Movies starring Ben Affleck

Daddy (1991)

100 mins     Drama, Romance, TV Movie      

Movie Review - Daddy (1991) Patrick Duffy stars as Oliver Watson who finds himself a single parent when his wife leaves him. Then his son, Ben (Ben Affleck), gets his girlfriend pregnant and has to drop out of school to suppo...

School Ties (1992)

16 mins     Drama      

I remember watching "School Ties" when it first came out and it blew me away partly because in look it was similar to "Dead Poet's Society" but also because it had exciting performances from a group of young stars. Ever since...

Dazed and Confused (1993)

102 mins     Comedy, Drama      

When and where were you born? I don't need to know but it is an important factor of whether "Dazed and Confused" is a great movie or just average. You see with its storyline about the last days of school in 1976 Texas it is a...

Mallrats (1995)

94 mins     Comedy      

"Mallrats" is what I call a generational movie, where we have a group of similar aged people all at the same place on the same day and we watch various events in that day. But this is a Kevin Smith version of a generational m...

Good Will Hunting (1997)

126 mins     Drama      

What is most surprising about "Good Will Hunting" is not so much that co-stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the movie, but the fact that despite being a rather run of the mill storyline it is a surprisingly good movie. Th...

Chasing Amy (1997)

113 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

Boy meets girl, they fall in love but something causes a wedge between them, it's a familiar romantic comedy set up and one which is the basis of "Chasing Amy" but this is a Kevin Smith movie so nothing is that simple. Now be...

Armageddon (1998)

150 mins     Action , Adventure , Drama, Thriller      

There has been a growing trend in cinema for many years to launch a big blockbuster movie where the basis of the plot is that the world faces impending doom only for the Americans to save the day with some far fetched idea. M...

Phantoms (1998)

96 mins     Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller      

So you enter a town and not only is it spookily quiet but when you get home you find a dead body in your house and then you discover more residents are dead what do you do? Well in my book you get the flock out of there but t...

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

123 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

At school during the 80s as part of the British Curriculum we had to study one Shakespeare play, we didn't get the choice and we were given "Macbeth" to study. I remember there were three witches and someone called MacDuff bu...

Forces of Nature (1999)

105 mins     Comedy, Romance      

"Forces of Nature" wants to be a romantic comedy but not your everyday no brainer romantic comedy but one which is soaked in style and has a depth to its purpose. So whilst it takes two standard ideas of a journey from hell w...

Dogma (1999)

130 mins     Adventure , Comedy, Fantasy      

Kevin Smith's "Dogma" is a movie which caused controversy and I can see why because at its heart is religion. Now the thing is is "Dogma" mocking religion and being disrespectful or is it being insightful in what it says abou...

Boiler Room (2000)

120 mins     Drama, Thriller      

Boiler Room (2000) Giovanni Ribisi stars as Seth who is seduced into the world of finance as he sees the flash cars of two friends. But whilst climbing the ladder he begins to question how the company he works for operates es...

Reindeer Games (2000)

104 mins     Action , Crime, Drama      

When the credits rolled on "Reindeer Games" or "Deception" as it is also known the feeling I had was of almost 2 hours wasted. Now you can say that of a lot of movies but I felt it more than ever after watching this because y...

Pearl Harbor (2001)

183 mins     Action , Drama, Romance, War      

What can you say about Michael Bay's "Pearl Harbor", maybe it is to war what "Twilight" is to vampire movies or maybe you could say it is Michael Bay doing for Pearl Harbor what James Cameron did for the Titanic. But I think ...

Changing Lanes (2002)

98 mins     Drama, Thriller      

You are in a supermarket and someone barges in to you with a shopping trolley, they glare at you as if it's your fault before walking off, do you ignore it and move on or do you hit out and give them a piece of your mind. In ...

Daredevil (2003)

103 mins     Action , Crime, Fantasy      

As someone who has never read a "Daredevil" comic book I can't say how true to it's origin the movie version of "Daredevil" is, although some how I feel that it has struggled to capture the character. And as such what "Darede...

Paycheck (2003)

119 mins     Action , Sci-Fi, Thriller      

When "Paycheck" starts it made me think of Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" but merged with a computer game where are protagonist finds himself with no memory of the past 3 years, an envelope of strange items which will be cr...

Jersey Girl (2004)

102 mins     Comedy, Drama, Romance      

Movies about men becoming a lone parent is nothing new, every few years there seems to be some sort of movie which delves into this world of paternal parenting. And as such "Jersey Girl" which sees Ben Affleck playing a singl...

Surviving Christmas (2004)

91 mins     Comedy, Romance      

Surviving Christmas: Ben Affleck stars as Drew who pays the people who live in his childhood home to let his spend Christmas with them having a family Christmas...

Hollywoodland (2006)

126 mins     Drama, Thriller      

"Hollywoodland" is a fictionalised look at the mystery surrounding the death of Superman actor George Reeves, apparently taking his onw life. Told through the eyes of fictitious investigator Louis Simo (Adrien Brody) "Hollywo...