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Posts Tagged "Ben Affleck"

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Reindeer Games [Deception] *** (2000, Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron ) – Classic Movie Review 547

A well-cast Ben Affleck pleases as an ex-con car thief who impersonates his murdered cellmate (James Frain) to meet the man’s jail penfriend (Charlize Theron), who’s waiting at the prison gates. Affleck is then drawn […]

Dec, 19

Daredevil **** (2003, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau) – Classic Movie Review 546

In 2003’s superhero comic-book action thriller written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, Ben Affleck looks suitably heroic if admittedly a bit shifty in a red leather suit as the Stan Lee screen superhero Daredevil […]

Dec, 19

Surviving Christmas ** (2004, Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara, Christina Applegate) – Classic Movie Review 4681

Ben Affleck stars as rich but lonely and obnoxious young Chicago ad executive Drew Latham, who hires a family to spend the holidays with. They are the wacky Valco family, Tom, Alicia, Christine and Brian (played […]

Dec, 19

Gigli (2003, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha) – So Bad It’s Good Movie 3

OK, look, everyone has bad days. But if you’re a huge movie star, everyone else gets to know about it. Made at the height of the wildly overheated international publicity over the romance of its […]

Nov, 18

Dogma **** (1999, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Kevin Smith) – Classic Movie Review 393

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck star as renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven, thus undoing the fabric of the universe, in the brilliant 1999 comedy film Dogma.  Matt Damon and Ben […]

Nov, 11

School Ties **** (1992, Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O’Donnell, Ben Affleck, Randall Batinkoff, Ed Lauter, Peter Donat, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Film Review 384

The involving, polished 1992 American drama film School Ties is notable for providing some of the first cinema lead roles for Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Cole Hauser. Dick Wolf and Darryl Poniscan […]

Nov, 10

Boiler Room **** (2000, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Ron Rifkin, Ben Affleck, Scott Caan) – Classic Movie Review 296

‘Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn’t have any.’ – Jim Young. Writer-director Ben Younger’s 2000 incisive and timely condemnation of the get-rich-quick, tread-on-anybody yuppie lifestyle Boiler Room has its […]

Oct, 18

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