Cult / Exploitation Archives

06/30/2006	Fantasia: Minoru Kawasaki's EXECUTIVE KOALA (KOARA KACHÔ), w/ Hironobu Nomura, Elli-Rose, Ho Lee, Eiichi Kikuchi, Arthur Kuroda, Hideki Saijô, Ryû Hariken, Megumi Yamanaka, Hitomi Takashima, & Chika Kumada FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Minoru Kawasaki's Executive Koala (Koara kachô) is scheduled to be screened at the 2006 Fantasia Festival in Montréal on Saturday July 22nd at 9:45 p.m.. The movie had its world première at... (0 Comments)
06/30/2006	Fantasia: Shion Sono's STRANGE CIRCUS (KIMYÔ NA SÂKASU), starring Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Mai Takahashi, Fujiko, Tomorowo Taguchi, and Hiroshi Ôguchi FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Shion Sono's Strange Circus (Kimyô na sâkasu) is scheduled to be screened at the 2006 Fantasia Festival in Montréal on Thursday July 13th at 9:45 p.m.. The screening is to be hosted... (0 Comments)
06/30/2006	Daisuke Yamanouchi's BISHIMAI REZU: KICHÛ NO HI NI..., starring Yuria Hidaka, Riri Kôda, Shinobu Terasawa, Takuma Yanaginouchi, Kôji Makimura, and Salmon Sakeyama The official webpage for Daisuke Yamanouchi's Bishimai rezu: kichû no hi ni... is now online. Xces Film (Shin Nihon Eizô K.K.) is scheduled to release the movie theatrically in the Kansai region of Japan on July 12th. The screenplay for... (1 Comments)
06/30/2006	Review for Dallamano's 'Colt 38 Special Squad' aka 'Quelli della calibro 38', 1976. Massimo Dallamano's last film, a Crime Movie, a Poliziotteschi if you like. The man is already a legend of sort, in amongst the crowd who appreciate all those things to be found in a controversial film like his '...Solange?', but... (0 Comments)
06/29/2006	Twitch Exclusive! Storyboards From Alejandro Jodorowsky's King Shot! A while back word began to circulate that cult legend Alejandro Jodorowsky - he of El Topo fame - was moving ahead on his long rumored "metaphysical spaghetti gangster film", King Shot. Very happy to say that this is correct... (9 Comments)
06/29/2006	Fantasia: Noboru Iguchi's SUKEBAN BOY (OIRA SUKEBAN), w/ Asami, Emiru Momose, Saori Matsunaka, Shizuka Itô, Demo Tanaka, Chisa Imai, Shô Sawamura, Kaori Uesugi, Miwa, Kentarô Kishi, Hiroaki Murakami, et al. Noboru Iguchi's Sukeban Boy (Oira sukeban) is scheduled to be screened at the 2006 Fantasia Festival in Montréal on Sunday July 16th at 2:10 p.m.. King Record Co. Ltd. (Kingu Rekôdo K.K.) released the movie theatrically in Japan on February... (2 Comments)
06/28/2006	Takahisa Zeze's SANCTUARY (MRS.) - a.k.a. "Sankuchuari" - starring Asuka Kurosawa, Yôko Yamashita, Misaki (a.k.a. Misaki Mori), Shirô Shimomoto, Bunmei Tobayama, Nobuhiro Takeda, Ken Mitsuishi, and Isamu Nagato As was first reported here on Twitch back on May 5th of last year, there's a trailer for Takahisa Zeze's Sanctuary (Mrs.) - a.k.a. "Sankuchuari" - on the website of production company Legend Pictures K.K. (K.K. Rejendo Pikuchâzu). (Note: "Mrs."... (1 Comments)
06/28/2006	Gervais' 'Flanimals' Books for Six 30-minute Claymation Shows. This has me wondering what has happened to the deal Gervais himself said he signed to convert 'Flanimals' to a movie, which is exactly what he said was being arranged last time I saw him talking on a major... (1 Comments)
06/27/2006	2006 FRAMELINE XXX—Interview With John Cameron Mitchell San Francisco has just wrapped up its 30th Frameline Film Festival. One of the highlights for me was the morning I picked up my phone and heard John Cameron Mitchell introducing himself. I mustered all my resolve not to squeak... (0 Comments)
06/27/2006	WASSUP ROCKERS--Interview With Larry Clark A strange boy is weaving a course of grace and havoc On a yellow skateboard through midday sidewalk traffic. Just when I think he's foolish and childish and I want him to be manly, I catch my fool and... (0 Comments)
06/27/2006	Rob Brydon's 'Annually Retentive' Starts Monday July 10th 2006 on BBC3. Adverts have started airing, downloaders and UK / Europe fans be warned... Until the shows on and being seen, it will be hard to pin down or clearly explain exactly what's going on - the best analogy online says it's... (1 Comments)
06/25/2006	Kôshû Kaizan's REIBAKU: SHÔJO NO SHIBARI, w/ Hiroko Mori, Kaoru Kurasawa, Kaori Takagi, Sayumi Yanawa, Aika Suzuki, Megumi Komatsu, Mayumi Tonoike, Noa Yamamoto, Aira Serizawa, Sumire Arai, & Andy Taiyô The official subsite for Kôshû Kaizan's Reibaku: shôjo no shibari is online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that site. Attackers (Atakkâzu) - part of Hokuto Co. Ltd. (K.K. Hokuto) - is scheduled to release the movie at... (0 Comments)
06/25/2006	Hitoshi Ishikawa's YAMI NO NAKA, starring Haruka Nishimoto, Misaki (a.k.a. Misaki Mori), Sayaka Kametani, Hideto Ishii, Kôzô Satô, Kiyotaka Nishimura, Ei Hamura, and Ryôsuke Nogi The official webpage for Hitoshi Ishikawa's Yami no naka is now online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that page. Excellent Film Y.K. (Y.K. Ekuserento Firumu) is scheduled to release the movie at the Uplink X (Appurinku X)... (1 Comments)
06/24/2006	Midnight Eye: Tatsushi Ômori's THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS, Shun'ichi Nagasaki's HEART, BEATING IN THE DARK, Shun Nakahara's DV: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei's book UNSPEAKABLE ACTS Reviews of Tatsushi Ômori's The Whispering of the Gods (Gerumaniumu no yoru), Shun'ichi Nagasaki's Heart, Beating in the Dark (Yami utsu shinzô), Shun Nakahara's DV: Domestic Violence (DV: domesutikku baiorensu), and Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei's book Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre... (0 Comments)
06/23/2006	More useless bits than you can snake a stick at. I don't know how new this is, but there are a whole lot of odds and ends (including 3 short clips and a bevy of graphics to SOAP-ify personal websites) up at the Snakes on A Plane official site. So... (0 Comments)
06/22/2006	NYAFF Report: Ski Jumping Pairs, The Road to Torino Review I love mockumentaries. But it does help when they have a clear goal in mind- a subtext giving you hints about what exactly is being revealed about the events they purport to shine a light on. Of course if all... (0 Comments)
06/22/2006	NYAFF Report: Beetle The Horn King Review Canfield here with some, as usual, late festival coverage- too many films, too many films. The New York Asian Film Festival is North America’s Premiere Asian Film Fest event. A full two weeks and dozens of films means there’s something... (0 Comments)
06/22/2006	Hot Fuzz: Two more video blogs - Wet Fuzz and Fete Days Oh where has the time gone? Still mesmerized by Nick Frost in those stunning spandex shorts we've only just come out of our daze and realized that two more blogs have come and gone since #9. So have at it... (1 Comments)
06/20/2006	Shimizu's 'Reincarnation' Subtitled R2 UK DVD Is the First, August 21st 2006. Although the previous two 'J-Horror Theatre' series films 'Premonition' and 'Infection' are long-out in America, no sign yet of an upcoming R1 USA DVD of the latest film - Takashi Shimizu's 'Rinne', known as 'Reincarnation' for its English title -... (1 Comments)
06/19/2006	Official Website For Miike's Taiyo No Kizu! The observant among you may recall us linking a few times to translations of a blog maintained by Japanese cult director Takashi Miike while shooting a new film with Sho Aikawa pitted against a group of armed teenagers. Taiyo No... (1 Comments)
06/18/2006	FUNimation License Gonzo's Theatrical Feature 'Spirit of the Past' for the USA. A Theatrical release in America for the film known in Japanese as "Gin-iro no Kami no Agito" then, late 2006 with a DVD release to follow in 2007. Fantastic news, looking forwards to the Gonzo movie for some time. We... (0 Comments)
06/17/2006	'Black Night' HK DVD Available for Pre-Order! E.T.A Is June 22nd 2006. Now, I know a lot of people will want to see this one out of pure interest. What looked like one of the most promising films of the year, and yet another anthology. I've plumped for the $10 'Zoo' DVD... (1 Comments)
06/16/2006	Ivan Cardoso's A WEREWOLF IN AMAZONIA (UM LOBISOMEM NA AMAZÔNIA), w/ Paul Naschy (a.k.a. Jacinto Molina), Evandro Mesquita, Danielle Winits, Nuno Leal Maia, Tony Tornado, Karina Bacchi, Pedro Neschling, et al. The official website for Ivan Cardoso's Brazilian horror-comedy A Werewolf in Amazonia (Um Lobisomem na Amazônia) is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that site. The screenplay for A Werewolf in Amazonia was written by Rubens... (2 Comments)
06/16/2006	In a cave, when you scream, it will echooo Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know most of you don't like the poster on the left. But anyway, the US trailer for The Descent has just been released. In my opinion, it reveals too much. For those of you who don't... (13 Comments)
06/16/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS NACHO LIBRE This was supposed to come out on my birthday. I had every intention of seeing it with a theater full of friends. Then they pushed back the release date. That's a lot to ask a critic to forgive. When you... (1 Comments)
06/16/2006	Add to the Pile, 'MPD Psycho'. And, erm, 'Tomie'. Would like to meet the person writing the adaptation-to-English of 'MPD Psycho'. It's plot goes absolutely all over the place. Perhaps the most single-handedly difficult to watch Miike movie on a script basis, it's now being remade. What a choice.... (7 Comments)
06/15/2006	Brothers of the Head Trailer I've been kicking myself for missing Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Brothers of the Head while it was on the festival circuit for some time now but it looks as though I'm getting another chance with IFC films putting it... (3 Comments)
06/15/2006	Borat. Pssst. Trailer at this fan site. Keep it quiet. Looks Good.... (4 Comments)
06/15/2006	Bye Bye Billie... For those not particularly in tune with the unnecessary pop culture workings in the UK, the B-List celebrety alcohol-consumers and the increasingly small or selective gene pool they breed from, when Billie Piper and Chris Evans (ex-hubby, a ginger much... (7 Comments)
06/15/2006	Funland Review Like a great many others my initial attraction to BBC comedy-drama Funland was for one reason: Jeremy Dyson. Though he never appears on screen Dyson is one of the driving forces behind the brilliant League of Gentlemen, the unseen fourth... (2 Comments)
06/15/2006	'Masters of Italian Horror' Looks a Little More Substantial Now. Announced a couple of weeks back, never looked more than speculative, until things begin now to get firmer with the naming of the Directors involved, and their planned projects. But there's a couple of contradictions clear from the announcement of... (2 Comments)
06/13/2006	Gonzo Working on Anime of Dario Argento's 'Suspiria'. Right. This hasn't appeared at Darkdreams.org (my usual source for Argento news, the best Argento site there it), and it's floating around English and Japanese anime sites now. Must admit, I spotted this in the AICN Anime News section, then... (7 Comments)
06/13/2006	Subtitle This : Mamoru Oshii's 'Tachiguishi Retsuden' from Bandai Visual. Looking at Bandai's site they do seem to issue some films with English Subtitles (currently the most recent example I can quickly spot is 'Yokubo', but they also issued 'Canary' too) under sub-labels it seems, and this release is on... (0 Comments)
06/12/2006	The Han River, The Family, And.... He's your average working class daddy selling junk food near the banks of the Han River. It's a nice afternoon, people are enjoying their time camping out near Korea's most famous river, some even listen to their favorite tracks, some... (7 Comments)
06/12/2006	Gatchaman CG Animated film Underway Hong Kong based animation studio, Imagi has aquired the rights from Tatsunko Production to produce a CG animated film based on the cult classic 70's anime, Gatchaman (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman). The studio is best known for producing the short-lived... (5 Comments)
06/12/2006	Aoyama's 'Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachtani?' R2 Japan DVD with English Subtitles! YesAsia have managed to confirm this for us, was looking into it again earlier on, but here we go then, you can pre-order this now as the R2 Japanese DVD will have English Subtitles. Standard Edition for those wanting the... (2 Comments)
06/12/2006	Love - Zero = Infinity. by Hisayasu Sato (1994). R1 USA DVD July 25th 2006. Another Artsmagic Pink release for 2006, the second of the two currently-slated Hisayasu Sato movies (the other being 'Hard Focus' out at the end of June 2006). This time around its another short movie from a Director most recently involved... (9 Comments)
06/12/2006	2nd trailer for Ryan Nicholson's LIVE FEED, w/ Stephen Chang, Taayla Markell, Kevan Ohtsji, Rob Scattergood, Ashley Schappert, Caroline Chojnacki, Lee Tichon, Mike Bennett, Colin Foo, Greg Chan, Patrick Pon, et al. FOR TRAILERS & STILLS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE A downloadable trailer for Ryan Nicholson's Live Feed has been added to the website of international sales agent Artist View Entertainment; it's different from the one on the official website... (1 Comments)
06/09/2006	Holy Crap! Has Kenta Made A Good Film? The Trailer For Yo Yo Girl Cop Is Shockingly Fun! Okay, he's cut good trailers before so I'm witholding judgement for now, but the trailer for Kenta Fukasaku's SUKEBAN DEKA: KÔDO NÊMU = ASAMIYA SAKI - AKA Yo Yo Girl Cop, his Sukeban Deka remake - features something that all... (6 Comments)
06/09/2006	Add to the Pile, 'A Tale of Two Sisters'. Mixed feelings, both joy and despair. Yes, another remake : oh joy, oh rapture. But, it's another fairly typical choice. Not a bad film by any means, not Kim Ji-Woon's best in my opinion either, although it was the first... (16 Comments)
06/09/2006	Subtitle This : Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani. Vague Update, Fingers Crossed. Subtitles still get to me. They have in the past, they will in the future. Anyway, couple of odd things this week - first one to note, and it's a shame to put it here but it's in my mind... (12 Comments)
06/08/2006	Some News Bits From Bumba Atomika ... Thanks again to Paolo for keeping me up to date on what's happening with Italian genre buster Bumba Atomika - afilm we've talked about previously here and here. The film has seen two new videos posted to their website recently,... (0 Comments)
06/08/2006	Soavi's Arrivederci Hits DVD July 4th! English Subtitles Included! Some fantastic news here, fired our way by former Twitch contributor Svet who was forced to move along when he went and got himself a real, actual, grown up life and just plain ran out of time. Arrivederci Amore Ciao... (4 Comments)
06/08/2006	'Extras' Series Two Cameo Casting News. Anyway, more 'Extras' Series Two cameos are announced. Interesting to read recently that Gervais intentionally announces people who actually won't be appearing in the show, red herrings essentially, but is also quite freely telling who should actually be in it... (5 Comments)
06/08/2006	Uh Oh. Battle Royale American Remake Here is the latest entry to hop on the Asian remake merry-go-round. The modern cult classic Battle Royale has been optioned by Roy Lee and Neal Moritz over at New LIne Cinema. This is at the very early stages, no... (51 Comments)
06/07/2006	THE BOONDOCK SAINTS UNRATED SPECIAL EDITION Like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction or Natural Born Killers this stunning looking hyper-violent often funny film is loaded down with irony but unlike those films I didn’t become invested in the characters in a way that makes the difference between... (14 Comments)
06/07/2006	Teaser Online for 'Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers'. Doesn't seem to be the talked about Takashi Miike Ultraman movie, and not really that much of a fan, but do know that lots of folk out there (and around here) are. Besides, I did think it just might be... (7 Comments)
06/07/2006	Angus Scrimm's Automatons Website And Trailer! New from Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pictures - the same people behind last year's indie horror hit The Roost - comes Automatons, a giddy looking retro sci-fi horror picture starring the legendary Angus Scrimm. David Tennant et al may be... (6 Comments)
06/06/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS Sideshow Jedi Luke Skywalker - Regular Edition I’ve never been a Star Wars collector. As much as I loved the original films I guess I just missed the boat by a couple of years when it came to that sort of play. And make no mistake. Those... (0 Comments)
06/06/2006	WSFF Preview: Midnight Mania Creepy Here we go with a look at another program from the upcoming Worldwide Short Film Festival here in Toronto, this one being the second Midnight Mania Program, Creepy. The companion piece to the Freaky program - previewed here - Creepy... (0 Comments)
06/06/2006	'The Wicker Man' Remake Trailer Released... ...does it deserve to end up as landfill on a road construction project? [Source : Bloody Disgusting]. 'The Wicker Man' Remake Trailer In HD Quicktime or Normal QT at Apple.com.... (17 Comments)
06/05/2006	Three New Posters for Bong's Baby Monster Thought you'd get away without the weekly fix of stills and/or video footage from Bong Joon-Ho's 괴물 (The Host)? Well, you're not. Here's one of the three new Korean posters, which should be the final ones before release (on... (7 Comments)
06/05/2006	Lee Myung-Se's 개그맨 (Gagman) DVD Up For Preorder Few films had more critical acclaim in 80s Korean Cinema than Lee Myung-Se's 1988 masterpiece 개그맨 (Gagman). When everyone and their dogs in Chungmuro was shooting social realism films, this assistant director of many Bae Chang-Ho films went out and... (3 Comments)
06/05/2006	예의없는 것들 (No Mercy for the Rude) World Cup Spots Released If you didn't notice already, the World Cup is not only a nationwide phenomenon in Korea, but it also scares Chungmuro enough that many films either postponed their release to July, or anticipated it to late May/early June. Some of... (1 Comments)
06/04/2006	TWELVE AND HOLDING FILM REVIEW I’m a firm believer that firm lovers do well to see imperfect films. If that sounds like a bit of a “duh” type statement then let me further qualify by saying that sometimes movies may have only one or two... (0 Comments)
06/04/2006	NAPOLEON DYNAMITE LIKE THE BEST SPECIAL EDITION EVER Has anyone else signed that petition going around to outlaw the use of Napoleon Dynamite catch phrases? Okay, okay, I’ll admit that I still find myself wanting to yell, “Bow to your sensei!” during intimate moments but really folks unless... (0 Comments)
06/03/2006	Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare Review Though he is far too early in his career to make any definitive statements Frankensteins Bloody Nightmare – FBM from here on in - contains ample evidence that first time producer-director John R. Hand might just be America’s answer to... (0 Comments)
06/03/2006	WSFF Preview: Midnight Mania Freaky The 2006 edition of the Worldwide Short Film Festival is just around the corner and the good people there have passed along screeners of several of the programs so I can get an early peek at what’s in store. It’s... (2 Comments)
06/02/2006	Bong to Fix His Baby Monster Before Korean Release Guess what? More 괴물 (The Host) news. Or better, a few possibly important details. The great reception Bong Joon-Ho's latest work received at Cannes didn't stop the 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder) director from spotting a few little problems, which... (2 Comments)
05/30/2006	2006 SF HOLEHEAD—Interview With The Butcher Brothers Recently I met with Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, aka The Butcher Brothers, at what I felt was an appropriate venue—Martha Brothers—to savor a double cappuccino and talk about their current feature, The Hamiltons, scheduled to screen at this year's... (0 Comments)
05/30/2006	Tiffany Shepis in Rolfe Kanefsky's NIGHTMARE MAN, Steven Shea's HOODOO FOR VOODOO, S. Lee Taylor's SLUDGE, Ryan Schifrin's ABOMINABLE, Donald Farmer's DORM OF THE DEAD, and Tom Proctor's THE SUGAR CREEK KILLER Below are links for Rolfe Kanefsky's Nightmare Man, Steven Shea's Hoodoo for Voodoo, S. Lee Taylor's Sludge (a.k.a. "Sludge: The Terror of Bear Claw Mountain"), Ryan Schifrin's Abominable, Donald Farmer's Dorm of the Dead, and Tom Proctor's The Sugar Creek... (1 Comments)
05/30/2006	Mini 'Third Mother' Script Review and Plot Details from Alan Jones. This one is quite lengthy and down to individual tastes if you want to read it or not, but Alan Jones grabbed a copy of the script for Argento's newest and has given his thoughts and some more plot information... (0 Comments)
05/30/2006	Review of 'The Fifth Cord'. by Luigi Bazzoni (1971). Luigi Bazzoni's obscure cut-above giallo from 1971, a belated review for a film that I had feared would be pleasurable enough to watch but typically uncomfortable for a giallo, and more about the memories, the lingering feeling that I like... (0 Comments)
05/29/2006	A very Descent poster Well Harry got it, who in turn got it from JoBlo. This has to be the most "I want it" poster in a long time. Click here to find The Descent poster. (Here's another link in case the first one... (14 Comments)
05/28/2006	Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion: Beast Stable Review Here’s all you really need to know about this film. Have you ever seen the still shot of a beautiful Japanese woman running through a subway station handcuffed to a severed arm? This is that film. The third entry in... (7 Comments)
05/27/2006	Adrián García Bogliano's 36 STEPS (36 PASOS), w/ Noelia Balbo, Inés Sbarra, Ariana Marchioni, Priscila Rauto, Melisa Fernández, Andrea Duarte, Victoria Witemburg, Priscila Caldera, Alejandro Noto, Ana Haramboure, & Omar Musa The official blog for Adrián García Bogliano's American-Argentine black-comedy horror 36 Steps (36 pasos) is online. Also, there's a teaser trailer for the movie on the website of YouTube Inc.. The screenplay for 36 Steps was written by Adrián García... (0 Comments)
05/27/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS X3 I was conflicted to say the least. I've long since stopped expecting greatness from comic book movies even though I continue to collect and enjoy them. But X3, which I really enjoyed visually, hit a sore spot. How did this... (15 Comments)
05/27/2006	Truly 'Mini' Argento Update. The Third Mother (Mater Lacrimarum) movie rolls in June. Script by Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson is actually only the basis for a script Argento has re-scribed himself. Based around series of Murders at a University, Ennio Fantastichini is the... (4 Comments)
05/27/2006	Fingers Crossed We Still Get 'Negadon'... I know. That's is an intentionally headline, 'cos the bigger concern that leads to that minor one (which will hopefully simply make this something people read quickly) is that the rumors have begun that CPM (Central Park Media) who have... (3 Comments)
05/26/2006	2006 SF HOLEHEAD—Review of Room 6 At a time when most people are terrified that they will not be able to afford hospital care, Michael Hurst's Room 6 cautions that hospital care might actually be the ultimate horror! Like Jacob's Ladder, Room 6 ruminates upon a... (0 Comments)
05/26/2006	짝패 (The City of Violence) Starts Well, TWC Buys US Rights Ryu Seung-Wan's 'pure action' 짝패 (The City of Violence) run at the box office didn't look like an easy ride, with two big Hollywood blockbusters - M:I 3 and The Da Vinci Code -- dominating the box office for two... (1 Comments)
05/26/2006	Lady Vengeance Appears on R1 USA DVD on September 26th 2006. There you go, confirmed in a Tartan press release. Quite a long wait from now I know. Make of that what you will, nothing more to say that hasn't been said before. Few others also announced, Oxide Pang's 'One Take... (4 Comments)
05/25/2006	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Monster? I don't know about big, but it looks pretty bad (ass). Bong Joon-Ho's latest tour de force 괴물 (The Host) has sold already 2.3 Million's worth of distrib. rights at the Cannes Film Market, and it's expected it will... (27 Comments)
