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We Bought a Zoo

If, while watching writer/director Cameron Crowe’s latest project, you should happen to forget the name of what you’re seeing, the film will happily remind you, three times. Twice via a precocious little girl (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) with just the right amount of sugar in her cadence. While this cinematic no-no is cringe-inducing, it’s only one of the problems with We Bought a Zoo....  read more

Matt Damon to Make Directorial Debut

Matt Damon will soon be joining his friends Ben Affleck and George Clooney in the line of actors directing their own films.  read more

Contagion review

Never mind the scares from the current horror films like Fright Night or Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. If you really want to be terrified, the first 30 minutes of Contagion do the job just fine, with its realistically graphic depictions of citizens succumbing to a mysterious disease.  read more

Jeremy Renner Offered Lead in The Bourne Legacy

Universal has offered Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker, The Town) the lead role in The Bourne Legacy....  read more

The Adjustment Bureau Review

While a certain amount of suspended reality is expected, even required, in watching a sci-fi film, there are moments when a filmgoer’s credulity can be stretched too far. The Adjustment Bureau definitely tests those limits in spite of some strong performances.  read more

Bourne Films Continuing Without Matt Damon or Jason Bourne

The writer of the Bourne trilogy of films, Tony Gilroy, is in the process of writing/directing the fourth installment in the series, The Bourne Legacy, according to Variety. However, Gilroy will continue the espionage-action franchise without his leading man, Matt Damon—or title character, Jason Bourne, for that matter....  read more

New York Film Festival Lineup Includes Fincher, Taymor, Eastwood

We already knew the 48th annual New York Film Festival, held Sept. 24-Oct. 10, was set to feature David Fincher’s The Social Network on opening night and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as the centerpiece but now a complete lineup has been released that includes closer Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, starring Matt Damon....  read more

Matt Damon to Play Dad in Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo?

We’ve seen Matt Damon play many a part: an ass-kicking spy in the Bourne trilogy, an over-achieving pickpocket in the Ocean’s series, Invictus’ sports hero, and Good Will Hunting‘s tortured genius. Truth be told, he’s done a pretty bang-up job with most all of them. Now, Damon might be beefing up his acting chops with seemingly the only sort of role he’s yet to play: daddy....  read more

Matt Damon and Keira Knightley to Star in F. Scott Fitzgerald Adaptation

Matt Damon is set to star in a new period drama alongside Keira Knightley....  read more

Ponyo DVD Review

DVD Release Date: March 2 Director/Writer: Hayao Miyazaki Cinematographer: Atsushi Okui Starring: Noah Cyrus, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Frankie Jonas Studio/Run Time: Walt Disney, 100 mins. Go fish It’s impossible to watch Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo without drawing a comparison to The Little Mermaid—here too, the titular character is a fish-person who becomes a human and must find true love. But Miyazaki’s take is more personal and whimsical. There’s an irresistible passion in every frame, regardless of whether the events on screen make any sense. Beyond its inciting incident (titular fish Ponyo decides that she wants to...  read more