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What Happy Feet Two Star Matt Damon Taught Me About Fracking
2013-01-04 16:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Promised Land Focus Features 106 minutes If Matt Damon & Co. really wanted to make a movie that would scare American audiences off of fracking for good, they should have just made a movie dramatizing fracking's potential threat to America's beer. Instead, what we get is a quaint love story wrapped in a conspiracy movie, draped in a toothless political polemic, festooned with mawkish aimlessness. It didn't have to be this way. Promised Land's script was originally developed with Dave...
Matt Damon and John Krasinski star in 'Promised Land'
2013-01-04 09:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Matt Damon plays a corporate salesman for Global, a multibillion-dollar fracking company, in Promised Land, which he also co-wrote and produced. Hes the villain of the piece, at least ostensibly, but its clear hes on the road to a Capra-esque redemption. Directed by Gus Van Sant, the film is best when it lays out the woes of the depressed Pennsylvania farm community infiltrated by Damons Steve Butler and his wised-up business partner Sue (well-played by Frances McDormand). Steve is there...
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