Dinner for who? I have nothing bad to say about Dinner for Schmucks, but it left me with a weird feeling. The story of business man Tim (Paul Rudd) who wants to make his way into the upper echelon of the company by bringing an “interesting” guest to dinner, a schmuck. If Tim brings the [...]

The ultimate heist film: an “Inception” / “Toy Story 3″ trailer mash-up.

Jodie Foster’s Mel Gibson-starring “The Beaver” deemed PG-13 by the MPAA.

I am a huge fan of music; every kind of music. Rock, Jazz, Hip-Hop, you name it. But the one thing I love is a good storyteller. Springsteen and Dylan have a way of making every song they write a full-fledged movie inside the head of the listener. But they aren’t the only ones. While [...]

The first teaser trailer for the next Pirates movie was released at Comic Con.  The title of the film is Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and is set for release May 20, 2011 in 3D. Enjoy the trailer  

Rotten Tomatoes has allowed users to act as critics reviewing their favorite and least favorite movies for the world to see since 1998.  Earlier Rotten Tomatoes was bought out by Flixster.  Critics and wannabe critics alike rate their movies both positively and negatively and it gets turned into a percentage for all to see.  This [...]

Premiering at Sundance and purchased by Focus for about $5 million, The Kids Are All Right is a heart warming story about a lesbian couple who has to deal with their kids wanting to make contact with their sperm donor.  The film stars Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson (Journey to the Center of the Earth), and [...]

I know I was upset before, but they took one of my favorite actors (Ed Norton) out of what could be the most legendary movie OF ALL TIME.  I had a right to be angry. Am I exaggerating? Eh, maybe, but The Avengers is shaping up to be either the biggest movie of the decade [...]

Even with the release of SALT, Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION stayed hot at the box office.

SALT reviewed.

Movietickets.com and xbox360 made a deal so the online movie ticketing service can be provided to xbox360 live users in the US.  This is another partnership deal between a gaming system and a movie related service.  The gaming systems are becoming more and more entertainment super systems where you can handle many multimedia functions and [...]

I imagine casting for a film has to be a rather rigorous, repetitious job. There are plenty of times I’ve walkedout of a movie and thinking that ’he/she didn’t fit that part at all’. Sometimes directors or writers base an entire production around the participation of a single actor, and not getting him leaves the project in [...]

Friend of themoviebanter.com and Hollywood insider Wes Birchwood, confirms that Neil Patrick Harris (“NPH”) will return in the next installment of the Harold & Kumar franchise, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas. The movie is currently filming and will be set for release in 2011. For those who saw the second Harold and Kumar, NPH [...]

Excited to see THE GREEN LANTERN or THOR? Me neither.

Toy Story 3 is a few weeks old now, but still one of the best movies of the year, maybe the best (although Inception may have taken that over).  Pixar in its existence is still a baby, and with the release of Toy Story back in the early 90′s helped revolutionize the new way of [...]

SPOILER ALERT – this is only to be read by those who have seen Inception So if you saw Inception, you naturally have an opinion of what happened.  Well, I’ll admit it’s a confusing ending, as it should be. Those last few seconds of the film are what causing all this discussion. Blogs are on [...]

Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION is a juggernaut in this weekend’s box office.

The mind of Christopher Nolan is an amazing thing. He originally dazzled us with Memento, which is now 10 years old, and he completely blew us away with Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.  This time he gets to team up with Leonardo DiCaprio, our generation’s finest actor, in bringing us his newest film Inception.  Nolan’s [...]

Critical analysis and audience expectations have thrown INCEPTION’s true scope for a loop.

We all saw the hammer of Thor pop up in the final clip of Iron Man 2. At least those who saw Iron Man 2 and stayed until after the credits saw it. Anyways, we all can now see the first official image from the Thor film.  See Thor, with hammer in hand, on the left of the picture. [...]

Big news: Edward Norton will no longer play Bruce Banner a.k.a. the Hulk in 2012’s The Avengers. Dun dun dun. According to Mavel Studios, the reason is not financial. Instead Kevin Fergie, Marvel’s president of production, says Norton doesn’t play well with others. That didn’t make anyone at Team Edward particularly happy. A rep for [...]

So they’re making a movie about Facebook; it was only a matter of time.  At least it’s not Cats and Dogs 2. (Oh they’re making that too? Hm.)  But the movie sounds like it’s about friendship, betrayal, success, money.  All great things to make a movie about.  I say “sounds” because both movie trailers to [...]

Walt Disney Studios, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Jon Turteltaub, the team behind the “National Treasure” franchise, present “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” — an innovative and epic comedy adventure about a sorcerer and his hapless apprentice who are swept into the center of an ancient conflict between good and evil. The upcoming major Disney anticipated movie [...]

Predators is about a group of warriors from all different backgrounds who are put on this strange alien planet as prey for the merciless alien creatures to hunt known as Predators.  No one knows why they were there, who each other is, or how to get off, but they know they are being hunted so [...]

DESPICABLE ME topped TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE in only the latter’s second weekend out.

So hoops fans, a power trio just formed in South Beach.  LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh will all play together next year in Miami.  If they hired me and you to fill the remaining two starting positions for the Heat, there would remain the same expectation, win a championship.  So now that LeBron James has [...]

Recently I wrote about how Paranormal Activity released their teaser trailer for the sequel and have begun another campaign to push word of mouth of the new movie.  Well that is continuing more so, and it looks like they are taking things to the next level to get people talking about it all over the [...]

Plans revealed on Lego and ’21 Jump Street’ movies.

Over the past few days I’ve seen some very upsetting, disturbing stories, stories I nevewanted to imagine.  Why oh why is everything 3D these days.  Which leads me to the conclusion this 3D thing needs to slow down.  Phew, got that off my chest.  Here is 3 reasons why. 3. Titanic in 3D to honor [...]

Between last week’s Twilight & The Last Airbender and next week’s Inception & The Sorceror’s Apprentice, this week proves to be a lull in the Summer blockbuster lineup.  I don’t want to take anything away from Predators, Despicable Me, or The Kids Are All Right (Focus’s independent smash hit from Sundance), but let’s be honest, [...]