Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck’s All-Star Cast Ben Affleck continued work on his Nike movie with Matt Damon this week. Ben and Matt worked on the script and are co-producing, Ben is also directing, and the cast includes Viola Davis too so there are three Oscar winners in this movie which will come up in the By Lainey • Jun 30, 2022 12:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt, Ben, and JLo It was announced earlier this year that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are reuniting onscreen for a film about how Nike signed Michael Jordan, a partnership that would result in sneaker culture as we know it now. Sneaker culture is also fashion culture, as you cannot separate the influence of By Lainey • Jun 08, 2022 01:27 pm
Top Reads Matt Damon and the crash If you haven’t heard, cryptocurrency is crashing. Smarter people than I can explain it—and do here, here, and here—but suffice it to say, the bubble burst and billions in value have been wiped out. As per usual, it’s not the billionaires suffering—oh no, they’re By Sarah • May 13, 2022 09:52 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Oppenheimer dudes Christopher Nolan’s next film, Oppenheimer, is currently filming in Los Angeles. Cillian Murphy and his near-translucent stare rings the bell for some of y’all, so here he is on set yesterday, along with Matt Damon and Dane DeHaan in period World War II-era garb. To refresh, By Sarah • Apr 22, 2022 09:39 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s shoe movie Coming off The Last Duel, which reunited Ben Affleck and Matt Damon not only as co-stars but also as co-writers (along with Nicole Holofcener), Affleck and Damon are working together once again, this time on a movie about Nike executive Sonny Vaccaro, the man who built the indelible By Sarah • Apr 20, 2022 11:42 am
Cringe A Bennifer Valentine for Everyone Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were at the Super Bowl last night which she’d already talked about on Live with Kelly and Ryan last week. Every private box last night was seemingly stacked with celebrities and the box Bennifer was in was no exception. You can see Cardi and By Lainey • Feb 14, 2022 09:51 am
Top Reads Matt Damon and the Hack Matt and Luciana Damon stepped out for lunch yesterday in LA. In terms of his work as an actor, it’s been a few months since Matt was on set, but production on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the “father of the atomic bomb”, is supposed to start in February. By Lainey • Jan 21, 2022 11:08 am
BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon chew the fat Ben Affleck is still on the combined promotional trail for The Tender Bar and campaign trail for that movie and/or The Last Duel, neither of which have serious hopes of major awards nominations. He follows his LA Times interview with a new Entertainment Weekly cover story, with an interview By Sarah • Jan 12, 2022 12:21 pm
Gossip Nostalgia Ocean’s 11 at 20 Heist movies never go out of style because people LOVE heists. And in 2001, Ocean’s 11 combined everyone’s natural interest in heists with superstar glamor in a moment shadowed by tragedy—Ocean’s 11 premiered three months after September 11th—but not yet touched by post-recession distaste By Sarah • Dec 07, 2021 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews RDJ’s next act Robert Downey, Jr. is in his post-Marvel reinvention phase, and if we ignore Dolittle, which we should, then his most significant post-Avengers project is Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie about Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy is already on board to By Sarah • Nov 03, 2021 10:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Comer, Damon, and Affleck in The Last Duel With an understanding that a film that depicts sexual assault on screen not once but twice simply will not appeal to everyone, I say that The Last Duel is one of my favorite films of the year so far. Is it perfect? No. Is it a hard watch? At times, By Sarah • Oct 15, 2021 02:32 pm
Relationship Assumption Bennifer: Weekends with You Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been shooting on location recently – he’s been in Austin and she’s filming in Vancouver – so they’re apart during the week and, for the last few weeks, they’ve been reuniting on weekends. For two weeks in a row, their reunions have By Lainey • Oct 12, 2021 11:46 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Ben and JLo Premiere Themselves I hope you were watching the livestream. Not that these pictures aren’t dynamite – they’re really, really, really f-cking amazing. But the livestream …well… seeing it in motion is something else. This is what Bennifer Summer has been building towards: at the Venice Film Festival premiere of The By Lainey • Sep 10, 2021 04:21 pm
Gorgessity Matt, Ben, and Jodie…Before Bennifer On Fridays, I generally like to wrap up the site by 1pm ET. Our site manager usually gets the last post in about an hour to 90 minutes after that. Today we may have to push that back. Because … Bennifer. The Last Duel world premiere is happening tonight in Venice, By Lainey • Sep 10, 2021 09:55 am
BFFs Bennifer Gossip-tocin and Matt Damon Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s birthday European yacht cruise ended over a week ago, with the two of them leaving separately as Ben went off to Paris to meet up with his daughter Violet and JLo returned to LA a few days later. They were not seen together publicly By Lainey • Aug 09, 2021 12:45 pm
Amazingness Bennifer Summer: A Frenzy in Capri After a few days in St Tropez, the Bennifer Summer tour has touched down in Capri! Here they are, walking through town, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, hand in hand, JLo in all white to show off that glow, that skin, and Ben in a fitted shirt, as fit as By Lainey • Jul 28, 2021 12:19 pm
