[ The Accountant, currently streaming on Netflix, is Ben Affleck’s biggest non-superhero movie since Gone Girl, and has a similarly airport-page-turner style – but it’s not based on a book. It’s a pulpy action-drama that seems designed for ideal dad-movie relaxation. The Gist: Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is an autistic man, raised by a strict … Read more
[ If you heard around the year 2000 that the director of Swingers and Go had signed on to remake the 1989 action movie Road House, you might sigh with trepidation over another seemingly independent-minded filmmaker getting sucked into a vortex of Hollywood pointlessness. Then you might patiently wait for the movie to flop and … Read more
[ Six months after it first hit theaters, Oppenheimer will finally be available to stream on Peacock in just a few hours. Christopher Nolan‘s epic biopic about the life of physicist and “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most nominated film at the upcoming 2024 Oscars with 13 nods, including Best … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: Passing the time between Oppenheimer takes in a New Mexico bunker one morning at about 4am, Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon sowed the seeds of a future collaboration. Fast-forward to today, and Small Things Like These is opening the Berlin Film Festival. Murphy stars in and produced Small Things Like These alongside his … Read more
[ Matt Damon was in a chatty mood during Tuesday’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, updating that a sixth Jason Bourne film is in the works. Damon said he didn’t have any details to share about a Bourne 6. However, he mentioned that All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger “had an … Read more
[ Following the success of Air, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting again on the kidnapping thriller Animals, with Damon starring and Affleck directing. Connor McIntyre penned the script with revisions by Billy Ray. The film will be produced by Affleck, Damon and Dani Bernfeld of Artists Equity and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton … Read more
