Ben Affleck News

For the week of Sunday, Feb. 12, through Saturday, Feb. 18. Reviewed by Tony Lucia.

It's no secret that I'm not at all on board the hype train for The Amazing Spider-Man - the franchise reboot Sony has launched to stave off losing the movie rights to the titular wallcrawler to Marvel Studios.

It looks like 2012 is shaping up to be the year of the " new stars carrying old movies ." Actor Jeremy Renner - who was scintillating in Ben Affleck's 2010 movie The Town , and had won an Academy Award in 2009's The Hurt Locker .

Dressed in black, her short hair wet and tousled, Bullock was shot with her hands on her knees, eyes locked with the camera, legs coltishly askew.

Fourteen years ago in his breakout performance as an arrogant young genius in the movie Good Will Hunting , actor Matt Damon's character sneered at his Boston psychiatrist for "surrounding yourself with all the wrong f**kin' books.

Highly underrated actor Titus Welliver was in Boston yesterday to promote a new version of The Town .

Few filmmakers are as associated with comic books and geek culture in general than Kevin Smith .

Everyone be quiet. Silent Bob is coming to town. The filmmaker/writer/actor/comic/fanboy/ airline warrior / Ben Affleck champion also known as Kevin Smith will visit Eagle Eye Book Shop next month in support of his newest book, Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good .

Southie Pride , which is currently in production, follows five women struggling to make a life for their families in the notoriously insular and hardscrabble Boston neighborhood.

London, Feb 6 : Jennifer Garner says she found divorce a crushing experience and wishes she had known to wait for marriage until she was 30 years old or more.

Fans of Affleck's acclaimed adaptation of local author Chuck Hogan's crime novel "Prince of Thieves" will be among the first to experience the extended cut of the Charlestown heist drama a full month before the "The Town: Ultimate Collector's Edition" hits Blu-ray and DVD on March 6. This new version features more Beantown locations ; a beefier ... (more)

Earlier this week I posted my interview with John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore for Big Miracle , which is due out this Friday.

What's more passionate then owning an Academy Award winning flick on Blu-ray? How about five! That's the premise of the new Lionsgate/Miramax collaboration Blu-ray out Jan 31 containing five best picture flicks including "No Country for Old Men," "Shakespeare in Love," "Crash," "The English Patient" and "Chicago." Check out the review of the "No ... (more)

British broadband and digital TV provider BT Vision has entered a licensing agreement with Miramax to give BT Vision Unlimited customers a selection of movies on demand from the Miramax library.

We've commented on it multiple times here on Cinema Blend, but it's still amazing how Ben Affleck has managed to turn his career around.

Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history.

This week the Chinese community parties hard to celebrate its Lunar New Year. The Chinese New Year is spread out over a 15-day period and the Houston version is jam packed with traditional merriment .

But it seems even Ben Affleck's muscles were not enough to stop him being dragged along by his pet German Shephard today.

New York Times Magazine's 6th Floor blog recently featured a magazine preview piece on John Mulaney to help promote his upcoming Comedy Central stand-up special New in Town .

Steven Rea: Haywire, the globe-hopping spy vehicle Steven Soderbergh has built around his charismatic new leading lady, is, from start to finish, serious fun.