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Tag: Matt Damon

  • MLK Pic To Star Matt Damon

    The day after the Oscars, Sony Pictures announced it has greenlighted the long-awaited biopic of Martin Luther King.

  • One of The Year’s Best Movies Isn’t In Your Local Theatre

    It’s not on TV, either. It’s on HBO. The movie is Behind the Candelabra, the story of the rocky 6-year relationship between Liberace and his young lover, Scott Thorson. Michael Douglas is incredible as the caped crusader, as is Matt Damon playing his prudish (by Liberace’s standards) boyfriend. Steven Soderbergh directed this perfect jeweled biopic,…

  • Scarier Than Any Aliens

    Contagion is a very frightening movie. Steven Soderbergh film of a Scott Z. Burns screenplay has a galaxy of stars–– Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Bryan Cranston and Kate Winslet–– without any big special effects or CGI aliens, monsters or exploding cities. Yet, the film is gripping and terrifying because the simple…

  • Fungo Bats, Driving Ranges & True Grit

    In baseball and softball practice, coaches often use a fungo bat to hit balls. The thin bat allows coaches to hit easily with accuracy. In golf, players groove their swings at driving ranges. They can practice different stances, grips, swings and curse words. And in movies, I feel like Joel and Ethan Coen have grooved…