BEDEVILLED UK BluRay review

(A quick explanation: for my viewing of Optimum Home Entertainment's UK release of Bedevilled - available to buy on DVD and BluRay from 28th February 2011 - I've reprinted my earlier review from Manchester's Grimm Up North festival, slightly edited,... More »

By Matthew Lee

Room for one more? It's Eight Rooks' TOP TEN FOR 2010

And to think I thought it would be a dull year. I might not have been able to join in the fun on the other side of the Atlantic, but the IFFR in Rotterdam (thanks to fellow Twitcher Ard... More »

By Matthew Lee

LIFF 2010: THE DEAD review

The unique selling point (can we call it that?) for John and Howard Ford's The Dead - the zombie apocalypse hits Africa - is both its biggest strength and greatest weakness. It's a gorgeous, visually distinctive, creepy little road... More »

By Matthew Lee

Fantastic Fest 2010: RED HILL Review

Red Hill is a straightforward modern revenge western that provides plenty of slick thrills and pacey action, with racial undertones and perhaps the most startling animal appearance of the year...if that's even a category. Police officer Shane Cooper (True... More »

By James Dennis

TIFF 2010: MONSTERS review

Gareth Edwards' Monsters is a low-budget science fiction production with big ideas, shot in some of the poorest parts of the world, and a story that revolves around a catalysmic event that's changed the planet as we know it.... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE review

We Are What We Are is a film that tries to humanise seemingly ordinary people who do monstrous things, but it fails to do a good job of this for two main reasons; all of its subjects are neither... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: another MONSTERS review

(We like a few different editorial voices chiming in on a film here at Twitch, and my good friend Thomas - who was kind enough to drive me to London and get us a place to stay for Frightfest weekend... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: OUTCAST review

Colm McCarthy's Outcast is a low-budget British genre production that manages to be visually attractive, relatively naturalistic and features some wonderfully deft plotting which, while relatively predictable, still carries a refreshing level of moral ambiguity. It treats its fantasy... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: A Trailer For Johannes Roberts' F

[Updated with proper audio and a spiffy new poster.]Given the rather glowing review posted by our own James Dennis, now seems an appropriate time to point out the trailer for Johannes Roberts' F.A sort of hoodie-horror spin on John Carpenter's... More »

By Todd Brown

Frightfest 2010: Chris And Phil Present FRIGHT BITES DAY 5!

The Film4 Frightfest may have come to an end but our coverage has not. Chris and Phil have got one final Fright Bite podcast for us, one that features interviews with Jake West, Simon Rumley and Eli Roth! Check it... More »

By Todd Brown

Frightfest 2010: THE PACK review

Franck Richard's The Pack is grim. Perhaps too grim. It's a gleefully nasty, fairly distinctive little Gallic zombie flick that's beautifully shot and scored with some solid effects work and great performances. It's just the director arguably pushes the... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: 13 HRS review

Is 13 Hrs [sic] a film? It's a serious question. Jonathan Glendening's haunted house slasher flick feels more like a cheap and cheerful piece of late-night British genre television, only with more blood and guts thrown in than even... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: THE TORTURED review

If you could film a stereotypical right-wing American couple's worst nightmare, and the fallout that ensued, you'd have Robert Lieberman's The Tortured. It's an ugly, banal little production, part unrepentant torture porn, part clumsy, incomprehensible moralising, and attempting to... More »

By Matthew Lee

Frightfest 2010: Chris And Phil Present FRIGHT BITES DAY 4!

The Loved Ones have come to London. Erstwhile podcasters Chris and Phil are back with day four of their coverage from the Film4Frightfest and in today's podcast we get the cast of Australian fest hit The Loved Ones plus Andy... More »

By Todd Brown

FrightFest And UK Distributor Revolver Comment On The BBFC's Demand Of Cuts To A SERBIAN FILM

In light of A Serbian Film being pulled from the Film4 FrightFest lineup at the last minute after the BBFC demanded nearly four minutes of cuts, UK distributor Revolver and FrightFest organizers have released a brief statement on the situation.... More »

By Todd Brown

FrightFest 2010: Chris And Phil Present FRIGHT BITES DAY 3!

What comes with day three of Chris and Phil's day by day podcasting from the Film4 Frightfest? How about interviews with David Arnold, Paul Andrew Williams (Cherry Tree Lane) and Monsters director Gareth Edwards. Get to it!... More »

By Todd Brown

FrightFest 2010: Chris And Phil Present FRIGHT BITES DAY 2!

Yes, I'm running a bit behind so Chris And Phil's Fright Bite Day Two is coming hot on the heels of Day One, and these edition features a whole lot of that man to the left: Mr Tobe Hooper! Check... More »

By Todd Brown

FrightFest 2010: Chris And Phil Present FRIGHT BITES DAY 1!

The UK's annual Film4Frightfest is off to a successful - and controversial - start and, once again erstwhile podcasters Chris And Phil are offering up a series of daily podcasts from the festival. Day one's coverage includes interviews with Hatchet... More »

By Todd Brown

Frightfest 2010: F Review

Johannes Roberts' F is a masterful, fresh take on the sub-genre of 'hoodie horror', featuring be-hooded kids laying siege to a school after hours. It's not the first British film to demonise today's youth, with the likes of Eden Lake... More »

By James Dennis

Frightfest 2010: HATCHET 2 Review

Film4 Frightfest opened for business last night with Adam Green's Hatchet 2, the sequel to his career making 2006 retro slasher. The good news for fans of the original is it's very much more of the same; a crowd pleasing,... More »

By James Dennis

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Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »

LA Film Fest 2013: Twitch Picks 12 Must-See Films

It's LA Film Fest time with LA's downtown fest kicking off tonight with Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited. Twitch will be on hand with a small crew to bring you news and reviews from around the fest. You can follow us on twitter at @TwitchFilm | @BenUmstead | @AlexKoehne... More »