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
January 26, 2013
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.
Film #213
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 25, 2013
Faced with both her hot-tempered father’s fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Film #212
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 25, 2013
In this spin on the fairy tale, Hansel & Gretel are now bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. As the fabled Blood Moon approaches, the siblings encounter a new form of evil that might hold a secret to their past.
Film #211
Rating: 3 out of 5
January 24, 2013
A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
Film #210
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 23, 2013
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Film #209
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 21, 2013
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn’t going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Film #208
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 20, 2013
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
Film #207
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 19, 2013
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II - An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Film #206
Rating: 3 out of 5
January 18, 2013
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
Film #205
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 18, 2013
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Film #204
Rating: 2 out of 5