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A look back at the original Bourne trilogy

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Tom Jolliffe looks back at the original Jason Bourne trilogy, its impact on action cinema, and whether it still holds up…At a time when the Bond franchise was growing tired, and a slew of over the top action films attempted to have either edge or attitude (xXx) or riff on The Matrix, another franchise came […]

Re-Bourne: Jason Bourne and the post-Snowden world

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Tony Black on Matt Damon’s return as Jason Bourne in the post-Snowden world… Nobody thought Jason Bourne was gone forever. Not even when Tony Gilroy’s misjudged The Bourne Legacy attempted to relaunch the franchise, sans Bourne himself, did people truly believe we’d seen the last of probably the greatest cinematic super spy of the modern […]

Kevin Smith slams Harvey Weinstein over Dogma rights: “My movie about angels is owned by the devil himself”

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“My movie about angels is owned by the devil himself.” That’s Kevin Smith speaking about his film Dogma and its horrible connections to Harvey Weinstein.In a recent interview with The Wrap, the filmmaker opened up about why Dogma is so hard to find. You can not find Dogma on any streaming service, for those unaware, […]

The Bourne franchise receives 20th anniversary 4K Ultra HD gift set release

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Bourne franchise, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the 4K Ultra HD limited edition gift set which includes all five films in the action thriller series – The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, and Jason Bourne; check out the box set […]

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck re-team to bring Nike/Jordan drama to Amazon

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The Boston filmmaking dream team will reunite for one more outing about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will head to Amazon for a new film about Nike and its attempt to sign Jordan.Reports say that Affleck will helm the project, in which he will star alongside Matt Damon. Damon will play Sonny Vaccaro, while Affleck […]

Cillian Murphy and Matt Damon featured in set photos from Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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While Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is still going about casting everyone in the industry, the project has also begun production on some of the film’s most important scenes as we now have our first look at Cillian Murphy on set as J. Robert Oppenheimer.In these photos, from Twitter user @FilmOppenheimer, we see the Peaky Blinders star […]

Movie Review – The Last Duel (2021)

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The Last Duel, 2021.Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Ben Affleck, Marton Csokas, Harriet Walter, Clare Dunne, Zeljko Ivanek, Nathaniel Parker, Michael McElhatton, Alex Lawther, Zoé Bruneau, Ian Pirie, William Houston, Sam Hazeldine, Brian F. Mulvey, Caoimhe O’Malley, Serena Kennedy, and Julian Firth.SYNOPSIS:King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de […]

Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr. in talks to join Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer

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Deadline is reporting that Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon are currently in talks to join the cast of director Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer alongside the already announced Cillian Murphy and Emily Blunt. The film, which will be written by Nolan and based on the autobiography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by […]

57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Last Duel

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The Last Duel, 2021.Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Ben Affleck, Marton Csokas, Harriet Walter, Clare Dunne, Zeljko Ivanek, Nathaniel Parker, Michael McElhatton, Alex Lawther, Zoé Bruneau, Ian Pirie, William Houston, Sam Hazeldine, Brian F. Mulvey, Caoimhe O’Malley, Serena Kennedy, and Julian Firth.SYNOPSIS:King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de […]

Matt Damon and Adam Driver prepare for battle in The Last Duel clip

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An extended clip has been released from Ridley Scott’s historical drama The Last Duel which focuses on Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) as the latter two prepare for battle; take a look here…SEE ALSO: New clip and TV spots from Ridley Scott’s The Last […]