Ford v Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66) centres around American car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and driver Ken Miles (Christian Bale), who battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966. […]
Downsizing is all about miniaturising people to save the planet. If they’re smaller, they’ll use up less resources, and they can kiss goodbye to the alleged problem of man-made global warming. Since the individuals taking part would be reduced by a ratio of 2744:1, which we learn makes them 0.364% of his original size (although […]
Oceans 8 brings us back to a franchise I never watched in the first place, as Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City’s yearly Met Gala. She is Danny Ocean’s estranged sister, and her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew: Lou, Rose, Daphne Kluger, […]
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1 Comment »Downsizing follows kindly occupational therapist Paul Safranek (Matt Damon), who turns all of the ‘man-made global warming’ junk on its head by undergoing a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall, and 0.364% of his original size, so that he and his wife, Audrey (Kristen Wiig), can help ‘save the planet’ and afford […]
Suburbicon, so far, only has a brief premise about how a home invasion rattles a quiet family town, but this looks a hilarious and punchy (literally) comedy, led by Matt Damon as Gardner, whose wife has been bumped off and now he has to protect what’s left of his family. I loved every moment of […]
The Great Wall is situated around said landmark in China, with the tagline: 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? Well, some form of monsters, it seems. And now the second trailer has been released. Thanks to the directorial hand of Yimou Zhang (House of Flying Daggers), everyone […]
The Great Wall is situated around said landmark in China, with the tagline: 1700 years to build. 5500 miles long. What were they trying to keep out? Well, some form of monsters, it seems. Thanks to the directorial hand of Yimou Zhang (House of Flying Daggers), everyone flies about or jumps into oblivion and survives, […]
Jason Bourne is Matt Damon‘s titular hero who gave us ‘Die Hard in a Forgetful Man’s Head‘ in Robert Ludlum‘s Bourne Trilogy, beginning with Doug Liman‘s superb 2002 opener, The Bourne Identity which, even before I saw it, I had a vision in my head as to how it started based on what I’d heard… […]
Posted in Cinema films, Movies, Reviews Tags: Alicia Vikander, Ato Essandoh, Ben Smith, Ben Stylianou, Bill Camp, Christopher Rouse, David Buckley, Frank Marshall, Gregg Henry, Gregory Goodman, Jason Bourne, Jeffery M Weiner, John Powell, Julia Stiles, Kaya Yuzuki, Lizzie Phillips, Matt Damon, Matthew O'Neil, Riz Ahmed, Robert Ludlum, Scott Shepherd, Stephen Kunken, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassel, Vinzenz Kiefer, paul greengrass No Comments »Jason Bourne – yes, Matt Damon‘s portrayal of America’s worst-kept secret is back again for a fourth time in five films. I loved the first movie, The Bourne Identity, directed by Doug Liman, but then felt that Paul Greengrass made such a bog-standard pedestrian hash of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum. Tony Gilroy’s […]
The Martian is Matt Damon‘s character, Mark Watney, part of the six-strong Ares III mission, visiting the red planet to collect soil samples etc. Unfortunately, some planet seem to have worse weather than Greater Manchester (yes, I know, it’s a rarity) and the upshot is that Watney is marooned on Mars after being assumed dead. […]
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