When I heard everyone's favorite butler was going to star in a revenge flick I wasn't immediately interested. Not that Harry Brown seemed like a bad film, just not a very interesting one. Good reviews and critiques kept pouring in...
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by Niels Matthijs, September 3, 2010 12:41 PM
[With its September 7th release on all-region DVD from Oscilloscope Laboratories, I thought it'd be a fine time to share my review of the film once again.] I first saw Bradley Rust Gray's second feature, THE EXPLODING GIRL last December...
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by Ben Umstead, September 3, 2010 10:30 AM
The story of Laurice Guillen's Sa'yo Lamang is hardly new. An imperfect but seemingly stable family disintegrates into chaos as one by one, the family members figure serious conflicts and secrets, whether from the past or the present, conveniently...
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by Oggs Cruz, September 3, 2010 6:04 AM
In just a week's time legendary director John Carpenter will be returning to the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade when his new film, The Ward, screens as part of the Midnight Madness program at...
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by Todd Brown, September 2, 2010 8:27 PM
While most European horrors are battling each other for shock value, the Spanish still seem more intrigued by the more classical horror themes. And with success as they've proven numerous times before. After [Rec] and El Orphanato more of the...
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by Niels Matthijs, September 2, 2010 8:57 AM
We Are What We Are is a film that tries to humanise seemingly ordinary people who do monstrous things, but it fails to do a good job of this for two main reasons; all of its subjects are neither...
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by Eight Rooks, September 1, 2010 8:20 PM
(We like a few different editorial voices chiming in on a film here at Twitch, and my good friend Thomas - who was kind enough to drive me to London and get us a place to stay for Frightfest weekend...
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by Eight Rooks, September 1, 2010 8:08 PM
Colm McCarthy's Outcast is a low-budget British genre production that manages to be visually attractive, relatively naturalistic and features some wonderfully deft plotting which, while relatively predictable, still carries a refreshing level of moral ambiguity. It treats its fantasy...
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by Eight Rooks, September 1, 2010 7:59 PM
Chris Fujiwara is a writer, film critic, journalist, and editor. He is the author of Jerry Lewis (University of Illinois Press, 2009), The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger (Faber & Faber, 2007) and...
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by Michael Guillen, September 1, 2010 3:15 PM
When you think 'end of the world' film, it's probably some special effects-filled multiplex extravaganza that pops into your head, no doubt with a certain guy named Roland involved somewhere along the way. Or maybe a pre-drunken ranting Mel...
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by James Dennis, September 1, 2010 9:00 AM
Kim Homer Garcia's Magkakapatid (Blood Ties) opens in a shack, disheveled and ominously in disarray from a previous bloody incident. Clues and remnants of what happened are littered everywhere. A bowl of dinuguan, a stew made of pig's blood,...
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by Oggs Cruz, August 31, 2010 5:08 AM
Franck Richard's The Pack is grim. Perhaps too grim. It's a gleefully nasty, fairly distinctive little Gallic zombie flick that's beautifully shot and scored with some solid effects work and great performances. It's just the director arguably pushes the...
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by Eight Rooks, August 30, 2010 7:35 PM