SXSW 2011: Short film 'Animal Control' will have American premiere.

Canadian short film Animal Control by Kire Papput will finally get around to making its American debut at SXSW after a solid festival run so far. We first caught the film at Tiff and Kire was good enough to field some... More »

By Andrew Mack

SXSW 2011: THE DIVIDE Is Coming

Xavier Gens' apocalyptic horror picture The Divide is coming. And we mean that in more ways than one.First, the world premiere of the picture at SXSW is coming up fast.Second, tomorrow at around noon EST we will be premiering the... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch SXSW Short DENMARK

While there is an argument to be made as to whether puppetry should be considered animation - it's live performance, not frame by frame manipulation - there's no denying it's a dying art that remains incredibly powerful in the right... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2011: SOUND OF MY VOICE Clip

Zal Batmanglij's Sound Of My Voice is a different sort of cult film in that rather than appealing to a small but loyal group of followers - ie inspiring a cult - is it about a cult and a couple... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2011: CHARLIE CASANOVA Trailer

Irish director Terry McMahon is a living example of the power of social networking. McMahon's script for Charlie Casanova was rejected by the Irish Film Board, a situation he refused to accept. So he tattooed himself with the motivational phrase... More »

By Todd Brown

The ATTACK THE BLOCK Trailer Is Killing Them! It's Killing Them!

The particular genius of Shaun of the Dead was that it was a horror comedy that took both the horror and the comedy seriously. The funny bits were funny. The scary bits were scary. And it never, ever made fun... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2011: Trailer For Joseph Kahn's DETENTION Plays Like A High School Slasher DONNIE DARKO On Speed

Brace yourself because Joseph Kahn's Detention is coming to SXSW, it's bringing teen slasher Cinderhella with it, and everybody talks really, really fast! MTV have just premiered the trailer for the latest from the director of Torque and while I... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2011: Trailer For Dave Boyle's SURROGATE VALENTINE

Over the past few years we here at Twitch have had the chance to watch the development of director Dave Boyle. At this point we've covered every one of his films and it's been fascinating to watch Boyle gain confidence... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2011: JEZ JERZY (GEORGE THE HEDGEHOG) Music Video

An animated hedgehog and Polish hip-hop. Who knew they'd go together so well?The big screen adaptation of a hugely popular underground comic, Jez Jerzy (George The Hedgehog) will be hitting screens at the SXSW Film Festival just days after its... More »

By Todd Brown

Greg Mottola's PAUL Gets A Red Band Trailer

Paul is coming. And he swears a lot.Greg Mottola's scifi comedy road movie Paul has released a new red-band trailer and while I still fear that this film will have the same fate as Scott Pilgrim - meaning geeks will... More »

By Todd Brown

Trailer Premiere: SWEETHEARTS OF THE PRISON RODEO

Bradley Beesley's Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo is pretty much what the title suggests. It's a documentary about female inmates competing in a rodeo, and it's getting a "rodeo style" release across the US before coming to DVD on October... More »

By Ben Umstead

SWEETHEARTS OF PRISON RODEO Review

Oklahoma leads America in incarceration. Female incarceration rate there is two times higher than the national average. 75 percent of all inmates are in there for drug offenses and 80 percent among them are mothers, according to a correctional officer... More »

By Dustin Chang

SXSW 2010: ENTER THE VOID Review

This review contains both mild spoilers and enthusiastic praise.Enter the Void is a 21st century "head" movie designed for consumers of psychedelics, designer drugs, and potent substances yet to be invented or discovered. Points of reference include the Star-Gate sequence... More »

By Rodney Perkins

SXSW 2010: First Trailer For Chad Feehan's WAKE!

Without a doubt one of the titles the horror hounds are keeping an eye on at SXSW is Chad Feehan's Wake. Feehan caught people's attention a few years back as one of the producers of All The Boys Love Mandy... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2010: THE RIDE Review

Meredith Danluck's The Ride, the latest production from Vice Films, captures the spectacle of modern bull riding while revealing a slice of small town Americana that is quickly fading away. Bull riding was once the exclusive domain of rodeos. Now, busting... More »

By Rodney Perkins

SXSW 2010: LIKE A PASCHA Review

Pascha is the largest brothel in Europe. The business occupies a twelve story building in Cologne, and employs over 200 women. Swedish filmmaker Svante Tidholm spent a few years documenting life at this massive brothel in an attempt to figure... More »

By Rodney Perkins

SXSW 2010: Final Trailer For Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE AND BLUE

With Simon Rumley's Red, White and Blue playing to great response in Rotterdam and soon to arrive on US shores at SXSW we've been proud to debut a series of character teasers for the film here at Twitch. But... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2010: A SERBIAN FILM Theatrical Trailer Only Hints At The Depravity That Lurks Within ...

Does anybody else recall the uproar triggered by David Cronenberg's explicit meshing of sex and violence in 1996's Crash? Well, strap in kids, because Srdjan Spasojevic's debut feature A Serbian Film is about to take its North American bow at... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2010: Indie SciFi In Clay Liford's EARTHLING

[Updated with official trailer]The current wave of indie scifi continues with Clay Liford's Earthling. Soon to have its world premiere at the South By Southwest Film Festival, the film revolves around some sort of accident on board the International Space... More »

By Todd Brown

SXSW 2010: Trailer For Ben Hickernell's Indie Drama LEBANON, PA

Soon to have its world premiere as part of the SXSW Film Festival, the first trailer and a couple stills have just come our way from Ben Hickernell's indie drama Lebanon, PA. It's certainly not the edgiest title that'll be... More »

By Todd Brown

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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 »