Tag: Ben Affleck
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TailSlate’s Top Ten Directorial Debuts (by actors)
TailSlate has been a fan of Greta Gerwig for a very long time, both as an actress and a writer. Now her directorial debut film, Lady Bird is in theaters. So TailSlate decided to take a look at what we consider our top ten directorial debut films from people who were actors before sitting in…
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Ben Affleck’s ‘Live by Night’ dies long before the break of dawn
“You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.” – Robert De Niro as Al Capone in The Untouchables Live by Night is based on an award-winning novel by Dennis Lahane. Ben Affleck adapted that novel for the big screen and he is an Academy…
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‘The Accountant’ Adds Up Nicely
“There’s no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting” – David Letterman The good news is that the audience doesn’t need to know a lot about accounting to enjoy The Accountant, starring Ben Affleck as “Christian Wolff” who appears to be a small-town CPA who has an office in a small…
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‘Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice’ is strong on visuals, weak on story
There is much to like about Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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Tom Clancy, master of the techno-thriller, dead at 66
Prolific author of “The Hunt for Red October” and a number of other books has died in Baltimore.
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The 85th Oscars are in the books and there were a few surprises
Seth MacFarlane did a good job in his first stint as Oscar hope, although some will object to the closing musical number.
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Ben Affleck’s ‘Argo’ is filmmaking at its finest
This tense thriller builds on Ben Affleck’s most recent films to continue to cement his reputation as a director of high quality movies
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‘Argo’ fosters Hollywood’s racism by casting Ben Affleck as Latino
This is a film based on real people and real events, so why is it that its main character – who was in real life a Latino – being played by a white actor?