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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s City on a Hill starring Kevin Bacon heads to Showtime

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Showtime has just ordered the new series City on a Hill from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The crime series will star Kevin Bacon (The Following), Aldis Hodge (Underground), Jonathan Tucker (Westworld) and Mark O’Brien (Halt and Catch Fire). City on a Hill is created by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler) and based on an original idea by Academy […]

Movie Review – Downsizing (2017)

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Downsizing, 2017. Directed by Alexander Payne. Starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier, Søren Pilmark, and Jason Sudeikis. SYNOPSIS: A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself.   Downsizing is the second failed social satire […]

Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. It’s all too easy to discuss the rather meat-headed prescience of George Clooney’s Suburbicon, a film unable to shift a […]

Second Opinion – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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Thor: Ragnarok, 2017. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: Imprisoned, the mighty […]

Alexander Payne’s Downsizing gets a new trailer

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Paramount Pictures has released a new teaser for Alexander Payne’s upcoming sci-fi comedy drama Downsizing which stars Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, Hing Chau, Laura Dern, Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris, and Maribeth Monroe; take a look below… When scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to […]

First teaser for Alexander Payne’s Downsizing

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With the first full trailer for Downsizing set to arrive in a little under two weeks, Paramount Pictures has released a teaser trailer for director Alexander Payne’s upcoming sci-fi comedy drama Downsizing. The film received its world premiere today at the Venice International Film Festival and features a cast that includes Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis, […]

First look image from Alexander Payne’s new film Downsizing

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Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first image from director Alexander Payne’s upcoming sci-fi comedy drama Downsizing featuring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig; take a look below… “Downsizing imagines what might happen if overpopulation and climate change [prompt] Norwegian scientists to discover how to shrink people down to five inches tall and propose, very earnestly, the population’s […]

Toronto International Film Festival Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns…the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a […]

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck producing City on a Hill pilot for Showtime

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting to executive produce City on a Hill, a new drama pilot for Showtime, which is being directed by Gavin O’Connor (The Accountant) from a script by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler). James Mangold (Logan) and Jennifer Todd (Memento). Variety reports that City on a Hill is a fictional account […]