BFFs Project Casey Manchester By The Sea came out of festival season strong, with outstanding reviews and predictions for Oscar. Most award season experts still agree that Manchester will be nominated for several awards, including Best Picture, but I feel like in the last few weeks, people haven’t been talking about it By Lainey • Nov 15, 2016 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey & Floriana Casey Affleck was seen with a new girlfriend at the beach and out for coffee in LA a few days ago and he stepped out with her again, arm in arm, yesterday in Malibu, well aware that the paps were on them. She is Floriana Lima, an actress who joined By Lainey • Oct 21, 2016 12:50 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck won’t be stopped Casey Affleck is the clear frontrunner for Best Actor this year, for Manchester by the Sea, and though Michael Keaton and Denzel Washington will have something to say about it, it’s such a weak year in that category that, even this early, it’s Affleck’s Oscar to lose. By Sarah • Oct 19, 2016 10:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Dev & Nicole build momentum Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman were in London last night in support of Lion. No one was really talking about Lion before TIFF. At TIFF is where it really made a move as a contender, possibly Harvey Weinstein’s only Oscar contender of the season. As Joanna noted when she By Lainey • Oct 13, 2016 03:46 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Manchester by the Sea deserves the hype Manchester by the Sea is Kenneth Lonergan’s third film, and his strongest result yet. The story centers on Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck), a custodian in Boston who learns of his brother’s death and goes home to the fishing village of Manchester by the Sea to settle his brother’ By Sarah • Sep 14, 2016 10:31 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF 2016: The Tiffening TIFF kicks off this week, and I’ll be filing reviews along with Joanna and Kathleen. It’s a little bit of a weird year, The Birth of a Nation and Nate Parker dominating so much of the pre-festival conversation, but Venice got underway last week, and Telluride went down By Sarah • Sep 06, 2016 01:51 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Manchester by the Sea is the new Oscar favorite At Sundance, the Kenneth Lonergan movie starring Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea, closed a big $10 million deal. Between the big sale and buzz coming from the festival, it felt like a sure bet for Oscar, and that Casey might finally step out of big brother Ben’s shadow. By Sarah • Aug 25, 2016 11:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF 2016: The Return Yesterday the Toronto International Film Festival announced the first slate of films that will screen during the festival, from September 8-18. This is only the first wave of titles, and TIFF 2016 is already a doozy. I don’t even know where to begin sorting out the schedule. I guess By Sarah • Jul 27, 2016 10:53 am
BFFs Matt and Ben… and Casey? Matt Damon is in the middle of his worldwide Jason Bourne promo tour and with that comes a stop on Reddit. He’s done an AMA (Ask Me Anything) before for The Monument’s Men, and gave pretty thorough answers then too. Except, this time around, Matt’s doing more By Joanna • Jul 20, 2016 10:41 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, March 3, 2016 Casey Affleck needs a nap. Even #CaseyAffleck loves @thehilhavenlodge but he doesn't drink it... It smells so good he uses it as his new cologne! A photo posted by brett ratner (@brettrat) onMar 2, 2016 at 8:36pm PST The Nina Simone biopic is not going well for By Maria • Mar 03, 2016 04:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Casey Affleck and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Gritty Cop Drama Boasting an impressive cast that includes Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie, Woody Harrelson, and Kate Winslet, Gritty Cop Drama is exactly the kind of gritty cop drama you get sucked into watching on cable on a Saturday afternoon. It’s got just enough going on under the By Sarah • Feb 26, 2016 02:00 pm
Douchebags Casey Affleck went Joaquin Phoenix on Stephen Colbert I texted Lainey the other night after seeing Casey Affleck’s new movie, Triple 9, that I think he might have A Moment coming. She agreed, but then he went on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to promote the movie and had an awkward interview, and she was like, maybe By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 09:29 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Chris Pine and Casey Affleck in The Finest Hours The second maritime disaster movie in as many months, following December’s In the Heart of the Sea, The Finest Hours, like that other movie, did not have a terribly impressive opening weekend. That’s consistent with Sea, suggesting that people don’t really have an appetite for boat movies By Sarah • Feb 04, 2016 01:16 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Step aside, Ben, it’s Casey’s turn It is my opinion that between the Affleck brothers, Casey is the better all-around actor. He can do character work, he can carry as a lead, he can disappear into roles or look sufficiently Hollywood, depending on how “visible” you want your star to be. Ben Affleck has proven to By Sarah • Jan 25, 2016 03:24 pm
BFFs Photo Assumption the Affleck-Phoenixes At the PETA Gala on Saturday night – Joaquin Phoenix showed up clean-shaven and lean, like Johnny Cash lean, hand in hand with his sister Rain, all smiles and even, almost, jovial with photographers. Photo Assumption says someone is actually trying (hard) to be liked again and, while we’re at By Lainey • Sep 27, 2010 05:23 am
Douchebags Casey settles Casey Affleck settled out of court with the two women who claimed he sexually harassed them on the set of I’m Still Here. They were originally each trying to get about $2 million out of him. The terms of the deal have not been made public but the matter By Lainey • Sep 15, 2010 10:11 am
