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

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

The Deer Hunter

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

Lawrence of Arabia

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

The Bridge on the River Kwai

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

Dances with Wolves

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

The Aviator

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

Next Six Months: A Preview

December 31, 2012

Armageddon

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

American Psycho

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

Alien Resurrection

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