Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler appears to be a big hit at the 65th Venice Film Festival. The Hollywood Reporter claims that the film created “a buzz that had been absent for most of the festival.” Anne Thompson reports that the film is hoping to land a distributor which could “ramp up a release before year’s [...]

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Yesterday morning, I caught Cinematical’s James Rocchi off guard, and after totally butchering the pronunciation of his last name (hey, for the last two years I’ve just [...]

Many people have drawn a comparison between Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Juno, due to the hand drawn opening title sequence / poster title, Michael Cera and a focus on indie pop music. It also doesnt help that Norah screens at the Toronto a year after Juno premiered at the Film Festival. But Nick [...]

Four stark profile posters for Ed Harris’s revival Western, Appaloosa, have popped up at IMP Awards. The film reunites Harris with his A History of Violence co-star Viggo Mortensen for a tale of “two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by [...]

In about 6 seconds, I will lose a lot of geek cred… 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… I’m not a fan of Ricky Gervais. There, I said it. Also, I have yet to get into either the British or American versions of The Office. ::gasp:: I know, a travesty. That said, I caught David [...]

It’s day seven of my 28 day movie adventure. The Toronto International Film Festival has begun. And anyone who doesn’t think Canada can be hot obviously hasn’t visited Toronto in September. I arrived at 2:00am due to an unforeseen delay in my flight, and was unable to catch the morning press screening of Guy Ritchie’s [...]

Sunday night at the Telluride Film Festival, I was sitting in a half empty theater waiting to watch the new Mike Leigh film. I later learned that my friend was also at a half empty screening during the same time slot. A volunteer for the festival came over and began to make small talk with [...]

The reason why Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler has the un-popular position of closing the Venice Film Festival, is because the film is waiting on a new song written and performed by Bruce Springsteen. The song was written for the closing credits and is also titled The Wrestler. Aronofsky calls the song “beautiful” … “wonderful acoustic [...]

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/Film editor Peter Sciretta is about to embark on a 28 day trip that will span three film festivals - Telluride, Toronto, and Fantastic Fest. This is [...]

We’re in the midst of an industry preamble for a 3D revolution flush with cash, but there are countless doubters. Ebert’s hating, and while I liked Beowulf and eagerly anticipate Avatar, it’s easy to see 3D becoming the Reebok Pump of cinema (again?). Personally, I’m prone to believing the future holds a more participatory creative [...]

The Toronto International Film Festival has released their list of the 2008 festival’s slate of twenty special presentation films. You can check out the highlights below and the rest after the jump. We’ll be at the festival next month, so keep it tuned for our coverage.
The Brothers Bloom Rian Johnson, USA World PremiereThe brothers [...]

Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler makes it’s premiere next month, and we have the first batch of official promotional production photos. Aronofsky’s The Wrestler tells the story of a old professional wrestler (Mickey Rourke) barely making a living on the independent circuit, who is told by a doctor that he could die if he wrestles again. [...]

Sure, Darren Aronofsky’s new film The Wrestler is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5th, but I’m sadly not going to be there to see it. But I’m excited to report that the film will also be playing at the Toronto International Film Festival two days later. And yes, we will [...]

Remember last year when the first photo from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist was released? Well they have now made the production photo (seen above) into a poster, which has been released on MTV.
Michael Cera (SuperBad) and Kat Dennings (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) star. Directed by Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas), and based on the novel [...]

One of the movies I really wanted to see at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival but never got to, was a little indie called Young People F—ing. The movie could have been sold based on the buzz created by it’s shocking title alone. I’ve heard the actual film is not as sensational.
The publicity materials [...]