05/25/2006	'Do You Like Hitchcock?' and 'Jenifer' August 15th 2006 on R1 USA DVD. Both recent Argento movies now being listed on some sites as releasing August 15th 2006 on R1 USA DVD from Anchor Bay. Got news of this yesterday, let it stew online in a forum or two to see if there... (5 Comments)
05/24/2006	STRANGE CIRCUS TO GET US REGION ONE RELEASE ON TLA'S DANGER AFTER DARK LABEL Just got a press release from TLA announcing the acquisition of North American theatrical and home entertainment distribution rights to Son Sono's Strange Circus. Logboy ran a link to the Tom Mes Midnight Eye review of that film awhile ago... (5 Comments)
05/24/2006	DVD: Taisen Kamakura's ZERO WOMAN 2005 (SHIN ZERO ÛMAN: 0-KA NO ONNA: FUTATABI...), starring Maiko Tôno, Megumi Yamanaka, Tarô Suwa, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Kyôji Kamui, Kenjirô Ishimaru, and Kazuyoshi Ozawa Thanks to Twitch's own logboy for bringing to my attention the fact that Unicorn Entertainment International Limited is scheduled to release Taisen Kamakura's Zero Woman 2005 (Shin Zero Ûman: 0-ka no onna: futatabi...) on DVD (NTSC, region-free, English subtitles) in... (1 Comments)
05/24/2006	Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (aka 'Hard Focus') by Hisayasu Sato (1988). Going back almost twenty years then, not far from the beginning of Sato's career as a Director, and you get an early example of Pink pleasure from one of the Directors of the very recent 'Rampo Noir'. Yes, Artsmagic (lost... (1 Comments)
05/23/2006	More Filipino pride, represent, yo! Cavite, the film by Ian Gamazon and Neill dela Llana, is going on limited release in New York and Los Angeles this May 26. And is going to be released to more theaters after that. Find out more at their... (3 Comments)
05/23/2006	Coogan's 'Lies and Alibis' Debuts In June, New Project 'Call Me' Announced. Completely missed the trailer then, under its original title 'The Alibi', and it's still online in flash form. Looks rather a straight or dry comedy, and going by the large majority of Coogan's USA stuff it could be really duff... (0 Comments)
05/22/2006	It's Ok Being a Crazy Cyborg... ...when you can stay in a pretty room like that. The first decent shot (of Im Soo-Jung, our Cyborg Girl) from Park Chan-Wook's 싸이보그지만 괜찮아 (I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok), which started shooting recently, and will release in... (7 Comments)
05/22/2006	Tartan Acquires All UK and North American Rights For Anders Morgenthaler's Princess! Screendaily is reporting that Tartan Films has acquired all rights for Anders Morgenthaler's Princess in the UK and North America. No word on release plans yet - this could reportedly earn itself an NC-17 rating as is, which makes theatrical... (4 Comments)
05/22/2006	Tetsujin 28 : Geneon Bring 2005's Kids Kaiju to R1 USA DVD on 4th July 2006. More a case of pointing out Geneon are issuing this themselves in America, so there's a glimmer of hope that when something arrives in Japan without English Subtitles that we can try to push then for a USA release from... (1 Comments)
05/20/2006	2006 SF HOLEHEAD—The Hamiltons What Hitchock's Shadow Of A Doubt did for Santa Rosa, the Butcher Brothers' The Hamiltons has done for Petaluma. But whereas Charlie's uncle was essentially unsympathetic in Shadow Of A Doubt, your heart bleeds for The Hamiltons, this poor little... (0 Comments)
05/20/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS THE PROPOSITION I’m not reviewing this film, or unpacking it really. I just urge you to see it. We really should forgive both Guy Pearce and David Wentham for their roles in The Time Machine and Van Helsing. It’s time to move... (6 Comments)
05/20/2006	Subtitle This : Eli Eli Lema Sabachtani. R2 Japan DVD July 26th 2006. Third or fourth specific release were asking for people to hit the company with emails about - 'cos we want the film to be released with English Subtitles and at the moment of posting such a thing as this it... (10 Comments)
05/20/2006	2006 SF HOLEHEAD—Review of The Ghost of Mae Nak It's absolutely appropriate that the (Yet) Another Hole in the Head Festival has included Mark Duffield's The Ghost of Mae Nak in this year's line-up since the ghost has a big ol' hole in her head! How much more relevant... (10 Comments)
05/20/2006	2006 SF HOLEHEAD—Press Conference Line-Up! Hot on the heels of DocFest, San Francisco's Indie Film Festival officially announced their program line-up at today's press conference for (Yet) Another Hole In the Head Festival (aka Holehead)—eight nights of Sci Fi, Fantasy and Horror, June 8-15,... (0 Comments)
05/20/2006	So.... Maestro Park's Revenge Trilogy Boxset It must be the Spring, or how else would you explain the recent activity in the Korean DVD market, after a rather underwhelming firs few months of 2006? I'm sure many people were asking themselves where that long announced 'Revenge... (15 Comments)
05/19/2006	First Images From Brad Peyton's What It's Like Being Alone! Brad Peyton is something of a burgeoning cult figure here in Canada. The creator of Evelyn: The Cutest Evil Dead Girl Peyton is a film maker, illustrator and animator of the sort that gets the Tim Burton set all worked... (1 Comments)
05/19/2006	Midnighteye : Kankuro Kudo, Nana, Big Bang Love, Holy Beast, Strange Circus. More good stuff this time around... Kankuro Kudo is the man involved in so many of the popular (this part of the world, and his) odd movies like 'Go' and 'Ping Pong' - and, of course, 'Yaji and Kita :... (6 Comments)
05/18/2006	Kiyoshi Kurosawa's LOFT, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Sang-il Lee's HULA GIRL, Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's GREEN MIND, METAL BATS, Naoto Kumazawa's VANISHED, Keisuke Toyoshima's TALES OF TERROR: THE CURSE OF NOBUHIRO-SAN, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
05/18/2006	'Green Wing' Series 2, 'Little Britain' Series 3 Due Q4 2006 on R2 UK DVD. 'Green Wing' has just finished (or is just about too?) on Channel 4. Also repeated and easy to catch more than several times a week because there's Channel 4's digital channel 'E4' which also shows it. Initial reports when Series... (2 Comments)
05/18/2006	[2006 K-FILM PREVIEWS] Jo Beom-Jin's 아치와 씨팍 (Aachi & Ssipak) Take a mixer, throw in the nonsense of Beavis & Butthead, the 'street smarts' of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, a healthy dose of local Korean comedy, and a touch of parody a la 다찌마와 리 (Dajjimawa Lee). Cook... (0 Comments)
05/17/2006	Trailers for Bob Keen's HEARTSTOPPER, Warren Sonoda's 5IVE GIRLS, Robert Wilson's WARRIORS OF TERRA, and Jonathan Dueck's THE LAST SECT There are trailers for Bob Keen's Heartstopper, Warren Sonoda's 5ive Girls, Robert Wilson's Warriors of Terra, and Jonathan Dueck's The Last Sect on the website of Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc.. Distribution rights for the movies are available for purchase... (0 Comments)
05/17/2006	CLIPS FROM ANCHOR BAY'S IT WAITS Very soon to hit DVD is the Stephen J. Cannell monster movie It Wait's not to be confused with It's Alive, It Conquered the World, It The Terror From Beyond Space or Frank Capra's Oscar Winning It Happened One Night.... (1 Comments)
05/17/2006	DVD: Ryan Nicholson's LIVE FEED, w/ Stephen Chang, Taayla Markell, Kevan Ohtsji, Rob Scattergood, Ashley Schappert, Caroline Chojnacki, Lee Tichon, Mike Bennett, Colin Foo, Greg Chan, Patrick Pon, Mike Wu, Hansen Li, et al. FOR TRAILERS & STILLS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE From the Fangoria article "LIVE FEED team to roll GUTTERBALLS" (May 17th): "[Ryan] Nicholson is also excited about the impending [U.S.] DVD release of LIVE FEED, coming September 12 from... (1 Comments)
05/17/2006	Jodorowsky Remastered! Cult film fans rejoice! While they've not yet given release dates or individual disc specs ABKCO Films have announced that they are restoring the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - El Topo, The Holy Mountain and Fando & Lis - to... (9 Comments)
05/17/2006	Trailer for THE JAIL: A WOMEN'S HELL (ANIME PERSE), a new women-in-prison (WiP) movie directed by Vincent Dawn (Bruno Mattei) and starring Yvette Yzon Distribution rights for Bruno 'Vincent Dawn' Mattei's Italian women-in-prison (WiP) movie The Jail: A Women's Hell (Anime perse) are being offered for sale by FilmExport Group s.r.l. at the Marché du Film in Cannes. The movie is being screened at... (2 Comments)
05/17/2006	Media Blasters R1 USA DVD of 'The Great Yokai War' Artwork & Specifications. Now delayed until September 12th 2006 (originally to have been July, I think) this is one release I am interested to see finally make it out. With the recent (past six months or so) habit for HK companies to start... (3 Comments)
05/17/2006	짝패 (The City of Violence) Music Video Released As I heard music from the Movement Crew (Bobby Kim, T and Dynamic Duo in this case) taking a look at the 짝패 (The City of Violence) Official Website, I thought to myself... not only this guy has good taste... (4 Comments)
05/16/2006	Big News From House of Re-Animator! I confess to not having paid much attention to the recent news that there was a new Re-Animator trilogy in the works. This is partly because I've not actually seen the originals - I know, heresy - and partly because... (7 Comments)
05/15/2006	Hostel DVD Review Finally I weigh in on Hostel. It was a tough fight that involved lots of viewings and listening to all four commentary tracks. I've also sat down and interviewed Roth on the press tour. My thoughts? Read on. I will... (4 Comments)
05/15/2006	DELICATESSEN DVD REVIEW Cold cuts anyone? Look elsewhere. This is as fresh as when it was first released. Finally hitting the states in an archival format it's Jeunet's first (and to my mind possibly his best) film. I had the privilege of breaking... (4 Comments)
05/15/2006	'The Seven-Ups' by Philip D'Antoni (1973). What Else Is Hiding Out There Then? Okay, trying this again, made brief mentions of it in several places before, but it still remains one of the key disappointments in this world of very regular and interesting odd movies, new movies which I at least haven't heard... (24 Comments)
05/14/2006	Yoshikazu Ishii's COOL DIMENSION (KÛRU DIMENSHON), w/ Yôko Mitsuya, Mitsuho Ôtani, Mika Shigeizumi, Satoshi Nikaidô, Satoshi Matsuda, Ayumi Kinoshita, Yuka Ônishi, Miyû Yamamoto, Tamio Kawachi, & Ken'ichi Endô The official website for Yoshikazu Ishii's Cool Dimension (Kûru dimenshon) is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that site. The screenplay for Cool Dimension was written by Midori Satô, in collaboration with Norihisa Yamamoto. The movie... (1 Comments)
05/12/2006	Retroactive Review of Masters of Horror, Season One With Kurt's anticipatory buzz generating around the second season of Showtime's Masters of Horror and Logboy's recent "mini-update" on Dario Argento, I searched Twitch for reviews of the first season of Masters of Horror. Not finding any, I'm offering up... (9 Comments)
05/12/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL Almost every movie has a money shot. It’s the scene, the moment that must work exactly as planned in order for the film to work. Awareness of which scene, which moment, is the money shot for any particular film is... (2 Comments)
05/12/2006	J-sploitation: HK DVD of Takao Nakano's SEXUAL PARASITE: KILLER PUSSY (KISEICHÛ: KIRÂ PUSSHÎ), w/ Sachika Uchiyama, Natsumi Mitsu, Sakurako Kaoru, Yumi Yoshiyuki, et al. The Hong Kong DVD (NTSC, region-free, Traditional Chinese subtitles) of Takao Nakano's Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (Kiseichû: kirâ pusshî) is available for purchase from Twitch affiliate YesAsia.com (Hong Kong) Ltd.. The Japanese sale DVD (DMN-059; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles)... (3 Comments)
05/12/2006	Alto Media Releases Remastered Wong Kar-Wai Alto Media is quickly becoming one of the most active players in the Korean DVD Market, what with their recent releases of the Wim Wenders and Kitano Takeshi boxes. But now they've taken another step in the right direction: Wong... (10 Comments)
05/12/2006	Early Look at Anchor Bay's 'Cemetery Man' R1 USA DVD. Wouldn't normally of course, but since there's lot of people desperate to hear (or read) about how Anchor Bay do on this new DVD of this Soavi classic, I'll stick a link in here to the lucky folks at DVDManiacs... (5 Comments)
05/11/2006	J-sploitation update: Masami 'Merzbow' Akita's LOST PARADISE ('SHITSURAKUEN': JÔBAFUKU ONNA HARAKIRI), etc. With regard to the pages linked to below, viewer discretion is advised. Although the seven Onna harakiri sakuhinshû DVDs were released in Japan some time ago, I'm posting about them here and now for the benefit of those who aren't... (5 Comments)
05/10/2006	Of Teeth and Monsters... Thanks to Twitch regular Isao K for the juicy link. For the first time in ages I envy the folks who are going to Cannes...... (8 Comments)
05/10/2006	DINOSAURS SEASONS ONE AND TWO DVD SET REVIEW Muppets, puppets and big foam-rubber thingies; you either love 'em or hate 'em it seems. When a man like George Lucas makes them on computers they ruin his movies. But when Jim Henson made oversized versions for TV he won... (2 Comments)
05/10/2006	Simon Cathcart's STAGKNIGHT: "Kill Number One (New Wave Dave)" clip Distribution rights for Simon Cathcart's British comedy-horror StagKnight are being offered for sale by StagKnight Ltd. at the Marché du Film in Cannes. The movie is being screened at the Palais D on Wednesday May 24th at 10:00 p.m. (22:00),... (1 Comments)
05/10/2006	Argento Finishes Shooting 'Pelts', Begins 'Third Mother', Signs for USA Work. Mini Argento update for those interested in the inside happenings. Firstly, it seems he has already finished the shoot for 'Masters of Horror' Season Two Episode, 'Pelts' - Simonetti is scoring the music. The film stars John Saxon, one of... (11 Comments)
05/09/2006	Mark Savage's DEFENCELESS: A BLOOD SYMPHONY, w/ Susanne Hausschmid, Bethany Fisher, Karen Walsh, Anthony Thorne, Mitchell Turner, George Gladstone, Colin Savage, and Richard Wolstencroft The completed version of Mark Savage's Defenceless: A Blood Symphony is scheduled to have its world première at the (Yet) Another Hole in the Head film festival in San Francisco on Saturday June 10th at 11:30 p.m., and to subsequently... (0 Comments)
05/09/2006	Update on Mark Anthony Vadik's THIRSTING (THE THIRSTING), w/ Tina Krause, Jacqueline Hickel, Nikki Gahan, Cortney Pahlke, Lauren Ryland, Lauren McCarthy, Mickey Rooney, Naomi Knight, Crystal Carmichael, et al. FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Distribution rights for Mark Anthony Vadik's Thirsting (The Thirsting) are being offered for sale by Cinemavault Releasing International Inc.. (Note: "Thirsting" is the new title of the movie in question; "The Thirsting"... (0 Comments)
05/09/2006	Recap: Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru's TUMBLING DOLL OF FLESH (NIKU DARUMA) Although Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru's Tumbling Doll of Flesh (Niku daruma) was released on VHS in Japan back in 1998, I'm posting about it here and now for the benefit of those who aren't familiar with it, and are interested in... (3 Comments)
05/08/2006	Transformers cast update and other crap... It's been a while since we've had anything to say about the Transformers movie. Mostly my fault since I haven't been looking and we don't dwell on Hollywood news that much around here. But a couple things caught my eye... (8 Comments)
05/08/2006	THE TOWERING INFERNO SPECIAL EDITION Fire!!! Where? Under your keister you overfed neglecter of disaster cinema's heritage. Get thee to a video outlet and purchase the Special Edition of Towering Inferno. No more 24 or Lost or CSI for you, no more giant meteor's striking... (1 Comments)
05/08/2006	THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE SPECIAL EDITION Famed producer Irwin Allen is my real father. I say this in deference to my mother who claims differently. Here’s list of movie and TV projects the man was responsible for- Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the... (0 Comments)
05/08/2006	Pick of the TV Baftas for 2006... These are a very few of the most relevant Bafta TV Awards for 2006, handed out last night. There's a full list linked below, but for now these are the those I've covered around here because they're comedy or drama...... (0 Comments)
05/05/2006	Update on Wolfgang Büld's TWISTED SISTERS, w/ Fiona Horsey, Andrew Southern, Paul Conway, Eden Ford, Pietro Herrera, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Timo Jacobs, Peter Cotton, & Joan Blackham According to the Fangoria article "Ghosts, gore and more on DVD from MTI" (May 5th), MTI Home Video is scheduled to release Wolfgang Büld's Twisted Sisters on DVD in the U.S. on August 15th. As was reported here on Twitch... (0 Comments)
05/05/2006	Check Out The Thoroughly Bizarre World Of Jibangus ... What on earth is Jibangus? Short answer is three guys in Wisconsin making thoroughly bizarre little films ... these are totally low budget affairs, but gloriously so. Rather than try to hide the limitations they revel in them and while... (2 Comments)
05/05/2006	[2006 K-FILM PREVIEWS] Park Chan-Wook's 싸이보그지만 괜찮아 (I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok) 1403, London. The year the Bethlem Royal Hospital started accepting what were called 'lunatics', becoming the first ever full-fledged mental institution. Better known as Bedlam, which has become synonymous with mental institutions, especially in negative terms, the insane treatment of... (3 Comments)
05/05/2006	Trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's KANI GOALKEEPER (KANI GÔRUKÎPÂ), w/ Mikisuke Haruyama, Saaya, Sayaka Tashiro, Naoto Takenaka, Hiroshi Fujioka, Hitoshi Ozawa, Aya Koizumi, Akihiro Shimizu, Michiko Shimizu, Yakan Nabe, et al. There's a trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's Kani Goalkeeper (Kani gôrukîpâ) on the website of Walkerplus K.K. (K.K. Wôkâpurasu). (Thanks to Kung Fu Cult Cinema for this information.) As was previously reported here on Twitch, the screenplay for Kani Goalkeeper was... (1 Comments)
05/05/2006	DVD: Shin'ya Nishimura's LEMON ANGEL (REMON ENJERU - JISSHA-BAN) FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE The Japanese sale DVD (BBBJ-6572; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) of Shin'ya Nishimura's live-action omnibus movie Lemon Angel (Remon enjeru - jissha-ban) is now available for pre-order from Twitch affiliate YesAsia.com (Hong... (0 Comments)
05/04/2006	Ataru Oikawa's APARTMENT 1303, Paul Spurrier's P2 - UNFORGIVEN, and Yegor Konchalovsky's ESCAPE (POBEG) Below are a few odds and ends related to MonteCristo International LLC. The official website for Ataru Oikawa's horror movie Apartment 1303 is online, although at present it's just a home page. According to this January 18th press release from... (0 Comments)
05/04/2006	John Harford Williams' STARFISH HOTEL, starring Kôichi Satô, Kiki, Akira Emoto, Tae Kimura, and Kazuyoshi Kushida FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Distribution rights for John Harford Williams' Japanese mystery-thriller Starfish Hotel (a.k.a. "Sutâfisshu Hoteru") are being offered for sale by MonteCristo International LLC at the Marché du Film in Cannes. The movie is... (0 Comments)
05/03/2006	Dead by Dawn: Simon Boyes & Adam Mason's BROKEN, Robert Krause's BLOOD TRAILS, David Slade's HARD CANDY, and Osamu Fukutani's THE LAST SUPPER (SAIGO NO BANSAN) From the latest Dead by Dawn newsletter (May 3rd): "For the features, for the first time in this festival's history, we have joint first place and second place winners! Joint winners of the Audience Award for Best Feature were [Simon... (0 Comments)
05/03/2006	REVIEW OF EVENT HORIZON SPECIAL COLLECTOR'S EDITION I'm a big Sam Neil fan and am constantly amazed at the quality of the projects that bear his name. The Dish, Children of the Revolution, In the Mouth of Madness and Yes are some of my favorite Sam Neil... (16 Comments)
05/03/2006	EMPIRES: GREAT RELIGIONS- PEOPLE AND PASSIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD What with the soon to be released Davinci Code set to ice the cake on spurious religio rumor mongering (it is darned entertaining read though) I thought I'd remind everyone that there are actually some reasonably accurate portrayal of the... (3 Comments)
05/03/2006	REVIEW OF GARBAGE PAIL KIDS: THE COMPLETE SERIES Remember stuffing your sister's Cabbage Patch Kid into the toilet after setting it on fire and threatening to decapitate it if she didn't give you back that sweaty note you got from Sally Smith in homeroom.... but I digress. Please... (1 Comments)
05/03/2006	REVIEW OF BREAKFAST ON PLUTO DVD I generally like Neil Jordan's irreverent yet often affectionate take on the illogical assumptions of the world and of the institutions in it that grind away our precious individuality. But if it get's any more precious than this I might... (0 Comments)
05/01/2006	C.L. Gregory's BLOOD LAKE, starring CJ Summers, Tyler Houston, Sandy Simmers, India Summer, Bobby Banger, Johnny Depth, Dick Chibbles, and Dan Holmes Yesterday, on the website of his production company Midnite Films, C.L. Gregory posted the following message regarding the release of his hardcore horror movie Blood Lake: "Well, it's official - kinda. Blood Lake gets released September just in time for... (0 Comments)
05/01/2006	Shion Sono's NORIKO'S DINNER TABLE, Takeshi Furusawa's GHOST TRAIN, Naoto Kumazawa's VANISHED, Sang-il Lee's HULA GIRL, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Naoko Ogigami's KAMOME SHOKUDÔ, Yoshimitsu Morita's MAMIYA KYÔDAI, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
04/30/2006	Rose D'or for Best Comedy, Peter Serafinowicz & Robert Popper's 'Look Around You'. Firm favourite, small show that's well known amongst comedy fans here in the UK but which seemed to get a relatively small audience because it didn't do the huge business on DVD of megahits like 'Phoenix Nights', 'Extras' or 'The... (0 Comments)
04/30/2006	Tsukamoto's HAZE is Certified Uncut for it's Delayed May 22nd R2 UK Release. Thanks, Brendon : quick off the mark in spotting 'Haze' has finally gone through the mighty hands of the BBFC and been passed uncut in it's longer form. Running time for the PAL disc will then be 49 minutes, and... (2 Comments)
04/29/2006	New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF 2006) Screenings Announced. Kaiju Shakedown man Grady Hendrix has all the details beginning to be revealed on their choices for this years NYAFF (June 16th - July 1st) which includes a whole load of things we've talked about over the last so many... (0 Comments)
04/29/2006	1960's Ultraman on R1 USA DVD from July 18th 2006. All 39 episodes, 20 of which are in the first set due on July 18th in America, remastered and with stereo sound, new subtitles, plus the inclusion of the dub for the 1970's broadcast in the USA. Nice. Second half... (4 Comments)
04/29/2006	The Eternally Tiresome Issue (Well, One of Them) : One Missed Call. The news has been floating around a few days, so whilst I slip into doing a few posts in a row, might as well mention it so you can get it over with : they're remaking 'One Missed Call' (aka... (7 Comments)
04/28/2006	Trailer for Kei Horie's ZENSHIN TO KOYUBI, w/ Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Akiko Fukuda, Reiko Kataoka, Masaaki Akahori, Shion Machida, Mitsuyo Ishigaki, Seiji Rokkaku, Miyako Yamaguchi, Tokuma Nishioka, & Toshiaki Megumi The official subsite for Kei Horie's Zenshin to koyubi is now fuctional, and there's a large downloadable trailer for the movie on that site. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the story and screenplay for Zenshin to koyubi were... (0 Comments)
04/28/2006	Red Angel (aka 'Akai Tenshi') by Yasuzo Masumura (1966). R2 UK DVD June 26th 2006. Always mentioned alongside the words 'criminally' and 'underrated' or 'ignored' (just checked the play.com listing : yep, that's what they say, clear as day) - here's a Masumura movie that hasn't seen a USA DVD or a subtitled anywhere else... (5 Comments)
