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Trailer For MICHELLE GUN ELEPHANT THEE MOVIE Arrives!

Big, big thanks to Kevin at Nippon Cinema for digging this one up. My utter Japanese illiteracy was preventing me from finding it myself and it was making me more than a little crazy ...Back in late July news... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 21, 2009 10:15 PM

Which version of the PRISONER would you want to take with you to your forced island encampment? Why THE COMPLETE SERIES BLURAY of course! But you'll have to take a number.

Cult, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, USA & Canada

If you've never seen The Prisoner do so. This was simply one of the most compelling and interesting episodic TV shows ever. A man quits his job as a government operative and is drugged just as he is about to... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 3:42 PM

A nice place to visit.... again.... and again.... and again- FAWLTY TOWERS REMASTERED

Comedy, Cult, USA & Canada

I've seen every single one of these episodes too many times to count. Doesn't matter a bit. This is timeless inventive, stuff. The kind of thing that you feel obligated to introduce to the unitiated and invite friends overt o... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 3:28 PM

If GONE WITH THE WIND is celebrating it's 70TH ANNIVERSARY isn't it 'bout time you actually watched it?

This is really only for GOTW geeks. If you are one don't be ashamed. Me too. This lavishly mounted, relentlessly watchable melodrama, is everything that we associate with old world Hollywood glamour. It will probably be around as long as... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 3:15 PM

Will there still be DVD's in a LIFE AFTER PEOPLE?

A computer simulated TV show that takes us on a time journey to see what would happen to mans history if man suddenly vanished? If you hate CGI stay away but Life After People manages to explore this idea in... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:55 PM

Is having your Black Adder Remastered as painful as it sounds? Turns out it's wonderful!!

Comedy, Cult, USA & Canada

Actually this is titled the Ultimate Edition. But in any case I finally have a copy of the Black Adder! Wherever you stand on which of the four incarnations is best, funniest etc. there is no doubt that Black Adder... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:43 PM

History Channel involved in far reaching Conspiracy?

Documentary, USA & Canada

When I was a kid there was a program, a wildly popular documentary program, called In Search Of.... Narrated by Leonard Nimoy it offered viewers the chance to explore all sorts of speculative and paranormal phenomena. Bigfoot, Nessie, UFOs, disturbing... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:34 PM

How universal is it? The Universe Collector's Edition Megaset

Documentary, USA & Canada

When they say the Universe they aren't kidding. This massive 14 disc set contains the History Channels The Universe Season One, Season Two, The Planets and How The Earth Was Made plus two bonus documentaries Inside The Volcano, and Beyond... More >>

by Canfield, November 21, 2009 2:24 PM

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Reviews

DVD Review: TORA-SAN Collector's Set Volume 1

Asia, Comedy

2009 has been a great year for the release of vintage Japanese films on North American DVD. One of the more unique and unexpected Japanese releases of the year is AnimEigo's four disc collector's set of the sentimental Tora-san... More >>

by Rodney Perkins, November 21, 2009 11:00 AM

ADVENTURES OF POWER Review

Comedy, USA & Canada

Writer/director Ari Gold also stars as the title character Power in this underdog/rock n' roll/road comedy. The story is as simple as it's protagonist: Power is a full-on loser, who works at the local energy plant with his gruff... More >>

by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 19, 2009 7:15 PM

Chandmani Sum review

Documentary

Little bump as I included the trailer for your viewing pleasure. Mongolia is faraway, barren and mostly unknown territory for us Westerners. Most of us know very little about it, except maybe a little trivia about Genghis Kahn. Rowan Lee... More >>

by Onderhond, November 19, 2009 3:36 PM

A TOWN CALLED PANIC Review

Animation, Comedy, Continental Europe & Russia, Cult

(Our thanks goes out to Joseph Sylvers for the review)The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy's book within the book begins with the phrase "Don't Panic", because the universe is a dizzying, dazzlingly complex place, that to take it all... More >>

by Ben Umstead, November 19, 2009 3:00 PM

FANTASTIC MISTER FOX Review

Animation, Comedy, USA & Canada

[Our thanks to regular reader indiemaker for the following review.] "Uh, my dad's on fire..." Fantastic Mr. Fox might just be one of the biggest surprises of the year for me. 2009 has really shaped up to be a... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 19, 2009 9:38 AM

WHITE ON RICE Review

Comedy, USA & Canada

[Our thanks to regular Twitch reader Indiemaker for the following review of Dave Boyle's indie comedy White on Rice.]White on Rice is a film that has slowly but surely garnered its fair share of buzz these past few months.... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 18, 2009 10:22 AM

Alone review

Reading the reactions beneath the 4Bia 2 review it seems that I'm not the only one who waited a long time before actually sitting down to watch Alone. Since I just saw it yesterday, here's my take on the film.... More >>

by Onderhond, November 18, 2009 10:03 AM

PHOBIA 2 Review

Asia, Horror

Horror anthologies are notoriously uneven affairs, typically ill-matched collections of low budget efforts from little known talent trying to make a name for themselves with a quick scare or two. Such was very definitely not the case with Thai... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 17, 2009 11:56 AM

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Twitch-o-meter

Cheapskate! CHEAPSKATE!

by Ard Vijn, November 17, 2009 10:13 AM

Yes, this title is a pun on two previous Twitch-O-Meters (this one and this one). We all know and love stories about fledgling filmmakers scraping together the tiniest of budgets and managing to create an intriguing, sometimes even phenomenally successful movie with it. John Carpenter worked wonders with "Dark Star" and "The Assault of Precinct 13" on a tiny budget. Even the... More >>

It's in the Game

by Eight Rooks, November 10, 2009 7:53 PM

Nice and simple idea here (I'm sure someone else has already done it); for years gamers have deplored Hollywood plundering their beloved hobby for inspiration and picking all the wrong ideas, with IP after IP farmed out to disinterested studios the world over long before Uwe Boll got the idea of making wealthy German businessmen very happy.Even those few...

[BACK IN THE DAY - 01] 영원한 제국 (Eternal Empire) and Chungmuro's Love-Hate for History

Asia, Drama, Thriller

by X, November 3, 2009 5:21 AM

[Starting with this installment, we'll feature some of the most interesting films to grace Korean shores from before the mid 1990s renaissance, which does have its roots (amongst a million other reasons) in late 80s social protest films, the "proto-blockbusters" of the early-to-mid 90s democratization and the VHS blank-filling impetus of chaebol groups, but symbolically started with the success of...

Interviews

Ask Him Again, His Soul is Still Dancing. 15 minutes with Werner Herzog.

Comedy, Cult, Drama, Toronto Film Festival 2009

by Kurt Halfyard, November 19, 2009 2:53 PM

One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A sessions afterwards. If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about the awful questions fielded by audience members, or folks trying to... More >>

Richard Stanley, I presume? An interview with the director of HARDWARE...

by Ard Vijn, November 18, 2009 9:03 PM

Pinning down Richard Stanley can be quite a job, whether you're talking about trying to find where he is or trying to make sense of the bewildering variety of reputations he has. He's been called a genius, a hack, an artist, a troublemaker, an Enfant Terrible... More >>

HASHMATSA / DEFAMATION (2009): Interview With Yoav Shamir

Documentary, Middle East

by Michael Guillen, November 3, 2009 2:46 PM

Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009), which I would have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened, voices were perhaps already hoarse... More >>