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Hello Banterers,

I just wanted to inform everybody of the update to the Sidebar.  We split our Snap Review section into 2.  We now have a section entitled ‘Snap Video Reviews’ and ‘Snap Written Reviews.’   Click the links on each title of the ‘Snap Written Review’ section to be taken directly to that review.  The ‘Snap Video Review’ section is identical to the original ‘Snap Review’ Section where you just need to click the ‘Play’ icon to see the video.

We hope this will make it a lot simpler to see our reviews and make it easier to navigate the site.

Please check out both sections for the most current reviews of movies in theaters.

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We have some sad news to report.  It has been reported that Brittany Murphy has past away at the age of 32.  Multiple news sources are reporting that the actress went into cardiac arrest early Sunday morning in LA, and, despite being rushed to hospital, was dead on arrival.

Murphy entered the scene playing a ditsy school-girl in Clueless.  After Clueless, who would have thought her career would be more successful then Alicia Silverstone’s. Pretty shocking, but definitely the truth.

She also had roles in Sin City, Just Married, Don’t Say A Word, Girl Interrupted (-which she received much praise for) and of course her leading lady role in 8 Mile. Her performance in 8 Mile was also very good.

According to IMDB.com she has 3 movies in Post-Production set to be released in 2010, and 2 others in Pre-Production.  

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Avatar, director James Cameron’s 1 year $500 million dollar blockbuster movie of the century is only a few weeks away.  There has been a slow progress of hype and marketing leading up to the release that will take over the nation on December 18th.  Cameron has released teasers and now full length movie trailers that look fantastic.  It’s obvious that the visuals are going to be spectacular.  The marketing and advertising is on waves like never seen before, and the social media efforts have been stepped up as well.  Twitter has played a major role in driving word of mouth buzz for other movies, and the team behind Avatar is joining in the mayhem as well.

There already is an interactive trailer that gives users behind the scenes, interviews and more information about the actors and characters.  Now Facebook and MTV are teaming up to give users a live webcast on Facebook with the stud director James Cameron and Sam Worthington, the main actor.

The live webcast will be held on Facebook on Thursday, December 3rd at 3 PM ET.

This is a smart move by Fox studios as well as the partnership between MTV and Facebook.  More live webcasts are becoming the norm and the world has recently seen a few live concerts and announcements on various social networks.  This will add to the marketing outreach driving the attention to Avatar, something James Cameron is doing a great job of leading.  Fans will also have the opportunity to submit questions via the Facebook Fan Page, and selected questions will be presented to the director and cast.  Now this may practice may not be new, but I don’t think it’s ever been done with such a high profile director with such a big time movie.  I am looking forward to the webcast and think it’s an excellent way to drive buzz for the movie.  Not that it needs anymore buzz, I think everyone and their grandma know about this movie, but adding some interactive spice clearly can’t hurt.

What do you think of the live webcast?

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Congrats to Heather at www.twitter.com/hmgarrison. You are the winner of the free copy of the Star Trek DVD. We will be reaching out to you shortly.

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The Hitcher video TheMovieBanter.com would like to announce that it will now be taking bids to advertise on our website.  If you are interested in doing so, please contact Matt or Craig directly. You can find our information on our “Contact Us” page.

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This weekend is one of the bigger weekends in film we have seen in recent weeks. We have film’s of multiple genre’s, appealing to several movie goers. Lets take a quick look

The Informant! – Matt Damon plays a cooookie guy who is trying to get a promotion while cooperating to sell his company out to the Feds at the same time. With Scott Bakula as well, this movie looks  hilarious. P.S.  Soderbergh is a genius.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – based off the children’s book, this film is a CGI movie about a guy can make food fall from the sky.  Children of all ages, and even some adults, with flock to the theaters for this one.

Love Happens - need I even give the plot line. This is your chick flick movie about a guy who is looking for love and women who is going to give it to him. Harvey Dent, I mean Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston star.

Jennifer’s Body – this is the weekly horror flick starring Megan Fox. She looks hot, but the movie doesn’t. Tacky horror fans and middle school guys will flock to theaters for either blood or Fox. Will you?

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I’m definitely pumped for “The Informant” and will eventually see “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”

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Eyes Wide Shut hd I didn’t need to know anything else about Youth in Revolt after the fact that it starred Michael Cera and was about a kid who wanted to lose his virginity. This was the premise of Superbad, which was hilarious. It’s based on a book, if you don’t know, by C.D Payne, whose novel Civic Beauties later became the Mean Girls before Mean Girls, Drop Dead Gorgeous. Miguel Artera (The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck) is directing with Gustin Nash (Charlie Bartlett, another personal favorite coming-of-age comedy of mine) adapting the screenplay. The trailer, which premiered in August, received great reviews, and the early buzz for the screening at the Toronto International Film Festival just this month was generally positive. Why, then, is Revolt being pushed back to being released January 15th, 2010 instead of its original start date of October 30th?
The Weinstein Company has fans pretty pissed; this is the second time the comic-drama has been delayed. Cinema Blend

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is guessing that Youth in Revolt is being moved since Weinstein’s recent Inglourious Basterds was such a success that they may want to continue to promote it until Oscar season. The Moving Picture agrees, adding that they also probably want to focus on their award-likely A Single Man, Nine and The Road. Although, we should have seen this coming. Youth in Revolt was scheduled to come out in December 2008 and then February of this year, and the lack of promotion for the film began talk that it would be delayed both times. I’ve seen advertisement for The Lovely Bones, The Men Who Stare At Goats and Where The Wild Things Are already, but nothing thus far for Revolt.