04/27/2006	Kei Horie's ZENSHIN TO KOYUBI, w/ Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Akiko Fukuda, Reiko Kataoka, Masaaki Akahori, Shion Machida, Mitsuyo Ishigaki, Seiji Rokkaku, Miyako Yamaguchi, Tokuma Nishioka, & Toshiaki Megumi The official subsite for Kei Horie's Zenshin to koyubi is online, although at present it's just a home page. The story and screenplay for Zenshin to koyubi were written by Horie. The movie stars Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Akiko Fukuda, Reiko Kataoka,... (0 Comments)
04/25/2006	Sasuke Sasuga's FEMALE PRISONER SIGMA (JOSHÛ SHIGUMA), w/ Shôko Hamada, Moonsu, Kyômi, Mika Takahoshi, Momo Iizawa, Kôichi Kitamura, & Usaburô Ôshima The official webpage for Sasuke Sasuga's Female Prisoner Sigma (Joshû Shiguma) is now online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that page. The movie is scheduled to be released on DVD and VHS in Japan by GP Museum... (0 Comments)
04/24/2006	Ryan Nicholson's LIVE FEED, w/ Stephen Chang, Taayla Markell, Kevan Ohtsji, Rob Scattergood, Ashley Schappert, Caroline Chojnacki, Lee Tichon, Mike Bennett, Colin Foo, Greg Chan, Patrick Pon, Mike Wu, Hansen Li, et al. Distribution rights for Edmonton-born Ryan Nicholson's full-frontal horror movie Live Feed are being offered for sale by Artist View Entertainment at the Marché du Film in Cannes. The movie is being screened at the Gray 3 on Thursday May 18th... (9 Comments)
04/22/2006	DVD: Kate Robbins' CANDY STRIPERS, w/ Deanna Brooks, Serria Tawan, Brian Lloyd, Tori White, Nicole Rayburn, William Edwards Jr., Eliza Swenson, Monique Cooper, Richard Burke, Kevin Thomas Fee, Sarah Ball, et al. FOR TRAILER AND STILLS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE According to the Fangoria article "CANDY STRIPERS invade DVD", Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is scheduled to release Kate Robbins' Candy Stripers on DVD in the U.S. on June 27th.... (0 Comments)
04/20/2006	SAVE MGM MIDNITE MOVIES!! Canfield here with a subject near and dear to my heart. MGM has released some dynamite movies through it's Midnite Movies moniker but as this post suggests that may be a thing of the past. If you have any love... (5 Comments)
04/20/2006	Update on Ken'ichi Fujiwara's BENIBARA FUJIN, w/ Kaori Sakagami, Mikio Ôsawa, Kanji Tsuda, Hikaru Nagase, Koran Kuroda, Masaaki Takarai, Hideto Katsuya, Tsunekichi Fujiwara, & Akihiro Shimizu The official subsite for Ken'ichi Fujiwara's Benibara fujin is now partly functional. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the screenplay for Benibara fujin was written by Fujiwara, based on the eponymous novel by Oniroku Dan. The movie's principal cast... (1 Comments)
04/18/2006	Bumba Atomika Set Photos A while back we posted some early information about upcoming Italian genre-buster Bumba Atomika, a film that will "tell the weird story of corpses sold through the internet, sensual necrophile women, siamese twins, shaolin warriors and christological appearences. Italian wine,... (3 Comments)
04/18/2006	REVIEW STAR TREK COLLECTIVE TIME TRAVEL Before anyone accuses Paramount of milking the Star Trek series unnecessarily let me remind you that they have done a great job of packaging for each series. There’s a lot of value built in even if they are fairly expensive... (1 Comments)
04/18/2006	US LADY VENGEANCE SITE LIVE! Tartan emailed me last night to let me know the Lady is ready to receive visitors.... (2 Comments)
04/18/2006	흡혈형사 나도열 (Vampire Cop Ricky) DVD Up For Preorder Dark... mosquito bite... ouch. It's not just one of those fastidious insects that populate Summer nights, but a mosquito from Romania infested with VAMPIRE BLOOD! Wow. So average guy Na Do-Yeol (Kim Soo-Ro) finds himself special powers from that night... (3 Comments)
04/17/2006	LEMON ANGEL (REMON ENJERU - JISSHA-BAN): Trailer for Shin'ya Nishimura's live-action omnibus movie starring Haruka Ogura, Saki Yoshida, and Ryô Shihono A downloadable trailer for Shin'ya Nishimura's live-action omnibus movie Lemon Angel (Remon enjeru - jissha-ban) has been added to the official website for the movie. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the screenplay for Lemon Angel was written by... (3 Comments)
04/16/2006	Son Jae-Gon Talks 달콤, 살벌한 연인 (My Scary Girl) 참! 우리집에 김치가 없네 김치도 없는집에 김치냉장고가 왜있을까? (That's weird... why would a house without kimchi have a kimchi refrigerator?) 조은지 - 달콤, 살벌한 연인 中 (Jo Eun-Ji - From My Scary Girl) Hmmm... what would a kimchi refrigerator do... (0 Comments)
04/14/2006	Life On Mars. In an attempt to keep picking out the good stuff from the UK (a little overwhelming when you're kind of catching up I suspect, but trust me - no mention if there's not a recommendation, one way or another) here's... (5 Comments)
04/13/2006	LEMON ANGEL (REMON ENJERU - JISSHA-BAN): Shin'ya Nishimura's live-action omnibus movie starring Haruka Ogura, Saki Yoshida, and Ryô Shihono The official website for Shin'ya Nishimura's live-action omnibus movie Lemon Angel (Remon enjeru - jissha-ban) is now online. The screenplay for Lemon Angel was written by Kôsuke Komatsu. The movie stars Haruka Ogura as Miki, Saki Yoshida as Tomo, and... (0 Comments)
04/13/2006	Suburban Shootout. General rule of thumb, as a reminder, for British Comedy goes like this : BBC1 is mainstream beyond belief (hence the intentional 'Extras' broadcast on BBC 2 at Ricky Gervais' insistence), BBC 2 and Channel 4 are the 'cutting edge'... (5 Comments)
04/13/2006	'Nigh Watch' R1 USA DVD June 20th 2006 - Both Cuts, Nice Commentaries. Bit confused now, you're going to have a battle on your hands working out if the Press Releases are simply worded badly or there's major differences between the two editions (the R2 UK out end of April, this R1 (now... (0 Comments)
04/13/2006	Naina. by Shripal Morakhia (2005). R1 USA DVD June 6th 2006. Just read some stuff in the forum and reminded me of this spot of a DVD release from yesterday. Seems, that although there's lots of folk out there already tired beyond belief of generic J-Horror (and the numerous remakes, referential... (3 Comments)
04/12/2006	Lee Gordon Demarbre's short "Bzzzzzzz", starring Phil Caracas, Gabrielle Wolfe, Josh Grace, Anna Sharrett, Dave Cherry, Marie-France Courtemanche, Gabriela Svoboda, Marc Charron, and Ian Driscoll There's a downloadable trailer for Lee Gordon Demarbre's short "Bzzzzzzz" on the website of his production/distribution company Odessa Filmworks Inc.. The screenplay for "Bzzzzzzz" was written by Demarbre. The short stars Phil Caracas, Gabrielle Wolfe, Josh Grace, Anna Sharrett, Dave... (0 Comments)
04/12/2006	DVD: C.L. Gregory's BLOOD LAKE, starring CJ Summers, Tyler Houston, Sandy Simmers, India Summer, Bobby Banger, Johnny Depth, Dick Chibbles, and Dan Holmes Yesterday, on the website of his production company Midnite Films, C.L. Gregory posted the following message regarding the delay of the release of his hardcore horror movie Blood Lake: "After a special screening with the good folks at LFP/VCA [Blood... (0 Comments)
04/12/2006	Minoru Kawasaki's KANI GOALKEEPER (KANI GÔRUKÎPÂ), w/ Mikisuke Haruyama, Saaya, Sayaka Tashiro, Naoto Takenaka, Hiroshi Fujioka, Hitoshi Ozawa, Aya Koizumi, Akihiro Shimizu, Michiko Shimizu, Yakan Nabe, et al. The official website for Minoru Kawasaki's Kani Goalkeeper (Kani gôrukîpâ) is now online. The screenplay for Kani Goalkeeper was written by Kawasaki and Masakazu Migita, based on a story by the former. The movie's principal cast is as follows (listed... (2 Comments)
04/11/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS THE MEL BROOKS BOX SET An aging Madonna? No! It's Nurse Diesel that wicked naughty night nurse from my favorite Mel Brooks flick High Anxiety. Oh what a great job I have. But some days it’s even better. I didn’t ask for this and only... (2 Comments)
04/11/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS RIAN JOHNSON'S BRICK An interview with Rian Johnson, director of Brick is a good thing. A faulty recording mechanism is not. Combine the two and add a pinch of “idiot who didn’t check his equipment prior to the interview” and you get a... (6 Comments)
04/11/2006	The BOA trailer strikes! -As we resist various 'Snake-Size Matters' jokes. All righty, back on the eve of this month, we threw some beautiful looking posters from Thai's 'bad-ass snake' offering, BOA your way. Well, Deknang has continued his habit of providing delectables - as we are officially slapping you with... (4 Comments)
04/10/2006	Bubba Nosferatu "We Hope To Shoot This Year" Two films to climb out of limbo via Masters of Horror series? First the Twitch post (below) on hopeful happings with Lucky McKee's "The Woods." Now, CHUD and others have been buzzing with rumors of Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Nosferatu (The... (1 Comments)
04/10/2006	JIFF: Takahisa Zeze's MRS., starring Asuka Kurosawa, Yôko Yamashita, Misaki, Ken Mitsuishi, Nobuhiro Takeda, Shirô Shimomoto, and Isamu Nagato Takahisa Zeze's Mrs. is scheduled to have its world première at the Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) in Korea on May 1st at 1:00 p.m. (13:00), and to subsequently be screened there on May 2nd at 5:00 p.m. (17:00). The... (0 Comments)
04/10/2006	Toshiaki Toyoda's 'Hanging Garden' R2 Japan DVD has English Subtitles! Hooray! Clever old Pony Canyon. Saw a mention of it, checked the Pony Canyon site, and yes the Japanese release will have English Subtitles! Lovely! Can't Wait! Only the end of May, not long to go, must control myself. Loved... (6 Comments)
04/10/2006	Lucky McKee's 'The Woods' Finally Released Soon? I say this because there's at least one mention of it making a Festival appearance soon, at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival - screening Monday April 24th 2006 at 8:15pm. Nice, Todd's desperate for it, and here it seems to... (4 Comments)
04/09/2006	Blue Underground's Enzo G. Castellari R1 USA DVD Trailers & Reviews. All of these end of April 2006 on R1 USA DVD, looking forward to them. Lots of top Italian Crime stuff here, unfortunately we don't get BU review discs (as far as I know) - a collection of review links... (0 Comments)
04/08/2006	'Imprint' by Takashi Miike reviewed at Kaiju Shakedown. Two in one day Grady? Blimey, you're a lucky fella getting all these links in from Twitch... well, not really, not lucky at all, we like Kaiju Shakedown. Great site, great writing. Lucky sausage too, young Grady, seeing all these... (13 Comments)
04/08/2006	'Black Night' Reviewed at Kaiju Shakedown...! One of those films we're all waiting for around these parts, after seeing the better-than-expected trailer which turned up recently. Looks really nice, lovely even. But it could be completely duff... one of the first major disappointments of the year?... (2 Comments)
04/08/2006	Royle Family Return. Not the easiest of shows to watch, very much static and dry, very full of British lifestyle jokes and subtle to the extreme quite often. It also has its blatant elements, things which are obviously jokes, so there's balance there... (1 Comments)
04/07/2006	Annette Ashlie Slomka's THE SECRET LIFE OF SARAH SHELDON, w/ Slomka, Dana Fares, Max Phyo, Brenda Lamberty, Patricia McCollim, Ryan Williams, Lyndsay Brill, Marten Borg, Joseph Merchant, & Lainnie Felan A downloadable trailer for Annette Ashlie Slomka's The Secret Life of Sarah Sheldon has been added to the official website for the movie. The screenplay for The Secret Life of Sarah Sheldon was written by Slomka. The movie stars Slomka... (4 Comments)
04/07/2006	Cemetary Man (aka 'Dellamorte Dellamore' preferably) Artwork & Details. Looks a bit barebones I'm afraid, for those out there that are fans of all the additional stuff used on DVDs to pull in and totally convince those that have already seen the film that they need to fork out... (4 Comments)
04/07/2006	Lucky Number Slevin REVIEW Lots of people are going to dig “Lucky Number Slevin”. Chock full of pop culture references and one-liner spouting bad-asses, this crime/comedy/drama smash-up will satisfy a lot of viewers who aren’t looking for much more than those things. Funky plot... (4 Comments)
04/06/2006	Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam! Well all the Silent Hill posters are out, and they are nasty. One of my most anticipated films of the year, I think it's going to become an instant classic. I've been following this film ever since Roger Avary put... (20 Comments)
04/06/2006	A Few Minutes with 'Chubby Funster' Ricky Gervais. I went to that Royal Albert Hall gig early last week, for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Got 20 minutes of new (but typical) Gervais for my money, saw Sean Lock too - someone I prefer to a large extent -... (0 Comments)
04/06/2006	Come and See (aka 'Idi I Smotri'). by Elem Kilmov (1985). Restored for R2 UK DVD out April 24th 2006. Some recent Russian stuff has clearly headed our way, and there's certainly a growth in the interest for the output of the countries Cinematic Industry in both the viewers and the investors eyes. Let's hope that one of the positive... (7 Comments)
04/05/2006	Kwaidan. by Masaki Kobayashi (1964). 183 min Complete Version from Masters of Cinema. Better then than Criterion's past shorter edition, the film having been sliced and reduced in various manners for different territories across the globe - the duration being adjustable, it seems, by removing one or more of the stories than are... (22 Comments)
04/05/2006	US LADY VENGEANCE TRAILER Tartan just sent us the US Lady Vengeance trailer along with the news that the US site should be up shortly.... (6 Comments)
04/03/2006	THE REASONER REMINDS- X FILES SEASONS 4, 5 AND 6 Why? Why does Reasoner review these X Files sets? I list my reasons below. But by way of getting you to read further let me say that for my money fandom (for want of a better phrase) moves way too... (3 Comments)
04/03/2006	Ken'ichi Fujiwara's BENIBARA FUJIN, w/ Kaori Sakagami, Mikio Ôsawa, Kanji Tsuda, Hikaru Nagase, Koran Kuroda, Masaaki Takarai, Hideto Katsuya, Tsunekichi Fujiwara, & Akihiro Shimizu The official subsite for Ken'ichi Fujiwara's Benibara fujin is online, although at present it's just a home page. The screenplay for Benibara fujin was written by Fujiwara, based on the eponymous novel by Oniroku Dan. The movie's principal cast is... (1 Comments)
04/02/2006	Yorgos Noussias' EVIL (TO KAKO), w/ Meletis Georgiadis, Pepi Moschovakou, Argiris Thanasoulas, Mary Tsoni, Stavroula Thomopoulou, Nikos Sabalis, Andreas Kondopoulos, & Yannis Katsambas FOR TRAILERS AND STILLS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE This is a reminder that Yorgos Noussias' Evil (To kako) is scheduled to have its North American première at the 15th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) on April 3rd at 5:00... (0 Comments)
04/01/2006	Evil Aliens. R1 USA DVD for late September 2006. Making Todd's 'Bakers Dozen' for 2005 top releases then, and Adam Lopez's Top 10 Sci-Fi / Fantasy films for 2005 also, 'Evil Aliens' has drawn enough attention overseas (hey, it's a British film and I am British!) to get a... (2 Comments)
04/01/2006	Late Night with Conan O’Brien – Episode 03/31/06 REVIEW Somewhere between the quaint serenade of a familiar leitmotif and the incessant shrill of an ignored car alarm lays the compelling genius that is “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”. The venerable comedy program has seen many changes since its 1993... (6 Comments)
04/01/2006	'Tokyo Psycho'? 'Tokyo Rampage'?! Why Not 'Porno Star' by Toshiaki Toyoda?! Not the kind of things that's massively important in the whole scheme of things, you know, but we are a film site and this is the sort of thing which riles me and it's an obvious place to talk about... (0 Comments)
03/31/2006	CANFIELD REVIEWS SLITHER A great monster movie is an increasing rarity. Horror movies, or at least what passes for horror film these days, are a dime a dozen. Bland movie re-hash-n’-slash is the Special of the Day in the greasy spoon that is... (3 Comments)
03/31/2006	Full Trailer for 'Alien Autopsy'. Posted the teaser before, doesn't really do much for anyone even if you're familiar with all the faces in the film, and the Official Website - well, it's truly the worst thing I've ever tried to navigate, and I get... (3 Comments)
03/31/2006	Argento to Abandon Reality, Shoot Third Mother in 2007, Take on Soderbergh & Clooney? First is the one that interests me the most, Argento talking in Belgrade last week and mentioning that he is tired of the sense of reality within his more recent works, and that he intends to return to the baroque... (2 Comments)
03/31/2006	Slither REVIEW Alien slugs, creeping tentacles, and alien-possessed zombies… What more could anyone want from a movie?? Those drawn to such content will be oozing with happiness to know that James Gunn’s “Slither” is just about as much fun as one can... (5 Comments)
03/30/2006	Doctor Who. Series Three Keeps David Tennant & Billie Piper. Two or more brids with one stone again, firstly, the last series of the show - the first of the new incarnation or relaunch of the franchise - has gained a nomination for Best Drama, competition being 'Bodies', 'Shameless' and... (2 Comments)
03/29/2006	Yoshihiro Nakamura's ROUTE 225, Yôichirô Hayama's YOU WERE UNKNOWN THEN., Sang-il Lee's HULA GIRL, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Daisuke Tengan's WAITING IN THE DARK, Takeshi Furusawa's GHOST TRAIN, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
03/29/2006	Shinobi. Licensed for the USA by FUNimation. Not used to FUNimation picking up live action movies, so have I missed something here? Do they usually? Anyway, nice to hear a good movie like 'Shinobi' is coming to America, and not missing a trick they're letting us know... (1 Comments)
03/28/2006	Auf Bösem Boden: Torture, A Run-Down Austrian Factory, and Thou It's fun to wander through the web sites of film commissions. Take the Austrian Film Commission. A few clicks, and this title in the "coming soon" section caught my eye: "Nancy and Sascha - a couple that has a very... (3 Comments)
03/28/2006	First Stills From Marilyn Manson's Lewis Carroll Pic Phantasmagoria Most singer-turned-film maker projects smack of sheer vanity and are nothing more than train wrecks waiting to happen but this one feels a little different, somehow. First, Marilyn Manson has always been about the show. The man lives his life... (13 Comments)
03/28/2006	DVD: Eiji Ôtsuki's BLACK EMPEROR LADIES (JITSUROKU BÔSÔZOKU: BURAKKU ENPERÂ REDÎSU), w/ Chiaki Ôta, miko, Michi Nishijima, Yuki Matsuoka, Miho Morifuji, Sachiko Katsumata, Aya, Eri Amano, Akiko Saitô, & Rei Okazaki The official webpage for Eiji Ôtsuki's Black Emperor Ladies (Jitsuroku bôsôzoku: Burakku Enperâ redîsu) is now online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that page. The movie is scheduled to be released on DVD and VHS in Japan... (0 Comments)
03/27/2006	Lloyd Kaufman's Making PETA Proud. Poultrygeist Trailer and Music Video Online Now I could've sworn I posted something about the trailer for Troma's Poultrygeist a good long time ago but searching the archives is turning up nothing, so evidently it slipped my mind only to bounce on back in when the... (3 Comments)
03/27/2006	Website For Anders Morgenthaler's Princess Now Online! When I was interviewed by Cool Shite on the Tube a few weeks back they asked if I had any hot tips for films to watch out for in the coming year. My instant response? Anders Morgenthaler's Princess. It's an... (3 Comments)
03/26/2006	AWESOME; I FUCKIN' SHOT THAT - Review Eisenstein was a Pussy. MTV-style editing has nothing on the number of cuts-per-minute in Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That (hereafter, AIFST). In fact, AIFST may just well be the defining film for the DIY video aesthetic of the first decade... (2 Comments)
03/24/2006	NEW FOX FILM NOIR It’s a simple but relentlessly value-oriented formula for DVD release. Cull your library of classic genre films for cheaper release but instead of bargain binning them as barebones editions treat them with the respect they deserve. Not only is the... (4 Comments)
03/24/2006	Mark Anthony Vadik's THE THIRSTING, w/ Tina Krause, Jacqueline Hickel, Nikki Gahan, Cortney Pahlke, Lauren Ryland, Lauren McCarthy, Mickey Rooney, Ron Fitzgerald, Jason Palmer, Naomi Knight, Crystal Carmichael, et al. The official website for Mark Anthony Vadik's The Thirsting isn't online yet; however, the URL for it is http://www.thethirsting.com/ . There's a downloadable trailer for the movie on the website of Vadik's production company, BYOB Multimedia Productions Inc.. The screenplay... (2 Comments)
03/23/2006	Philip Creager's DEATH BY ENGAGEMENT, w/ Sascha Knopf, Aaron MacPherson, Iyari Limon, P.J. Soles, Christa Campbell, Ryan Hansen, Jeff Parise, Edie Dearing, Jilon Ghai, Brandon Largent, Brian Patrick Wade, Maggie Myatt, et al. The official website for Philip Creager's Death by Engagement is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that site. The screenplay for Death by Engagement was written by Creager. The movie stars Sascha Knopf as Detective Rikki... (2 Comments)
03/23/2006	Exclusive Isao Takahata Interview at Ghibli World. Peter at Ghibli World is officially a very lucky man, he has had some one-on-one time with Studio Ghibli & Anime legend Isao Takahata, and is sharing all the snippets of information with all of us over at his website... (1 Comments)
03/23/2006	'Suspiria' Remake Stumbling Block Is the Need for Logical Plot. I think this isreally odd, and really funny, potentially the strangest thing I've heard in some time - very telling too. Seems the planned production-line remake of Dario Argento's 70's classic 'Suspiria' is falling apart at the script level. Why?... (8 Comments)
03/22/2006	'Cromartie' & 'The Great Yokai War' R1 USA DVDs July 11th 2006. It's at that point, or slightly before, that we get to see what is effectively Media Blasters work on Takashi Miike's 'The Great Yokai War' as we now call it. Still have very mixed feelings about the film, wasn't keen... (0 Comments)
03/22/2006	Wolfgang Büld's TWISTED SISTERS, w/ Fiona Horsey, Andrew Southern, Paul Conway, Eden Ford, Pietro Herrera, Frank Meyer-Brockmann, Timo Jacobs, Peter Cotton, & Joan Blackham Epix Media AG is scheduled to release Wolfgang Büld's Twisted Sisters on sale DVD (21993; PAL, region 2, in English) in Germany on May 11th; it's scheduled to release the movie on rental DVD (21994) there on March 23rd. The... (2 Comments)
03/21/2006	Miike Retrospective Heading To Italy It's apparently a good time to live in Turin. If the Olympics weren't your bag you now have a shot at what I believe is the first major retrospective of the films of Takashi Miike. Twenty six films in all,... (5 Comments)
03/21/2006	Doctor Who. 'Christmas Invasion' & Series 2, Episode 1 : R2 UK DVD May 1st 2006. Looks like the broadcast for Series 2 starts soon then, as it (well, the first episode) and the 'Christmas Invasion' episode are set to appear on R2 UK DVD on May 1st 2006. Lots of little snippets of info have... (1 Comments)
03/20/2006	Goyokin. by Hideo Gosha (1969). Review from Media Blasters R1 USA DVD. Fine, I quite like the odd bit of slightly older cinema. 1969 may not be that long ago, but it is in comparison to most of what I watch and I tend to steer well clear as I find the... (0 Comments)
03/20/2006	Louis Theroux Is Returning. Good news, Louis is back soon - a new series of ten TV shows in going into production, with all subjects remaining secret at this point. Looking forwards to these already, and may venture back and pick up his book,... (2 Comments)
03/20/2006	The Smell of Reeves & Mortimer. Easy answer to anyone questioning me over which comedy act, post-Python that is, I rate as having the most influence on British Comedy and the wider world (well, British Life) as a whole. It's the early return of the surreal... (1 Comments)
03/19/2006	The President's Last Bang (그때 그사람들) - Review of R1 DVD The President’s Last Bang has certainly not been ignored around these parts (here is X's very thorough review, trailers, & music video). Nonetheless, another look and another review of one of the best Korean films of 2005 is certainly... (3 Comments)
