Returning to the director's chair for the first time in seven years, following 2016's Live by Night, Ben Affleck's latest feature is immersed in the world of s...
It's been six years since Ben Affleck last stepped behind the camera––in the interim giving some career acting highlights in The Way Back, The Last Duel, and D...
The tale of Deep Water’s production and release could have easily overshadowed the film itself. Marking the return of Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, 9 ½ Weeks)...
Judging by The Last Duel, 14th-century France was as gray and miserable as you’d expect. And yes, this is a long, talky, literary, extremely dour film, basical...
Four years after All the Money in the World—two lifetimes by his current production rate—Ridley Scott has two coming down the pike this fall. One seems to be a...
Ben Affleck is traveling back to the '70s for his next directorial feature, specifically looking at the making of a Hollywood classic. He's set to adapt The Bi...
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made...
It’s a small detail, the way Ben Affleck opens a can of beer, but it’s impossible to ignore. Before he sets one down on a table, he pops the top using just his...
There are myriad reasons why a film can fall far short of its ambitions. A lack of funds to truly achieve a vision, an unpolished script forced into production...
Following their unexpected hit The Accountant, director Gavin O’Connor and star Ben Affleck have reteamed for the sports-meets-redemption drama The Way Back...