For most people, $20 million is a life-changing amount of money. If offered even a fraction, who would say no? That question becomes a major moral dilemma in the first official trailer forThe Rip, the upcoming Netflix film in which Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play Miami Police Department officers …
Read More »Watch Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel Reignite Their Feud on 'Millionaire'
Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel, who have been publicly sparring since 2005, brought their ongoing feud to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire last night. Kimmel currently hosts and executive produces the ABC game show, which premiered its fourth season last week. Damon appeared on the latest episode as a …
Read More »'The Instigators': Movie Stars Plus Boston, Divided by Gunshots and Laughs
Perhaps you’ve heard that Matt Damon is from the beautiful city of Boston. True story! So are his friends and professional colleagues the Affleck brothers — Casey and the other guy — and they seem to like to going back and filming in their hometown whenever possible. Watch these guys …
Read More »'SNL' Monologue: Kristen Wiig Gets Her 'Five-Timers' Jacket from Ryan Gosling
Former SNL cast member Kristen Wiig joined the show’s “five-timers club” on Saturday, with her monologue featuring appearances by a number of other former hosts, some of whom haven’t had that gig five times but wore jackets of their own nonetheless. Wiig, whose most recent Saturday Night Live appearance was …
Read More »Johnny Flynn on Playing Dickie Greenleaf, Learning Italian, and Dying on Camera in 'Ripley'
Johnny Flynn was murdered within a week of stepping onto the set of Ripley. The British actor plays Dickie Greenleaf in the eight-episode Netflix adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley and while he knew the character would meet an untimely demise in the story, he wasn’t …
Read More »'Drive-Away Dolls': Ethan Coen's Queer Buddy Comedy Is a Car-Wreck
A road trip. A mix-up. A fast-talking hero, prone to tossing off bewilderingly verbose sentences. Some criminals who run the gamut from eccentric to psychotic to painfully inept. (Sometimes, they’re all three at once.) Dangerously sudden violence. Dangerously dark humor. Dangerously outrageous hairdos. The feeling that you’re watching a vintage …
Read More »Ben Affleck Fronts Dunkin's Coffee-Loving Boy Band the DunKings, Now Streaming on Spotify
The Boy band drought is finally over. With BTS on hiatus, NSYNC’s reunion only being a ploy for Justin Timberlake’s solo comeback, and One Direction being on an 18-month break for the last six years, the lane has been left wide open — and Ben Affleck is here to fill …
Read More »Super Bowl: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, J.Lo, Tom Brady Star in Cringe Dunkin Donuts Ad
Dunkin Donuts aired a star-studded commercial during the Super Bowl on Sunday, which obviously means Ben Affleck graced our television screens. In the ad, Jennifer Lopez is recording in the studio with her bedazzled, reusable Dunkin Donuts. In the opening scene, Affleck is sitting in a car with Jack Harlow …
Read More »Y2K Mania: When People Thought the World Was Going to End
There was actually a time when we didn’t need social media to drum up mass hysteria, and the new HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K is ready and raring to take us back there. This superbly edited dash through pre-millennial anxieties is a time capsule of archive footage — no narrator, …
Read More »'Barbenheimer' Asks: Who Ruin the World? Men.
This weekend, legions of movie lovers will descend upon theaters, popcorn in hand and catheter in place, girding themselves for the single most unlikely double feature ever conceived by the internet. When it was announced that Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget, bigger-canvas biopic about the man dubbed “the father of the …
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