03/18/2006	Stand Alone Complex : Solid State Society. There was a recent announcement of further work to be produced under the banner 'Stand Alone Complex' for the 'Ghost in the Shell' franchise, thanks to I.G and Bandai. Now we know that there's a trailer for the project, whatever... (12 Comments)
03/17/2006	The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai Up For Pre-Order Yep, it's trash but apparently it's exceptionally good trash. Satiric exploitation film The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai wowed them at Raindance, it's coming to Philadelphia and made a stack of year end best-of lists including Jasper Sharp's at Midnight... (0 Comments)
03/17/2006	It's Called Truth In Advertising: There Be Snakes On That Plane. Well, there's a rather rowdy crowd of you out there hungry for their Snakes on a Plane fix - seriously, I got sent this five times in about ten minutes - and here it is: the first footage from the... (10 Comments)
03/17/2006	Noboru Iguchi's MANJI, starring Cosmosco, Fujiko, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, and Hironobu Nomura The official subsite for Noboru Iguchi's Manji is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that site. There's a larger but streaming version of that trailer on this page for the movie on the website of Walkerplus... (3 Comments)
03/16/2006	Mitsuru Meike's THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI (HANAI SACHIKO NO KAREI NA SHÔGAI), w/ Emi Kuroda, Kyôko Hayami, Kanae Mizuhara, Takeshi Itô, Yukijirô Hotaru, Tetsuaki Matsue, Yôta Kawase, Setsuhiko Kobayashi, et al. FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Thanks to Twitch's own logboy for bringing to my attention the fact that Mitsuru Meike's The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (Hanai Sachiko no karei na shôgai) - an extended version of... (1 Comments)
03/14/2006	Ideal. with Johnny Vegas. Series Two, Episode One Online. Series Two starts tonight on BBC Three at 10:30pm, but as per usual you can catch the stream of it online now - and the rest of the series will appear at the BBC Three website week by week. [Original... (1 Comments)
03/13/2006	A for Andromeda. 2006 remake for BBC Four of 1961 Classic. As for classic British Sci-Fi, well it's Doctor Who for me (Tom Baker, if you must know) and some of the works of Nigel Kneale (primarily 'Quatermass and the Pit', don't know which version) which interest me. Someone did mention... (1 Comments)
03/13/2006	Trailer for John Harford Williams' STARFISH HOTEL, starring Kôichi Satô, Kiki, Akira Emoto, Tae Kimura, and Kazuyoshi Kushida There's a trailer for John Harford Williams' Starfish Hotel (a.k.a. "Sutâfisshu Hoteru") on Cinebel.be. The movie is scheduled to have its world première at the 24th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) in Belgium on March 24th at 6:30... (2 Comments)
03/11/2006	Have I Got News For You. Now here's something that we have an increasing amount of in the UK, but only a few of which have been around for any length of time, and they firmly come within the comedy content that we usually expect simply... (1 Comments)
03/10/2006	Hiroshi Takahashi's SODOM THE KILLER, Yôichi Nishiyama's FATEFUL, and Hiroyuki Minato's THE CAT, THE MOON, AND THE GANGSTER FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Distribution rights for the movies in Euro Space Y.K. (Y.K. Yûro Supêsu) et al.'s Horror Bancho (Horâ banchô) series other than Takashi Shimizu's The Stranger from Afar (Marebito) are now being offered... (1 Comments)
03/10/2006	DARK SKY FILMS RELEASES DVD MAGIC Reasoner demands equal recognition for the little label that could. Dark Sky Films has taken the little they have in some great directions releasing a mix of the twonky, the obscure, and the truly classic in exploitation and genre film.... (1 Comments)
03/10/2006	REASONER REVIEWS SOTA TOYS NOW PLAYING SERIES TWO Reasoner is a reasonable man but not a reasonable toy collector. I want it and I want it now! And the quality had better be worth the investment. In the case of SOTA’s Now Playing Series II there is no... (2 Comments)
03/09/2006	Miike's Teasing With Details of His Current Film ... "Making movies with kids is fun ..." Don at Ryunganji has just posted a translation of Takashi Miike's latest blog entry and he spills some details about his current film. I'm sure I'm entirely wrong but a couple things in... (3 Comments)
03/09/2006	PFF: Yorgos Noussias' EVIL (TO KAKO), w/ Meletis Georgiadis, Pepi Moschovakou, Argiris Thanasoulas, Mary Tsoni, Stavroula Thomopoulou, Nikos Sabalis, Andreas Kondopoulos, & Yannis Katsambas Yorgos Noussias' Evil (To kako) is scheduled to have its North American première at the 15th Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) on April 3rd at 5:00 p.m., and to subsequently be screened there on April 5th at 9:45 p.m. and April... (1 Comments)
03/09/2006	괴물 (The Host) Teaser Trailer Released Here we go... the monster is out. Bong Joon-Ho's third film after 2000's 플란다스의 개 (Barking Dogs Never Bite) and 2003's 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder) has been on top of my 'to see' list since news about it first... (20 Comments)
03/09/2006	Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. R2 UK DVD July 3rd 2006. Okay, this has been mentioned in the forums, a desire for an appearance of this 2004 show 'Darkplace' - another show to seem relatively ignored on broadcast, but which has gained an increased reputation since that time. For all fans... (2 Comments)
03/09/2006	MidnightEye. The Results Are In... Your Favourite Japanese Films of 2005 Are... ...Over at MidnightEye. Anyway, you can see there's such a huge amount of films that people have managed to get to see, some are clearly well known, others entirely obscure and for those probably within the industry or in Japan... (3 Comments)
03/08/2006	Scrap Heaven. by Lee Sang-Il (Sang-Il Lee). R1 USA from Kino on June 6th 2006. There you go, that's more like it, an R1 release for a recent Japanese movie that caught my eye when I watched the trailer last year - Sang-Il Lee's (according to IMDB, Lee Sang-Il elsewhere) 'Scrap Heaven' starring Chiaki Kuriyama.... (14 Comments)
03/07/2006	Wallace And Gromit : Curse of the Failed Sense of Reality in British Kids. The films an Oscar Winner now, the DVD is out there in the Supermarkets, and its erm... super cheap - it's Wallace & Gromit craze time again, a decade on from the initial interest was peaking. There is something odd... (5 Comments)
03/07/2006	[Memories of Midnight - Ch. 1] Ryu Seung-Wan's 다찌마와 리 (Dajjimawa Lee) Midnight. When 'they' go to sleep, but some other people stay up to fill that void, to satisfy that hunger for films which had been eating them up the entire day. Watching strange little films, obscure works which can't be... (4 Comments)
03/06/2006	Anything You Want to Hear About From England? Comedies? Dramas? Actors? OK, my taste isn't shifting, but I have come to realise over the last year that there's very few sites that cover UK stuff in a way which offers anything beyond actual news snippets - and they're often hard to... (15 Comments)
03/03/2006	Rampo Jigoku (aka 'Rampo Noir') : Special Twitch Exercise In Telepathy. Like Todd's 'Whither' posts, wondering where the films that have generated real interest online have gone, where the films that have a ready market are on Subtitled DVD, where the decent uncut transfers are and so on, here's something I... (9 Comments)
03/02/2006	Miike's Blogging! And occassional Twitch contributor and very fine Japanese film blogger Don Brown is translating it! Go now! Entry 42 Entry 43... (3 Comments)
03/02/2006	Hideo Jôjô's CREAM LEMON: AFTER THE DREAM (KURÎMU REMON: YUME NO ATO NI), starring Ruka, Yûki Takagi, Sakurako Kaoru, Hiroki Naramoto, Kana Sekine, Ayaka Sekiya, and Yuriko Akikawa The official webpage for Hideo Jôjô's Cream Lemon: After the Dream (Kurîmu remon: yume no ato ni) is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The screenplay for Cream Lemon: After the Dream was written... (1 Comments)
03/02/2006	SURVIVE (SABAIBU): Takashi Motoki's "Hunger", starring Ayumu Nohara, and Ryûichi Honda's "Hidden - senpuku", starring miko, Hiromi Nakata, and Jirô Satô There's a downloadable trailer for the omnibus eros (omunibasu erosu) movie Survive (Sabaibu) on the website of FullMedia K.K. (K.K. FuruMedia). The movie is comprised of two stories: Takashi Motoki's "Hunger", and Ryûichi Honda's "Hidden - senpuku". "Hunger" stars Ayumu... (1 Comments)
03/01/2006	Vanilla R2 UK DVD for 'Lady Vengeance' initially, 'Sengoku 1549' R2 UK DVD, 'Ryu Ga Gotoku' PS2 USA & UK Release, 'Full Metal Alchemist' Movie and 'Afro Samurai' Licensed for USA. Seems Tartan are issuing a Vanilla DVD for 'Lady Vengeance' with no extras besides an interview and (wait for it) a trailer. May 15th 2006 is the release date for that R2 UK DVD, suspect it's to be intentionally made... (0 Comments)
02/28/2006	YOU DONE BROKE INTO THE WRONG BLOG!!! Todd hates it when we title stuff like this- makes it hard for the search engines. But DOGGONE I GOTS TO GET ME ONE THESE!!!! I'm a big fan of SOTA's Now Playing line of 6 inch figures and will... (3 Comments)
02/26/2006	Kibakichi 2 R1 USA DVD out on March 28, 2006 Following the success of Kibakichi, MTI Home video is releasing Kibakichi 2 (aka Kibakichi Bakko Yokaiden 2) to DVD on March 28, 2006 through Saiko Film, a label that focus on cutting edge asian films. Here is the synopsis and... (6 Comments)
02/26/2006	Shim Hyung-Rae Finds a Home For His 디워 (D-War) From awkward, man-sized monsters and miniature work which would make the creators of Lego blocks proud, to graceful Million Dollar CG creatures dominating the skies. Shim Hyung-Rae has come a long way... The former comedian-turned actor, director and even... (11 Comments)
02/24/2006	TARTAN ASIAN EXTREME TV! According to Reuters Sundance Channel has picked up eight Asian features from Tartan USA and will begin airing them as an "Asia Extreme," late-night Sunday showcase starting midnight April 2. And the film's are Chan-wook Park's "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance"... (15 Comments)
02/24/2006	REVIEW OF NIGHT WATCH Should you watch? And if so should you watch during the day or night? I'm of the opinion that it doesn't matter. This film should be equally empty for humans, "others", vampires, shapeshifters or any other life form that is... (13 Comments)
02/24/2006	Gemini. by Shinya Tsukamoto. R1 USA DVD from Image on May 23rd 2006. Tsukamoto's wonderfully, vibrantly colored Tadanobu Asano film from the days long before 'Vital', and with a much bigger budget to boot, now set for May in America after a previous announcement of the license of this film appearing to transfer... (4 Comments)
02/24/2006	Tristram Shandy : A Cock & Bull Story. R1 USA DVD May 16th 2006. No artwork or specifications yet, for this disc coming directly from HBO Home Video, but the date is now revealed and we can hope for the lengthy South Bank Show special on Michael Winterbottom to appear as was suggested on... (0 Comments)
02/24/2006	Speed Grapher. by Gonzo Digimation. Uncut R1 USA DVDs Begin July 4th 2006. I mention the 'uncut' in the title because I am sure I have all too often read mentions of FUNimation in connection with some alterations, edits and other slight but also fundamental issues with previous releases - and this series... (7 Comments)
02/23/2006	Kate Robbins' CANDY STRIPERS, w/ Deanna Brooks, Serria Tawan, Brian Lloyd, Tori White, Nicole Rayburn, William Edwards Jr., Eliza Swenson, Monique Cooper, Richard Burke, Kevin Thomas Fee, Sarah Ball, Natalie Horton, et al. There's a downloadable trailer and two promo sheets for Kate Robbins' Candy Stripers on the page for the movie on the website of WindChill Films. Also, there are three stills from the movie in the Fangoria article "Aliens! Nurses! Gore!... (0 Comments)
02/23/2006	Ant & Dec's 'Alien Autopsy' Trailer. You know, to be honest, this could be really duff. Major League duff. Got to give credit to the guys at the front of it all though, from humble co-star status in the early 90's (hit kid's drama 'Byker Grove'... (0 Comments)
02/23/2006	Richard Stanley's Hardware Review This review based on a DVD provided by the lovely folk at Diabolik. With its post apocalyptic setting, robot gone mad, extreme gore and a cast that includes Iggy Pop – well, his voice, anyway – and Lemmy from Motorhead,... (7 Comments)
02/23/2006	Green Wing : Reminders & Temptation for Series One. Another one of those shows from the recent past that I caught as it went out, still trying to get my head around why it stands out so much now in comparison to how it appeared to be taken when... (2 Comments)
02/22/2006	Trailer for Ken Arima's COSTUME PLAYERS (KOSUPURE NO HITO), starring Ayumu Saitô, Hikaru Hôzuki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Chinami Sakai, Daisuke Shimoe, Shun Kando, Kei Sugiyama, and Tarô Suwa A trailer for Ken Arima's Costume Players (Kosupure no hito - or "Costume play no hito", if you prefer back-transliterations) has been added to the official subsite for the movie. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the story and... (1 Comments)
02/20/2006	A First Look At David Lynch's Inland Empire? Well, this is intriguing ... as a promotional tool for digital film making tools DigiDesign.com is offering up a free DVD titled Room To Dream, featuring David Lynch talking about his use of digital tools on a recent project, with... (3 Comments)
02/20/2006	J-sploitation: Yôko Satomi & Kana Sakurai! Miyuki Katô & Yûka Takahashi! Daisuke Yamanouchi's GIRL HELL 1999 (SHÔJO JIGOKU ICHI KYÛ KYÛ KYÛ) and his RED ROOM 2 (SHIN AKAI MISSHITSU (HEYA): KOWARETA NINGYÔ-TACHI) Daisuke Yamanouchi's Girl Hell 1999 (Shôjo jigoku ichi kyû kyû kyû) is scheduled to be released on DVD (ADE-0624; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on February 22nd; his Red Room 2 (Shin akai misshitsu (heya): kowareta ningyô-tachi) was... (3 Comments)
02/20/2006	'Two Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps' & Lads Comedy Culture of the 90's... And beyond the 90's too... The was a series of happenings during the 1990's, potentially leading out of the financial boom of the 80's, the re-rising of feminism or the natural jostle for equality between men and women. It was... (1 Comments)
02/19/2006	BIFFF: John Harford Williams' STARFISH HOTEL, starring Kôichi Satô, Kiki, Akira Emoto, Tae Kimura, and Kazuyoshi Kushida The official website for John Harford Williams' Starfish Hotel - a.k.a. "Sutâfisshu Hoteru" - is online, although at present it's just a home page. The movie is scheduled to have its world première at the 24th Brussels International Festival of... (1 Comments)
02/19/2006	Trailer for Hisayasu Satô's SI-SEI (SHISEI), starring Rei Yoshii and Tomohisa Yuge There's a trailer for Hisayasu Satô's Si-Sei (Shisei) on this page for the movie on the website of Walkerplus K.K. (K.K. Wôkâpurasu). Si-Sei (Shisei) is based on the eponymous (with regard to the Japanese title) short story "The Tattooer" ("Shisei")... (2 Comments)
02/19/2006	Ken Arima's COSTUME PLAYERS (KOSUPURE NO HITO), starring Ayumu Saitô, Hikaru Hôzuki, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Chinami Sakai, Daisuke Shimoe, Shun Kando, Kei Sugiyama, and Tarô Suwa The official subsite for Ken Arima's Costume Players (Kosupure no hito - or "Costume play no hito", if you prefer back-transliterations) is now online. The story and screenplay for Costume Players were written by Yûji Nagamori, who also executive produced... (0 Comments)
02/18/2006	Dellamorte Dellamore, aka 'Cemetary Man'. Anchor Bay's R1 USA DVD Finally Hits on June 13th 2006. Many moons since I sat down to watch Soavi's 'Dellamorte Dellamore', I was still in the early-ish days of buying DVDs and Anchor Bay were the company that gave me faith in the format with their frequently stunning transfers for... (4 Comments)
02/17/2006	Mad Cowgirl Website And Trailer. Don't Know How Many Cows It's Got, But There's Plenty of Madness ... Gregory Hatanaka's Mad Cowgirl ended up being one of the major buzz films at the just concluded SF Indie Fest - it was the only narrative film in the festival given an extra screening thanks to the major buzz around... (2 Comments)
02/17/2006	BIFFF: Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein's STORM, w/ Erik Ericson, Eva Röse, Jonas Karlsson, Lina Englund, Peter Engman, Karl Norrhäll, Jaqueline Ramel, Matias Padin Varela, Joel Kinnaman, Per Ragnar, Sasha Becker, et al. FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein's Storm is scheduled to be screened at the 24th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) in Belgium on March 20th at 8:00 p.m. (20.00). The movie... (2 Comments)
02/17/2006	BIFFF: Robin Aubert's SAINT MARTYRS OF THE DAMNED (SAINTS-MARTYRS-DES-DAMNÉS), w/ François Chénier, Isabelle Blais, Monique Mercure, Monique Miller, Patrice Robitaille, Mathilde Lavigne, Alec Poirier, Sylvie Boucher, et al. FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Robin Aubert's Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés) is scheduled to be screened at the 24th Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF) in Belgium on March 19th at 8:30 p.m. (20.30).... (0 Comments)
02/16/2006	Naoto Kumazawa's OYAYUBI SAGASHI, Takashi Komatsu's KÔFUKU NA SHOKUTAKU, Sang-il Lee's HULA GIRL, Yoshihiro Nakamura's ROUTE 225, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Daisuke Tengan's WAITING IN THE DARK, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
02/16/2006	'This Life' by Guest Writer Jasper Sharp for Upcoming R2 UK DVD Release of Seminal 90's Drama. Here's something I would like to do more of with my opportunities to post at Twitch, ask people who have a clearly substantial appreciation for a certain show, film, or Director to do some writing on the subject and pass... (2 Comments)
02/16/2006	Review of 'Luciano Ercoli Death Box Set', from NoShame on R1 USA 2-Disc DVD (and Audio CD) Released February 28th 2006. Luciano Ercoli, a Director with only very few films to his name, sits at the helm of two very unusual examples of the Giallo genre. In 'Death Walks on High Heels' we have a series of characters causing the viewer... (0 Comments)
02/15/2006	THE REASONER REVIEWS SONY'S WHEN A STRANGER CALLS DVD Is it my fault that every time I see Carol Kane I expect her to talk in that voice she used when she played Latka’s wife on Taxi? But waaaaay before that her most effective scene showed her not talking,... (10 Comments)
02/15/2006	R POINT AND NATURAL CITY CLIPS ONLINE Sean Keeley at Tartan just let us know that they have clips up of R-Point and Natural City. I liked R Point better than most. If any of you have seen the low budget independent war/ghost story flicks The Bunker... (12 Comments)
02/15/2006	Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetary Man) Review The following review is based on a DVD provided by the good folks at Diabolik DVD. Those guys are swell. Michele Saovi’s Dellamorte Dellamore is a film that, in certain circles, virtually everybody knows by reputation though surprisingly few have... (5 Comments)
02/15/2006	USA Breakthrough Opportunity for Al Murray : Pub Landlord. Not much comedy news pops up that's easily understood without having developed a long and detailed knowledge of it or the context for it, and since there isn't much online discussion concerning upcoming DVD releases of British Comedy that extends... (1 Comments)
02/14/2006	THE REASONER REVIEWS TARTAN'S VITAL DVD HAH! Now I don't need to sneak on other staff computers to post reviews! Some think The Reasoner is glib, shallow and anonymous because he doesn't have the guts to stand behind his opinions. 1. THEY AREN'T OPINIONS PEOPLE!! The... (1 Comments)
02/13/2006	Fresh Load of Media Blasters Release Dates For R1 USA DVDs in 2006... A whole heap of them posted over at KFC, so I will pick the ones out here that stand out and shove the rest of the list in below. Hideo Gosha's 'Goyokin' shifts slightly to February 28th 2006, 'Rinjin 13'... (4 Comments)
02/13/2006	Enduring legacy of the Fuji TV series ENDURANCE (ZA GAMAN): "13-nin-gakari no za gaman" segment of Ken'ichi Kitazawa's MÔNINGU MUSUME. TOKUBAN: 13-NIN-GAKARI NO KURISUMASU, and Hajime Yarigasaki's THE GAMAN II Ken'ichi Kitazawa's Môningu Musume. tokuban: 13-nin-gakari no Kurisumasu is a TV special that was originally broadcast on Fuji TV in Japan on December 22, 2001. Below are links to a two-part English-subtitled version of the entire "13-nin-gakari no za gaman"... (1 Comments)
02/11/2006	Alexander Aja & Wes Craven a Team for 'The Waiting'. Here's something that's only just on my radar, another Craven / Aja project thats been openly discussed in the past week in some quarters, and it's one of those things again that's a bit 'work in progress' so take it... (2 Comments)
02/10/2006	디워 (D-War) Release Postponed to November The battle of the monsters -- the thousands of Shim Hyung-Rae's 디워 (D-War) and the truck-sized one in Bong Joon-Ho's 괴물 (The Host) -- will not happen after all. Both films, now in post-production, were slated for a July release,... (11 Comments)
02/09/2006	For All The Fans of 'Blackadder' Out There... 'Maid Marian' on R2 UK DVD Soon. There are some shows which have easily gained a decent following abroad, pre and post-internet revolution, as it were. Here's one though that I can imagine lots of 'Blackadder' fans may not entirely have had the chance to see, in... (0 Comments)
02/08/2006	EFM: Poj Arnon's DANGEROUS FLOWERS (CHAI-LAI), w/ Bongkot Kongmalai, Supaksorn Chaimongkol, Kessarin Ektawatkul, Jintara Poonlarb, Boonyawan Pongsuwan, et al. FOR TRAILER, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Distribution rights for Pakphum Wongjinda's Poj Arnon's Dangerous Flowers (Chai-lai) are being offered for sale by Golden Network Asia Limited at this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin, Germany. The movie... (4 Comments)
02/08/2006	Lady Vengeance : American Trailer & Free Complete Soundtrack Download. Two birds with one stone, firstly there's the final American Trailer online now, hopefully people have discovered this one already but I mention it here just in case - it's in three sizes and it's subtitled, runs a little differently... (15 Comments)
02/07/2006	Hostel. by Eli Roth. Unrated (Alternative Cut?) R1 USA DVD April 18th 2006. Fine, confirmed yesterday, this slightly different date to the one talked about recently and the one mentioned in interviews as far back as pre-Christmas (originally to be March '06), but that's water under the bridge. What doesn't help is that... (6 Comments)
02/07/2006	Yumi Yoshiyuki's MISS PEACH (MISU PÎCHI), starring Yumika Hayashi, Sakurako Kaoru, Mina Kojima, Tomohiro Okada, Ikkô Masuda, Seshio, Takao Nakano, Rio Mochizuki, Kinako Satô, and Aya Tanigawa The official webpage for Yumi Yoshiyuki's Miss Peach (Misu Pîchi) isn't online yet; however, there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on the website of FullMedia K.K. (K.K. FuruMedia). Miss Peach stars the late Yumika Hayashi (she played the mother... (0 Comments)
02/06/2006	Three Trials Website And Trailers I don't know where to even begin with this one other than to say that it seems to split the difference between Mathew Barney and Crispin Glover and is probably more than a little bit blasphemous. But whatever it is... (3 Comments)
02/06/2006	Kenta Fukasaku Reviving Sukeban Deka! Another fine find here courtesy of Don Brown ... Toei have recruited director Fukasaku Kenta (33) and idol Matsuura Aya (19) to revive their "Sukeban Deka" series. "Sukeban Deka" (literally 'Female Delinquent Detective') originated from Wada Shinji's bestselling manga revolving... (2 Comments)
02/06/2006	Trailer for Shin'ya Tsukamoto's HAZE (HEIZU), starring Tsukamoto, Kahori Fujii, Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato Tsujioka, and Mao Saitô A downloadable trailer for Shin'ya Tsukamoto's Haze (Heizu) has been added to the official webpage for the movie. The screenplay for Haze was written by Tsukamoto. The movie stars Tsukamoto, Kahori Fujii (a.k.a. Kaori Fujii), Takahiro Murase, Takahiro Kandaka, Masato... (2 Comments)
