Ben Affleck is in the Congo speaking in refugee camps to try and raise awareness of the conflict that has displaced nearly 300,000 people. Affleck has visited the Congo several times and has made a documentary about this crisis facing this war-torn area. Read the whole story on The Huffington Post. And takepart and click here
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Clean My Ride is one man’s quest, documented on YouTube, to get cleaner fuels available to us at the gas station. The episodes are quirky, features celebrities such as Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Jason Biggs, and extremely clever. Also, quite funny. Here’s episode one (warning: some dirty words and whatnot).

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When I first learned that Ben Affleck had directed a movie, I was skeptical. Despite his work with Good Will Hunting and other films like Changing Lanes and Dogma, I always think of Affleck as the guy in Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and Daredevil. But with his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, Affleck has returned to his role as storyteller and left behind his blockbuster celebrity. More than that though, he’s told a story that speaks to the lives of people who are working to get by in the day to day, and perhaps not doing so well.

The story revolves around Patrick Kenzie, played by Affleck’s brother Casey, a private eye with young looks and connections to the people on the street. When a young girl in town goes missing, her aunt hires Patrick and his partner Angie to use their ability to work on the street to help find her. From here the film travels downward into worlds of drug dealers, missing children and the personal responsibility of the actions we all take:

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