Matt Damon

News, Reviews & Features

Review: Le Mans '66 is great Oscar fuel. It has real drive. It's wheelie- ok I'll stop

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 15th November 2019

Iâ€™ve come to realise recently that I donâ€™t like car chases. Sure, some are ok, like when theyâ€™re used to actually tell a story, as in, say The Italian Job, or when they involve big stunts, like when a fast and/or furious launches Vin Diesel at a Godzilla or whatever. On the whole though, they just seem like endless pedal-pushing and an ever-increasing number of gear shifts designed, I imagine, to provide lusty material for those that just really get cars. I am not one of these people, so you can forgive me for going into Le Mans â€˜66 having previously prepared to pretend that the whole film is just about Bruce Wayne test-driving a new Batmobile.

Read full article »
LFF 2017: Downsizing

Movie Review | Matt Looker | 18th October 2017

You would think that a film about shrinking people down to miniature size would primarily be about doll houses and hilariously oversized pencils â€“ and there is a lot of that here â€“ but mostly Alexander Payneâ€™s new 'short' film is concerned with socio-political issues and climate change. Itâ€™s a film that says you should be doing more for your fellow man and for the environment. Basically, it has the power to make you feel very small indeed.

Read full article »
Fixed the new Jason Bourne poster

Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 17th June 2016

The poster designers seem to have forgotten to put any text on Matt Damon's face for once. You're welcome, you guys!

Read full article »
The Monuments Men

Movie Review | Rob Young | 21st February 2014

Last summer I remember reading about George Clooney and Matt Damon playing basketball at a Cambridge council-run gym. They posed for photos, were called 'lovely people' by the manager and basically had a cracking time in south Cambridgeshire. And while in my neck of the woods, they shot scenes for The Monuments Men at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford: a joyful place I was often taken as a child by an over-eager father keen on Spitfires, but less keen on buying me an Airfix model of one.

Read full article »
Elysium

Movie Review | Neil | 9th August 2013

There is a point in Elysium when Matt Damon's character Max DeCosta suffers a massive dose of radiation in an accident in his workplace. At that moment the film looks like it could go one of two ways: either it's a lengthy commercial for a "no win, no fee" claims handler (don't do it Max, go to Citizens Advice), or it's a superhero origin story, and Damon is about to slip into some lycra and kill people with his granite-hard man boobs. You'll be unsurprised to read that Elysium is in fact neither, which is great for those of us who hate those ads, but less good for anyone who was hoping for MaxMan: Tits Of Thunder.

Read full article »
Advertise with us!
Homer's tip to solve the 'Matt Damon problem' in the next Bourne movie

Movie News | Ali | 8th August 2013

With a fifth Bourne movie now official and Matt Damon still no closer to returning to the role of Bourne, Jeremy Renner is going to be asking this question a lot. (Source: Den of Geek)

Read full article »
Behind The Candelabra

Movie Review | Neil | 4th June 2013

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful", claims Michael Douglas as Liberace in this bling-soaked biopic, and while recent developments suggest that he might want to qualify that statement by suggesting one at least goes easy on the knicker bacon sandwiches, he could still very well be referring to his own performance. His performance in the film, I mean, not between the folds of Catherine Zeta Jones' funflaps. Honestly, you people.

Read full article »
Taking a literal approach to the Behind The Candelabra poster

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 24th April 2013

WARNING: no gay jokes within.

Read full article »
How to make Elysium appeal to the under 12s

Movie Feature | Ali | 11th April 2013

Move mouse over image to maximise box office

It's the ultimate buddy movie! He's a man with machine parts, his partner is a robot... who just wants to be human! Directed by Shawn Levy!

Read full article »
Well, the first trailer for Elysium looks POWERFULLY XTREME

Movie Trailer | Luke | 10th April 2013

Jokes. Seriously though, it looks chuffing great, even if it doesn't feature a dog and an orangutan in space.

Read full article »

Support Us

We are now using Patreon to cover some of our hosting fees. So if you like our brand of "content" and would like to see us do more, please consider chucking a few digital pennies our way by clicking on the link below. Thanks!