To start at the end, it is the final irony that James Mangold’s new film is titled “Ford V Ferrari” and not “Shelby and Miles V Ford.” This is a movie—a wonderful movie—which is so much less about Ford going… Read More ›
Matt Damon
“Saving Private Ryan”: Beautiful and Horrible all at Once
Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” is out today in a 20th anniversary edition and that makes it the perfect time to talk about the movie once more. It is, in this reviewer’s eyes, a work of genius. It is gripping… Read More ›
Is There an Upside to “Downsizing?”
Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing” arrives on Blu-ray this week and with that arrival we have some important questions to ask. Chief amongst these is why exactly does the film take a sharp turn to the bad after it starts off so… Read More ›
Movie Review: “Downsizing”
There is a genius of an idea within “Downsizing,” the new movie from Alexander Payne (“Sideways,” “The Descendants”), which he directs and wrote with Jim Taylor. Starring Matt Damon and Hong Chau, this is the tale of people who have… Read More ›
Movie Review: "The Great Wall" (2017)
Matt Damon leads the cast in Zhang Yimou’s Chinese fantasy film, “The Great Wall,” which is opening in theaters this week. And, if it seems like an odd choice to have Damon lead a cast in a movie about monsters… Read More ›
Movie Review: "Jason Bourne"
Imagine, if you will, our hero, a superspy who just wants to learn the truth. He doesn’t know all of his own history and every time he learns something new, the world around him crumbles just a little bit more…. Read More ›
"The Martian" has Landed… or Will Soon
Some movies just amaze you, they blow you away. It doesn’t really matter if you’ve seen something else kind of, sort of, almost like them before, they just make it work. Case in point, Matt Damon’s “The Martian.” Or, maybe,… Read More ›
