Elysium, the new sci-fi film starring Matt Damon, opened Thursday. Reviewers have been modestly positive overall (the film gets 67 percent at Rotten Tomatoes) but it’s clear that many reviewers were put off by the film’s heavy-handed politics. Here’s a
In director Neill Blomkamp’s new movie, the uber-rich live on a space station dubbed Elysium where they don’t have to worry about hunger, pollution and those nasty 99 percent types back on earth. Blomkamp’s Elysium is similarly removed from all
Last week saw Sensei hit 2 Guns hit his prediction dead on ($27 million OW). There’s plenty of new releases to debate this week. Sensei’s weekend predictions and revenue results go as follows: 1. “Elysium” ($32 million) – Film dodged a bullet
Matt Damon’s Elysium features an Occupy-style story about the rich oppressing the poor, along with a full-throated cry for universal health care and open borders. Promised Land, Damon’s last film, disparaged the process of fracking through the eyes of a
The new movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, is more loaded with liberal politics than an Organizing For America fundraising pitch. It’s more loaded with liberalism than an Ivy League gender studies department. More loaded, even, than an
An offhand comment by Matt Damon concerning school choice continues to draw fire, this time from a prominent member of the Bush family. Former Gov. Jeb Bush sent out a tweet linking to a Breitbart News item on Damon deciding
Sensei White Lotus here. Matt Damon’s Elysium opens Aug. 9, but for the following reasons is set for a “less than inspiring” opening. 1. Film Is Way Too Expensive. Damon’s recent box office record is atrocious. His film Green Zone
Actor Matt Damon is a strong supporter of America’s public schools. Just two years ago, the star spoke passionately about the importance of public schools at a Washington DC “Save our Schools” rally. In fact, the actor is so impressed
“Elysium,” Matt Damon’s next big budget summer blockbuster opens this Friday (August 9), and according to early reviews is all about how the rich exploit the poor. What we are already seeing from the sci-fi film’s star and director (Neil
The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy shouldn’t be surprised that director Neil Blokamp’s “latest politically tinged sci-fi feature” falls apart during the third act. So did Blokamp’s first politically tinged sci-fi feature, the overrated but promising “District 9.” According to McCarthy’s
Director Neill Blomkamp only has two films to his credit, but already he’s at the forefront of the left’s message machine. His breakout hit District 9 offered a sour commentary on corporations and those who don’t support amnesty. His latest film, Elysium, is
What connects such seemingly disparate summer movies asThe Purge, The Lone Ranger and White House Down? They all contain liberal themes, and they’ve suffered at the box office as a result. So says Kyle Smith at The New York Post.
Actor Chris Evans of The Avengers fame is richer than most. The handsome star is part of two major Marvel franchises–the aforementioned super-group series as well as Captain America. He recently plunked down $3.52 million for a nearly 4,600 square
The upcoming monster movie Pacific Rim looks like everything a summer movie aspires to be–big, loud and chock full of fun special effects. The film, opening nationwide July 12, also includes an environmental scare message that puts it in ideological lockstep
Hollywood celebrities have joined Global Zero, a leftist international nuclear disarmament group, by making a video in which they parrot President Barack Obama’s infamous 2009 speech in Prague where he said he would try to start reducing America’s nuclear stockpile
Several A-listers are banding together to beg President Barack Obama to keep his word about seeking a world of nuclear weapons. Apparently, they’ve been cycling through the Superman movies to ready themselves for Man of Steel and stumbled upon Superman IV: The Quest
Director Steven Soderbergh famously said no movie studio would touch Behind the Candelabra, the biopic of late pianist Liberace, because the tale was “too gay.” HBO had no problem with such content, and now the pay channel is reaping the
(AP) Douglas, Damon dramatize a steamy showbiz affairBy FRAZIER MOOREAP Television WriterNEW YORKThe idea of Michael Douglas playing Liberace might seem nearly as outrageous as Liberace himself. Liberace, forever hailed as Mr. Showmanship, was the excess-to-the-max pianist-personality whose onstage and
LOS ANGELES, April 15 (UPI)–Comedian Jimmy Kimmel officiated the marriage-vow renewal ceremony of actor Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana, on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Kimmel and Damon have joked about their faux rivalry for years on TV’s
The first official trailer for Elysium, the latest socially conscious film from the creator of District 9, soft pedals its class warfare themes. It’s action over message making, at least in the two-minute peek at a film hitting theaters in
