🍿 The Inspiring True Story Behind ‘Good Will Hunting’

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The Inspiring True Story Behind ‘Good Will Hunting’

Just over a quarter of a century after they kicked down Hollywood’s door with an anti-authoritarian screenplay about two kids from the wrong side of Boston (one of whom happens to be a mathematical genius), Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have carved out their own illustrious and individual careers. But when the duo reunites, it’s always exciting.

This month, Ben and Matt will join forces again in Air, the story of Michael Jordan’s iconic sneaker line (Affleck plays Phil Knight, co-founder of Nike; Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, a shoe salesman working to sign a rookie MJ). So ahead of the film’s release, Inverse caught up with the people behind their original team-up, Good Will Hunting, to dig up some fresh details about the Academy Award-winning movie.

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Monday, NASA announced the astronauts who, as early as next year, will boldly venture toward the Moon. A lot has changed in the half a century since Apollo sent the last crewed mission to the Moon. Human spaceflight now includes participation from more countries, as well as a visible diversity in its astronaut corps.

The first name called on during Monday’s Artemis II crew announcement was Christina Hammock Koch. NASA will, for the first time, fly a woman to the Moon.

Koch has said she’s always wanted to be an astronaut. She began as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and three years ago, she returned to Earth from a 328-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) where she set the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman.

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It’s not that I’m asking for too much from The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the latest from Minions masters Illumination. It’s that in the distant shadow of 2014’s The Lego Movie, and other profoundly impressive family films, it’s not impossible for Super Mario to glimmer like a Super Star.

Nintendo’s return to Hollywood outshines the 1993 live-action bomb, but Mario still can’t defeat the competition. Despite its own best efforts to tap into Gen-X nostalgia, The Super Mario Bros. Movie doesn’t seize on its full potential.

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