Check out the short film ‘Maniac’ starring Kid Cudi and Shia LaBeouf (also director)

Find out which movies were nominated for the British Independent Film Awards!

First official trailer released for Francis Ford Coppola’s original horror tale ‘Twixt’

The true story of a group of New Yorkers inspired by 9/11 who travel the country helping others who suffered tragedy.

Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival On Demand will run through August 25th showcasing various independent sports films.

Official Trailer and Synopsis for IFC Films Latest Thriller ‘The Ledge’

Watch three independent horror films for less than a dollar on SundanceNow!

World Full of nothing tackles teen suicide in a mediocre way.

Independent filmmaker Bill Plympton’s newest project, Idiots and Angels, will be released at IFC Center (New York) and Laemmle Sunset 5 (Los Angeles) starting October 6th. Plympton, who has also animated popular shorts like Your Face (nominated for an Academy Award) and Guard Dog, built the film around the basic idea of an angel who [...]

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 [...]

So… is Joaquin Phoenix still an actor? Is he a hip-hop artist? Is he pulling an elaborate prank on all of us and wants more attention because he’s a celebrity and we all know that celebrities need the most attention of any other people ever? To some of you, this question may really matter; you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last year I reviewed a movie for our Indie Spotlight segment called One Hour Fantasy Girl.  The movie about a lost girl out in LA trying to make money to put away for her future by becoming a fantasy girl to her clients was one of the top indie movies I saw of 2009.  I [...]

Sundance is currently going on in Utah, and we at themoviebanter are sadly not there. However, that does not mean we are not aware of what’s going on there. On Monday, the independent picture “The Kids Are All Right” was screened for the first time. The film is about a lesbian couple (Annette Bening & [...]

Ron Ashley is back to provide some insight on a new indie film he caught a couple days ago.  The film is titled “Adam” and is a romantic comedy written and directed by Max Mayer.  Starring Hugh Dancy, Peter Gallagher (from the ‘OC’ and Mr Deeds), Amy Irving, and Rose Byrne, the film is about [...]

Before James Cameron Death Racers ipod Loaded Weapon 1 dvd download Surviving the Game movie , director of Titanic, snagged the title of Avatar for his new movie, I would always think of that lame anime-wannabe of a cartoon on Nickelodeon. Now we can think of both! M. Night Shyamalan is making a feature-film out [...]

In this riveting story about life in Queens in the 1980′s, “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” proves to be a nostalgic recap of why a person would choose to leave home.  The movie has an all-star cast including Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Channing Tatum, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne West, Rosario Dawson, and Melonie Diaz.  [...]

Dark Reprieve dvd Triloquist trailer Indie spot light this week brings us a brand new released movie that is sure to grab some people’s attention within the year.  One Hour Fantasy Girl, a film about a 20 yr old newly recruited “fantasy” girl named Becky who is trying to save up enough money so she [...]