Gandhi
January 6, 2013
Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Film #193
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
January 6, 2013
Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of non-violent protest.
Film #193
Rating: 5 out of 5
January 5, 2013
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Film #192
Rating: 3 out of 5
January 4, 2013
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
Film #191
Rating: 5 out of 5
January 3, 2013
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Film #190
Rating: 4 out of 5
January 2, 2013
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Film #189
Rating: 3 out of 5
January 1, 2013
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes’ career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.
Film #188
Rating: 4 out of 5
December 31, 2012
December 31, 2012
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save humanity.
Film #187
Rating: 2 out of 5
December 30, 2012
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Film #186
Rating: 3 out of 5
December 30, 2012
200 years after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/Alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the Aliens.
Film #185
Rating: 2 out of 5