Watch A Pair Of Clips From Jarmusch's ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

Are you ready for a little vampire action, Jim Jarmusch style? The iconoclastic indie director heads to Cannes with his Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston starring vampire picture Only Lovers Left Alive and while plot information remains relatively scarce a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE COSMONAUT Takes Flight. Watch An Exclusive Scene.

Nicolas Alcala's The Cosmonaut is a film we have been keeping a close eye on here at Twitch for years now, and with the crowd funded scifi drama arriving for free viewing on the official website May 18 we're pleased... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Theatrical Trailer For GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE: GHOST PAIN

The latest entry in the hugely popular - and for good reason, they're great - anime series Ghost In The Shell hits Japanese theaters June 22nd with the arrival of Ghost In The Shell Arise: Ghost Pain. A series of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Now on Blu-ray: In STARLET, A Bittersweet Friendship Between Women Spans Generations

The low-budget indie drama Starlet, beautifully shot by Radium Cheung, sensitively directed and edited by Sean Baker (the documentaries Prince of Broadway and Take Out), and performed with sparkling confusion by Dree Hemingway and genuine warmth by Besedka Johnson, follows... More »
  

Sydney 2013 Preview: Opening and Closing Films Plus Official Competition Picks

As the 60th Sydney Film Festival approaches, feelings of excitement and eager anticipation are shared by all of the city's film lovers. Why? Well, the recently unveiled festival program features a truly spectacular line-up, and there is really something for... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Watch The Astounding International Trailer For Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS

How do you follow a ground breaking film like Waltz With Bashir? If you're Ari Folman you break more ground with the next one, the next one in this case being a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Massive Destruction In First Trailer For Bondarchuk's STALINGRAD

Oh. My.Russia's Fedor Bondarchuk should need no introduction in these pages, the man being active as an actor, producer and director on numerous projects covered heavily on Twitch over the years. But for those who need refreshing, on the directing... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TV DRACULA Trailer Aims For Atmosphere, Romance, And A Little Blood

With the fate of Hannibal still up in the air -- or, at least, not yet revealed -- U.S. broadcast network NBC announced its fall schedule, which includes a new version of Dracula from the producers of Downton Abbey (?!),... More »
  

Indulging A Sweet Tooth Has Tragically Hilarious Results In Dutch Short SUGAR. Watch It Now!

It was at Fantastic Fest 2012 that I first had the chance to see Jeroen Annokkee's deliciously black comedy Sugar (Suiker), a short film that takes a simple premise and pushes it to a hysterical extreme. A beautifully constructed bit... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Twitchvision: Talking THE GREAT GATSBY, BLACKBIRD and ROOM 237

Scott's back in the anchor chair, and we're talking this week about Baz's much maligned Gatsby (hint: I didn't hate it!), along with indie film Blackbird and the mind-boggling insanity that is Room 237.Check out video embedded below!... More »
  

Trailer For Swedish Thriller RE. Someone Else Is In The House!

While Sweden may not be a hotbed for genre cinema, thankfully there are a handful of filmmakers in the country who feel that Sweden's exports should be more than just bikini teams, easy to assemble furniture, meatballs, and pop quartets. Enter... More »
  

Tribeca 2013 Review: Does MR. JONES Take Found Footage Horror To A New Dimension?

"Scott is a filmmaker in need of inspiration..." in a film whose very genre is in need of inspiration: found footage horror. The TFF festival guide bills Mr. Jones' writer/director, Karl Mueller, as someone who has "taken the found footage... More »
  

70s Rewind: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE Still Goes Slowly Where No One Wants to Go

In December 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a major letdown. Earlier in the decade, a handful of my school friends banded together to form the Science Fiction Club. Initially, we discussed Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Ray Bradbury's stories,... More »
  

Eureka Acquires COMPUTER CHESS for Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment has announced its acquisition of Computer Chess, the award-winning new comedy from Andrew Bujalski (Beeswax, Funny Ha Ha). The distributor will oversee a UK & Eire theatrical run of the film later this year, following a "major UK... More »
  

Review: I DECLARE WAR Goes To Battle With Boys And Bullying

One weekend day a number of the nerdier kids from the local middle school gather their sticks and twine and balloons filled with red dye, and head into the local woods to play capture-the-flag. Oh, those tweens today with their... More »
  

Review: A WOMAN AND WAR (SENSO NO HITORI NO ONNA) Confronts Wartime Sex Crimes

A Woman and War is the feature length debut from Inoue Junichi, a screenwriter who started his career as an assistant director at Wakamatsu Productions. The first time director experienced some festival success back in 2009 with his script for... More »
  

Review: WHITE FROG Cries Out For Love, Tolerance, Tenderness

Everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time. White Frog establishes a happy family before promptly destroying it. Promising and popular high school senior Chaz Young (Harry Shum Jr.) dies unexpectedly. His mother (Joan Chen) goes to... More »
  

Clooney and Bullock Lost in Space in Terrifying First GRAVITY Teaser

Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity has been a long time coming and today we finally get a glimpse of the film through its first teaser. The film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts who become stranded in space.Originally set up... More »
  

Buy A Trap. Kill A Cub.

What do you mean you don't think 'Belgium' when you think 'horror'? Okay, fine, the nation known best for its monastic beer has never been much of a player in the horror scene but director Jonas Govaerts is looking to... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Julien Leclerq Delivers Intrigue In First Teaser For GIBRALTAR (THE INFORMANT)

In many ways it is quite strange that French director Julien Leclerq has not yet been snapped up by Luc Besson and the Europa machine, for if there is someone more capable of shooting the sort of glossy, technically impressive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  
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