By Charles WebbI was surprised to learn that Kim Ki-Duk was not only the producer for Beautiful, but the film's writer as well. I was surprised because the writer-director's normally masterful control and focus - present in wrenching dramas...

Jackie Chan stars as a lowly, unnamed Liang soldier who survives an ambush by Qin forces that decimates his 2000-strong army. The only other survivor appears to be a young Wei general (Wang Leehom) fighting for the Qin, who... More >>

Along with The Over the Hill Band and Altiplano, the third Belgian feature I caught at PSIFF10 was Felix Van Groeningen's The Misfortunates (2009), Belgium's official submission to the Academy Awards® foreign language category. Though it did not make... More >>

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival and Conference has announced its initial slate of titles. The list is rife with hot world premieres (Kick-Ass), films fresh from Sundance (The Runaways, Cyrus), hot titles from the 2009 editions of TIFF and Cannes...

  (or: "Sympathy for Everybody's Vengeance"...)  We've certainly had no shortage of news on Simon Rumley's new film "Red, White & Blue" here at Twitch. His previous film "The Living and the Dead" was rated highly at our site and... More >>

With the new 10 nominees for best picture development in this years Oscar derby, it puts a lot of different genres in the running.  Animated film up for best picture?  Check.  South African science fiction allegory?  Check.  Football feel-good...

Let's dispense with the elephant in the room as soon as possible - Elbowroom is a South Korean drama featuring a young female lead playing a character with cerebral palsy. There's no ignoring the bar in this regard has...

It could be hard to sell people on Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue. It is frequently a brilliant film, make no mistake (and yes, it more than justifies the hype we've given it), yet - without resorting to...

Richard Erdman buffed up his bald pate before his cheering Castro audience, confirming that he--more than anyone--had a sense of humor about the passage of time. After relishing in his "second banana" performance as blowzy alcoholic Delong in Cry... More >>

[Bumping this up as it's just turned out that this is not an isolated case.  A bit of Googling by a Twitch reader revealed that Lisa's review of The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus was actually copied and pasted from Film...