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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.
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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,…
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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…