Movie Reviews and Previews The Martian is a contender So many films did not meet critical and box office expectations this season. The Martian, however, delivered. You might say it over-delivered. Three months ago, no one was calling it an Oscar frontrunner. Now? The Martian is Ridley Scott’s most well-reviewed film. And it’s on track By Lainey • Nov 09, 2015 02:05 pm
Girlcrushes Effie Brown and Matt Damon are not super best friends The last time we talked about Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s HBO revival of Project Greenlight, it was about #mattsplaining and Damon’s dumb remarks about diversity hiring on a film set, which he directed at Effie Brown, an African-American producer. Now, as the show heads toward its By Sarah • Oct 14, 2015 01:09 pm
BFFs Matt’s big weekend The Martian won the box office this weekend with a $55 million debut on strong reviews, reaffirming Matt Damon’s movie star power and popularity and lifting the Mars curse. The numbers also improve The Martian’s Oscar chances at being included among the 10 possible Best Picture candidates, just By Lainey • Oct 05, 2015 10:41 am
BFFs Matt feels Ben’s pain The Martian comes out tomorrow. Variety reports that it’s been outselling Gravity in advance tickets. Some are projecting an opening weekend box office in the low $40s and others are thinking it might go all the way into the $50s. Oh and NASA told us they found water or By Lainey • Oct 01, 2015 11:16 am
Dumbass Matt Damon’s career in 8 minutes Matt Damon was on The Late Late Show with James Corden last night acting out his career in 8 minutes. They opened with Good Will Hunting which, I mean, I understand, you want to open strong. But I would have moved Bourne up to the top and maybe ended with By Lainey • Sep 30, 2015 11:16 am
Style The Martian & James McAvoy The cast of The Martian, led by Matt Damon, was in London tonight for the UK premiere. So far the reviews for The Martian have been quite strong. Sarah saw it at TIFF and liked it a lot and Sarah’s hard to please. But when I saw her after By Lainey • Sep 24, 2015 05:22 pm
Dumbass Matt Damon opens mouth, world face palms Matt Damon and Ben Affleck used to have a show called Project Greenlight, in which they and a panel of filmmakers chose a script and a director and set them loose with a small budget to make a movie. It aired three seasons on Bravo from 2001-2005, and the By Sarah • Sep 15, 2015 08:04 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Martian The last time I outright enjoyed a Ridley Scott movie, no reservations, no qualifications or conditions, was American Gangster in 2007. Since then he’s given us Grimdark Robin Hood, the space-magic bullsh*t of Prometheus, and the super messy but ambitious The Counselor, plus some other stuff no By Sarah • Sep 14, 2015 09:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Matt’s in town The Martian premieres tonight at TIFF. Sarah saw it today but she’s got four films on her schedule so her review for it will be posted on Monday. Her review for Jake Gyllenhaal’s Demolition is coming up soon. Ahead of the gala, Matt Damon and the cast of By Lainey • Sep 11, 2015 03:04 pm
BFFs Matt Damon is alone in The Martian A new trailer for The Martian has just been released. Normally I’m not big on space movies, like Gravity. Because all that open …space-ness? Scares the sh-t out of me. But then again, I can’t “science the sh-t” out of anything so being helpless and By Lainey • Aug 19, 2015 10:10 am
TV Updates Matt Damon: Ben Affleck’s constant We’ll start here – which is what was supposed to be the only news story about Ben Affleck last night and today, and for a change, a good news story. The premiere of Project Greenlight season 4, The Leisure Class for HBO, a project that Ben and his bff, Matt By Lainey • Aug 11, 2015 09:52 am
Media Manipulation Now this is how you tease a movie with Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain Yesterday I expressed annoyance with Zoolander 2 for wasting everyone’s time (and Paramount’s money) with a teaser trailer that was nothing. If you can’t illuminate some aspect of the film itself, don’t bother—wait until you actually have something to say about your movie before opening By Sarah • Aug 05, 2015 11:30 am
Matt Damon Matt Damon’s ponytail…and Andy Lau! My head is exploding right now. Not because Matt Damon has a ponytail (although that’s some impressively thick hair, non?). But because Matt Damon and Andy Lau are shooting a movie together. Matt Damon and Andy Lau are at a press conference together. Matt Damon and Andy Lau are By Lainey • Jul 02, 2015 11:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Martian: Also NOPE I called Everest a big bag of NOPE after watching the first trailer, and after sitting through Fox’s three minute-plus first trailer for The Martian, I am adding this movie to the NOPE bag, too. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian is based on Andy Weir’s novel By Sarah • Jun 08, 2015 12:49 pm
BFFs Matt Damon’s Super Bowl weekend You know anyone who doesn’t like Matt Damon? Everybody likes Matt Damon, right? Almost everybody has their detractors. But you never really hear anyone go off about how they can’t stand Matt Damon. Matt Damon and Adele. Here’s Matt Damon with wife Luciana at the ACE Awards By Lainey • Feb 02, 2015 01:01 pm
Amazingness Boston celebrities talk about Tom Brady’s balls Deflategate, in which the New England Patriots are accused of deflating footballs because OH MY GOD WHO CARES. It’s the stupidest sports controversy in recent memory and I’m pretty sure it’s only a thing because there is no other interesting narrative around this Super Bowl. But it By Sarah • Jan 30, 2015 01:03 pm
