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While he and Damon are both in fine form here, it’s ultimately Weir’s genius that their work preserves. I prefer aliens with my sci-fi thank you, and although The Martian obviously fits in the genre, it takes its cues mostly from the school of drama (and sometimes,...

Matt Damon’s action-packed film career is highlighted by clashes with various opponents-trained assassins, Nazis, Boston cops, witches, the All Blacks, deadly viruses-but he has never gone up against an entire planet.

From the chamber piece of the first half, The Martian becomes a more traditional bring-our-heroes-home kind of film. Politics and public relations also intrude, as hard-nosed NASA chief Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) considers the very real possibility that a failed rescue bid...

I was so happy to leave Mars. There’s technology, as he eventually begins to communicate with Earth. Watch his full review in the video above.

But rather than being abandoned on an ice floe or desert island, the film’s protagonist, Mark Watney (Matt Damon), is marooned on the desolate planet Mars, roughly 225 million kilometres from home. If nothing else, The Martian will leave you with an inspirational outlook in...

Damon is perfectly cast to play a smart-alecky Everyman, which is how he’s presented in the Andy Weir best-seller upon which the movie is based.

Matt Damon gives a remarkable performance, the story is excellent, the comedy is effective, and the movie is a solid adaptation from the best-selling novel. And even though films like Primer are so attractive to me due to their unwillingness to dumb down the science behind their...

It’s a handy promotional tool for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

Matt Damon nailed his hard monologues in The Martian because he had dialogue etched in memory from having read the script “hundreds of times”.

Matt Damon regrets not keeping hold of his spacesuit from “The Martian”.

The actor portrayed the titular paratrooper in Steven Spielberg’s war epic Saving Private Ryan (1998), and had a surprise supporting role previous year in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar as an astronaut stranded on a distant planet. “This is pretty...

Since much of the movie is riding on Damon, he gets to throw his acting chops around with no one else in the room to play off of.

It’s all pretty vague, and not much to go on, but still, it’s exciting to hear Damon talk about the franchise again, after stepping down from the series to make way for Jeremy Renner’s “The Bourne Legacy” in 2012. However, during an interview with...

The stars of “The Martian” set the style bar to intergalactic on Thursday at the London premiere of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi drama.

Well, you’re in luck as 20th Century Fox has now debuted the “final” trailer for the Matt Damon-headlined sci-fi, and we have it for you below after the official synopsis…