02/06/2006	Trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's JISSHA-BAN: MAICCHINGU MACHIKO SENSEI: TÔDAI O-JUKEN DAISAKUSEN!!, starring Hanako Nanjô, Hikaru Wakana, Anri Sugihara, et al. A downloadable trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's Jissha-ban: Maicchingu Machiko sensei: Tôdai o-juken daisakusen!! has been added to the official webpage for the movie. As was reported here on Twitch back on December 5th of last year, the screenplay for Jissha-ban:... (0 Comments)
02/06/2006	Trailer for Naoyuki Tomomatsu's ODORU YAKUZA: KUMICHÔ WA, WATASHI!?, starring Nozomi Andô, Ryô Karato, Daisuke Miyagawa, et al. The official webpage for Naoyuki Tomomatsu's Odoru yakuza: kumichô wa, watashi!? is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The screenplay for Odoru yakuza: kumichô wa, watashi!? was written by Chisato Ôgawara. The movie stars... (1 Comments)
02/05/2006	Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: R1 USA DVD of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's HOUSE OF BUGS (MUSHI-TACHI NO IE) and Tadafumi Itô's DIET (ZESSHOKU) set for May 30th 2006. Volume 1 of 3 for the 'Horror Theatre' Series. Coming out in three separate volumes then, Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theatre is simply 'Horror Theatre' for the R1 USA DVD releases via Media Blasters. Each volume has two of the short films on it, and no sign of the distance... (1 Comments)
02/03/2006	When a Stranger Calls REVIEW Simon West’s “When a Stranger Calls” is the stupidest, most annoying movie I’ve seen this year. Granted, we’re only one month into the year, and this is the first 2006 release I’ve been able to see, but still, I doubt... (4 Comments)
02/03/2006	Follow-up on Serdar Akar's VALLEY OF THE WOLVES: IRAQ (KURTLAR VADISI: IRAK), with Billy Zane and Gary Busey For more info on Serdar Akar's Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (Kurtlar vadisi: Irak), see this Twitch article from earlier today (Feb. 3, 2006). Here's a description of Billy Zane's character in Valley of the Wolves: Iraq from the official... (30 Comments)
02/03/2006	Offending Angels. £70k Budget, £89 Box Office. 8 DVD Sales to Double its Takings. One of the thoughts running through my mind when people are talking about co-productions and (non-actor) talent within film production is the happenings here in the UK with our film studios and our film production as a result. Don't know... (0 Comments)
02/02/2006	Night Watch (NOCHNOI DOZOR) North American Trailer in HD Quicktime Many of you out there have seen this film by now, we've been talking about it here for what seems like years. Some of you like it, some have issues with its chaotic sense of narrative. But there is no... (2 Comments)
02/02/2006	흡혈형사 나도열 (Vampire Cop Ricky) Press Screening Report Vampir, blood-sucking vampires. From Lord Byron to Bram Stoker, from Murnau's Nosferatu to The Twins' 千機變 (The Twins Effect), popular culture has always been in love with those creatures of the dark. That of the 僵屍 (hopping corpse) has... (1 Comments)
01/31/2006	Ken Suenaga's NIGHTINGALO (NAICHINGÊRO), starring Chinami Ishizaka, Yumi Egawa, Mami Hashimoto, Hazuki Suzuki, Misato Hirata, and Rei Yoshii The official subsite for Ken Suenaga's horror movie Nightingalo (Naichingêro) is online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that site. Nightingalo stars Chinami Ishizaka, Yumi Egawa, Mami Hashimoto, Hazuki Suzuki (Suzuki Haduki), Misato Hirata, and Rei Yoshii. Ad... (1 Comments)
01/27/2006	REVIEW OF BUBBLE It was exciting to see Bubble. This film was supposed to revolutionize the film industry and it was by a director who has repeatedly impressed me with his storytelling skill, grand imagination and sense of the human center of his... (1 Comments)
01/27/2006	Spiderman, Spiderman, Your Toei Neighborhood Supaidâ-Man. We really, really love the nice little things that keep popping up in our Forum. Icelandic Twitcher Swarez points to the entire 1978 Japanese live action Spiderman TV show (The origin episode) which has been lovingly tongue-in-cheek fan-subbed. It's fun... (5 Comments)
01/27/2006	Midnighteye. Best & Worst of '05, Yaji and Kita, Vengeance is Mine, A.Kurosawa DVDs. Now this is the point that even the most desperately dedicated Japanese (and any other Cinema) film fan might come across a few (or, probably, many more : I've just read this...) gems in the MidnightEye 'Best and Worst of... (2 Comments)
01/26/2006	J-sploitation: Japanese sale DVD of Takaaki Hashiguchi's KUCHISAKE, w/ Mayu Asada, Minami Aoyama, Lemon Hanazawa, Kyôko Kazama, Hotaru Hazuki, Azusa Sakai, Kikujirô Honda, Mikiya Sanada, Taishi Takemoto, et al. Inter Film Y.K. (Y.K. Intâ Firumu) is scheduled to release Takaaki Hashiguchi's erotic horror (erotikku horâ) Kuchisake on sale DVD (IFD-045; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on March 3rd. The DVD can be purchased on-line from such retailers... (0 Comments)
01/26/2006	Second poster for Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's BLOOD LAKE - Midnite Films and VCA Pictures' hardcore horror movie starring CJ Summers, Tyler Houston, Sandy Simmers, India Summer, Bobby Banger, Johnny Depth, et al. There's a rather revealing second poster (see the bottom of this article for link) for Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's Blood Lake on the website of The Horror Channel. The official website for the movie is under development. As was previously reported... (1 Comments)
01/25/2006	Johnathan Ross' 'Asian Invasion', Episode 3 : Korea. Review. Bowing to minimal pressure from the might X, a brief look at the last of the 'Asian Invasion' shows from BBC4. Had trouble concentrating during this particular show, but still there's some thoughts and words about the shows content which... (8 Comments)
01/21/2006	June 27th Is Sogo Ishii Day. Discotek Scoops Rights To Electric Dragon. Well, hello. We already knew that Discotek Media would be releasing Sogo Ishii's long unavailable cult classic Burst City on DVD June 27th but it turns out that they've now also secured rights to Ishii's utterly bizarre Electric Dragon 80000... (3 Comments)
01/21/2006	IMPRINT. by Takashi Miike. R1 USA DVD from Anchoy Bay in Fall 2006. Generally, hopefully at least, all those that post at Twitch should know (and do know, except for slight slips perhaps) better than to do companies promotional work 'for them' by writing about things were not very close to at least... (2 Comments)
01/20/2006	YIFFF: Sola Aoi (Aoi Sora) stars in Keisuke Yoshida's NAMANATSU - a.k.a. "Nama-natsu" - as a high school girl! Keisuke Yoshida's Namanatsu - a.k.a. "Nama-natsu" - is scheduled to be screened at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2006 (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai 2006) - "YIFFF" for short - in Hokkaido, Japan on February 24th at 2:45 p.m. (14:45)... (4 Comments)
01/19/2006	Godzilla (1954) Remastered Uncut R2 UK DVD from BFI January 30th 2006. After what seemed to be a 'blink an you'll miss it' Australian DVD release of the restored, uncut first Godzilla film on DVD over a year ago, all went quiet. No sign of a USA release for it, though now... (1 Comments)
01/19/2006	Night Watch (Nochnoj Dozor) R2 UK Steel Tin 2-Disc DVD Set! State of affairs lies like this. USA Cinema release delayed until February 17th 2006. Russian DVD (with 'functional' English Subtitles) has been available for some time in both PAL and NTSC versions. Trailers for it's sequel 'Day Watch' have been... (5 Comments)
01/19/2006	Shim Hyung-Rae on 디워 (D-War): It's Just Hollywood and Us Did you know 디워 (D-War) and 3 Ninjas Kick Back have something in common? Both were produced by a famous figure in the Korean Entertainment circle, and there's very little that's 'Korean' inside those films. The 1994 action comedy directed... (5 Comments)
01/18/2006	HAZE. by Shinya Tsukamoto. R2 UK DVD Announced from New Label 'Terra' for April 24th 2006. New label, new range of titles, some already released by Media Blasters in the USA, some appear to be 'first time on DVD' releases. Thing is, checking play.com and some of the titles stand up, dates may be different but... (4 Comments)
01/18/2006	Johnathan Ross' 'Asian Invasion', Episode 2 : Hong Kong. Review. The second of the series of three shows here in the UK on BBC4 on a Tuesday evening (hope for American broadcasts, or look for downloads), each clocking in at one hour, that covers the three main territories in 'Asian... (1 Comments)
01/17/2006	Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint #9 to get Limited Theatrical Release Visual Artist/Experimental Filmmaker Matthew Barney's 3-hour+ audio-visual collaboration with his wife, Björk, has been showing up as an unusal alternative choice at a variety of film festivals (not unlike his previous Cremaster Cycle entries). IFC has decided to pick up... (3 Comments)
01/17/2006	Takeshi Furusawa's GHOST TRAIN, Sang-il Lee's HULA GIRL, Yoshihiro Nakamura's ROUTE 225, Daisuke Tengan's WAITING IN THE DARK, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Akihiko Shiota's DORORO, Shin'ya Tsukamoto's HAZE, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
01/14/2006	YIFFF: Aniki, Katsuhito Ishii, & Shin'ichirô Miki's FUNKY FOREST (NAISU NO MORI: THE FIRST CONTACT), w/ Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Anri Ban, Shihori Kanjiya, Aoi Miura, et al. Aniki (Hajime Ishimine), Katsuhito Ishii, and Shin'ichirô Miki's omnibus movie Funky Forest (Naisu no mori: The First Contact) is scheduled to be screened as an official selection at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2006 (Yûbari Kokusai Fantasutikku Eigasai 2006)... (0 Comments)
01/13/2006	Here Comes More Miike: Big Bang Love, Juvenile A To Premier at the EFM! Japanese cult auteur Takashi Miike is at it again. After a brief slowdown around the big budget studio flicks Zebraman and The Great Yokai War, Miike seems to be resuming his standard frenetic pace. He's got a handful of titles... (3 Comments)
01/13/2006	Doctor Who. Good News : American Broadcast on Sci-Fi Channel in March, Bad News Is... Yep, announced today. America gets broadcasts on a Friday night from sometime in March 2006 of the first of the new series of Doctor Who, starring Christopher Eccleston, thanks to the Sci-fi Channel. They've also arranged an option on Series... (2 Comments)
01/13/2006	Update on Robin Aubert's SAINT MARTYRS OF THE DAMNED (SAINTS-MARTYRS-DES-DAMNÉS), w/ François Chénier, Isabelle Blais, Monique Mercure, Monique Miller, Patrice Robitaille, Mathilde Lavigne, Sylvie Boucher, et al. Since Twitch's previous article on Robin Aubert's Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés), a second downloadable teaser trailer for and six downloadable clips from the movie have been added to the official subsite for it (see the bottom of this... (3 Comments)
01/11/2006	Johnathan Ross' 'Asian Invasion', Episode 1 : Japan. Review. More in tune with both my knowledge and taste, still not too keen (and never really have been) on the production values (in story and filming styles) available in Hong Kong, for the most part. As for Korea, well I... (16 Comments)
01/10/2006	괴물 (The Host) Wraps Up Shoot The monster... the one bothering your whole family, destroying what you once called 'normal life', making every single day a struggle against forces you can't fight, and you don't know how to control. You probably know by now I... (7 Comments)
01/10/2006	First Stills From Lynch's Inland Empire! French Production house Canal+ has put together a PR video that includes some stills from David Lynch's Inland Empire and the kindly souls at LynchNet have cpatured those shots and are hosting them there. They're on the small side and... (6 Comments)
01/09/2006	[KOREAN DVD REVIEWS] 친절한 금자씨 (Sympathy For Lady Vengeance) 친절한 금자씨 Sympathy For Lady Vengeance - KOREA 2005 Chinjeorhan Geumja-Sshi (lit. Kind Geum-Ja) 112 Minutes - 35mm Cinemascope 2.35:1 - Colour/Fade to B&W Produced by: 모호필름 (Moho Films) Distributed By: CJ 엔터테인먼트 (CJ Entertainment) International Sales: CJ 엔터테인먼트 (CJ... (22 Comments)
01/09/2006	Masters Of Horror. UK TV Broadcast on BRAVO Satellite Channel from Friday 13th January 2006. Actually never considered it might work out like this, instead of waiting for the DVDs (sold on them anyway, begin in a couple of months time on R1 I think - never consider downloads, internet can grind even with broadband),... (4 Comments)
01/08/2006	V For Vendetta - Japanese Teaser. Nice. Now, this is how you tease a film. The marketing keeps getting better and better for the delayed film adaptation. Have a look at the Japanese Teaser for V for Vendetta. Trailer (Various Embedded Quicktime, Real Media, Windows Media] [source:... (4 Comments)
01/08/2006	'A Bit of Fry & Laurie' (1986 - 95). Series 1 (of 4), R2 UK DVD April 3rd 2006. One of the 'lost classics' of the last 20 years, still firmly connects what is often considered (perhaps unfairly) the prime of both Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's careers. Here they teamed up to become the double act that never... (12 Comments)
01/07/2006	J-sploitation: Trailer for Shinsuke Inoue's WILD HONEY (WAKAZUMA TANTEI: WAIRUDO HANÎ), w/ Atsuko Miura, Shû Yamamoto, Aoi Sakura, Kôji Tsujimoto, Ken'ichirô Okada, Kaho Shirai, Hideto Katsuya, & Shun Sugata The official webpage for Shinsuke Inoue's Wild Honey (Wakazuma tantei: Wairudo Hanî) is now online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The screenplay for Wild Honey was written by Tetsuo Inoue. The movie stars Atsuko... (0 Comments)
01/06/2006	Gô Nagai! Kazuo Umezu! Noboru Iguchi's OIRA SUKEBAN (starring Asami, Emiru Momose, & Saori Matsunaka) and his NEKOME KOZÔ: THE MOVIE (starring Miku Ishida, Naoto Takenaka, Hiromasa Taguchi, & Ryûji Sainei) Noboru Iguchi has at least two movies scheduled to be released in Japan this year that are based on works by famous manga-ka: Oira sukeban and Nekome kozô: The Movie (working title). The screenplay for Oira sukeban was written by... (2 Comments)
01/06/2006	Finally, Clear Details & Trailer for Jonathan Ross' 'Asian Invasion' Series on BBC4. Announced late last year, after BBC4 approached Mr.Ross after his presentation of the channels World Cinema Awards and offered him the chance to do something else of his choice, a series of new interviews, insights and screenings of lots of... (12 Comments)
01/05/2006	Trailers for Shinji Imaoka's KAERU NO UTA - a retitled version of his ENJO-KÔSAI MONOGATARI: SHITAGARU ONNA-TACHI - w/ Konatsu, Rinako Hirasawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Kurumi Nanase, Hiroshi Satô, Takeshi Itô, & Yôta Kawase The official webpage and the official blog for Shinji Imaoka's Kaeru no uta - a retitled version of his Enjo-kôsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi - are online, and there's a trailer for the movie on the former. There's a different trailer... (0 Comments)
01/05/2006	Uno Bianca. by Michele Soavi (2001). Trailer for NoShame's March 28th 2006 R1 USA DVD. Hands up who hasn't seen a Soavi movie in the past? No? Well, he is often closely associated with Dario Argento, and he's the man behind the Italian Horror classics 'Stagefright' (aka 'Bloody Bird' etc), 'The Church' (with Asia Argento),... (1 Comments)
01/04/2006	UPDATE: Dangerious Flowers aka Chai-Lai (ไฉไล) Official Site activate and Trailer online Speak of the devil..A day after the Gomorrahizer posted news about this movie, the official Dangerious Flowers (ไฉไล) aka Chai-Lai site just become activated. The official site contains stills, wallpaper and a trailer. It looks like an action comedy about... (3 Comments)
01/04/2006	Matt Groening Wants Walliams & Lucas (Little Britain) and Catherine Tate to Follow Ricky Gervais in The Simpsons. Matt Groening's been speaking about how happy he is with Ricky Gervais' episode of The Simpsons, managing to match the tone of the show as it has historically been and as it currently is, and fitting his own brand of... (2 Comments)
01/03/2006	디워 (D-War) Teaser Trailer Released We've talked quite a bit about Shim Hyung-Rae's 디워 (D-War), a pretty ambitious project which will try to resurrect the moribund 괴수 (Monster) genre in Korea. Familiar to many as the director of the 1999 Monster film 용가리 (Yonggari), Shim... (13 Comments)
01/03/2006	Poj Arnon's DANGEROUS FLOWERS (CHAI-LAI), w/ Jintara Poonlarb, Bongkot Kongmalai, Supaksorn Chaimongkol, Kessarin Ektawatkul, Boonyawan Pongsuwan, et al. The official website for Poj Arnon's Dangerous Flowers (Chai-lai) is online, although at present it's just a home page. The cast of Dangerous Flowers apparently includes Jintara Poonlarb, Bongkot Kongmalai (a.k.a. 'Tak'), Supaksorn Chaimongkol (a.k.a. 'Kratae'), Kessarin Ektawatkul, Boonyawan Pongsuwan,... (2 Comments)
01/03/2006	Pulse. by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Magnolia's R1 USA DVD February 21st 2006. Rescued from the pit of despair, as it was described around these parts some time back, that was Miramax - making from actually not releasing films, surprising at it sounded, completely true. Anyway, Magnolia got it together to release this... (3 Comments)
12/29/2005	Details About the 형사 (Duelist) DVD Lee Myung-Se has always been one of the most controversial directors in Chungmuro, ever since his debut in 1988, the genial 개그맨 (Gagman). Even longtime critics kept misunderstanding his work, which has granted him the dreaded 'love or hate' moniker,... (11 Comments)
12/29/2005	Akihiko Shiota's DORORO, Kentarô Ôtani's ROUGH, Tetsuo Shinohara's METORO NI NOTTE, Yoshimitsu Morita's MAMIYA KYÔDAI, Tetsuya Nakashima's MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, Shun'ichi Nagasaki's HEART, BEATING IN THE DARK, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
12/29/2005	Bromwell High. Not seen it, but here's another of those pretty rare things, an animated series out of the UK (well, a UK co-production with Canada that's about the life of three British School Girls in London) that's intended for an adult... (7 Comments)
12/28/2005	친절한 금자씨 (Sympathy For Lady Vengeance) DVD - Open Case We've waited way too long for this... she was supposed to be 'kind', but lots of people on Korean message board are starting to call this release '불친절한 금자씨 (UNkind Geum-Ja)'. First it was supposed to be December 20, then... (18 Comments)
12/28/2005	The Next British Comedy Actor to Break America Is.... Martin Clunes? Rewind to the 90s in the UK, and it was perhaps the BBC that were having the biggest hits in comedy, arguably Channel 4 relied upon American imports too often (Roseanne, Friends, Frasier etc), but the BBC had the largest... (8 Comments)
12/28/2005	More Fuccons for Download! Oh, goody! Mikey is back with dear old Dad in yet another episode of The Fuccons that we've got for download. This one takes Mikey and his father into the great outdoors where they must confront a young thug for... (0 Comments)
12/27/2005	Update on Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's BLOOD LAKE - Midnite Films and VCA Pictures' hardcore horror movie starring CJ Summers, Tyler Houston, Sandy Simmers, India Summer, Bobby Banger, Johnny Depth, et al. A poster for, and a couple of production stills from, Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's Blood Lake have been added to the website for Gregory's Indiana-based Midnite Films (see below). As was previously reported here on Twitch, Blood Lake is a hardcore... (1 Comments)
12/26/2005	Comic Lee Evans + 470k DVDs (200k in One Week) In One Month = Xmas No.1. I posted here about a month ago, just shy of the release of Lee Evans latest stand-up performance DVD, saying that the man had just set a record for the largest audience for such a gig - over 10k people... (7 Comments)
12/24/2005	More Fuccons For Download! Apparently this is the time of year when people like to give stuff away. Or at least that's what I've been told. So in the spirit of the season I present to you another episode of Japan's very strange nuclear... (1 Comments)
12/23/2005	Trailer for NoShame's 'Luciano Ercoli Death Box Set', R1 USA DVD & Audio CD February 28th 2006. Been checking back because the trailer link at the page for this within NoShame's site doesn't seem to work, but found a way to work it now - for 'Death Walks in High Heels' at least, no separate one I... (0 Comments)
12/23/2005	Alexander Aja's 'The Hills Have Eyes' First Trailer Online. Surprised as anyone that Aja has gone from an original genre movie (argue over that one all day, but in essence it's original) like 'Haute Tension', one of the most talked about crossover horror films in the last couple of... (3 Comments)
12/22/2005	Midnighteye. 'Rampo Noir' Review, Hideshi Hino's 'Ravaged House', 'Kokkuri', and J-Horror History. Another month, another Midnighteye update. Following Todd's recent review here at Twitch, Jasper Sharp gives his views on the Matsuda / Tadanobu Asano piece 'Rampo Jigoku' (aka 'Rampo Noir') that's still awaiting an American Distributor - great looking film it... (0 Comments)
12/22/2005	Recap: Takahisa Zeze's MRS., Takashi Ishii's FLOWER AND SNAKE 2: PARIS/SHIZUKO, Tetsuo Shinohara's YOKUBÔ, Rokurô Mochizuki's NURETA AKAI ITO, Hideo Jôjô's DISAPPEAR, & Daisuke Gotô's A ROOM WITH A PRIVATE VIEW FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Takahisa Zeze's Mrs. Cast: Asuka Kurosawa, Yôko Yamashita, Misaki (Misaki Mori), Nobuhiro Takeda, Isamu Nagato, and Ken Mitsuishi. Takashi Ishii's Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko) Cast: Aya... (1 Comments)
12/22/2005	흡혈형사 나도열 (Vampire Cop Ricky) Teaser Trailer Released Detective by day, bodyguard by night. That's nothing strange, right? But... we're talking vampire bodyguard here! Na Do-Yeol (Kim Soo-Ro) is not your average vampire either. After getting bitten by an evil and mysterious mosquito, he starts noticing he gets... (0 Comments)
12/21/2005	Recap: Ataru Oikawa's EINSTEIN GIRL, Taikan Suga's THE LAST LOVE SONG ON THIS LITTLE PLANET, Daisuke Hosaka's BE THE WORLD FOR HER, Masafumi Yamada's WAITING FOR THE FLOOD, and Shion Sono's STRANGE CIRCUS FOR TRAILERS AND REVIEWS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Ataru Oikawa's Einstein Girl (Ainshutain gâru) Cast: Mayuko Iwasa, Megumi Komatsu, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Akiyama, Seira Yaguchi, Ikkô Suzuki, Shôji Shibuya, Fujiyama, Yûe Hirose, Miyuki Watase, Rina Koike, Midoriko Kimura,... (4 Comments)
12/21/2005	Recap: Kei Nakata's TSURUGI, Hideaki Sunaga's NAGURIMONO, Naoki Kubo's OH! MY ZOMBIE MERMAID, Keita Tokaji's JAPAN CRIMINAL WRESTLING, Minoru Kawasaki's KABUTO-O BEETLE, and Sakichi Satô's TOKYO ZOMBIE FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Kei Nakata's Tsurugi - a.k.a. "Tsurugi: The Future Swordsman" Cast: Yasuhisa Katô, Natsuyo Kanahama, Kenji Matsuda, Asuka Shimizu, Takayuki Katô, Kôichirô Takami, Sanae Kikuta, Masaki Sawatari, Tatsuya Horiguchi, Kazuo Misaki, Masayuki Yamamoto,... (4 Comments)
12/21/2005	Recap: Katsuhito Ishii et al.'s FUNKY FOREST, Sabu's HOLD UP DOWN, Kazushi Watanabe's SPACE POLICE, Yûdai Yamaguchi's SAKIGAKE!! CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL - THE MOVIE, and Minoru Kawasaki's EXECUTIVE KOALA FOR TRAILERS AND REVIEWS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Aniki (Hajime Ishimine), Katsuhito Ishii, and Shin'ichirô Miki's Funky Forest (Naisu no mori: The First Contact) Cast: Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Ryô Kase, Chizuru Ikewaki (Ikewaki Chiduru), Kazue Fukiishi, Machiko... (2 Comments)
12/20/2005	Ghost in the Shell : Innocence. R2 UK DVD : Never More Tempted By A Dub. Not so much bothered about the dub itself, a completely new piece of work featuring the cast as per the 'Stand Alone Complex' series. Don't listen to dubs, only done so when it's the only option, and never have or... (3 Comments)
12/20/2005	Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's BLOOD LAKE - Midnite Films and VCA Pictures' hardcore horror movie starring CJ Summers, Tyler Houston, Sandy Simmers, and India Summer Christopher (C.L.) Gregory's Blood Lake has finished shooting in northern Kentucky.¹ The hardcore horror movie is being produced by Gregory's Indiana-based Midnite Films and LFP's California-based VCA Pictures (acquired by LFP on May 21, 2003). It apparently stars CJ Summers,... (0 Comments)
