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How far can Russia americanize its cinema, in IRONY OF LOVE this time

That's definitely not a kind of movies one usually expects from Russia. Moreover that's like watching American movie with Russian language and Russian actors. Weird feeling.There are two current trends in Russian cinema: one is gloomy historical and pseudo-historical films,... More >>

by Vladimir, March 20, 2010 9:20 PM

Second teaser for Ip Man 2. More Donnie! More Sammo! More table!

Action, Asia, Drama, Martial Arts

Sigh. This cannot come soon enough. For now do not lament that Donnie has said no to Ip Man 3. Rather, delight in a second teaser for Ip Man 2. Donnie. Sammo. Table. Sigh.... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 19, 2010 9:53 PM

Ole Bornedal to helm thriller 'Death of a Hostess'

Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal will direct the thriller 'Death of a Hostess'. We're rather fond of him around these parts having spoken fondly of his films like Deliver us From Evil and The Substitute. Project was inspired by a Time... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 19, 2010 9:31 PM

See 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance' in New York for FREE on March 23rd!

Action, Asia, Drama

Frankly, I think you should all pay to see this masterful film but the good folks behind the New York Asian Film Festival and The Korean Cultural Service are screening Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance for free on... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 19, 2010 9:13 PM

Signed MOTHER Poster Winners!

We offered them up as a giveaway and James Shapiro and Nethanel DeCarmo won 'em. Congratulations to our winners of signed posters for Bong Joon-Ho's Mother.... More >>

by Todd Brown, March 19, 2010 1:05 PM

Mummies! Pterodactyl! Occultist! It's the Trailer for Luc Besson's ADELE BLANC-SEC

Action, Continental Europe & Russia, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

As scheduled, Yahoo! France has premiered the trailer for Luc Besson's Les Aventures Extraordinaires D'Adèle Blanc-Sec, a serial-inspired action-adventure that stars the beautiful Louise Bourgoin in the title role. Here's a recap on the synopsis incase your not up to... More >>

by Al Young, March 19, 2010 10:46 AM

SEASON OF THE WITCH Is Looking Mighty Wicked

Action, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller, USA & Canada

2010 may end up being called The Year Cage Came Back when all is said and done. With his Werner Herzog directed performance in BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS, and his role as Big Daddy in the... More >>

by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, March 18, 2010 10:50 PM

Trailer for Czech prisoner film 'Kajinek'

Action, Continental Europe & Russia, Drama

One might be forgiven at first glance at the trailer to assume that Kajinek is a submission to the European action canon from the Czech Republic. After all, it is action packed with lots of guns, beautiful women and... More >>

by Andrew Mack, March 18, 2010 10:32 PM

Teaser and trailer for Czech kids film 'Kuky Returns' blows our minds!

'Zonad' lands at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

Badass Poster for THE EXPENDABLES

PREDATORS Trailer Unleashed!

Take a Look At Idris Elba In The First Trailer For Thomas Ikimi's LEGACY

New promo materials for PHOBOS: THE CLUB OF FEAR

What the muck?! A trailer for "MUCKMAN", that's what!

Get Behind the Scenes of Luc Besson's ADELE BLANC-SEC

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SXSW 2010: ENTER THE VOID Review

SXSW 2010

This review contains both mild spoilers and enthusiastic praise.Enter the Void is a 21st century "head" movie designed for consumers of psychedelics, designer drugs, and potent substances yet to be invented or discovered. Points of reference include the Star-Gate... More >>

by Rodney Perkins, March 21, 2010 1:36 AM

SXSW 2010: AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE Review

Documentary, Exploitation, SXSW 2010

There are so many books, articles, and documentaries available on the subject of American exploitation cinema that new revelations are increasingly scarce and unlikely. A new documentary called American Grindhouse from director Elijiah Drenner is an example of the... More >>

by Rodney Perkins, March 20, 2010 1:15 PM

SXSW 2010: THIS MOVIE IS BROKEN Review

Drama, SXSW 2010, USA & Canada

I feel like such a musically ignorant cuss, but I'd never really heard of Broken Social Scene before watching the latest movie by Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, Hard Core Logo). And now I'm a fan, both of Broken Social Scene and... More >>

by Peter Martin, March 18, 2010 9:29 AM

SXSW 2010: CARGO Review

Continental Europe & Russia, SXSW 2010, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Swiss science fiction offering Cargo is a difficult film to judge because depending which criteria you use you will arrive at wildly different conclusions. If, for example, you judge the film acknowledging it as the first significant attempt at... More >>

by Todd Brown, March 17, 2010 9:00 PM

IFFR 2010: DEVIL'S TOWN Review

Comedy, Continental Europe & Russia, Drama, IFFR 2010

(Possible alternate title: "Men Suck And All Women Are Whores!" ) The Serbs must have a very peculiar view of their own nationality, judging by the way they choose to portray themselves in recent cinematic output. Soon to be... More >>

by Ard Vijn, March 17, 2010 8:55 PM

SXSW 2010: SUCK Review

Comedy, Horror, Musical, SXSW 2010, Toronto Film Festival 2009, USA & Canada

[With Rob Stefaniuk's Suck screening at SXSW now seems a good time to revisit my review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Joey has a problem. His band, The Winners, is on the verge of making it big. This... More >>

