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Promised Land – review
Posted by Guardian: Philip French on April 20th, 2013
Guardian: Adapted by John Krasinski and Matt Damon from a story by the prolific novelist, journalist and editor Dave Eggers, Promised Land is a soft-centred drama starring Damon as Steve Butler, a smooth-talking salesman out to cheat country folk of the same stock as himself. He's employed by an oil company to persuade a small midwestern town to sell the drilling rights to their land. The dirt-poor, rust-belt town is in terminal decline, but the windfall will involve fracking for shale oil that could result...
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Gasland – review
Posted by Guardian: Philip French on January 16th, 2011
Guardian: This quiet, hard-hitting documentary began when director Josh Fox wondered why a company was offering his family $100,000 to drill for gas on the lands around their house in rural Pennsylvania. Discovering the pollution being wreaked locally, he set out on a journey of discovery that took him across America, where gas companies everywhere are destroying the environment and poisoning people by using hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to drill for gas.
GasLand
Production year: 2010
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