12/19/2005	Meet The Fuccons! Enter the Giveaway and Download A Complete Episode! Get ready for one of the strangest - and funniest - things you've ever seen ... A cult phenomenon in Japan where their appearances on a variety show quickly prompted a hugely popular spin off show of it's own, the... (7 Comments)
12/18/2005	Twitch Looks At The New David Lynch DVDs When David Lynch announced that he was launching his own subscriber based website to generate new material directly for his fans as well as personally overseeing DVD releases of his early material it was news much welcomed by fans. Many,... (2 Comments)
12/18/2005	Shorts recap: Jun'ya Okabe's "Specter", Kon Arimura's "Kage no densetsu: Sanada Yukimura no shitô", Kumiko Akiyoshi's "Bubu Again", Kenji Araki's "Môsô shôjo", and Makoto Asakawa's "Red Seed" ("Aka o miru") FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Jun'ya Okabe's "Specter" Cast: Shinji Kasahara, Hitomi Kurihara, Ken'ichirô Okada, Mai Ôzora, Masanori Machida, Daisuke Nagakura, Masaaki Miyamoto, Hiroshi Maeda, Takaaki Suzuki, Kaoru Shimamura, Masaaki Yajima, and Shô Aikawa. Kon Arimura's "Kage... (0 Comments)
12/16/2005	Master i Margarita Trailer: Does This Have Anyone Else Thinking 'Cannibal Girls'? Let me explain that Cannibal Girls comment, because I'm talking aesthetic here, not content ... Some major Hollywood figures are making a big deal about Hollywood films shooting in Canada these days, acting as though it's some new occurence that... (13 Comments)
12/16/2005	Recap: Hiroshi Takahashi's ICHI OF SODOM (SODOMU NO ICHI), Ataru Oikawa's MENOTTE (MENOTTO), Takashi Tsukinoki's THE DEEP RED (SHINKU), Yûji Tajiri's HARAMI: SHIROI KYÔFU, and Yutaka Tsurita's HAIKÔ FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Hiroshi Takahashi's Ichi of Sodom (Sodomu no Ichi) - part of Euro Space et al.'s Horror Bancho Series (Horâ banchô shirîzu) Cast: Takashi Urai (as Ichibei Sodomu and Ichirô Sodomu, a.k.a. Ichi... (0 Comments)
12/16/2005	Recap: Kaizô Hayashi's DETECTIVE OFFICE 5, Takeshi Miyasaka's HALLUCINATION, Masahiro Asao's DESERTED DOGS, Taisen Kamakura's ZERO WOMAN 2005, Hajime Hashimoto's YAKUZA WIVES: BURNING DESIRE, and Ryûichi Honda's IKUSA FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Kaizô Hayashi's Detective Office 5 (Tantei Jimusho 5 - 5 nanbâ de yobareru tantei-tachi no monogatari) - comprised of "Shiritsu-tantei 591: rakuen" (dai-1 hanashi) and "Shiritsu-tantei 522: shitsurakuen" (dai-2 hanashi) Cast: Hiroki... (0 Comments)
12/16/2005	Second 'V for Vendetta' Trailer Online. The first one was pretty impressive, looked a little 'disguised' and flashy. Just loading this second one up now, certainly going to check it out at the cinema when it finally arrives - quite a rare occurance now, hate the... (10 Comments)
12/15/2005	J-sploitation recap: Seiji Yamada's THE NAKED AND THE LIVING DEAD, Masanori Inoue's SHION, Takao Nakano's SEXUAL PARASITE: KILLER PUSSY, Hideo Jôjô's 19 - NINETEEN, and Hiroyuki Kawasaki's ONIROKU DAN'S 'SCHOOLGIRL' FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Seiji Yamada's The Naked and the Living Dead (Shin kaidan zangyaku hidô: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki) - a.k.a. "Yôki kaidan zenshû: bangai-hen: onna keiji to ratai kaibôki" Cast: Yukiko Saitani as... (1 Comments)
12/15/2005	Recap: Mari Asato's SAMURAI CHICKS, Yôichi Nishiyama's TROUBLE MAKER LUCY, Takeshi Furusawa's LOST ★ MY WAY, Takahisa Zeze's SECRET JOURNEY, Shin'ya Nishimura's LOVE KILL², and Mamoru Watanabe's TOKYO DESIRE FOR TRAILERS, SEE THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE Mari Asato's Samurai Chicks (Dokuritsu shôjo gurentai), a.k.a. "Samurai Chicks: Girls for Independence" - part of Euro Space's Wara Bancho Series (Wara banchô shirîzu) Cast: Megumi Shôji, Ayano Tachibana, Chiaki Ôta, Tomomi... (0 Comments)
12/13/2005	Sola Aoi (a.k.a. Sora Aoi, Aoi Sora, & Aoi Sola) recap: Satoshi Torao's EROTIC GHOST: SIREN (SHIN YÔJO DENSETSU: SEIRÊN), Ryôko Yoshida's LOVE TWISTED (TOMOSHIBI), and Hiroshi Andô's KÔKÔ KYÔSHI: SHIIKU NO KÔSHA Satoshi Torao's Erotic Ghost: Siren (Shin yôjo densetsu: seirên) - a.k.a. "Siren the Erotic Ghost" Cast: Sola Aoi (Aoi Sora), Jun'ichi Kawamoto, Yûken Yoshida, Hideaki Mizuki, Ikki Funaki, Shintarô Wada, and Kazuyoshi Ozawa. Synopsis: "Yaguchi (Junichi Kawamoto) succeeded 1.5 million... (5 Comments)
12/12/2005	Trailer for Wataru Furuta's KURÎMU REMON: TSUBOMI NO KATACHI, w/ Rio Kitajima, Shin'ichi Ôshima, Kôichi Nagata, Yume Imano, Mayu Hiratsuka, Kyôji Kamui, Minami Mizuhara, Kenjirô Nishiumi, Yûki Satô, Shinobu Yada, et al. The official webpage for Wataru Furuta's Kurîmu remon: tsubomi no katachi is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The principal cast of Kurîmu remon: tsubomi no katachi is as follows: Rio Kitajima, Shin'ichi Ôshima,... (0 Comments)
12/09/2005	Mrs. Henderson Presents REVIEW In a lot of ways, the Weinstein Company’s new film “Mrs. Henderson Presents” is their typical Oscar bait, but really, when it comes down to it, it’s truly not. On the yes side, it’s a London period piece that revolves... (0 Comments)
12/09/2005	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe REVIEW It’s tough to have to trash a film that so many people were hoping would be really good. I counted myself among that group, despite the fact that my familiarity to the story came primarily through other lacking adaptations, including... (7 Comments)
12/09/2005	Syriana REVIEW I believe that it was during last summer’s press blitz for “Star Wars: Episode III” that George Lucas said in an interview that if you’re going to do politics in movies, better to do it as allegory, for the minute... (35 Comments)
12/08/2005	A Bevy of Lynch on DVD! Plus A Chance to Win Autographed David Lynch Merch! Ladies and gentlemen, here's a little something that you won't find on Amazon but you will find here in the Twitch DVD Store. I've let my subscription to DavidLynch.com lapse in recent days but I was a subscriber in the... (6 Comments)
12/05/2005	Official webpage for Minoru Kawasaki's JISSHA-BAN: MAICCHINGU MACHIKO SENSEI: TÔDAI O-JUKEN DAISAKUSEN!!, starring Hanako Nanjô, Hikaru Wakana, and Anri Sugihara The official webpage for Minoru Kawasaki's Jissha-ban: Maicchingu Machiko sensei: Tôdai o-juken daisakusen!! is online. The screenplay for Jissha-ban: Maicchingu Machiko sensei: Tôdai o-juken daisakusen!! was written by Kawasaki and Shiori Adachi, based on the manga serial "Maicching Machiko Teacher"... (0 Comments)
12/05/2005	Update: Trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's EXECUTIVE KOALA (KOARA KACHÔ), w/ Hironobu Nomura, Elli-Rose, Ho Lee, Eiichi Kikuchi, Arthur Kuroda, Hideki Saijô, Ryû Hariken, Megumi Yamanaka, Hitomi Takashima, & Chika Kumada A trailer for Minoru Kawasaki's Executive Koala (Koara kachô) has been added to the official website for the movie. As was previously reported here and there on Twitch, the screenplay for Executive Koala was written by Kawasaki and Masakazu Migita,... (1 Comments)
12/05/2005	'Little Britain' Backlash Begins? Have been following the snippets about Series 3 that have appeared online, been watching the show too, and although it's perfectly funny for the most part, but the cracks have begun to appear - love 'Ting Tong' the Thai bride... (9 Comments)
12/04/2005	Hostel - A couple new One Sheets After a generic, uninteresting One Sheet for Eli Roth's Hostel (here), it seems folks have come a bit to their senses and made a couple better ones. Check out the German one (here), it's purdy good. The latest Lions Gate... (2 Comments)
12/03/2005	Update: Trailer for Ryûichi Honda's ASATTE DANCE, starring Hiroaki Matsuda, Ai Kurosawa, Aki Kawamura, Ayumu Nohara, Saori Yamamoto, Akari Hoshino, and Q-tarô Suzuki The official website for Ryûichi Honda's Asatte dance is now fully functional, and there's a trailer for the movie on that site. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the screenplay for Asatte dance was written by Yûji Takagi, based... (0 Comments)
12/03/2005	Update on Minoru Kawasaki's EXECUTIVE KOALA (KOARA KACHÔ), w/ Hironobu Nomura, Elli-Rose, Ho Lee, Eiichi Kikuchi, Arthur Kuroda, Hideki Saijô, Ryû Hariken, Megumi Yamanaka, Hitomi Takashima, & Chika Kumada The official website for Minoru Kawasaki's Executive Koala (Koara kachô) is now partly functional. As was reported here on Twitch back in October, the screenplay for Executive Koala was written by Kawasaki and Masakazu Migita, based on a story by... (0 Comments)
12/02/2005	Trailer for Seiki Watanabe's NEKO NO KAZOKU, w/ Noriko Hamada, Akiho Yoshizawa, Shôichi Imai, Atsuko Kubo, Yui Mamiya, Kiichirô Wakayama, et al. The official webpage for Seiki Watanabe's Neko no kazoku is now online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The screenplay for Neko no kazoku was written by Watanabe, based on the eponymous story by Yôko... (0 Comments)
12/01/2005	Doctor Who. New Series One R1 USA DVD Boxset February 14th 2006. Heard mentions in the past week or so of a possible glitch (could be multiple) on the R2 UK Boxset for this successful 2005 TV sci-fi from us nice folk in the UK, so maybe people are holding off buying... (2 Comments)
11/29/2005	Mirrormask. Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean on R1 USA DVD February 7th 2006. Another of those that has been talked about over the entire duration of 2005 here at Twitch. Not seen it myself yet, but interested in the style which mixes CGI environments and real actors in a way that's a little... (7 Comments)
11/27/2005	Kim Soo-Ro, From Police Cadet to Vampire Cop It's funny, you always go back to your roots, one way or another. For aging big stars, it often means trying to find that excitement they had when they just started. To experience again that nervousness, that fear of starring... (1 Comments)
11/26/2005	Rent REVIEW As much of a phenomenon as Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” – a tragic and triumphant tale of poor artists struggling with AIDS, eviction, and each other - has been on stage, breaking social and cultural taboos while garnering a following of... (6 Comments)
11/25/2005	Update: New trailer for Norihisa Yoshimura's KILLER BEE (SATSUJINBACHI - KIRÂ BÎ), w/ Saki Kagami, Miku Ueno, Hazuki Suzuki, Ayano Yoshikawa, Natsume Sano, Yuriko Sakuma, Nana Kasai, Kô Watanabe, & Kotono Shibuya The official webpage for Norihisa Yoshimura's Killer Bee (Satsujinbachi - kirâ bî) is now online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that page. The movie is scheduled to be released on DVD and VHS in Japan by GP... (0 Comments)
11/25/2005	'Day Watch' (aka 'Nochnoj Dozor 2') Posters Online. Eight different designs. Most efficient way to see them all is at the Russian movie website 'Filmz', where they seem to have first appeared. Nice though. via Bloody Disgusting.... (2 Comments)
11/25/2005	Daniel Radcliffe Confirmed for Ricky Gervais 'Extras' Series Two. Exclusively revealed at the BBC Comedy Blog (and absolutely nowhere else yet it seems) - the first firm confirmation of a guest star for the second series of Ricky Gervais hugely popular 'Extras' - boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter... (3 Comments)
11/22/2005	Makoto Tezuka's BLACK KISS, Akihiko Shiota's DORORO, Naoko Ogigami's KAMOME SHOKUDÔ, Yoshimitsu Morita's MAMIYA KYÔDAI, Tetsuya Nakashima's MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, Sang-il Lee's SCRAP HEAVEN, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
11/22/2005	Pulse (Kairo) Review So creepy that it will make you hyperventilate to make sure you're alive, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE has the potential to damage your nervous system. First unleashed upon Japanese audiences nearly five years ago, PULSE made its belated US theatrical bow... (3 Comments)
11/22/2005	Pulse (aka Kairo). Originally by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. American Remake Trailer Online. Don't particularly want to spend time giving all the reasons why this is (or could be) a negative experience, don't mind saying again that the original is a very positive experience - a stunning, subtle, original, passionate piece of story... (9 Comments)
11/21/2005	Update: Trailer for Ken Arima's NIPPLES - a.k.a. "Nippuruzu" - starring Honoka, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Akifumi Miura, Asahi, Eiji Nakamura, Kazuaki Kubo, Horiken., Takahiro Kawaguchi, and Mika A downloadable trailer for Ken Arima's Nipples - a.k.a. "Nippuruzu" - has just been added to the official subsite for the movie. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the story and screenplay for Nipples were written by Yûji Nagamori,... (1 Comments)
11/21/2005	Official website for Ryûichi Honda's ASATTE DANCE, starring Hiroaki Matsuda, Ai Kurosawa, Aki Kawamura, Ayumu Nohara, Saori Yamamoto, Akari Hoshino, and Q-tarô Suzuki The official website for Ryûichi Honda's Asatte dance is now online, although at present it's just a home page. The screenplay for Asatte dance was written by Yûji Takagi, based on the eponymous manga series by Naoki Yamamoto. The movie... (0 Comments)
11/21/2005	Grass. with (and by) Simon Day (and Andrew Collins), 2003. All the good stuff hides away at first. Every phenomenon in British Comedy has done it. Simon Day seemed to struggle to get the audience to understand his Tommy Cockles character in the early 90s - an old music hall... (0 Comments)
11/21/2005	Comic Lee Evans + 10k People in One Room = World Record. You'll ware yourself out just watching. Utterly frantic. All over the place. Just running about, performing his madcap, manic, stunningly energetic and breathtakingly funny physical comedy. You might have had a taste yourself, one of the numerous live performaces on... (3 Comments)
11/19/2005	Trailers for Akihisa Okamoto's THE CLASSROOM OF TERROR, Yukihiro Sawada's NO GRAVE FOR US, Eiichi Kudô's YOKOHAMA BJ BLUES, Yoshimitsu Morita's AND THEN, Yûsaku Matsuda's A HOMANCE, Jun'ya Satô's PEKING MAN, etc. On November 21st, Toei Video Co. Ltd. (Tôei Bideo K.K.) is scheduled to release five movies on DVD in Japan that starred Yûsaku Matsuda: Akihisa Okamoto's The Classroom of Terror (Bôryoku kyôshitsu - 1976), Yukihiro Sawada's No Grave for Us... (0 Comments)
11/18/2005	'Superman Returns' Teaser Trailer. Again. Not a film I am that interested in, as unfortunately I get this weird 'Sunday Afternoon TV' feeling as the old ones have been repeated so often here in the U.K, and I went to see 'Supergirl' at the Cinema... (5 Comments)
11/18/2005	'Hostel', by Eli Roth. and All Four 'V for Vendetta' Posters. Here's one from yesterday. No, pictures don't hold much value, but I need my eye candy as much as the next man or woman - so here's a little treat. Terrible poster though, isn't it? Uninspired, so 90's. Anyway... opens... (5 Comments)
11/17/2005	Official subsite for Ken Arima's NIPPLES (NIPPURUZU), starring Honoka, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Akifumi Miura, Asahi, Eiji Nakamura, Kazuaki Kubo, Horiken., Takahiro Kawaguchi, and Mika The official subsite for Ken Arima's Nipples (Nippuruzu) has just gone online. The story and screenplay for Nipples were written by Yûji Nagamori, who also executive produced the movie. Nipples stars Honoka, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Akifumi Miura, Asahi, Eiji Nakamura, Kazuaki... (3 Comments)
11/17/2005	Cybermen updated for new Doctor Who series Doctor Who fans rejoice. After a near 20 hiatus from the Doctor Who universe Cybermen will return in a two part episode in the next season of Doctor Who, currently filming in Cardiff, Wales. Featuring a slick redesign from Edward... (4 Comments)
11/16/2005	Vital. by Shinya Tsukamoto. R1 USA DVD January 24th 2005. Not necessarily typical or usual Tsukamoto, but then what is? Anyhow, knew that there was a vague date of January 2006 for this some time back, probably heard it just around the time the Japanese DVD came out. Fine, that... (3 Comments)
11/15/2005	Man Stroke Woman. Episode 1 Streaming on BBC3 Website. Here you go Todd. A treat to keep you entertained. You can watch the first show on BBC3 Sunday 20th November 2005 at 10:30pm or simply go and stream it. Remember, this is one of the new projects for 'Shaun... (7 Comments)
11/14/2005	Little Britain. Series 3 : Official Site Update, plus New Clip & More... They kept the publicity really quiet, then started the adverts on BBC when we hit exactly a week before the new series airs. It's this Thursday, November 17th 2005 that it's due. Looking at the news stands brought little publicity... (1 Comments)
11/14/2005	J-sploitation: Tomomi Aizawa! Yuki Tsukamoto! Daisuke Yamanouchi's DEAD A GO! GO! (DEDDO A GÔ! GÔ!) and his RED ROOM (AKAI MISSHITSU (HEYA): KINDAN NO ÔSAMA GÊMU) Daisuke Yamanouchi's Dead A Go! Go! (Deddo a gô! gô!) is scheduled to be released on DVD (ADE-0584; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on November 24th; his Red Room (Akai misshitsu (heya): kindan no ôsama gêmu) is scheduled... (0 Comments)
11/14/2005	Daisuke Yamanouchi's JOSHIRYÔ NO KÔSHOKU OYAJI: YANEURA NO NOZOKI-ANA, starring Yuria Misaki, Lemon Hanazawa, Keiko Seto, Shôzô Sakairi, Salmon Sakeyama, and Takuma Yanaginouchi The official webpage for Daisuke Yamanouchi's Joshiryô no kôshoku oyaji: yaneura no nozoki-ana is online. Xces Film (Shin Nihon Eizô K.K.) is scheduled to release the movie theatrically in the Kansai region of Japan on November 23rd, the Kantô region... (5 Comments)
11/13/2005	Ideal. with Johnny Vegas. by Graham Duff and Tony Burgess (2005). Never going to be easy to give a complete sense of the man, his works largely been 'miss' but he remains one of the funniest men in the U.K., easily - it's the choices that have been a little off,... (3 Comments)
11/12/2005	Katsu Kanai's THE DESERT ARCHIPELAGO (MUJIN RETTÔ) - a.k.a. "Deserted Island" - and his GOOD-BYE Both Katsu Kanai's 1969 film The Desert Archipelago (Mujin rettô) - a.k.a. "Deserted Island" - and his 1971 film Good-Bye are being screened at Saitama Video's Dépression et Fou (Utsu to Sô) film show at Koenji Hall (Kôenji Kaikan) in... (0 Comments)
11/11/2005	Don't Worry! It's Still Coming...! December 6th 2005. This is because I don't want people to hold off or back away from 'The Pinky Violence Collection'. Some people are experiencing emails from online retailers removing the set from orders, or cancelling orders altogether - because the date for... (0 Comments)
11/11/2005	Hamish Macbeth, et al. Here's something that I like to term part of an 'unofficial genre'. Kind of started, in my mind, with 'Lovejoy' in the 80s. Now it has kind of spread, and some of the rules are applied to shows appearing at... (5 Comments)
11/10/2005	Akihiko Shiota's A HEARTFUL OF LOVE, Yoshihiro Nakamura's BOOTH, Makoto Tezuka's BLACK JACK: THE TWO DOCTORS OF DARKNESS, Naoko Ogigami's KAMOME SHOKUDÔ, Tetsuya Nakashima's MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
11/10/2005	The Man In White. by Takashi Miike (2003). R2 Japan DVD December 20th 2005, without English Subtitles. If you haven't noticed, clearing up a few things from the past week... Official request to any DVD label passing by today : license this please - only needs porting and the addition of English Subtitles and I (and probably... (10 Comments)
11/10/2005	Little Britain. Series 3 : New Characters Revealed. Two versions of all these pictures, one at a BBC news piece, one at the Official Little Britain Homepage. Here's the descriptions and names from that later link : Ting Tong and Dudley - Thai bride Ting Tong Macadangdang, who... (0 Comments)
11/10/2005	Guided by Voices : The Electrifying Conclusion. R1 USA DVD November 15th 2005. Strange film? maybe... not seen it yet. 4 hours though, as you could always expect good value for money from a GBV gig or record. Only saw them a couple of times myself, a fan for a decade or more,... (1 Comments)
11/10/2005	HAZE. by Shinya Tsukamoto. Original Long Version. Update. Originally a 25 minute short, also now a 49 minute film (still short, but now called 'long version') which is also up for sale (international rights) by Gold View, the holders of many of the mans works. Along with the... (2 Comments)
11/08/2005	More DVD Dates From Media Blasters A few days back we posted the complete upcoming release slate for Media Blasters' Tokyo Shock imprint. Well, they've just passed along all the info for their upcoming Shriek Show, Exploitation Digital and Guilty Pleasures imprints. No cover art on... (1 Comments)
11/08/2005	The Pinky Violence Collection : Delinquent Girl Boss - Worthless to Confess. by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (1971). R1 USA DVD Review. Teen Melodrama, then stylish revenge movie, for this final review of 'The Pinky Violence Collection'; due out in America from Panik House on R1 DVD November 15th 2005. Yamaguchis' European influence shines through, and there's a lot of references of... (0 Comments)
11/07/2005	The Ugliest Woman In The World Review Oh my. When I learned that Evil Aliens director Jake West had a hand in new cult DVD label Nucleus Films I fully expected something unusual. Of their initial releases psycho-sexual thriller Between Your Legs plays it fairly straight but... (1 Comments)
11/07/2005	The Pinky Violence Collection : Criminal Woman - Killing Melody. by Atsushi Mihori (1973). R1 USA DVD Review. Reiko Ike leads the way, as Maki, a woman who seeks revenge on Oba Industries for her fathers' death. Miki Sugimoto has a more drifting, small role as Masayo, Obas' woman. Primarily a tale of the manipulation Maki sets underway... (0 Comments)
11/05/2005	2006 Korean Cinema Previews - Part 2 The future is names. Which ones? Those of the directors involved in 2006 releases: Internationally acclaimed directors like Im Kwon-Taek, Kim Ki-Duk, Hong Sang-Soo and Im Sang-Soo; huge names at home, like Kang Woo-Seok, Kim Sang-Jin, Choi Dong-Hoon, Kim Dae-Seung,... (0 Comments)
11/04/2005	Coming Soon From Media Blasters / Tokyo Shock ... Media Blasters have announced their next batch of release dates and their are some big titles in there, the biggest being the first three volumes of their Zatoichi TV series releases. I know when these were first announced some were... (7 Comments)
11/04/2005	The Pinky Violence Collection : Girl Boss Guerilla. by Norifumi Suzuki (1972). R1 USA DVD Review. Norifumi Suzuki returns once again, as do Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike, in a tale of Yakuza thugs, whirlwind romance and sexy girl gangs. Another odd mix of different approaches, this time it's an easier to watch affair with less... (1 Comments)
11/03/2005	The Pinky Violence Collection : Terrifying Girls' High School - Lynch Law Classroom. by Norifumi Suzuki (1973). R1 USA DVD Review. Miki Sugimoto is a rebelious teenager, newly enrolled at the 'School of Hope' run by a band of dirty old men and their 'Disciplinary Committee' - the hardest of the hard girls, keen on torture and power. Here begins a... (4 Comments)
11/02/2005	J-sploitation: Trailer for Hiroyuki Kawasaki's DAN ONIROKU GENSAKU: JOGAKUSEI, starring Shô Nishino, Mayuko Sasaki, Yôko Satomi, Kiichirô Wakayama, Shôji Mori, Masahiko Miyabi, and Hirokazu Tabata The official webpage for Hiroyuki Kawasaki's Dan Oniroku gensaku: jogakusei is now online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The screenplay for Dan Oniroku gensaku: jogakusei was written by Kôsuke Komatsu, based on the novella... (2 Comments)
11/01/2005	Emergency Squad (aka 'Squadra Volante'). by Stelvio Massi (1974). R1 USA DVD Review. Tomas Milian, a great draw for crowds in Italian cinemas for a good 20 years or so, returns in the legendary 'Squadra Volante' - a hard-boiled Police drama with cool characters and beautiful cinematography, that although at a glance appears... (1 Comments)
10/31/2005	FINAL HALLOWEEN UPDATE: HIGH TENSION DVD REVIEW In a couple of hours I'll take my kids trick or treating. In another couple I'll settle down with a large group of friends to screen Night of the Lepus and Session 9. In short Halloween 2005 is drawing to... (15 Comments)
