Clueless
February 2, 2015
A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil’s popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.
Film #499
Rating: 4 out of 5
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.
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 Wire: Season 5
January 28, 2015
In the fifth and final season of this explosive drama series, the show expands its focus into the media — specifically the role of newspapers in big-city bureaucracy — as it follows the fictional staff of a real newspaper.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The Wire: Season 4
January 22, 2015
As the vitriolic mayoral race continues, season four of the HBO drama series focuses on four boys from West Baltimore who balance attending school with the temptations of crime.
Rating: 4 out of 5
The Wire: Season 3
January 19, 2015
The heat is on in Baltimore. In Season Three of the gritty HBO drama series, the war on crime is being lost… at a highly inconvenient time. It’s an election year, and a desperate mayor calls for an end to the drug wars and the rising body count.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Exodus: Gods and Kings
January 16, 2015
The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses, setting 600,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
Film #498
Rating: 3 out of 5
The Wire: Season 2
January 5, 2015
Season two of the gritty HBO police drama takes on a new case set against the backdrop of the Baltimore waterfront, where the longshoremen’s union struggles to survive in a changing economy.
Rating: 4 out of 5
The Wire: Season 1
January 2, 2015
In season one, a joint homicide/narcotics police detail is created to investigate a drug-dealing operation in the city of Baltimore.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Top Films: Year 3 — Part 1
December 31, 2014
Snowpiercer
December 28, 2014
Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.
Film #497
Rating: 5 out of 5
The Imitation Game
December 14, 2014
English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
Film #496
Rating: 5 out of 5