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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Controversy behind Eastwood’s “Invictus”

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New Book Warns of a Real-Life ‘Contagion’

The movie “Contagion” swept the box office this fall. While the film featured an ensemble cast of famous faces –  from Kate Winslet to Matt Damon to Gwyneth Paltrow –  the real star of “Contagion” was the virus that murdered millions throughout the movie.  Biologist Nathan Wolfe served as a consultant on the film. And while the movie […]

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Matt Damon in Contagion

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Matt Damon seems to have done it all – He’s starring in Steven Soderbergh’s new thriller Contagion about a new viral pandemic, playing a man whose wife is stricken with the disease.

New Movies: ‘Contagion’ and ‘Warrior’

The biggest release this weekend is the thriller “Contagion,” which has a formidable cast of big names in Hollywood: Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburn, and Jude Law. “Warrior,” a mixed martial arts movie starring Nick Nolte, is also opening this weekend.   Rafer Guzman  and  Kristen Meinzer, hosts of  The Takeaway’s Movie Date podcast, give their […]

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Matt Damon

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In the Coen Brothers’ film “True Grit,” Matt Damon plays a Texas Ranger on the hunt for a killer. But the swagger stops there. “He’s a total windbag,” Damon admits about the character. He tells Kurt about the Coens’ unique directing style and recalls the movie from his childhood that set him on the path […]

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The journalist behind ‘Green Zone’ on the movie and the war

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‘Green Zone,’ a new action thriller in theaters today starring Matt Damon, could potentially be the first blockbuster based on the Iraq War.