10/31/2005	Trailer for Mitsuru Meike's BITTER SWEET (BITÂ SUÎTO) - a retitled version of his NÔKÔ FURIN: TORARETA ONNA - w/ Konatsu, Yumika Hayashi, Kin Ishikawa, Kazuhiro Sano, Takuya Fukushima, & Minami Aoyama The official subsite for Mitsuru Meike's Bitter Sweet (Bitâ suîto) - a retitled version of his Nôkô furin: torareta onna - is now online, and there's a trailer for the movie on that site. Shin-Tôhô Eiga K.K. and Kokuei K.K.... (2 Comments)
10/31/2005	'The Bird with the Crystal Plumage' . by Dario Argento (1970). Trailer for the Uninitiated. Hands down, the most important DVD for me this month. Argento, more than any other Director in my life, touches my subconscious in a way that's strangely thrilling and always leaves me feeling like I've just survived a nightmare :... (1 Comments)
10/31/2005	Trailer for Mitsuru Meike's THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI - an extended version of his HORNY HOME TUTOR: TEACHER'S LOVE JUICE The official subsite for Mitsuru Meike's The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (Hanai Sachiko no karei na shôgai) - an extended version of his Horny Home Tutor: Teacher's Love Juice (Hatsujô kateikyôshi: sensei no aijiru) - is now online, and... (0 Comments)
10/29/2005	Official website for Minoru Kawasaki's EXECUTIVE KOALA (KOARA KACHÔ), w/ Hironobu Nomura, Elli-Rose, Ho Lee, Eiichi Kikuchi, Arthur Kuroda, Hideki Saijô, Ryû Hariken, Megumi Yamanaka, Hitomi Takashima, & Chika Kumada The official website for Minoru Kawasaki's Executive Koala (Koara kachô) is now online, although at present it's just a home page. The movie premièred at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival (LVHIFF) in Honolulu on October 28th. Tornado Film... (7 Comments)
10/28/2005	Twitch Exclusive! Zoetrope Trailer! A while back I ran this review of Charlie Deaux's Zoetrope praising the film's incredible visual style. It's a loose adaptation of Kafka's In the Penal Colony with original music by dark ambient pioneer Lustmord and it is absolutely gorgeous,... (8 Comments)
10/28/2005	Three Extremes. by Fruit Chan, Chan Wook Park and Takashi Miike. American Trailer In Quicktime. In the vague hope some will find this interesting, it's quite nicely edited and it's there in a very large size too. 'Three Extremes' American Trailer in Quicktime at Apple. 'Three Extremes' Official American release Website.... (0 Comments)
10/27/2005	Hostel. by Eli Roth. First Trailer. At Yahoo Movies, so assuming they're Quicktime, but anyway you can visit Yahoo and find out, as I will in a minute. Release date for the Cinema in America has just been brought forward to before Xmas 2005. 'Hostel' Teaser... (2 Comments)
10/26/2005	J-sploitation: Japanese sale DVD of Kei Nakata's ECSTASY EXPRESS (SHIBERIA CHÔTOKKYÛ: YOKUBÔ RESSHA), w/ Miku Matsumoto, Maria Yumeno, Hitomi Hayasaka, Naho Ozawa, Shôko Nakahara, Natsuyo Kanahama, et al. E-Net Frontier K.K. (K.K. Î-Netto Furontia) released Kei Nakata's Ecstasy Express (Shiberia Chôtokkyû: yokubô ressha) on sale DVD (ENFD-6001; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on October 21st. The sale DVD can be purchased on-line from such retailers as... (0 Comments)
10/26/2005	Trailer for Keita Tokaji's JAPAN CRIMINAL WRESTLING (SHÛJIN PURORESU), w/ Airi Matsumoto, Ai Onda, Miho Yokoi, Teruko Kagawa, Kaoru Kojima, Asuka Hoshino, Miyoko Imaoka, Yûko Imai, Nana Okasaki, Natsuha Mizutani, et al. There's a downloadable trailer for Keita Tokaji's 45-minute movie Japan Criminal Wrestling (Shûjin puroresu) on the official subsite for the movie. The principal cast of Japan Criminal Wrestling is as follows: Nobuo Kameko, Toshiki Sayama, Yôkichi Naitô, Hideyuki Araki, Daisuke... (0 Comments)
10/26/2005	Pinky Violence Collection. Trailers for November 15th R1 USA DVD Boxset. Boxset of the year? Anyhow... one of the best few, in my opinion. None of these trailers are safe for work, probably still risque if you're at home unless you're on your own. 'Criminal Woman : Killing Melody' Trailer... (0 Comments)
10/24/2005	Update: Trailers for five movies by Nobutaka Yamaoka (a.k.a. 'Nobu' Yamaoka) - FIX; SORANO; PIG'S INFERNO; ZEKI, FLORIAN AND KELLY!; and PICKLED PUNK - plus one for Tadanobu Asano's TORI From November 12th to December 9th, the Atman Cinema Fair @ Uplink (both the Uplink X and Uplink Factory) is screening five movies that were directed by Nobutaka Yamaoka (a.k.a. 'Nobu' Yamaoka): Pickled Punk [1993], Zeki, Florian and Kelly! [1996],... (2 Comments)
10/23/2005	Trailer for Naoki Kubo's OH! MY ZOMBIE MERMAID (Â! IKKENYA PURORESU), w/ Shin'ya Hashimoto, Sonim, Awata Urara, Nicholas Pettas, Shun Sugata, Shirô Sano, Jun Kasai, The Predator, April Hunter, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, et al. There's a downloadable English-subtitled trailer for Naoki Kubo's Oh! My Zombie Mermaid (Â! Ikkenya puroresu) - a.k.a. "Ah! House Collapses!" - on the page for the movie on the website of international sales agent Eleven Arts Inc.. Distribution rights for... (4 Comments)
10/19/2005	American Film Market (AFM): Screening date for Takashi Ishii's FLOWER AND SNAKE 2: PARIS/SHIZUKO changed from Nov. 7th to Nov. 4th The screening date for Takashi Ishii's Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko) at the American Film Market (AFM) has been changed from Monday November 7th at 11:00 a.m. to Friday November 4th at 1:00 p.m.; the... (0 Comments)
10/19/2005	GARY SHERMAN INTERVIEW It's hard being a full-time geek. The pressure of opening my mail to find the latest goodies, schmoozing my favorite heroes in the media and most of all those tiresomely way too fun movie fests. For crying out loud I... (4 Comments)
10/18/2005	Update: Trailer for Shion Sono's STRANGE CIRCUS (KIMYÔ NA SÂKASU), starring Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Mai Takahashi, Fujiko, Tomorowo Taguchi, and Hiroshi Ôguchi The official website for Shion Sono's Strange Circus (Kimyô na sâkasu) is now fuctional, and there's a trailer for the movie on that site (see the bottom of this article). As was previously reported here and there on Twitch, Strange... (0 Comments)
10/18/2005	Torchwood. A 'Doctor Who' Spin-off. Don't know how convinced I am by the idea itself, but there's an announcement that a Doctor Who spin-off called 'Torchwood' (it's an anagram by the way) will go into production soon. The 13 part show, said to be... (0 Comments)
10/16/2005	Update: Trailer for Yôichi Nishiyama's GUROZUKA (a.k.a. Guroduka), starring Chisato Morishita, Yôko Mitsuya, Yûko Kurosawa, Yukari Fukui, Keiko Saitô, Nozomi Andô, and Yûko Itô A trailer for Yôichi Nishiyama's Gurozuka (alternative transliteration: Guroduka) has been added to this page for the movie on the website of Walkerplus K.K. (K.K. Wôkâpurasu). As was reported here on Twitch back on September 16th, Gurozuka stars Chisato Morishita... (1 Comments)
10/15/2005	'The Thick Of It'. from Armando Iannucci, Director and Co-Writer of 'Alan Partridge' and 'The Day Today'. One for the hardcore comedy fans, even here in the UK, the name Armando Iannucci is closely linked to the strong style of the Alan Partridge series (he co-wrote it, and it has a strong element of his behavioural characteristics... (5 Comments)
10/13/2005	Aya Sugimoto! Takashi Ishii's FLOWER AND SNAKE 2: PARIS/SHIZUKO (HANA TO HEBI 2: PARI/SHIZUKO) at the American Film Market (AFM) Attention DVD companies! Distribution rights for Takashi Ishii's Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko) are being offered for sale by Toei Company Ltd. (Tôei K.K.) at this year's American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California.... (4 Comments)
10/12/2005	Raindance Report: The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai Review Another review from Gummo at the UKs Raindance Festival, this one for bizarre Japanese exploitation film The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai ... This was the first of a few sold out screenings at the Raindance festival. Previously knowing nothing... (0 Comments)
10/12/2005	'How To Start Your Own Country' with Danny Wallace on R2 UK DVD Soon. Just noticed the six part show makes its R2 UK DVD appearance on 24th October 2005. There's a whole host of details and links about it from my original post back in early August 2005 from when the show began... (1 Comments)
10/12/2005	Harry Enfield in America. A big comedy star in the UK since the mid 80's, largely out of favour since the mid to late 90's, and now in America... doing adverts for 'Burger King'. Odd. Still rate his talent highly, but somehow I associate... (0 Comments)
10/08/2005	'Zero Woman : Red Handcuffs'. by Yukio Noda (1974). R1 USA DVD Review. Discotek appeared a short while back, announcing a range of well considered choices that both tap into the market as it exists and allow them to give us things other companies might not pick up to pass on to us... (0 Comments)
10/07/2005	Masters Of Horror. Opening Credits & Some Trailers at Official Site. Unfortunately the trailers are damn hard to find, as each Directors face is shown in a shifting menu with the 'View Trailer' option shown once you click for one - then as you get all excited it pops a graphic... (1 Comments)
10/06/2005	The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai: Stills and Programming Notes From Chicago I got a note from the powers that be at the Chicago Film Festival a couple days back letting me know about an important programming change. On the down side they've had to drop two screenings of Miike's Great Yokai... (3 Comments)
10/05/2005	COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (aka The Blue Hands) - DVD Review How to approach this cinematic oddity? Folks familiar with the works of Guy Maddin will already be familiar with his primordial soup style cinema: Full frame, black and white, nearly silent and often extremely grainy or out of focus.... (1 Comments)
10/05/2005	'Lone Wolf & Cub' & 'Lady Snowblood' Boxsets from AnimEigo November 8th 2005. Several countries get collections of all 'Lone Wolf & Cub' sets late this year, Australian does, France (i think) does, and rumoured a while back and now confirmed (with a little bonus, more later) for America are 6 superb swordplay... (2 Comments)
10/04/2005	Female Yakuza Tale. by Teruo Ishii (1973). R1 USA DVD Review. Reiko Ike returns as Ocho, street criminal seeking justice for women, her friends and herself. This time, Teruo Ishii takes over the controls from the more surrealist Norifumi Suzuki, and creates a clearer and more detailed narrative whilst keeping the... (1 Comments)
10/01/2005	J-sploitation: Trailer for Hideo Jôjô's 19 - NINETEEN - JOSHIDAISEI: SATSUJIN REPÔTO, starring Keiko Takai and Naomi Miyaji The official webpage for Hideo Jôjô's 19 - nineteen - joshidaisei: satsujin repôto is now online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page. The movie's principal cast is as follows: Keiko Takai, Naomi Miyaji, Toshinori Katsumi,... (0 Comments)
10/01/2005	Aniki, Katsuhito Ishii, & Shin'ichirô Miki's FUNKY FOREST (NAISU NO MORI: THE FIRST CONTACT), w/ Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazue Fukiishi, Anri Ban, Shihori Kanjiya, Aoi Miura, Andrew Alfieri, et al. Aniki (Hajime Ishimine), Katsuhito Ishii, and Shin'ichirô Miki's Funky Forest (Naisu no mori: The First Contact) - an omnibus movie with an overarching story - is scheduled to be screened at the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival (LVHIFF) in... (12 Comments)
10/01/2005	Sex & Fury. by Norifumi Suzuki (1973). R1 USA DVD Review. Reiko Ike is Ocho, a woman with a mission to exact revenge for her father's death. Christina Lindberg is an English spy being forced into situations that will manipulate events for her Boss' benefit. Norifumi Suzuki is the Director managing... (4 Comments)
09/29/2005	Trailer for Takashi Motoki's SMILE (SUMAIRU) 「スマイル」, w/ Emiru Momose, Shûhei Yoshinaga, Akifumi Miura, Asahi, Hotaru Hazuki, Akina, et al. A downloadable trailer for Takashi Motoki's Smile (Sumairu) has been added to the official subsite for the movie. As was previously reported here on Twitch, the story and screenplay for Smile were written by Yûji Nagamori, who also executive produced... (0 Comments)
09/28/2005	Mark Frost Plays It Cool About the Coop In a recent chat I had with Mark Frost he let drop that he and David Lynch did meet recently to discuss the future of a certain “Coop” character. Of course we’ve all been worried about the “Coop.” But Frost... (4 Comments)
09/27/2005	Izo Review Be warned. Takashi Miike’s is a difficult, troubling and just plain weird film. That seems like a strange warning to put on a Miike film – after all, has he not built his reputation on being precisely those things? –... (29 Comments)
09/27/2005	Takashi Miike Directs Sho Aikawa and Ryo Ishibashi in 'Waru : Final'. Another Takashi Miike project is revealed for the first time in English : and it seems to be here at Twitch. This time Ryo Ishibashi (of 'Audition') returns to star alongside Sho Aikawa (of 'Rainy Dog', 'Dead or Alive', 'Gozu'... (1 Comments)
09/26/2005	J-sploitation: Kahori Asakura & Ayumu Tokitô! Kyôko Fujikawa, Miki Satô, & Yôko Satomi! Daisuke Yamanouchi's SISTERS OF BLOOD and KYOKO VS. YUKI Daisuke Yamanouchi's Sisters of Blood (Senketsu no kizuna: kichiku reipuhan o shinkan saseta shimai) was released on DVD (ADE-0564; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan on September 23rd. Yamanouchi's Kyoko vs. Yuki (Saikyô joshikôsê densetsu: Kyôko vs Yuki ["joshikôsê"... (1 Comments)
09/25/2005	Kim Gordon's "Perfect Partner" - Screening around Europe I'm hoping a version of this comes out on DVD at some point as the experiment sounds very interesting. Perfect Partner is a collaboration of several talented artists including Sonic Youth Bassist Kim Gordon, video artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker... (0 Comments)
09/24/2005	Little Britain. I Want That One. That One. And That One. Saw these for the first time on TV a couple of weeks back, an exclusive reveal back then of just a small part of a merchandise range announced early this year for Xmas time. In fact these (and more things... (5 Comments)
09/23/2005	Official subsite for Takashi Motoki's SMILE (SUMAIRU) 「スマイル」, w/ Emiru Momose, Shûhei Yoshinaga, Akifumi Miura, Asahi, Hotaru Hazuki, et al. The official subsite for Takashi Motoki's Smile (Sumairu) is now online. The story and screenplay for Smile were written by Yûji Nagamori, who also executive produced the movie. The principal cast of Smile is as follows: Emiru Momose (she was... (0 Comments)
09/23/2005	Ballad of Narayama. by Shohei Imamura (1982). R3 HK DVD October 13th 2005. When the license by IVL in Hong Kong of Toei movie began a while back, I was hoping (and partly fearing) a deluge of titles. More of a trickle in the end, unfortunately. Still, we will finally get to see... (3 Comments)
09/23/2005	The Big Lebowski "Achiever's Edition" DVD - October 18 Having formed a legitamite and large cult following after only 7 years of release, finally you can jettison that badly-transferred, WS-and-P&S-versions-on-the-same-disc, Polygram release of The Big Lebowski for the new Achiever's Edition. This has to be my favorite comedy of... (10 Comments)
09/22/2005	Punishment Park R2 DVD - October 5th One of the most overlooked filmmakers on the planet, Peter Watkins stirred up some major controversy in the early 70s with what is possibly (next to The War Game) his most famous film: Punishment Park. "Punishment Park's pseudo-documentary style places... (8 Comments)
09/21/2005	Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli & 'Earthsea' by Ursula K Le Guin. Suppose there's always going to be rumours about what Miyazaki will turn his hand to, especially now Ghibli films have pretty much broken into the perception of American audiences, but also because he is certainly one of the most important... (6 Comments)
09/20/2005	'Porn' at Raindance: Mitsuru Meike's THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI - an extended version of his HORNY HOME TUTOR: TEACHER'S LOVE JUICE Mitsuru Meike's The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (Hanai Sachiko no karei na shôgai) - an extended version of his Horny Home Tutor: Teacher's Love Juice (Hatsujô kateikyôshi: sensei no aijiru) - is scheduled to be screened at the Raindance... (6 Comments)
09/20/2005	Panik House. 'Sex and Fury' & 'Female Yakuza Tale' Trailers. Possibly my 'most anticipated' of the year so far, as this is a huge but relatively untapped genre or style of film from Japan. Anyhow, both of these are released on September 27th 2005 in America on R1 DVD. The... (13 Comments)
09/18/2005	J-sploitation: Update on Takao Nakano's SEXUAL PARASITE: KILLER PUSSY (KISEICHÛ: KIRÂ PUSSHÎ), w/ Natsumi Mitsu, Sakurako Kaoru, et al. Twitch is now providing a direct link (see bottom of this article) to the trailer for Takao Nakano's Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (Kiseichû: kirâ pusshî), so if you're not one of the thousands of individuals who have downloaded/viewed the trailer... (2 Comments)
09/18/2005	TIFF Report: Hostel Review Hostel is Eli Roth’s follow up film to his wildly successful (but polarizing) disease ‘stalker’ film Cabin Fever. It is not hard to see that Roth is a horror film Uber-geek who is living his dream to be able to... (3 Comments)
09/17/2005	Hellsing. New OVA Series Teaser Trailer. Although the Official Site is still labelled 'Under Construction', and the Japanese DVDs of this new OVA series for Hellsing don't begin until December 9th 2005 (without English Subtitles), there's now a pretty short trailer available to stream from the... (11 Comments)
09/16/2005	Official subsite for Yôichi Nishiyama's GUROZUKA, w/ Chisato Morishita, Yôko Mitsuya, Yûko Kurosawa, Yukari Fukui, Keiko Saitô, Nozomi Andô, & Yûko Itô The official subsite for Yôichi Nishiyama's Gurozuka (alternative transliteration: Guroduka) is now online. The movie stars Chisato Morishita as Ai (Morishita was in Kôsuke Suzuki's Oppai seijin and Osamu Fukutani's The Suicide Manual (Jisatsu manyuaru)), Yôko Mitsuya as Maki (Mitsuya... (0 Comments)
09/16/2005	Update on Kittikorn Liasirikun's THE BULLET WIVES (THE MIA): English-subtitled Thai DVD release Mangpong Co. Ltd. has released Kittikorn Liasirikun's The Bullet Wives (The mia) on DVD (PAL, region 3, English subtitles) in Thailand. The official website for The Bullet Wives still is online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on... (2 Comments)
09/16/2005	'Bloodline'. by Nacho Cerda. Pictures. I certainly need my Eye Candy to get a sense of a film a little better than reading text all the time. Like trailers preferably, but still shots will do when it's well in advance of a films release. We... (3 Comments)
09/15/2005	Korean News in Brief: September 16 [Ryu Seung-Wan, Vampire Cop Ricky, April Snow, Traces of Love, Zenith, Princess Lulu, Dongmakgol] Ryu Seung-Wan announced his new project, called ‘짝패’ ('My Pal'), which he's preparing for at the moment. The film is about a detective, returning to his hometown to attend the funeral of a schoolmate. When he gets there, he ends... (2 Comments)
09/14/2005	TIFF Report: Nyócker! (The District) Review According to the producer of Nyocker!, theirs is the first feature length animated film out of Hungary since 1986. This unusual little film is a fusion of the visual styles of South Park, Angela Anaconda and Appleseed. The animation is... (9 Comments)
09/13/2005	무영검. Shadowless Sword. by Kim Young-Jun. Teaser Trailer. Another find by Hitman, another good one at that. Turns a whole heap of stuff, and some of it relates to things of interest to us, stuff that has been posted about around here at Twitch. Sticking in the stream... (12 Comments)
09/11/2005	TIFF REPORT: Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés Review With all the X-Files style shows shot in Canada, it is strange that only Vincenzo Natali is making attempts at slick and moody head-trip science fiction on the feature film level. Enter Robin Aubert, French Canadian actor turned director.... (1 Comments)
09/11/2005	Trailer for Kôsuke Suzuki's MAICCHING MACHIKO! BEGINS (MAICCHINGU MACHIKO! BIGINZU), starring Sayaka Isoyama and Natsume Sano There's a trailer for Kôsuke Suzuki's Maicching Machiko! Begins (Maicchingu Machiko! Biginzu) on the page for the movie on the website of Walkerplus K.K. (K.K. Wôkâpurasu). As was previously reported here and there on Twitch, Maicching Machiko! Begins is scheduled... (1 Comments)
09/11/2005	TIFF Report: Evil Aliens Review Jake West, a self-professed Phantasm nut and director of the splat-stick horror-sci-fi-comedy Evil Aliens, is not afraid to wear his references on his sleeve. For those paying attention, his film draws heavily from the template of Peter Jackson's Bad Taste,... (2 Comments)
09/10/2005	Drop the Dead Donkey. by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (1990 - 1998). There are lots of examples in more recent years of noteable Channel 4 comedies - Black Books, Spaced, Garth Marenghis Dark Place, Green Wing, Peep Show. Having begun as a Channel in the early 1980s, until 1990 Channel 4s' biggest... (0 Comments)
09/10/2005	Ultimate 'Sin City' R1 USA DVD Specifications and Date. Just hopped over to DVDTimes, so this could be their exclusive reveal or the first online mention of this expected Extended Cut of 'Sin City'. Release Date for America is 13th December 2005, and apart from the film being 23... (2 Comments)
09/09/2005	Akira Ogata's THE MILKWOMAN, Kentarô Ôtani's NANA, Kôji Shiraishi's NOROI, Isshin Inudô's TOUCH, Jun Awazu's "Negadon: The Monster from Mars", etc. Recently, the PIA Film Festival (PFF) official website updated its "PFF nyûsen kantoku saishinsaku jôei jôhô" page, which provides info on current/upcoming movies by Japanese directors who, in the past, have had movies selected for PFF. The page currently provides... (0 Comments)
09/09/2005	'Greg & Gentillon': Hilarious Duo Snags Official Selection at Calgary and Montreal Film Festivals.. Trailer Even! 'Greg & Gentillon' presented by PeepingTom Films Hey there kids. It's story time. It was 3 years ago that I attended a fundraiser for a stage production a friend was running. Part of the fundraiser was a two-man routine performed... (0 Comments)
09/09/2005	Early Doors. by Craig Cash and Phil Mealy (2003 -). Going out, or 'getting out more' can quickly turn into tired old routine just like anything else. Like sitting and watching TV, there's often little difference in a lot of the traditional pass times that aren't in the home to... (1 Comments)
09/08/2005	Bob & Margaret. by Alison Snowden and David Fine (1998). Based on an Oscar-winning short film 'Bobs Birthday' from 1995, 'Bob & Margaret' is a show I've caught many episodes of over time, but I've never managed to watch it all (52 episodes over 4 seasons - not sure if... (4 Comments)
09/06/2005	Gambling City (La Citta Gioca D'azzardo). by Sergio Martino (1975). Another day, another European Drama. Not one that firmly sits in any particular Cult genre, although Crime Movies may be such a thing (in their many fractured forms), and not particularly as charming as a result. There are similarities with... (3 Comments)
09/05/2005	Kazuo Umezus' Horror Theatre. R2 Japan DVD, no English Subtitles. Released October 29th 2005 in Japan, without English Subtitles : the full 358 minutes of this series, includes the short film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Hope then for a USA license soon, especially as the Kurosawa seems to have been isolated... (0 Comments)
09/04/2005	Final Fantasy 7 : Advent Children. Couple of Subtitled Clips. Reviews in various languages have started turning up online. Not sure how they're getting their hands on it, as it seems to be mostly at online videogames sites that this is getting the majority of the publicity. And I thought... (48 Comments)
09/03/2005	Takashi Ishii's FLOWER AND SNAKE 2: PARIS/SHIZUKO (HANA TO HEBI 2: PARI/SHIZUKO), starring Aya Sugimoto (Sugimoto Aya) Takashi Ishii's Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko) is scheduled to be released on sale DVD (DSTD-02450; NTSC, region 2, no subtitles) in Japan by Toei Video K.K. (Tôei Bideo K.K.) on September 21st. The movie... (3 Comments)
