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Pearl Harbor (2001, Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale) – Classic Film Review 1142

After its $5million launch party, 2001’s most hyped movie and, at £135million, the most expensive film of all time at the time, is now exploding all over a screen near you. Director Michael Bay’s epic […]

Apr, 23

Armageddon *** (1998, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1098

In a plot very similar to the simultaneously made Deep Impact, oil-riggers Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and co are recruited to head for space to drill a hole and place a bomb to explode a […]

Apr, 15

Bounce (2000, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Classic Film Review 1091

Writer-director Don Roos’s likeable 2000 romantic drama stars Ben Affleck as Buddy, a businessman waiting for his delayed aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. At the last minute he switches plane tickets with fellow passenger Greg […]

Apr, 14

Jersey Girl ** (2004, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 1062

Writer-director Kevin Smith’s 2004 comedy stars Ben Affleck, who is warm and appealing as Ollie Trinke, a top New York publicist whose wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) dies in childbirth. He tries to park their baby […]

Apr, 06

Dazed and Confused **** (1993, Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck) – Classic Film Review 856

Writer-director Richard Linklater’s 1993 follow-up to his 1991 no-budget comedy hit Slacker is one of the top 50 best ever high school movies. It confidently and compellingly focuses on a score or more characters in […]

Mar, 02

The Sum of All Fears *** (2002, Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Ciarán Hinds, John Cromwell, Bridget Moynahan, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Philip Baker Hall, Ron Rifkin, Bruce McGill, Colm Feore, Josef Sommer) – Classic Movie Review 725

In 2002 Ben Affleck takes over Harrison Ford’s old part of CIA man Jack Ryan in director Phil Alden Robinson’s ultra-tense, ambitious, nail-biting action blockbuster, adapted from the work of Tom Clancy. The end of […]

Jan, 20

The Town **** (2010, Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner) – Classic Movie Review 585

Ben Affleck makes a scalding job of directing this 2010 superb cops and bank robbers heist movie thriller, but it’s his stunning performance that really gives his movie class. He’s just so darned good as […]

Dec, 28

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