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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

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

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

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

Phelim McAleer asked Matt Damon a question recently that no other professional journalist will likely ask the actor during the star’s current publicity tour. Damon’s new film, “Promised Land,” is by all early accounts an assault on the practice of

Matt Damon, who thought President Barack Obama didn’t veer as far left in his first-term as he would have wanted, revealed a real shocker: he voted for Obama in 2012. Damon said sheepishly, “I voted for him. Absolutely, I voted

After NBC’s “The Today Show.” Host Matt Lauer asked how a man should deal with a girlfriend who “tosses salads” with unclean hands actor Matt Damon answered “That’s not what they told me about tossing salad!” Damon joked

HBO is home to not just fine programming like “The Sopranos” and “Boardwalk Empire,” but to some of the most liberally charged content on the small screen. Consider “The Newsroom,” “Real Time with Bill Maher” and “Game Change” as exhibits

“Promised Land” features lead performances by Matt Damon and John Krasinski and is directed by Gus Van Sant. Damon and Krasinski are also credited with writing the script. A trailer has just hit the web, and guess who the bad

The movie “Won’t Back Down,” which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis as reformers trying to battle education bureaucrats and teachers unions to help children, has irked progressive movie critics. Reviewers have been dismissing the film as “propaganda,” trying to

Matt Damon’s new movie, “Promised Land,” is a propaganda piece that trashes fracking techniques used by American oil companies.  The movie presents American oil companies as greedy corporations that trash and pollute small-town America in attempts to extract oil and gas from

Another day, another Mensa Joe Biden whopping lie – and this time there were two. Speaking at a high school in Detroit, Mensa Joe blustered Whopper #1: My dad used to say you measure a man or woman – it wasn’t whether