In an alternate present, the world is suffering from overpopulation, impending climate doom, and other man-made disasters including depletion of the earth’s resources. A scientist comes up with a solution that at least may slow the disaster down: Humans are taking up too much space, consuming too much, and creating so much waste. Why not …
Revisiting a popular character like Jason Bourne is tantalizing. It’s been 9 years since we’ve seen the man without a memory, the man without a past; a trained assassin who can kill people with his bare hands. What has Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) been up to in all that time? Apparently eating sacks of meat …
I will fully admit that I had to close my eyes several times during The Bourne Ultimatum. Not because of graphic violence. Not because I feared I’d be unable to control myself in the face of Matt Damon’s rugged handsomeness. Not even because I reasoned that, if Julia Stiles was going to be rendered mute, …
As for the movie itself… The plot is a fairly thin one, but one that provides a nice thread onto which the filmmakers pile heaps and heaps and HEAPS of action. The movie is essentially one, super-extended, multi-location chase sequence. The last time we saw covert agent and sometime assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) he …
A man (Matt Damon) gets fished out of the stormy Mediterranean off the coast of France, with two bullets lodged in his back and his memory a blank slate. Oh yeah, when the fishermen pick the slugs out of him, they also find under his skin a little laser light (like the kind that my …
If you ever thought that after high school there was no practical use for algebra, like EVER… well, just be glad that you aren’t stuck on Mars without a ride home! Matt Damon, aka astronaut Mark Watney, is in just such a situation. And he is a BOTANIST, fer cryin’ out loud. I’ll bet he …
Clint Eastwood, as a director, is certainly in his prime. In his 80s, he is extremely prolific, and is producing dramas, one after another that range from solid (Hereafter, Invictus) to outstanding (Changeling, Gran Torino). How many directors of any age can boast such a resume? Hereafter, I kept thinking, felt like a European style …
Unapologetically sweet and sappy, and the epitome of a feel-good movie for the holidays, director Cameron Crowe’s dramedy is predictable, obvious… and totally made my heart feel all warm and fuzzy. I don’t care. I love these kinds of films. Based on a true story, the film centers on widower Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon), who …
Set roughly 140 years in the future, the film finds the Earth ravaged by pollution and overpopulation, resulting in the über-rich fleeing to the idyllic titular space station where the air is clean, the grass is green, technology has rendered disease nonexistent and the swarthy, unwashed masses – including factory worker Max (Matt Damon) – …