What Else Ben and Matt make good Ben Affleck and Matt Damon reunited for a Netflix movie called The Rip. It’s pretty good! Just a solid action flick, the kind of movie that used to make a reliable $100 million in theaters but now goes straight to Netflix. I bring up The Rip because it was By Sarah • Jan 23, 2026 04:06 pm
Marcus and Friends (dogs) Ben and Matt are not the VIPs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s film, The Rip, premieres on Netflix on Friday and as Sarah wrote in her post about it recently, this looks like a solid crime drama, an action movie with a real plot starring big name movie stars that’s disappearing from theatres, which is By Lainey • Jan 14, 2026 02:52 pm
Jennifer Garner Jennifer Garner was the phoenix all along Jennifer Garner recently sat down with Marie Claire UK and did something she doesn’t really do – talk about her 2015 separation from Ben Affleck, which ultimately led to their divorce in 2018. Since their split, Jen has remained pretty tight-lipped about the nature of it all, save for that By Stephanie • Jan 08, 2026 11:52 am
Top Reads Ben and Matt in January A trailer for Joe Carnahan’s The Rip, premiering on Netflix next week, was released yesterday. The movie stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Steven Yeun, and Teyana Taylor and as Sarah noted back in September, it’s a cool looking action heist (this combination of talent generally can be counted By Lainey • Jan 06, 2026 11:40 am
Ben Affleck Ben Affleck: Dunkin’ on television Ben Affleck officially became a Dunkin’ ambassador in February 2023 when he starred in and produced a commercial, also featuring Jennifer Lopez. He was back the following year, also featuring JLo, and then again last year, without JLo, but joined instead by his brother, Casey, Bill Belichick, and Jeremy Strong. By Lainey • Nov 27, 2025 11:48 am
Style Bennifer, the colleagues I don’t know if that’s a statement or a wish… Tonatiuh and Jennifer Lopez joined their director Bill Condon at the New York premiere of Kiss of the Spider Woman last night but the story was not just Jen but also him. Ben Affleck. As in Bennifer. Again? By Lainey • Oct 07, 2025 12:20 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Give The Rip a chance Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are back, baby, once again collaborating on a film. Only this one, they did not write nor is Affleck directing, it comes from filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who specializes in well executed schlock like Narc, The Grey, and Copshop. His latest film, reuniting Affleck and Damon, By Sarah • Sep 10, 2025 12:24 pm
Break Ups Gwyneth Paltrow gets the Anna Wintour treatment Gwyneth Paltrow is on the cover of the new issue of PEOPLE this week because the magazine has an exclusive excerpt of Amy Odell’s biography of her releasing on July 29. Amy’s previous book was Anna: The Biography, which came out in 2022 and this is worth noting By Lainey • Jul 16, 2025 11:58 am
Ben Affleck Netflix advertises the movies it doesn’t support Netflix’s annual fan event, Tudum, occurred over the weekend. It’s their effort to create an in-house marketing machine/hype event a la Disney’s D23, and it’s sort of working. Certainly, there were people who showed up in person and shrieked at celebrities standing on a stage. By Sarah • Jun 02, 2025 11:20 am
Relationship Assumption Jennifer and John in New York Since the end of Bennifer v2.0, the tabloids are constantly trying to rumour that Ben Affleck might be getting back together with Jennifer Garner. And turning what’s not really there into what *might* be there even though, well, there’s nothing there. As I’ve always said about By Lainey • Apr 28, 2025 04:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews 10 Questions about The Accountant 2 What is The Accountant 2? The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the 2016 film The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck as a neurodivergent assassin/accountant. Like the 2016 film, The Accountant 2 is directed by Gavin O’Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. Ben Affleck returns as Math Man the By Sarah • Apr 24, 2025 12:58 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Ben Affleck makes a point The Accountant 2 premiere happened last night, the movie opens next Friday and Sarah will be posting her review next week. Ben Affleck, of course, was the big draw on the carpet and he’s making headlines today for who joined him there – no photos, not that I can see, By Lainey • Apr 17, 2025 02:03 pm
Amazingness Ben Affleck’s new cover Ben Affleck covers the new issue of Us Weekly and the cover itself, like the photo, is the initial reason why I added this to today’s site coverage because LOL FOREVER, the shot selection here is… well… look at it. This is the kind of shot that’s meant By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 02:11 pm
Top Reads Ben Affleck’s drama-free life One thing you can count on from Ben Affleck: he is verbose. Which, for anyone who’s writing a profile on him, would probably be much appreciated. When Ben talks, he talks. He talks a LOT in his new GQ cover interview with Zach Baron and almost of all of By Lainey • Mar 26, 2025 10:57 am
BFFs Ben Affleck at SXSW: Matt Damon, Dancing, and Tom Cruise Inside the world premiere of The Accountant 2. What do Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise have in common? Commitment to the bit, and apparently, their love of challenging stunt work. Ben Affleck claims he spent “months and months” perfecting how to line dance for The Accountant 2, before joking “Tom By Joanna • Mar 10, 2025 02:33 pm
Faux Gossip Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner: Not Really But What If? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were photographed at paintball the other day and one brief moment from that occasion has turned into speculation about whether or not they might be getting back together. In my post about this yesterday I wrote that that moment, that shot of him as he By Lainey • Mar 06, 2025 10:34 am