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This always happens for movies at Toronto. Take Creation just this year, for example; that might not even be shown in the States at all. Or the highly-acclaimed Dorian Gray, even though it stars Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. Revolt sounds like a quality teen comedy, one that could (gasp) tell kids a decent story. And that’s what Youth in Revolt is, and it sucks that The Weinstein Company is giving it its third push away.

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It has finally arrived, the new themoviebanter.com design is here.  We want to welcome you all to the new era of TheMovieBanter.  We hope you all like the new design as we have really tried to improve our website.  Before I go into the new additions and enhanced features, I want to thank Bharadwaj Parthasarath, Harish Raghavan and their team who were instrumental in completing this transition.  For those who are interested in their services, you can reach Bharadwaj at teraom@teraom.com Confessions of a Pop Performer dvd , and Harish at haripaddu@gmail.com.

So lets go through some of the new things.

1. Banter Radar – You can see this on the sidebar below Snap Reviews.  Banter Radar will be a constantly updated section where we will list the upcoming movies that we are excited for and highly anticipated DVD/Blu Ray’s that will be coming out. Additionally, we will include certain movies that HBO/Showtime/Starz are repeatedly airing, that we have been watching.

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2. Favorite Posts – a new section listing all the most read posts.

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– you can see all the new icons on top of the sidebar. If you want to reach either Matt or Craig on Twitter, or get in touch with us on Facebook you can click those links and will be taken directly to those pages. Additionally, you can get to our youtube page to see all our video reviews, sign up for the RSS Feed, or sign up for RSS Email.

4. Categories – this will list all the sections we are organizing our posts into. It will be easier for you to check out older posts especially all our Rants and Reviews. You will be able to see them all listed out in order of when we posted them.

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6. Compatible in all browsers – the biggest reason for changing the design was that our old design was not fully compatible with Internet Explorer.  Now, all Banter fans will be able to view the same website no matter what browser you use as the new site is compatible in all browsers. This was very important to us.

7. You can buy your movie tickets, movie goods, sport tickets – check out the ads on the top right to buy all your movie and sports related items.

8. Blogroll – for our fellow bloggers, we want to maintain good relations.  This section will allow you to view other blogs we have close relations with.

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FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS – do not see The Orphan which opens up on Friday. This is the most generic looking horror movie in a while. Instead, check out “The Ugly Truth,” which looks like a pretty funny romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.We mentioned this in our July 2009 Lineup post, and we are sticking by it.

Anyways, we hope you like the site. Feel free to give us feedback

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My Sister’s Keeper is one of those movies that could really have an impact on someone.  Starring Cameron Diaz (Sara) and Jason Patric (Brian) who playthe parents of their daughter Katie who is dying of cancer.  With no one in the family as a donor match, not even her younger brother, the parents decide to have a test tube baby created to ensure that there will be genetic matching, and the donor baby could help keep her sister alive.

This works great for 11 years until Katie’s kidneys fail, and they need to take a kidney from her younger sister Anna (Abigail Breslin).  After years of acting as a donor child, Anna hires a lawyer (Alec Baldwin) to sue her parents for the rights to her own body, which would mean death for her older sister.

This is a sensitive and controversial topic and although it’s more a chick movie, guys could be amused by the hard hitting topic.  Get your tissues out for this one, guaranteed to have watery eyes at some point in the movie and the soundtrack just leads the way for tears.  For those who loved the book, the ending of the movie was changed.

Check out my snap review of the movie My Sister’s Keeper and tell me what you thought of it.

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Summer is in full swing and it’s officially July.  Granted with the on and off weather you would never know, but this is a good start to the summer and only great things to look forward to.  This past month has been our best month at the banter yet, and we would like to thank all of you guys for continuing to support us.  We had our highest unique visitor total in a day, and this past month has been our highest month yet, reaching over 10,000 unique visitors.  Amazing, we are so happy that so many have been able to stop by and have some fun with us.

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Big things to look forward to in July.  Besides a ton of big movies coming out and plenty more snap reviews to record and to be watched, we will be having a complete site redesign What a Carve Up! .

That’s right, we will be improving upon the current site and will bring to you a complete new site that hopefully you all will enjoy.

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