21 December
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THE TENDER BAR Director: George ClooneyStarring: Ben Affleck, Daniel Ranieri, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, Christopher Lloyd, Briana Middleton George Clooney takes a big 180 as a director from going into space last year with the ambitious The Midnight Sky to a Long Island pub for the true story The Tender Bar. It’s 1973, and a young JR and his mom are forced to move into his grandpa’s house after his father left the family for a job in radio. JR’s only connection to his father is hearing his voice on the radio. Grandpa’s house is a revolving door of cousins, laughter, and Uncle Charlie. UncleRead More →

20 December
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THE TENDER BAR Cast Interviews – Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Daniel Ranieri George Clooney’s latest project takes him behind the camera directing The Tender Bar based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer. I sat down with his cast Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, and Lily Rabe to talk about advice they’d give their younger selves, mentors, and George Clooney’s directing style. The film is in theaters December 22 and streaming on Amazon Prime January 7. It’s been an amazing year of interviews with some fun ones coming in 2022. You don’t want to miss any, so make sure to click SUBSCRIBERead More →

13 October
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THE LAST DUEL Director: Ridley ScottStarring: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck, Alex Lawther Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won Oscars together for writing Good Will Hunting. The writing duo is joined by Nicole Holofcener for the new film The Last Duel. It’s based on a true story from the medieval era in Paris 1386. Matt Damon’s character Jean de Carrouges is a self-assured knight not afraid of battle or claiming what he believes to be his. He loses out on a piece of land and believes his best friend and squire, Jacques de Gris (Driver) has something to do with it. HisRead More →

15 March
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ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE Director: Zack SnyderStarring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Mamoa, Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Jeremy Irons, Ciarán Hinds, Joe Manganiello, Willem Dafoe, J.K. Simmons, Jared Leto, Amber Heard, Joe Morton, Kiersey Clemons Director Zack Snyder kicked off the new DC Extended Universe with Man of Steel in 2013. His third film in the franchise Justice League came out in 2017 and left fans bewildered and confused. It didn’t feel like the Zack Snyder tone we’d seen so far given the rewrites and reshoots at the hands of director Joss Whedon who came in after Snyder left production due to aRead More →

11 March
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JAY & SILENT BOB REBOOT Director: Kevin SmithStarring: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Justin Long, Craig Robinson, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee In my opinion the phrase “fan service” is on over-used critique we’ve come to hear far too often for Marvel or Star Wars films. It usually comes with a negative connotation, but I think this phrase aptly applies and is a good thing for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot. Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith are back as our titular characters whom we first met 25 years ago in Smith’s black and white film Clerks. Jay and Silent Bob find out that the comic book charactersRead More →

05 March
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THE WAY BACK Director: Gavin O’ConnorStarring: Ben Affleck, Michaela Watkins, Janina Gavankar, Al Madrigal Ben Affleck is back and proves his strengths as an actor. He plays Jack Cunningham who was once an all-star basketball player in school, but adulthood took him down a different path. He’s now an alcoholic and separated from his wife. He gets the opportunity to coach basketball at his alma matter, a Catholic high school with a losing team. They are scrappy underdogs, and Jack may be their best bet at actually winning a game, let alone the playoffs. Coaching may give Jack the drive to put the bottle downRead More →

16 November
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JUSTICE LEAGUE Director: Zach Snyder Starring: Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J.K. Simmons, Ciarán Hinds, Joe Morton DC Comics continues to crank out movies in their superhero universe in hopes of veering the franchise in the right direction. Earlier this year we saw the release of Wonder Woman, which came as a sigh of relief for many fans and was the first big success for DC’s Extended Universe. Like the old saying goes, one step forward and two steps back for DC with Justice League. That’s not to say it’s terrible. IRead More →

12 January
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LIVE BY NIGHT Director: Ben Affleck Starring: Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Zoe Saldana, Elle Fanning, Chris Cooper, Robert Glenister, Sienna Miller, Titus Welliver, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson Author Dennis Lehane has had many of his novels grace the big screen like Mystic River, Shutter Island, and the Ben Affleck-directed Gone Baby Gone. The Affleck/Lehane collaboration continues with Live By Night, which is set in the Prohibition Era. As we hear in the opening narration, Joe Coughlin (Affleck) left Boston to become a soldier and came home an outlaw. He’s lived the bank robber life for ten years until it catches up with him. Two differentRead More →

13 October
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THE ACCOUNTANT Director: Gavin O’Connor Starring: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey Tambor, John Lithgow, Jean Smart, Cynthia Addai-Robinson Ben Affleck is no stranger to the action genre. He’s currently in between Batman projects so he still has the body to take anybody down that gets in his path. The Accountant is slightly different than some of his other genre films. When Christian Wolff was a kid, he showed signs attributed to autism. He was a genius with numbers and had OCD type behavior. It was a time when kids didn’t live in a sensory-friendly world. Even his dad refused to acknowledgeRead More →

24 March
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BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE Director: Zach Snyder Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Fishburne, Scoot McNairy, Holly Hunter It feels like we’ve been seeing trailers and teases for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for at least a year now. Well the time has finally come to see the two legendary DC Comics superheroes face one another for the ultimate showdown. Ben Affleck steps in as the latest actor to don the cape and cowl. His Bruce Wayne arrives in Metropolis as it’s currently under attack from General Zod. It’s the same sequence that endedRead More →