Matt Damon

Ben Affleck Sets Return to Directing, Reuniting with Matt Damon for Nike & Michael Jordan Drama

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 Last Duel Review: Ridley Scott Delivers a Patient, Dour, and Respectable Morality Play

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...

Stillwater Review: Matt Damon Brings Nuance to Tom McCarthy’s Fish Out of Water Tale

Is it possible to stand out and disappear at the same time? Matt Damon makes a convincing case study in Stillwater. As roughneck Bill Baker, he wears the signi...

Adam Driver, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck Settle Scores in Trailer for Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel

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...

Matt Damon Strives to Exonerate His Daughter in First Trailer for Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater

Following his Best Picture-winning Spotlight, Tom McCarthy has had a curious career, directing a few episodes of 13 Reasons Why and the family film Timmy Failu...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 373 – Ford v Ferrari

Vroom vroom....

The B-Side – Matt Damon

From his Oscar-laden breakout film Good Will Hunting to the upcoming Ford v Ferrari, the Boston-born filmmaker has made many hit movies, and twice as many that were underseen....

Lady Gaga to Lead Ridley Scott’s Gucci Family Drama

Update: MGM has picked up the film, beating out Netflix, and set it for a November 24, 2021 release, THR reports. After a streak of productivity like few other...

Matt Damon and Christian Bale Rev Up in New Trailer for James Mangold’s ‘Ford v Ferrari’

Following a successful bow at Telluride and Toronto, Fox and Disney have released a new trailer for James Mangold's Logan follow-up Ford v Ferrari. Set duri...

TIFF Review: ‘Ford v Ferrari’ is Supremely Entertaining, Even if it Doesn’t Break New Ground

James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari is, in a word, sturdy. It’s the kind of airtight drama that could never be called groundbreaking or even original. But it offers ...

News

First Look at Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu Brings Murnau to the Modern Age

Watch an Exclusive Clip from The Gods of Times Square, Presented by Josh Safdie

Watch: Martin Scorsese & Steven Spielberg Discuss Killers of the Flower Moon, Complicity, and the End of the Western

Trailers

U.S. Trailer for Germany’s Oscar Entry The Teachers’ Lounge

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Trailer: Aardman Animations’ Long-Awaited Sequel Arrives in December

Tótem Trailer: Mexico’s Oscar Entry Charts a World of Emotions in One Day

Reviews

Thessaloniki Review: Camping du Lac is a Bewitching Ode to Stories and Storytellers

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain Review: Laughs Wear Thin in Tired Adventure

DOC NYC Review: Liv Ullmann: A Road Less Travelled Examines a Legend’s Self-Doubt

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Film Fest Knox Introduces New Ways of Seeing in Inaugural Edition

The Film Stage’s 2023 Holiday Gift Guide

Interviews

Alma Pöysti on the Soft Smiles and Sad Songs of Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves

Hirokazu Kore-eda on Why Monster is Not Like Rashomon, Queer Storytelling, and Ryuichi Sakamoto

Frederick Wiseman on the Artistry of Cooking and Creating Echoes of His Work

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 520 – The Killer (with Noah Gittell)

The B-Side – Vietnam War Movies (with Brian Raftery)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 519 – Priscilla (with Katarina Docalovich)