: 4 out of 5
May 25, 2013
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Film #325
Rating: 3 out of 5
May 25, 2013
In 1925, an enterprising pro football player convinces America’s too-good-to-be-true college football hero to play for his team and keep the league from going under.
Film #324
Rating: 2 out of 5
May 24, 2013
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Film #323
Rating: 3 out of 5
May 23, 2013
Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier’s, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
Film #322
Rating: 5 out of 5
May 22, 2013
Agent Luke Hobbs enlists Dominic Toretto and his team to bring down former Special Ops soldier Owen Shaw, leader of a unit specializing in vehicular warfare.
Film #321
Rating: 4 out of 5