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The First Negative Review Of The Dark Knight By Peter Sciretta/July 13, 2008 5:11 pm EST Please Note: This is NOT a negative review of The Dark Knight. This is a rant about the negative review which was printed by New York Magazine. The Dark Knight is currently getting 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Everyone I’ve talked to who has seen the film thinks its nothing short of brilliant. I’ve even called the film a masterpiece, my favorite film of the year thus far....

TIFF Video Blog: My Two Favorites - A Serious Man And Up In The Air By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 18, 2009 10:15 am EST Steve (from Collider) and I usually record our video blogs in separate locations through the magic of the internet, but since we’re both attending this year’s Toronto Film Festival, we’ve decided to record some video blogs talking about some of the movies we’ve seen at the festival. We’ve tried to keep the video blogs short and to the point, but as always, it sometimes goes longer than planned....

Timecrimes US Movie Trailer By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 22, 2008 7:48 pm EST I was sitting in a theater at the Alamo Drafthouse watching Nacho Vigalondo’s short films when I got a text message from a friend alerting me that the domestic movie trailer for Vigalondo’s Timecrimes was now online. I have yet to see Timecrimes, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about it. United Artists is already hard at work developing a English-language remake with Children of Men scribe Timothy J....

Trailer For Dario Argento’s Giallo By Brendon Connelly/July 6, 2009 4:56 am EST Dario Argento’s latest is Giallo, named for the mystery-horror genre that he is, or at least was, the undisputed master of. It stars Adrien Br0dy, Emmanuelle Seigner and Elsa Pataky. The film premiered at the Edinburgh Festival last month and is next scheduled to screen at Frightfest in August. I’ve been somewhat concerned about the film for a while now, with word bubbling up from even the most Argento-faithful that perhaps it doesn’t really work....

Universal To Make Asteroids Movie By Peter Sciretta/July 1, 2009 11:06 pm EST When movie studios are developing big budget big screen movies based on Stretch Armstrong and Candyland, I knew it was only a matter of time before Hollywood started to mine some of the classic video games of the children of the 70’s/80’s. Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to win the film rights to the classic Atari video game Asteroids....

VOTD: Bad Robot Concept Animation Teaser By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2009 11:00 pm EST You might know the name Ruairi Robinson; if you don’t I’m betting you will very soon. Robinson made the cool short film The Silent City (which I’ve embedded below) and was the guy tapped to direct the live-action Akira. I’m not sure whether he’s still attached to that film, which was recently said to be not as dead as once reported....

VOTD: Empire’s Kick-Ass Mini-Documentary By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 17, 2010 1:33 am EST Empire Magazine has released a three and a half minute mini-documentary they recorded on the set of Kick-Ass. They talk with director Matthew Vaughn, stars Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and Mark Strong about the making of the film. The featurette is tightly cut together, but I’d almost much rather see a 15-20 minute version. Watch the short doc, embedded after the jump....

Watchmen Video Journal: Costume Design By Peter Sciretta/May 6, 2008 11:30 pm EST JoBlo has the premiere of the second Watchmen production video. If you remember, one video will be released each month on the 6th until the film premieres on March 6th 2009. The latest video is about the costume design in the film. Not as interesting as the set design, but hey, we have nine more of these things coming....

Will Danny Boyle Direct The Next James Bond Movie? By Peter Sciretta/March 3, 2009 1:29 am EST Update: This story has been debunked by Boyle himself. The Sun is not really considered a trusted source for information, especially when it comes to gossip (the word “our sources say” is the big tip off). I don’t know why, but somehow we always get hooked by their bullshit. Maybe it’s because some of their claims are just interesting, while other stories we just want to be true....

Will Emily Blunt Be Forced To Leave Iron Man 2 For Gulliver’s Travels? By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 29, 2009 8:07 pm EST Blunt and Jason Segel are in talks to join Jack Black in Gulliver’s Travels, with Shark Tale director Rob Letterman taking up directorial duties. Written by Nicholas Stoller and Joe Stillman, the “contemporary re-imagining” will see a travel writer named Gulliver, who takes an assignment to visit the Bermuda Triangle, and somehow washes up on an island where he’s a giant compared to the tiny population....

13 New Live Free Or Die Hard Photos By Peter Sciretta/June 5, 2007 12:33 am EST Official Plot Synopsis: In a movie season filled with CGI fantasy, LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD gets real â€" with real action, real humor, and the reprise of a beloved and iconic character: John McClane. On the Fourth of July weekend, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation....

Back To The Future Gets A Two Disc Special Edition DVD By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 21, 2008 1:28 am EST Great Scott! Universal Home Entertainment has announced that they will be re-releasing the Back to the Future films on DVD in February. All three films have been digitally restored and mastered in High Definition, but that was expected. The big news is that the original film, Back to the Future, will be released as a two-disc special edition....

BREAKING: A Christmas Story & Porky’s Director Bob Clark DEAD By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2007 3:18 pm EST Porky’s and A Christmas Story director Bob Clark and son Ariel were killed in an early morning car accident along a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades. LAPD investigators said Clark was driving a 1997 Infiniti Q-30 sedan southbound on PCH at about 2:20am when the 24 year old driver of a GMC Yukon swerved and hit Clark’s vehicle head-on....

Cameron Crowe Might Direct We Bought A Zoo By Peter Sciretta/March 2, 2010 12:59 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the past few years, Crowe has been trying to get his tropical romantic comedy Deep Tiki into production, but scheduling conflicts with the signed stars Ben Stiller and Reese Witherspoon (read about the plot here) keep pushing and pushing it back. Frankly, it never sounded too exciting to me — kind of like a modern day Joe and the Volcano, which I didn’t like the first time around....

Contest: Troubled Waters On DVD By Peter Sciretta/Feb. 6, 2007 4:20 am EST Troubled Waters hit DVD store shelves on January 23rd, and we have a copy of this DVD for three lucky /Film readers. All you need to enter is to e-mail us with the reason why you should get this DVD (note: you must first register with /Film). On February 12th we will e-mail the winners with the best answers....

Dom DeLuise Passes Away By Peter Sciretta/May 5, 2009 12:36 pm EST Dom DeLuise, 75, passed away on Monday in a Los Angeles Hospital. He appeared frequently alongside his friend Burt Reynolds, and in the early films of Mel Brooks. The comic actor is best known from Cannonball Run, History of the World Part I, and the voice of the popular animated movies An American Tail, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH and Oliver & Company....

Escape From New York Remake To Star Gerard Butler By Peter Sciretta/March 13, 2007 2:00 am EST CAA is shopping a remake of John Carpenter’s 1981 action classic Escape From New York with 300 star Gerard Butler attached to star. Butler would play Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict who must rescue the President of the United States from an inescapable maximum security prison formerly known as Manhattan. The film was set in a dystopian then-future 1997....

Fan Created Star Trek Posters? By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2009 2:00 pm EST Update: Apparently the posters are real after all.ScreenWeek has some cool, most likely fan created, posters for JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. The posters make use of some previously released character images and trailer shots, which is why I’m pretty sure they are fan created photoshops. The tagline “The Future Begins” was a previous working title for the film, and I haven’t seen it used on any of the marketing materials yet....

Final Wolverine Trailer And Character Photos Revealed By Peter Sciretta/March 4, 2009 10:17 pm EST

Geek Deal: Superman Ultimate Collection For $46 By Peter Sciretta/April 22, 2009 11:25 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.