• Why We Go To The Sundance Film Festival

    NOTE: We ran this article in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and have updated it for 2015. The Sundance Film Festival is the best known film festival in the United States. Say the word "Sundance" to anyone, film lover or not, and chances are they've heard of the festival. As a movie blog though, the problem…

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  • /Filmcast Ep. 193 - The Imposter

    This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam respond to your feedback about The Amazing Spider-Man, join Team Margaret, and review one of the most thrilling documentaries of the year. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. We'll be reviewing The Dark Knight Rises next week. Download or Play…

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  • VOTD: 'The Films Of [Christopher Nolan]'

    From the earliest installments of his "[the films of]" project, I've noticed /Film commenters wondering if and when Kees van Dijkhuizen would get around to spotlighting Christopher Nolan. The British director inspires fervent devotion from movie geeks as few other filmmakers do, thanks to his wildly ambitious imagination, his masterful storytelling, and his eye for cool…

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  • Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' Returns To Theaters February 17

    In one short decade, Christopher Nolan has gone from interesting new talent to one of our most revered filmmakers. Though he had made Following at the time, it really all started in 2001 with Memento, Nolan's backwards mystery about a man with short-term memory loss trying to figure out who killed his wife. Almost everything…

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  • Page 2: Star Wars, Christopher Nolan, Source Code, Hailee Steinfeld, Smallville, Spike Jonze, The Sunset Limited, Tom Cruise, Time Bandits

    What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 22 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…

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  • Christopher Nolan's Longstanding Practice Of "Fridging" Female Characters

    With Inception, The Prestige and each of his Batman films, Christopher Nolan has firmly established himself as one of the rare filmmakers working today who can not only produce complex, character-driven entertainment on the studio's dime, but can command an audience while doing it. Women viewers, though, would be forgiven for dismissing themselves from that…

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  • The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 33 - The X Factor

    Stephen gives tips on auditioning and some recollections of the film Memento as he recalls  some of the dangers of knowing too little as well as the dangers of knowing too much. The Tobolowsky Files is a podcast from the people who brought you the /Filmcast, featuring a series of stories about life, love, and…

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  • IMDb's Top 25 Movies Of The Decade

    A couple weeks ago we ran a listing of the best reviewed films of the decade as compiled by Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. We followed that up by the top 20 films of the decade, as voted on by the users of FlickChart. Today I decided to compile the top 25 films of the decade,…

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  • IMDB's The Top Rated Films Of The New Millennium

    The Internet Movie Database have announced The Top Rated Films of the New Millennium, looking at the 15 films made since 2000 that IMDb users have rated as the best of the new millennium. Usually people are quick to write off the IMDb user ratings as fanboy controlled, but I was surprised to four foreign…

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  • The /Filmcast Interview: Stephen Tobolowsky

    The /Filmcast Interviews are a series of interviews with movie stars, directors, and other key figures from the film industry. Last week after Stephen Tobolowsky reviewed The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with us on the /Filmcast, he spent an extra 40 minutes chatting with us about his past and present work, including the…

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