Perhaps the chief delight of Wes Andersons Moonrise Kingdom is that it is the most quintessential Wes Anderson movie to date. That is not to say it is his best film, or his most insightful film, or e...
Before it starts stepping on landmines in the third act, Bradley Parkers Chernobyl Diaries sidesteps many of the hazards that have doomed similar horror movies to failure. Parker is an experienced vi...
With the second wave of Jean Rollin Blu-ray releases from Redemption/Kino on May 29th, I get to resume this series, and that makes me smile. The first of the discs hitting store shelves next Tuesday ...
The greatest benefit of writing for this Twitch is the soapbox effect. This site gives our staff the ability to champion projects that we believe in that often fall through the cracks at larger outle...
Brandon Cronenbergs Antiviral has proven to be one of the more challenging and divisive titles at Cannes this year - check the links below for Brian Clarks positive take on it - and those wondering w...
Dear Korea, your filmmakers are trying to tell you something. You need to clean up your rivers. First they spawned a monster in The Host. And now theyre just skipping right over the middle man and ma...
With so many serious, dramatic and even generic (see Lawless) films in competition at Cannes, director Leos Caraxs Holy Motors came as something like a 100 mph gust of fresh air. In fact, this sci-fi...
Elijahs got a knife and hes not afraid to use it.The Franck Khalfoun directed remake of Bill Lustigs cult hit Maniac promises to put a bloody end to things in Cannes and horror fans are itching for a...
What? You expected restraint from a movie titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Give director Timur Bekmambetov a man with an axe and, by god, hes going to make use of it. And he does that and more...
Liev Schreiber narrates Felt, the dark tale of a bunny cursed to forever appear happy and friendly on the outside while his insides are anything but. Darkly hilarious, the five minute short film deli...
Another major piece has just fallen into place for the Jose Padilha directed remake of Paul Verhoevens RoboCop. We already knew that The Killing star Joel Kinnaman would play the robotically enhanced...
Ladies and gentlemen, if the deep thinkers at The Hollywood Reporter have done their math correctly, sometime in the recent past Gary Oldman became the top grossing actor of all time. The statement i...
Just five weeks away from their scheduled release of GI Joe: Retaliation and perhaps feeling a bit of performance anxiety due to the monster sized competition in what is already shaping up to be the ...
Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as hi...
Some things are holy. If a person were to ask me "What film properties are off limits for remakes?" sitting at the very tip top of that list would be The Exorcist . William Peter Blattys nove...
The sequel that the original deserved, Men in Black 3 is not exactly fresh, but it is an honest journeymans effort by director Barry Sonnenfeld, and features a peachy-fine performance by Josh Brolin,...
(It is not "Totoro-light", although I guess it can be called "Totoro-heavy"...) Trying to see anime in the cinema can be quite hard in The Netherlands. The last decade weve seen the l...
Reynir Lyngdals found footage horror film FROST seems to be gathering up speed at Cannes this last weekend with Alliance snapping up the UK rights and other companies circling this promising looking ...
If youre into weird and you havent seen Pistol Opera yet, just skip this review and make sure you go into the film as blank as possible. Pistol Opera is without a doubt one of the strangest cinematic...
UPDATE! In their infinite wisdom, Troma have decided to scratch nearly all of the great sounding bonus material from the Blu-ray release of Fathers Day. There will be no directors commentary, no feat...
There is a new home video distributor out there who seems to have the kind of massive cojones it takes to jump into the ever expanding niche home video market. That distributor is 5 Points Pictures (...
If someone had approached me a year ago and said, "Hey Josh, were going to throw a film at you that involves Vietnamese B-boys dancing to save a community center and youre going to love it!",...
Joachim Triers second feature, Oslo, August 31st is a day in the life of young Anders (played in a great turn by Anders Danielsen Lie), an affable and seemingly nice young man, who happens to b...
While the awards wont be handed out for some time yet, Pablo Larrains No is clearly already one of the big winners. Widely hailed by critics, the Chilean directors third film has already been picked ...
Leos Caraxs Cannes-selected Holy Motors is a weird one. And its got itself a weird trailer to match. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys fro...
Hey Toronto! Twitch and MO Pictures - the genre imprint of Canadas Mongrel Media - will be presenting a screening of Eduardo Sanchez Lovely Molly on Saturday, May 26th at 11pm in the Bloor Hotdocs Ci...
Walter Salles adaptation of Jack Kerouac classic On The Road takes a bow in Cannes this year and US distributor IFC Films / Sundance Selects have just premiered a pair of clips to give audiences a fi...
RoboCop is the new Batman. Or, at least, he is the new voice of Batman.Warner Brothers currently have director Jay Oliva hard at work on a two film animated adaptation of Frank Millers 1986 comic min...
Thomas Vinterbergs The Hunt (Jagten) has had a warm reception from both critics and distributors in Cannes - the competition title has already been picked up for distribution in more than twenty terr...
Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, two clips and seven character posters have been released from John Hillcoats prohibition era action-drama Lawless. LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondura...
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