Ways to judge a crime movie: Box office earnings, critical acclaim, spin-off crimes. Ben Affleck's The Town performed decently by the first two standards, but on that third standard, The Town really knocked it out of the park!
Counselors at the youth summer camp that we know more commonly as the "House Republican Caucus of the 112th Congress" penciled in time for a movie yesterday! All of the campers were so excited to relax a little bit after pretending to be members of Congress for so long. And better yet, they got to watch an R-rated…
This weekend a pair of bank robbers in the Chicago area used nun masks to disguise themselves, the same ones that Ben Affleck and his crew wore to rob banks in the 2010 movie The Town.
He's done it! He's gone and done it. He edged out buzzed-about teen comedy Easy A, and handily trounced the latest project cooked up (in a producing, story-writing sense) by M. Night Shyamalan. The Cambridge boy comes home.
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[Actors Ben Affleck and Jon Hamm gape, helplessly, as hundreds of photographs are taken at last night's premiere of their movie The Town at the Venice Film Festival. Photo via AP.]
Here's a trailer for The Town, Ben Affleck's second directorial effort. Like Gone Baby Gone, it's a Boston-set crime drama based on a novel and is about gritty men doing gritty things, grittily. Only this one has more shooting.
