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
October 12, 2012
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged into a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.
Film #105
Rating: 3 out of 5
October 12, 2012
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
Film #104
Rating: 3 out of 5
October 10, 2012
Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions.
Film #103
Rating: 3 out of 5
October 10, 2012
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball.
Film #102
Rating: 2 out of 5
October 7, 2012
A grizzled little league coach (Thornton) tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.
Film #101
Rating: 2 out of 5
October 7, 2012
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Film #100
Rating: 4 out of 5
October 6, 2012
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Film #99
Rating: 3 out of 5
October 6, 2012
A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.
Film #98
Rating: 3 out of 5
October 5, 2012
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster’s beloved Shih Tzu.
Film #97
Rating: 5 out of 5
October 4, 2012
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn’t set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Film #96
Rating: 3 out of 5