Matt Damon

360 Staff Pick: The Informant!

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Strangely overlooked in this year’s Oscar nominations — even for Marvin Hamlisch’s kinetic score — The Informant! gets inside the highly unreliable thoughts of Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a biochemist turned whistleblower for Archer Daniels Midland. Amid beige cubicles, the story unravels in surprising and funny ways, complete with bad disguises and James Bond-style tactics […]

How Matt Damon Got to 30 Rock

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Matt Damon & Diana Krall

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With ‘The Great Wall,’ is China buying its way into Hollywood?

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Anthony Quintano complete the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, a fundraising campaign that's gone viral around the world and prompted supporters of other causes to create their own versions of the challenge.

These eight ice bucket challenge spin-offs are boosting causes worldwide

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In this week’s new releases, ‘Bourne’ a bust, ‘Hope’ a plus, ‘Campaign’ stupid, hilarious

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If you’re looking for a movie to see this weekend, put Hope Springs on your list, but steer clear of The Bourne Legacy. That’s the consensus of our expert movie reviewers. Plus you might consider checking out The Campaign.

Major movies out on Christmas Day 2011

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As the year ends, movie houses are trying to get their end-of-year blockbusters out. Today, thousands will flock to movie theaters where they can take in a half a dozen major releases of all themes and plot lines.

‘Contagion’: How real life could imitate art

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According to an epidemiologist, the deadly pandemic virus in the blockbuster film “Contagion” could happen in real life.

Steve Soderbergh says goodbye

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The Academy Award-winning director, who has walked the line between making arthouse and blockbuster films for the last 20 years, is ready for retirement.

Controversy behind Eastwood’s “Invictus”

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Director Clint Eastwood’s latest film “Invictus” opens this weekend; it has part of the South African community in an uproar.