As you fellow Movie-Banterers know, both The Social Network and Let Me In are premiering this weekend. I know we’re all thinking it so I’ll just say it-Does Let Me In stand a chance??? Let’s think about this… I think it’s safe to say that they’re both culturally American films—Let Me In is basically the [...]

The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival screened a sneak peek of Dax Shepard and David Palmer’s Brother’s Justice this past weekend to see what viewers would think since they’re still putting the finishing touches on the film. According to the filmmakers, the trailer won’t be out for a while, but keep an eye out for [...]

Natalie Portman is being rumored for the role of Lois Lane and Christopher Nolan’s possible choice on the director shortlist.

Sally Menke, who’s cut each of Quentin Tarantino’s films, has died at age 56.

It is here! It is finally here! The Social Network hits theaters Friday.  Directed by David Fincher (Fight Club) and written by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing), The Social Network is our most anticipated movie of the Fall.  Jesse Eisenberg plays the famous Mark Zuckerberg, Andrew Garfield (the next Spiderman) plays Zuckerberg’s original business partner [...]

Dear Banterers, We at themoviebanter.com would like to announce that all future trailer and picture content will be posted exclusively to our Facebook page.  The unique dynamic we have with our Facebook page is that it’s basically a forum for us to chat about movies.  And what do we all love to banter about, the [...]

Blockbuster has been surviving by a thread throughout the past year, trying to hang on for dear life like the Raccoon that Ace Ventura tries to save in the opening scenes of Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Just like how Ace slowly loses his grip on the Raccoon as he watches it plummet to his [...]

I don’t say this that often, but Oliver Stone did a great job with the direction of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His shots were incredible and the aerial views he was able to capture of New York were phenomenal. Now let’s talk about the movie. Oomph. The plot of the second Wall Street is [...]

Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” took $19 million its debut weekend.

For those who were not paying attention to the stock market this week, well it was a fairly big week. Even more suprising, Netflix (NFLX) has been able to weather the 2-3 year economic storm that plagued Wall Street and has seen its stock price soar while others died. In this week alone, Netflix stock price [...]

Reviewed: Zack Snyder’s “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole”.

So there’s a dilemma. Ryan Reynolds has too many things on his plate. Personally, I love fitting everything I can on my plate until there’s no room. Then I bring it back to my table, eat most of it, but just can’t finish everything I planned on. Mr. Reynolds, welcome to your own personal plate. [...]

Waiting for “Superman” certainly doesn’t need a superhero to save it because it is one documentary worth checking out. Oscar winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim explores the faults in the American education system by following the families of five children across the nation who have no choice but to attend poorly performing public schools as a [...]

Ever since I was introduced to Facebook back in Freshman year of college in 2003, it has been a huge part of my life.  Much can be said for the same of the leading social network.  It’s funny how a site which was built to allow students to connect together has changed so much over [...]

We saw very interactive websites for such films as Machete and the Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  For Machete, the interactive website featured methods for users to create movie posters with their face on it.  With Narnia, users were able to interactively navigate maps and even play a game with the [...]

Production on P.T. Anderson’s religious telling “The Master” has been postponed indefinitely.

Could a videogame version of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” be in the works?

Now online is the trailer for Geroge Hickenlooper’s (Heart of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse, Factory Girl) new movie Casino Jack. The film stars none other than Kevin Spacey whom I personally love. Can’t wait. It also premieres at the Hamptons Film Festival, starting on October 7th. Spacey is a great actor. With his Oscar winning [...]

The 18th annual Hamptons Film Festival (“HFF”) is upon us.  The quickly growing festival starts Oct 7 and runs through Oct 11. Among the spotlight films premiering at the festival is the heavily anticipated 127 Hours. Also included in the spotlight films is Friedo Pinto’s (Slumdog Millionaire) new film Miral, Doug Liman’s (director of Bourne [...]

  Disney’s Tangled, the company’s next animated classic, comes out November 24th. The film is an adaptation of the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale, “Rapunzel.” Unlike Disney’s previous 2D classics, this one will be in 3D animation. I suppose Disney is trying to conform to the popularity of 3D films in the current generation in [...]

An interesting look at the director behind the new film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole will be released in theaters this Friday. My first thought after watching the trailer was “prettttty”. My second thought was that the film’s creators really know how to portray [...]

Ben Affleck’s “The Town” topped the weekend charts while “Easy A” struck a chord with the kids at the box office.

A film review by Kyle Patterson Some Like It Hot (1959) Notable cast members:  Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft Oscars: Best Director – Billy Wilder (nominated) Best Actor – Jack Lemmon (nominated) Some Like It Hot is a bit of a departure for Mr. Wilder who has graced us with such works as “The [...]

GUEST REVIEW BY RON ASHLEY CATFISH directed by Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost I’ve been trying to figure out a way to begin a review of Ariel Schulman & Henry Joost’s new documentary CATFISH, but I’m a bit stuck.  Ron Ashley is speechless, which is quite unusual for Ron Ashley.  In an effort not to [...]

Ben Affleck’s back with both a directorial, writing, and acting performance in The Town, which hits theaters today.  The movie also  stars Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Rebecca Hall (Vicky Christina Barcelona), Jon Hamm (Mad Men), and Blake Lively (Gossip Girl and Accepted). This is actually the first time in Affleck’s career that he hits [...]

Casey Affleck, director of the Joaquin Phoenix documentary “I’m Still Here”, has revealed the movie was completely tongue-in-cheek.

First trailer for the Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie vehicle “The Tourist”.

Olivia Wilde to star in comedy from the director of “Wedding Crashers”.

If we haven’t gotten you pumped up enough for this movie, well we will try to do better with this.  We have even more featured clips from the highly anticipated movie Let Me In directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield). If you like vampires, this is going to give you a whole new vampire story.  Let [...]

Emma Stone is a star. Or will be at least. Known for her breakout role in Superbad, she also has notable parts in The House Bunny as well as Zombieland. But now, Stone finally gets her own star vehicle with the teenage comedy Easy A. She doesn’t do it alone, but proves that with a [...]