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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...

What did you mean by that? (Daniels is as insufferable here as he was on The Newsroom, so I checked to see if Aaron Sorkin had a hand in the admittedly strong script; it’s actually by longtime Joss Whedon associate Drew Goddard).

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.

The director said, “It was 2017, so coming back it’ll be 2047, roughly”.

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

Based on the best-selling 2011 novel by Andy Weir, The Martian is an incredible and poignant story about humanity pushed to its absolute limits and is directed by Academy Award-nominated Ridley Scott, whose recent credentials include Robin Hood (2010), Prometheus (2012), and...

No, the orbiter didn’t detect water flowing through mythical “canals” once thought to be crisscrossing the red planet’s surface.

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

Often described as “Robinson Crusoe” in space, the novel follows astronaut Mark Watney, who is left behind on the Red Planet after an accident separates him from the rest of his crew. The biggest place that’s inaccurate – don’t tell anybody –...

The storm that hit his location in the red planet separates him from his crew that presumes him to be dead. However, Damon’s comedic charm acts as a double-edged sword.