The Boston Herald tells us today that Ben Affleck is coming back with a vengeance. The Pearl Harbour actor seems to have shaken his bad streak (which lasted the length of his relationship with JLo), and has the critics buzzing over his performance in the new movie "Hollywoodland".

From the Boston Herald article:

Ben Affleck will have no trouble making the trip from the front of the cameras to behind them, and will be a first-rate director. So says Allen Coulter - and he should know: He directed the Cambridge homey in the upcoming film noir “Hollywoodland.”
“I told Ben I thought he’d be excellent,” Coulter told the Track. “He knows so much about acting and he’s very, very intelligent. He sees the big picture and has the kind of intellect that will be satisfied by the complexities of directing. I told him I thought he’d take to it very well.”

Affleck, who just wrapped up work on “Gone, Baby, Gone,” a made-in-Boston thriller that will be his big-screen directorial debut, plays washed-up TV Superman George Reeves in Coulter’s “Hollywoodland.”
The pre-release buzz on Ben’s performance has been Super, with many critics predicting that the role will reestablish Affleck’s acting chops, which have been under siege since the unfortunate “Gigli.”
“He’s fabulous,” declares Coulter. “This is an extraordinary performance, really exceptional. He really disappears into the role of George Reeves.”
Perhaps Ben identified with Reeves’ career struggles. The faux superhero couldn’t get work because he was too closely identified with his TV alter ego. Not to mention he was involved in a long affair with a woman, played by Diane Lane, who was the wife of a vindictive studio boss.
“I have a sort of rule I follow with actors,” Coulter said. “I never probe into what their source is for finding a character, and I didn’t this time.”
But, he added, Affleck worked “extremely hard” on his portrayal of the doomed Reeves, “endlessly listening to a CD” of Reeves’ voice and watching every one of the 112 episodes of the “Superman” show.
“I think it will show in how fine he is in the role,” he said. “He’s superb.”
The flick examines the controversy surrounding Reeves’ apparent suicide in 1959. Oscar winner Adrien Brody plays detective Louis Simo, who is hired by Reeves’ mother to prove that her son didn’t take his own life, but was, in fact, murdered.
So what does Coulter think really happened to TV’s first Man of Steel?
“Let’s just say I came to the same conclusion as Louis Simo,” he said.
You’ll have to wait until Sept. 8 when the flick hits the theaters to find out what that is.