09/03/2005	Guy Maddin's COWARDS BEND THE KNEE R1 DVD Sept. 20th Guy Maddin is certainly the most unusual Canadian Auteur working today. For the uninitiated, Maddin makes films that look like they were made 100 years ago. He is a film archeologist who fabricates all of his 'finds.' He often works... (1 Comments)
09/03/2005	Atomik Circus (aka 'Alien Vs. Vanessa Paradis') Japanese Site and Trailer. Because I missed out on the trailer for this in the past (how?), because the title completely threw me until i saw a certain scene in the trailer, because she's saucy, because I like japanese design, and finally because there's... (4 Comments)
09/02/2005	Aftermath / Genesis Review After reading and covering all the hype and controversy surrounding Nacho Cerda's short films, Aftermath in particular, I finally had the chance - if that's the right word - to sit down and watch them for myself tonight. The final... (2 Comments)
09/02/2005	Calamari Wrestler Review Ah, the sports movie. It is a right of passage in every young man’s life. Yes, they are all basically the same and yes they all follow a virtually identical plot arc. But nevertheless I sincerely doubt there is a... (3 Comments)
09/02/2005	Almost Human (Milano Odia : La Polizia Non Puo Sparare). by Umberto Lenzi (1974). Like (it seems) everyone involved in genre-based European cinema, Lenzi has been incredibly prolific. Turning his hand to just about everything he could possibly get his hands on, he isn't the hack that you might expect a jobbing Director to... (2 Comments)
09/01/2005	Trailer for Hiroyuki Kawasaki's SANADA KUNOICHI NINPÔ-DEN: KASUMI, w/ Young-mi, Saki Anz (Anzu Saki), Yui Mamiya, et al. The official webpage for Hiroyuki Kawasaki's Sanada kunoichi ninpô-den: Kasumi is now online, and there's a downloadable trailer for the movie on that page (viewer discretion is advised). The movie's principal cast is as follows: Young-mi (a.k.a. Yonmi), Saki Anz... (13 Comments)
08/31/2005	Michael Sheard Passes Away. Admiral Kendal Ozzel from 'Empire Strikes Back' to those of you keen on you Star Wars facts, but primarily for many millions in the UK he is to be best remembered as the truly legendary Mr.Bronson from the BBCs most... (1 Comments)
08/31/2005	Norihisa Yoshimura's KILLER BEE (SATSUJINBACHI - KIRÂ BÎ), w/ Saki Kagami, Miku Ueno, Ayano Yoshikawa, Natsume Sano, Nana Kasai, et al. GP Museum Soft K.K. (K.K. GP Myûjiamu Sofuto) has announced that it's scheduled to release Norihisa Yoshimura's Killer Bee (Satsujinbachi - kirâ bî) on VHS and DVD in Japan in January of next year. The movie premièred at the Shibuya... (0 Comments)
08/31/2005	Aeon Flux. Original Animated Series. R1 DVD November 22nd 2005. Nice, as I haven't seen them for so many years, and now because of that nice little cash-in factor we will finally get them on silver disc format. All series, 15 episodes in total (5 for the first two series,... (9 Comments)
08/31/2005	J-sploitation: Takao Nakano's SEXUAL PARASITE: KILLER PUSSY (KISEICHÛ: KIRÂ PUSSHÎ), w/ Natsumi Mitsu, Sakurako Kaoru, et al. Although Takao Nakano's Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (Kiseichû: kirâ pusshî) was released on sale DVD in Japan just over a year ago, I'm posting about it here and now for the benefit of those who aren't familiar with it, and... (5 Comments)
08/31/2005	AV-Horror: Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru's TUMBLING DOLL OF FLESH (NIKU DARUMA) Although Tamakichi 'Anal' Anaru's Tumbling Doll of Flesh (Niku daruma) was released on VHS in Japan back in 1998, I'm posting about it here and now for the benefit of those who aren't familiar with it, and are interested in... (4 Comments)
08/27/2005	Jerry Springer : The Opera. R2 UK DVD 14th November 2005. David Soul as Jerry Springer : looks just like him from the distance of the stalls in the West End of London, or obscured by some strange object sat on top of some womans head. In all honesty, I've seen... (0 Comments)
08/26/2005	Little Britain. First Footage from Series 3. Emailed this one over to Todd as it started playing, because it's a lengthy preview for the Autumn 2005 season on BBC Three. In there is an unexpected complete sketch from the third series of 'Little Britain' which I've not... (7 Comments)
08/23/2005	Trailer for Seiji Yamada's SHIN KAIDAN RAJO DAIGYAKUSATSU: BAKENEKO MAKAI SHÔJO-KEN ［新怪談裸女大虐殺化け猫魔界少女拳］ A downloadable trailer (viewer discretion is advised) has been added to the official subsite for Seiji Yamada's Shin kaidan rajo daigyakusatsu: bakeneko makai shôjo-ken. As was previously reported here on Twitch, Natsuhiko Kyôgoku is the movie's narrator (see below), and... (1 Comments)
08/18/2005	Sola Aoi (Aoi Sora) as both a teacher and a schoolgirl! Ren Suzuki as a schoolgirl! Hiroshi Andô's KÔKÔ KYÔSHI: SHIIKU NO KÔSHA There's a downloadable trailer for Hiroshi Andô's Kôkô kyôshi: shiiku no kôsha on the official page for it on the website of CVC K.K. (formerly Engel K.K. / K.K. Engeru). There's also an official page in English for the movie... (1 Comments)
08/18/2005	J-sploitation: Seiji Yamada's SHIN KAIDAN RAJO DAIGYAKUSATSU: BAKENEKO MAKAI SHÔJO-KEN ［新怪談裸女大虐殺化け猫魔界少女拳］ The official subsite for Seiji Yamada's Shin kaidan rajo daigyakusatsu: bakeneko makai shôjo-ken is online. Natsuhiko Kyôgoku is the movie's narrator (see below), and was responsible for its sound. (Kyôgoku was the yôkai casting director for, and is himself in,... (0 Comments)
08/16/2005	J-sploitation w/ Jun Seto: Trailer for Masanori Inoue's SHION (SHION - HIBI) 「屍怨－ひび－」 There's a downloadable trailer for Masanori Inoue's Shion (Shion - hibi) on the official page for it on the website of CVC K.K. (formerly Engel K.K. / K.K. Engeru). There's also an official page in English for the movie on... (0 Comments)
08/15/2005	CASSANDRA PETERSON/ELVIRA INTERVIEW Remember that cheesy eighties country pop hit Elvira? Well the only thing TV Horror Show Mistress of the Dark Elvira has in common with that is the bass line or base line as the case may be- “Oom Papa... (7 Comments)
08/14/2005	Zero Woman : Red Handcuffs. R1 USA DVD October 25th 2005. Actually released in Europe by Japan Shock not so long back, and apparently cocked up somehow (cropped or bodged aspect ratio, video not "too hot" or something along these lines), the films a 1974 example of the kind of film... (6 Comments)
08/13/2005	THE COUPLES BOX, w/ QUESTION, MAGUMA NO GOTOKU, WATERMELON, PEAU DE MON ÉPOUSE, and P-KAN★COUPLE FullMedia K.K. (K.K. FuruMedia) is scheduled to release The Couples Box (DSFM-001) in Japan on October 28th. Unfortunately, it appears that none of the six DVDs in the box set will have English subtitles. The set will contain the following... (0 Comments)
08/12/2005	The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. by Dario Argento. New Disc Details. Even better when the title's in Italian ("L'ucello dalle Plume Crystalle" - that's the IMDB spelling, and it's one of the few I can remember, these Giallo titles are complicated even in English), this first film of Dario Argento has... (1 Comments)
08/11/2005	Takaaki Hashiguchi's KUCHISAKE, w/ Mayu Asada, Minami Aoyama, Lemon Hanazawa, Kyôko Kazama, Hotaru Hazuki, & Azusa Sakai The latest movie from Takaaki Hashiguchi (a.k.a. Takuaki Hashiguchi) is the hybrid pink-horror Kuchisake. Takashi Oda (see below) was responsible for the movie's special make-up effects. Its principal cast is as follows: Mayu Asada (she was in Sakichi Satô's Gokudô... (3 Comments)
08/07/2005	Bruce Campbell's Man With The Screaming Brain Hits DVD October 4th! It's a nice looking set, too ... two making of docs, behind the scenes footage, a storyboard gallery, comic book art and - huzzah! - a Bruce Campbell commentary track which I full expect will be worth the cost of... (0 Comments)
08/05/2005	Trailer for Yutaka Tsurita's HAIKÔ 「廃校」 There's a downloadable trailer for Yutaka Tsurita's Haikô on the official webpage for the movie, and a larger streaming one on the website of SSP-TV. Haikô was released by Edge K.K. (K.K. Ejji) - now Kamui K.K. (K.K. Kamui) -... (0 Comments)
08/05/2005	Trailers for Tsuyoshi Shôji's ONNA ONMYÔ-JI: JAIN KAKUSEI and his ONNA ONMYÔ-JI: ONMA SHINSOKU There's a downloadable trailer [viewer discretion is advised] for Tsuyoshi Shôji's Onna onmyô-ji: jain kakusei on the official page [viewer discretion is advised] for it on the website of TMC K.K. (K.K. Tî Emu Shî). There's also an official page... (0 Comments)
08/05/2005	J-sploitation: Masami 'Merzbow' Akita's LOST PARADISE ('SHITSURAKUEN': JÔBAFUKU ONNA HARAKIRI), etc. With regard to the pages linked to below, viewer discretion is advised. Although the six Onna harakiri sakuhinshû DVDs were released in Japan several months ago, I'm posting about them here and now for the benefit of those who aren't... (0 Comments)
08/03/2005	Fantasia Festival Report: Shadow Dead Riot Review With his final words from Fantasia, here is Philippe Gohier on Shadow: Dead Riot ... Hated it. Absolutely, unequivocally hated it. With gratuitous sex and violence, set in a women’s prison of all places, the movie delivers on its promise... (3 Comments)
08/03/2005	New UK DVD Labels A nice little find by Logboy over on the Mondo Erotico site ... A pair of interesting new DVD labels have been announced in the UK. First is Nucleus Films run by Jake West - the director of Evil Aliens... (0 Comments)
08/02/2005	Trailer for Rokurô Mochizuki's NURETA AKAI ITO 「濡れた赫い糸」 There's a trailer for Rokurô Mochizuki's Nureta akai ito on the official website for the movie (see below). The screenplay for Nureta akai ito was written by Hitoshi Ishikawa (he co-wrote the screenplay for and directed "Sugee! Aniki" in the... (0 Comments)
08/01/2005	Daisuke Yamanouchi's EPURON RYÔBO: KARAMITSUKU CHITAI 「エプロン寮母からみつく痴態」 Daisuke Yamanouchi's latest movie is Epuron ryôbo: karamitsuku chitai (or "Apron ryôbo: karamitsuku chitai", if you prefer back-transliterations); the official webpage for it is here [viewer discretion is advised]. Xces Film (Shin Nihon Eizô K.K.) released it theatrically in the... (1 Comments)
07/29/2005	The Original 'Vic Reeves Big Night Out'. R2 UK DVD September 9th 2005. It wouldn't be overstating to say Vic and Bob are the single most important comedy act from the UK during the 1990s. This show, made 90/91 was the first series from the duo, and is apparently largely based on what... (1 Comments)
07/29/2005	Kôsuke Suzuki's MAICCHING MACHIKO! BEGINS (MAICCHINGU MACHIKO! BIGINZU) ［まいっちんぐマチコ！ビギンズ］ Kôsuke Suzuki's latest movie is Maicching Machiko! Begins (Maicchingu Machiko! Biginzu), which is scheduled to open at the Shibuya Ciné la sept on September 17th. The screenplay for the movie was written by Shôichirô Masumoto (see cast below), based on... (0 Comments)
07/27/2005	Trailers for Iwao Takahashi's CREAM LEMON: AMI'S DIARY, Shun Nakahara's DV: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, Tôru Kamei's QUESTION, etc. Iwao Takahashi's Cream Lemon: Ami's Diary (Kurîmu remon: Ami no nikki) is scheduled to be released on sale DVD in Japan on September 22nd. I doubt that the DVD will have English subtitles; however, this news provides a good excuse... (2 Comments)
07/27/2005	Update on Ataru Oikawa's MENOTTE (MENOTTO) GP Museum Soft K.K. (K.K. GP Myûjiamu Sofuto) is scheduled to release Ataru Oikawa's Menotte (Menotto) on sale DVD (DMSM-6330) in Japan on September 25th; the official webpage for the DVD release is here. As was previously reported here on... (0 Comments)
07/23/2005	V for Vendetta. Trailer Download in Quicktime. Quicktime Download via Warner Bros. Site. Just follow their instructions... via AICN.... (21 Comments)
07/22/2005	The Eel. by Shohei Imamura. R4 Australian DVD. Came out July 20th 2005 (Distributors site page here). A Couple of days back. Wonder if anyone spotted this one? I want to know if this is finally a decent version of this film, as I've been waiting to see... (2 Comments)
07/21/2005	BFI. 'Watch This!' Top 50 Film that Children Should Watch. I saw this mentioned on the news this morning, the BFI (British Film Institute) top 50 films that children should watch. Not entirely the 'Top 50 films that children like watching' but a list compiled by adults (i think, but... (6 Comments)
07/20/2005	Bloodline. First Feature Length Film by Nacho Cerda. Here's something I will be keeping an eye on, Nacho Cerdas (Aftermath / Genesis; out on DVD in the USA late August 2005) first full-length feature which began filming two weeks ago in Bulgaria. Looking at the Fangoria piece there's... (1 Comments)
07/20/2005	The League of Gentlemens Apocalypse. R2 UK DVD Confirmed as October 3rd 2005. There's the artwork on the left, only found a small picture. Althouh the general opinion here in the UK was that the film was terrible, there's this chance to make up your own mind if you fancy. I should imagine... (2 Comments)
07/17/2005	Seven Swords. by Tsui Hark. Final Trailer Download in Cantonese or Mandarin. Mandarin (English Subtitles) : Trailer (WMV Download Small, 2.1Mb) Trailer (WMV Download Medium, 4.6Mb) Trailer (WMV Download Large, 14.2Mb) Cantonese (English Subtitles): Trailer (WMV Download Small, 2.1Mb) Trailer (WMV Download Medium, 4.2Mb) Trailer (WMV Download Large, 14.2Mb) via Monkeypeaches... (8 Comments)
07/15/2005	Takashi Shimizu takes on 'Parasyte' for New Line Cinema. Based on a Sci-Fi Manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki, about alien spores arriving on Earth and taking over human bodies. Sounds very unusual compared to the other films Shimizu (of 'Ju-On' or 'The Grudge' fame primarily) has turned out, and glad... (3 Comments)
07/14/2005	Pulse. by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Final American Release Trailer. Todd posted the rough cut of this trailer a while back, for Magnolia Pictures release of this stateside (now delayed slightly from August to November 2005). Here's the final cut to download courtesy of ComingSoon.net : Trailer (Large Quicktime Download... (1 Comments)
07/14/2005	Park Chan-Wook receives honours Oldboy director Park Chan-Wook was celebrated for his work overseas in promoting Korean culture and arts by the KOICA (Korean International Cooperation Agency), yesterday in Daehak-ro (Seoul). In an interview, director Park talked about his work: "In many of my... (2 Comments)
07/12/2005	Aftermath / Genesis. by Nacho Cerda. Unearthed Films DVD : Banned by Retailers? According to Fangoria the release (due August 23rd 2005 in America) has been refused shelf space at "every video retailer in the country". Should still be able to pick it up online, as I will be. It's one of the... (11 Comments)
07/11/2005	Panik House. Exclusive Look at 'Sex & fury' and 'Female Yakuza Tale' DVD Sleeve Artwork. Thanks to Michael Liuzza at Panik House, the newest Asian Cinema DVD label to go for the American market, here's an early Exclusive look at the artwork for their first two 'Pinky Violence Collection' releases, 'Sex & Fury' and 'Female... (1 Comments)
07/08/2005	Breakin' Collection. R1 USA DVD Boxset August 16th 2005. Here's something that haunts every day of my life. For all the cultural impact or worth of many things, including Hip-Hop, there's little decent material out there relating to it, wether in film itself or in information in sites. That... (3 Comments)
07/08/2005	Pulse. by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. American Cinema Release Delayed. Originally slated to make a surprise appearance at some American cinemas in August, now shifted back until November in order to coincide with the remake apparently. Search the archive here at Twitch and you can already download an early version... (0 Comments)
07/06/2005	'Oh! Mikey' Finally Licensed for the USA by ADV Films. Here's one of those shows that you may well have seen many pictures from, especially if you're prone to browsing japanese sites or retailers that have a close connection to japan. It's 'The Fuccons' (as it will apparently be in... (9 Comments)
07/02/2005	A Ton of New 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' Stills... A quickie... there's about 41 (i counted them) new large and high quality stills available online at MonstersandCritics. Click the small preview boxes on the page to get the bigger complete ones.... (1 Comments)
07/02/2005	Shaun of the Dead. Simon Peggs Outfit On Sale for a Measly $2.5k / £1.5k. Never quite made my mind up about the pitfalls and 'benefits' of buying and owning original film props. You see these stalls at shows and browse some (admitedly very interesting, somehow...) websites and notice everything looks a little poorly made... (0 Comments)
07/01/2005	Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. R1 USA DVD Vs. R2 UK DVD. Remember, UK disc is September 8th 2005. R1 USA disc is September 13th 2005. The specifications for the R1 have been confirmed today and it's possible to see that in addition to all the following, the UK does (for certain)... (1 Comments)
07/01/2005	Kamikaze Girls. (aka 'Shimotsuma Monogatari', 2004). R3 HK DVD August 30th 2005. For all those swooning over the recent announcement that this would get a USA disc, erm, early next year. Well, here's the fairly predictable release in HK - the first with english subtitles and a cheap disc too. I've seen... (4 Comments)
06/30/2005	John Shuttleworth : 500 Bus Stops. R2 UK DVD July 11th 2005. Another in my increasingly frequent (yet occasional and very selective) pieces on British Comedy shows and personalities. This one is Graham Fellows (aka 'Jilted John' - pop star of days gone by) as his alter-ego John Shuttleworth. Remember, British Comedy... (0 Comments)
06/29/2005	Holy Toledo! Someone Put License to Drive on DVD! Well, here's something we didn't cover in the DVD release calendar... Man, oh man. What joyous days I could've been having had I known this was coming. Corey viewings at my house. Don't say you're not jealous. You Are. Shut... (3 Comments)
06/26/2005	Exclusive! Upcoming Releases from Media Blasters for 2005... Because there's a whole lot of them here, so I am putting them into one post. First mention of dates for some great new and old films, plus reassuring info on some other rumoured titles. Thanks to MB for emailing... (12 Comments)
06/24/2005	Drunken Angel (1948), The Bad Sleep Well (1960) by Akira Kurosawa. R2 UK DVDs July 25th 2005. Another couple of Akira Kurosawa films that don't seem to be out in America get nice BFI discs in late July here in the UK. Not really followed this particular Mr.Kurosawa, but it's worth pointing these out for those who... (0 Comments)
06/24/2005	Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. R1 USA DVD September 13th 2005. Just 8 days after the UK release of the film on DVD, is this newly confirmed R1 release, artwork to the left. Would suggest that, as usual, the best price in the UK won't be able to beat the R1... (1 Comments)
06/21/2005	Help. with Paul Whitehouse & Chris Langham. R2 UK DVD September 26th 2005. I lied. Well, not intentionally or literally. I said that the only other recommendation for a recent British Comedy series was 'The Smoking Room' (still to be announced for DVD). Wrong. I saw every episode of Paul Whitehouses' show 'Help'... (0 Comments)
06/21/2005	Silver. by Takashi Miike. R2 UK DVD August 22nd 2005. Actually a few things to point out about upcoming UK discs for Takashi Miike films. Firstly is this announcement for 'Silver' which will be another title getting its first DVD release anywhere in the world, here in the UK. It's... (2 Comments)
06/20/2005	Kiyoshi Kurosawa Interview. Not with me, unfortunately. With some lucky sausage from DVDTalk. Here.... (0 Comments)
06/20/2005	15 Storeys High. by Sean Lock (partly). Clips and DVD Details. Only so many shows that are relatively recent in terms of British Comedy that are worth mentioning. This is one, and I hadn't realised the DVD of the first series had already been released. Noticed someone talking about its Official... (0 Comments)
06/20/2005	Extras. by Ricky Gervais (The Office). Teaser Trailer, Other Clips, and Photos. First signs of the footage featuring Samuel L Jackson, Kate Winslet, Patrick Stewart. Plus, a short clip or sketch featuring Mr.Jackson again. And a few other things too. Surprised we forgot to check on this show recently, as it starts... (0 Comments)
06/18/2005	School of the Holy Beast. by Norifumi Suzuki (1974). R1 USA DVD August 30th 2005. Nunsploitation, or sexploitation? Either way, this seems to fit firmly into the Pinky Violence (or similar) catagory of 70s Japanese Cinema. A famous title that's lusted after, and that was announced as having been licensed a few months back. Now... (2 Comments)
06/16/2005	Doctor Who. Third Series Confirmed. Xmas Specials for 2005 & 2006. A total of 28 new episodes now confirmed to be produced for the second and thrid seasons, plus these two Xmas specials. Billie Piper aka Rose will now apparently return for the whole of the second series and not for... (2 Comments)
06/16/2005	DiabolikDVD.com Now More User Friendly. Todd rates the company highly, and I say they easily have the best eye and knowledge for obscure film releases on DVD from across the world. There's a very impressive range of stuff over there, and I always drop by... (0 Comments)
06/15/2005	Brothers Grimm. by Terry Gilliam. First Trailer. We've had the posters, now a small window trailer (QT or AOL Player) so you can finally see the thing moving, here embedded, or right click and save this for the QT one. Not watched it yet. Will do now.... (11 Comments)
06/15/2005	Mirrormask. Neil Gaiman / Dave McKean Project. QT Final Trailer. Seems to be the final trailer. Todd has covered this so much in the past, with various preview trailers popping up over the months. AICN has posted a link to Yahoo which i've fiddled with so you can simply right... (3 Comments)
06/14/2005	Nighty Night. Series One R2 UK DVD September 12th 2005. Another one of occassional UK comedy shows that's more than worth while pointing out. This was the sleeper hit of last year, a show which aired initially on BBC 3 and quickly got itself a solid fanbase. Then the show... (2 Comments)
06/14/2005	Panik House. 2 x Pinky Violence R1 USA DVD September 27th 2005, 4 Film R1 USA Boxset 15th November 2005. Not directly from Panik House (odd, been talking to the guys there over the last few days about these films) but from Gorezone.net, who could well have been doing the same thing. Oh well, important thing is there's details now... (0 Comments)
06/13/2005	Karas. Episode 0 : The Crow. R2 Japan DVD Out Now. Review. This is more my kind of thing. A short (six episode) series. 30 minute slices. From the streaming trailer it's not difficult to see there's something different going on. Then you check online for the subtitled Promo. Wow. Cool. Then... (8 Comments)
06/10/2005	My Beautiful Girl Mari. R1 USA DVD July 5th 2005. Korean Animation. ADV Films. I know lots of people like the idea of anime as a form of animation for a vaguely older audience, but not the product so much. Various reasons for this. One might be the generic look that you can seem... (5 Comments)
06/07/2005	'Watchmen' keeping an eye out for another studio Too bad for you. Paramount Pictures has pulled the plug on The Watchmen. It seesm that the new studio president, Gail Berman, needed to cut the budget to the film, estimated somewhere around $100 million. I have a suggestion. Gail,... (2 Comments)
09/18/2004	TIFF Report: Vital Review The Toronto Film Festival is quickly coming to an end but there are still some quality films to be had. Case in point: Shinya Tsukamoto's Vital. Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man is one of the most influential and extreme pieces... (1 Comments)
09/17/2004	TIFF Report - The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Calvaire It's the last day of film viewing for me at this year's festival which makes me a sad young gent but I'm ushering it out with a four film viewing day. I'm half way through it now, holed up... (3 Comments)
09/13/2004	TIFF Report: A Dirty Shame Review Ah, John Waters, the reigning king of raunch. My festival experience thus far had been composed of fairly highbrow fare and underground genre film. It was time for a change of pace and the world premiere of John Waters' A... (9 Comments)

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