Slashfilm

After leaving his job writing for the AOL-owned movie blog, Cinematical, Peter Sciretta created /Film. The site eventually grew to a staff of 20, but Peter decided he wanted a personal approach and downsized to 4-5 full time writers.

His goal was to be a Film news site, always on "the cutting edge of breaking news."http://www.slashfilm.com/the-history-of-film/

The SlashFilm FilmCast

On May 26th 2008, Peter hired the cast of the increasingly popular podcast, The Watchers and launched the site’s regular live podcast, the /Filmcast.

Hosts David Chen, Devindra Hardawar, and Adam Quigley debate, argue, discuss the latest films, film related news, television shows, and general entertainment items from that week.

David Chen - Managing Editor (Boston, MA) Devindra Hardawar - Writer (Amherst, MA) Adam Quigley - (Sacramento, CA)

Most Recent Reviews

Year One

The Taking of Pelham 123

Land of the Lost

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The SlashFilm Website

Currently setup as a news Blog, the SlashFilm website has several different main categories such as Reviews of new films and television, links to new movie trailers, the SlashFilm Podcast (the FilmCast) and general Hollywood/entertainment news.

Awards and Film Festivals

Won the Reader’s Choice Award for Best Entertainment Blog in the 2007 Performancing Blog Awards.
Nominated for Best Major Blog 2008 in the 2008 Weblog Awards.
Nominated in the Entertainment category of the 2007 and 2008 Bloggies.

The staf of the SlashFilm website have attended the Sundance Film Festiva, New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival, WonderCon in San Francisco, San Diego Comic Con, and the Toronto Film Festival.

In 2008, they traveled to the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas for the first time.