Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: LEE'S ADVENTURE
Talk about a pleasant surprise. I referenced the new and upcoming generation of Asian film makers a couple of times already (pk.com.cn, Honey PuPu), Lee's Adventure is allowed to join this illustrious duo as the film further underlines my belief... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: Max Porcelijn Drunkenly Reviews Max Porcelijn's PLAN C
Waarom Plan C de beste film ooit is >??????\Ik ben max porcelijn, the writer /director of plan c dus dat is gezegd\Dus is a bad situation - todd browne got me drugged, trying to get me to review my own... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: DOM - A RUSSIAN FAMILY and its Brilliant Brutality
And you thought your family reunions were rough... It's a bitter dance of family dynamics and gangster guns a-blazin' in the engaging drama Dom - A Russian Family. With a more serious tone than one might expect, Oleg Pogodin's film... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: WAKE IN FRIGHT Defies The Mold Of Rural Horrors
Everybody loves a good hillbilly horror film. Of course, the elephant in the room when anyone talks about the terrors of the uncivilized parts of the civilized world is John Boorman's Deliverance. In that film, a group of weekend warriors... More »
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Stephen Fung Talks Finding The Next Generation For TAI CHI ZERO
Stephen Fung was on top of the world in 2005. The popular actor had made a successful transition to directing with both his debut feature, Enter The Phoenix, and sophomore effort, House Of Fury, embraced by fans and critics alike.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: UNIT 7
As anyone reading, or writing for, Twitch will probably tell you, there's a fine line between genre conventions and outright clichés. To an outsider, someone who's not a fan of a particular genre, anything that looks somewhat familiar can be... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: THE CONSPIRACY Makes You Paranoid, But Don't Tell Anybody
With absolute conviction and unwavering intelligence, The Conspiracy unpacks complex theories and raises disturbing questions that are not easily dismissed. What distinguishes the faux-documentary framework from any number of "mock docs" is that writer/director Christopher MacBride doesn't pretend that... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: This Is A Review For NEW KIDS NITRO, Homo!
(See how the title of the article is noticeably more offensive than the one I did for its prequel? Well...) One of the biggest surprises moviewise last year was "New Kids Turbo", a full-length Dutch feature describing the chaos... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: SINISTER Aims for Subconscious Scares
True crime writing never pays. Ellison (Ethan Hawke) had a widely-acclaimed bestseller his first time out, but that was ten years ago. He hasn't been able to replicate that success, though he keeps trying, continually moving his family as close... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: HOLY MOTORS Shoots Past the Moon
With so many serious, dramatic and even generic (see Lawless) films in competition at Cannes, director Leos Carax's Holy Motors came as something like a 100 mph gust of fresh air. In fact, this sci-fi/comedy/I-don't-know-what-to-call-it is such a wild, weird and joyful film that... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: VEGETARIAN CANNIBAL

There must be something in the water in Eastern Europe because they have been cranking out some of the most confrontational films in the world for at least the last 40 years. The first major movement to get any kind... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: COMBAT GIRLS (KRIEGERIN)
I was lucky to be born half brown. I was just the kind of angry kid that would probably have fallen in with the wrong kind of people had I been born all white. Product of a broken home. Too... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: FRANKENWEENIE 3D Barks But Doesn't Bite
Tim Burton's return to stop-motion reanimates many of his favourite themes, from 50s Americana to Gothic horror, but fails to generate an emotional spark. It was back in 1984 when Burton, then a burgeoning young filmmaker in Disney's stable, produced... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: BLACK OUT Sparkles in a Darkly Comic Criminal Vein
Is there anything more annoying than waking up in the morning to discover a gun -- and a bloody corpse -- in bed with you? On the day before your wedding? It's very tempting to describe Arne Toonen's Black... More »
  

Check Out An Extended Gallery Of Stills From Ted Kotcheff's WAKE IN FRIGHT
With the remastered version of Ted Kotcheff's classic but little seen Wake In Fright soon to screen at Fantastic Fest before rolling out on a limited US release we've got an extensive gallery of stills from the film for your... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Watch A Clip From Fantastic Fest Selection BESTIES
While Rebecca Cutter's indie thriller Besties may occupy a somewhat different niche than most films selected for Austin's Fantastic Fest it does, nonetheless, look like a compelling bit of work. Written and directed by Rebecca Cutter, who is currently a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: The Great Open Preview
FANTASTIC FEST IS UPON US!! If you spend much time around Twitch, then you know how excited we get about America's number one genre fest, kicking off at Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema tomorrow. And just like our coverage from... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: Clap Your Hands, Pump Your Fists, Lose A Limb To A New MIAMI CONNECTION Trailer
As the ne'erdowells of cinematic geekdom descend upon Austin this weekend at the start of Fantastic Fest Drafthouse Films have released a freshly cut trailer for their unearthed martial arts epic Miami Connection. Drafthouse Films has released a new trailer... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Preview: Australia & NZ Attack Austin
There are many reasons to be fired up about Fantastic Fest this year, and my biggest reason is the awesome selection of Australian (and New Zealand) genre films playing the festival - after yet another year of these countries churning... More »
  

Chris Nash's SKINFECTIONS Trilogy Trailer Both Teaches and Teases
With the premiere of MY MAIN SQUEEZE and LIPLOCK at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival last year to much acclaim (as well as gasps and gags), Toronto filmmaker and friend of Twitch Film Chris Nash, perhaps best known in... More »
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