A micro-indie project like FrackNation should get trounced by a film promoted by one of the biggest movie stars on the planet. Matt Damon’s Promised Land, an anti-fracking polemic gussied up as a Serious Oscar Contender, got shellacked by FrackNation
The Dark Knight Rises did more than bring Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy to a rousing finish. It highlighted the folly of Occupy Wall Street shenanigans and the power of for-profit enterprise. That combination may have hurt the movie’s Oscar chances,
FrackNation has yet to make its nationwide debut on Mark Cuban’s AXS TV, but it’s already a model of New Media success. The documentary, which takes a positive look at how the process of fracking can be of enormous benefit
Anti-fracking celebrities are routinely in the press talking about the dangers of digging into shale to potentially make America more energy independent. Stars like Mark Ruffalo, Matt Damon and Yoko Ono can get attention–and headlines–simply by calling a news conference
Ann McElhinney isn’t afraid of a good fight. McElhinney and her husband, Phelim McAleer, routinely take it to the environmental lobby via films like “Not Evil Just Wrong.” Now, the duo is holding anti-fracking activists’ feet to the cinematic fire with
A newly released report by the US Geological Survey found no groundwater contamination as a result of fracking in an area of Arkansas. This comes just a week after a leaked report showed that NY had determined the process was
Filmmaker Phelim McAleer has a message for Matt Damon, the star of a new film taking a dim view of the energy-extracting process known as fracking. Be honest. “Everyone knows he’s anti-fracking,” says McAleer, responding to Damon’s many press interviews for
(AFP) Slasher flick “Texas Chainsaw 3D” stole the top slot at the North American box office this weekend, driving “The Hobbit” from its three-week perch in first place, estimates indicated Sunday. The latest offering in the horror franchise, first launched
Promised Land, the new anti-fracking film starring Matt Damon, may have more difficulty polarizing opinion against fracking than environmentalists would have thought. Fracking, the process that shoots water, sand and chemicals into shale-rock formations to force out oil and gas,
Sensei’s call streak extended to 14 weeks last week. It’s very close at the top this week with a number of films that could win. Sensei’s weekend predictions and revenue results go as follows. 1. “The Hobbit” ($20 million) -Film will be
Hollywood actors spurred on by massive federal debt, the Occupy Wall Street movement and a president partial to redistribution rhetoric, have gone on record pleading to pay higher taxes. The affluent group, including Chris Rock, Ben Affleck, Will Smith, Matt
(AP) Hollywood faces fracking in ‘Promised Land’By MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated PressALLENTOWN, Pa.The new movie “Promised Land” digs into the fierce national debate over fracking, the technique that’s generated a boom in U.S. natural gas production while also stoking controversy over its
Matt Damon’s “Promised Land,” a film pitting a rural Pennsylvania community against a greedy natural gas company, hit theaters in limited release over the weekend. Turns out there’s little pent-up demand for a Hollywood tale trashing the process of fracking.
Knee-jerk ideology has poisoned the creative wells of two of Hollywood’s more talented stars. “Promised Land,” an anti-fracking propaganda film dressed up as Oscar-season fare, re-teams “Good Will Hunting” star Matt Damon with director Gus Van Sant. Neither can salvage
The Huffington Post published a stern rebuke to celebrities attacking the process of fracking one day before the release of Hollywood’s most strident anti-fracking feature. “Promised Land,” starring and co-written by Matt Damon, pits a small Pennsylvania town against a
Matt Damon is one of Hollywood’s more outspoken celebrities, and he’s not afraid of using his film projects to further his progressive agenda. Just watch – if you can – his 2010 bomb “Green Zone” which rewrites recent history to
The intense battle over hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is now taking place on screen. Two films that take opposing sides on the issue are going to war. The first is the anti-fracking film “Promised Land,” opening nationwide Friday.
Mark Cuban’s AXS TV has picked up the rights to “FrackNation,” a documentary that pushes back against the Hollywood-HBO anti-fracking complex that demonizes the technology that can potentially help economically depressed parts of the country in addition to making America
Months before “The Bourne Legacy” hit theaters, the superhero smash “The Avengers” told us Jeremy Renner is a first-rate action hero. So when “Legacy” arrived in theaters late summer with the erstwhile Hawkeye taking over for Matt Damon, we knew
Matt Damon’s new movie has some friends in very high places. Apple teamed up with Damon to promote the actor’s new movie “Promised Land,” a film attacking both oil and gas companies as well as the process of fracking. The