Edward Burns’ latest film ‘Nice Guy Johnny,’ which premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, will be released on October 26 via cable VOD, DVD, and iTunes. The film is a rom com with a bit more com than rom, and is definitely enjoyable.  It’s a light movie about a mid 20′s guy who considers [...]

  In honor of the premiere of The Two Escobar’s tonight on ESPN, we are reposting the link to our review of the film and our interview with Jeff Zimbalist a co-writer/co-director of the film.  Jeff, and his brother Michael, both wrote and directed the film together.  Hanging out with these guys during the Tribeca [...]

DUE TO VIDEO IT DIFFICULTIES – WE ARE REPOSTING THIS. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO BELOW Last Friday, April 30th, 2010, the Tribeca Film Festival ended its 12 day event with the premiere of Freakonomics, a film adapted from the incredibly popular correlation/causality book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Yes people, this book is [...]

Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side), perhaps the greatest documentarian of our time, directs this near perfect documentary, My Trip To Al-Qaeda, an exploration behind terrorism.  Gibney collaborates here with Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize winner, to bring Wright’s play to the big screen.  Even better, My [...]

Our good friend Ron Ashley is back at it again as he had the chance to catch the Deborah Scranton directed documentary “Earth Made of Glass” at this years Tribeca Film Festival.   This will be documentary time on TheMovieBanter as we will soon put up a review of Alex Gibney’s (Enron: The Smartest Guys [...]

The 2010 Edward Burns project is entitled Nice Guy Johnny.  It has been such a hit at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that additional screenings have been added to the schedule.  Burns wrote and directed the movie, and he also is one of the film’s stars. Burns’ co-star is Matt Bush (Adventureland), who actually plays [...]

Here is my Interview with Guy Pearce from the red carpet of the screening For the 10th anniversary of the cult classic film, and Christopher Nolan’s first huge hit, Memento, the Tribeca Film Festival screened a special viewing of the film with the cast and crew. For those who don’t know, Memento is about a [...]

Interview with Jeff Zimbalist, writer and director of The Two Escobars. See below the video for the full review. Jeff and Michael Zimbalist tell the engaging story of Pablo and Andres Escobar and their impact on Colombia in the mid 1990′s.  I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of the film and was also [...]

Red Carpet Footage from the premiere of Beware the Gonzo Interviews with – Jesse McCartney, Brian Goluboff (Writer/Director), Steve Kaplan, James Urbaniak Interview with – Judah Friedlander Guest Review by Ron Ashley I was fortunate enough to attend last night’s world premiere of BEWARE THE GONZO, written and directed by Bryan Goluboff, at the 2010 [...]

Andy Serkis (Gollum from Lord of the Rings) plays the British punk rocker Ian Dury in the Matt Whitecross directed film, “Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll” (“SDRR”).  SDRR is a very stylistic film that shows the wild ride of ups and downs that Dury faced on the road to taking his band, The [...]

For our NY metropolitan area fans, we hope you get a chance to make it out to the Tribeca Film Festival.  For all other fans, there is an online library for you to watch the films.  Please go to tribecafilmfest.com for more information about ticket info, blurbs on all the films, and scheduling.  Here are [...]

How quickly could we repair the environment if we all joined forces across the world to aid in green-themed efforts. Lets say we took the initiative instead of waiting for our respective governments to do something.  Directed by Brian Hill and narrated by Oscar winning actress Tilda Swinton, Climate of Change touches upon this subject [...]

Mahmud Nasir considers himself a true Muslim. He may not pray 5 times a day towards Mecca, but in his heart Allah lives. His son wants to marry this girl, who’s stepfather is an Islamic extremist. So Mahmud’s son needs his father to be convincingly Muslim so that he can get his soon-to-be wife’s stepfather’s [...]

The Tribeca Film Festival (“TFF”) begins in two weeks (April 21st) and will be opened up by the Shrek 4 premiere.  In order for you to properly prepare for TFF, we at themoviebanter.com wanted to share with you some of the highly anticipated movies at this year’s festival.  As such we will be running multiple [...]