by Todd Brown, March 17, 2010 7:10 PM

HKIFF 2010: ENTER THE VOID Review

Asia, Continental Europe & Russia, Cult, Drama, Exploitation, HKIFF 2010, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Although the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival doesn't officially get under way until Sunday, press screenings have begun and yesterday I got the chance to see Gaspar Noe's latest piece of shock & awe Cinema. Gaspar Noe makes Lars... More >>

by James Marsh, March 17, 2010 12:11 AM

Marco Ferreri's DILLINGER IS DEAD DVD Review

Comedy, Continental Europe & Russia, Drama

Marco Ferreri's 1969 film Dillinger is Dead is now out on DVD from The Criterion Collection. Ferreri's film is an exercise in pop art surrealism that captures the aesthetic and political zeitgeist of the 60s. Connoisseurs of avant-garde cinema will... More >>

by Rodney Perkins, March 16, 2010 9:00 PM

Guadalajara 2010: SOMOS LO QUE HAY (WE ARE WHAT WE ARE) Review

SFIAAFF28 2010: FILIPINO CINEMA: A Few Questions for Richard Bolisay

SXSW 2010: LE DONK AND SCOR-ZAY-ZEE Review

SXSW 2010: RED WHITE & BLUE Review

CMW 2010: Separado! Review

Amit Virmani Talks About COWBOYS IN PARADISE

VEDA Review

SFIAAFF28 2010: FILIPINO CINEMA: A Few Questions for Dodo Dayao

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Kathryn Bigelow (up 276% in popularity this week)

by Ard Vijn, March 9, 2010 8:17 PM

To explain the title: as I write this, that is what IMDB states when you look up Kathryn Bigelow. Right behind it the site says: "See why on IMDbPro" but I don't think I need to. Her current fame can easily be explained by anyone following the news: last Sunday Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman who won the Oscar... More >>

What's Up, Doc?

by Ben Umstead, February 27, 2010 8:52 AM

The other day I was thinking - I live in New York, one of a handful of cities in the world that regularly show documentaries on the big screen that are not by Michael Moore, and yet I rarely go to see them. Then I thought... documentary is an increasingly transient label for a multitude of films and other...

We Champion Stuff - Five Years of Twitch Love.

by Kurt Halfyard, February 24, 2010 9:13 AM

Twitch turned five years old back in September of 2009 and over those years Todd and his small army of writers have turned up trailers, shed light on numerous 'strange films from around the world' and have become a happy crossroads between the art-house and the grindhouse. There have been dozens, even hundreds of films that have had their...

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SFIAAFF28 2010: FILIPINO CINEMA: A Few Questions for Richard Bolisay

Random Festival News, South Asia

by Michael Guillen, March 16, 2010 3:24 PM

"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" When he was a boy, Richard Bolisay's father told him that he... More >>

Amit Virmani Talks About COWBOYS IN PARADISE

Asia, Documentary, indiefilmcafe

by Stefan, March 16, 2010 11:38 AM

As I've mentioned in my review, I've a personal affinity for documentaries because they offer that keen insight and perspective through the filmmaker's lens on their pet subject and in Singapore, we're witnessing a growing number of quality documentarians who are operating from within the country,... More >>

SFIAAFF28 2010: FILIPINO CINEMA: A Few Questions for Dodo Dayao

Drama, Random Festival News, South Asia

by Michael Guillen, March 15, 2010 5:16 PM

"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" According to Dodo Dayao's MySpace page, he is 102 years old and... More >>

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SXSW 2010: Final Character Teaser For Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE AND BLUE

Cult, Drama, Horror, SXSW 2010, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand, USA & Canada

by Todd Brown, March 1, 2010 12:00 PM

Following a very successful international debut in Rotterdam, Simon Rumley's slacker revenge picture Red, White And Blue is about to be unleashed on American audiences as part of the SXSW Film Festival. And to go along with its US bow the promotional materials are starting to flow.The first general... More >>

SXSW 2010: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam

Asia, Documentary, Musical, SXSW 2010, Sundance 2010, USA & Canada

by Andrew Mack, March 14, 2010 6:34 PM

[With the film screening at SXSW we now re-post Andrew Mack's previous review of Taqwacore.]'When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother's home in Rochester to study Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of... More >>

SXSW 2010: MONSTERS Review

SXSW 2010, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, USA & Canada

by Peter Martin, March 14, 2010 6:20 PM

Languid and dreamy, MONSTERS is not your average alien invasion movie. Director Gareth Edwards, who dreamed up the story and created all the visual effects on his laptop, says that he wanted to begin where every other monster movie ends.... More >>

SXSW 2010: THE LOVED ONES Review

Horror, SXSW 2010, Sitges 2009, Toronto Film Festival 2009, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand

by Todd Brown, March 14, 2010 2:00 PM

[With Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones screening at SXSW we now re-post our review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Though a touch prone to melodrama and inclined to overindulge its teen-angst metaphor, Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones is, nonetheless,... More >>

SXSW 2010: Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE & BLUE review

Cult, Drama, Horror, IFFR 2010, SXSW 2010, Thriller, USA & Canada

by Eight Rooks, March 14, 2010 12:26 PM

[With Simon Rumley's Red, White and Blue having it's North American premiere at SXSW we now re-post our review from the world premiere in Rotterdam.]It could be hard to sell people on Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue. It... More >>

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