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Promised Land Review

ReThink Review: Promised Land -- Fracking Goes (More) Hollywood

Jonathan Kim | Posted 03.26.2013 | Entertainment
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Jonathan Kim

Fracking has received the full Hollywood treatment with Promised Land, a film starring and co-written by Matt Damon, one of Hollywood's biggest and most respected stars. But is Damon's name enough to convince people to see a movie revolving around natural gas drilling?

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What's The Word On 'Promised Land'?

AP | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 01.01.2013 | Entertainment
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-- "Promised Land" offers an experience that's alternately amusing and frustrating, full of impassioned earnestness as well as saggy sections. Direc...

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Promised Land Powerfully Highlights What's at Stake for Communities in Fracking's Path

Kate Sinding | Posted 03.02.2013 | Green
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Kate Sinding

What "Promised Land" is about is a fundamental, and much-coveted, American principle -- that of a community's right to self-determination. The oil and gas industry simply should not be allowed the unique power it has been given to trample on that right.

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Promised Land Something More Than It's Fracked Up to Be

Tom Wilber | Posted 03.02.2013 | Green
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Tom Wilber

The forthcoming release of Promised Land -- Hollywood's portrayal of the divisive shale gas drama unfolding in rural America -- is by all accounts producing high expectations among anti-frackers and anxiety among drilling supporters.

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Movie Review: Promised Land

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 03.02.2013 | Entertainment
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Lloyd I. Sederer, MD

Promised Land was tightly written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski from a story by Dave Eggers. The movie is yet another of Participant Media's co-productions; they are a company that knows how to get behind a broad range of social issues.

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