Cover art and details for R1 'Retribution' from Kiyoshi Kurasawa!

I have been reminded this week that not all of our readers have the access to import DVDs or enjoy the benefits of all-region players. Nor may they have friends like Todd who program stellar international programs into festivals like... More »

By Andrew Mack

Thai Horror ALONE Wins Toronto After Dark Audience Award!

The helper-monkeys over at Toronto After Dark are busily compiling links to all of the press generated by the 2007 edition of the festival and won't be updating the official festival website with this bit of news until that... More »

By Todd Brown

TAD: DEAR BEAUTIFUL Online

What's that? You're in Toronto but foolishly skipped the shorts programs at Toronto After Dark? Or perhaps you live far, far away and can only dream about attending such good and lovely events ... okay, I'll stop now. Point is... More »

By Todd Brown

John Bergin's FROM INSIDE Making First On Screen Appearance, Finds Voice

Two excellent pieces of news here revolving around John Bergin's From Inside, the post apocalyptic animated feature adapted by Bergin from his own graphic novel of the same name. We've beent racking this one for a good while now... More »

By Todd Brown

Complete TORONTO AFTER DARK LINEUP Announced

The final block of titles for the 2007 edition of the Toronto After Dark festival were announced today and, hark! The box office is now also open for business. Though I'm not as involved this year as I was... More »

By Todd Brown

Toronto After Dark 2007: First seven titles announced!

Things are gearing up for this year's incantation of the Toronto After Dark Film Festival running October 19th through 25th at the Bloor Cinema in downtown Toronto. After sifting through 700 entries the programmers have chosen 14 features and 36... More »

By Andrew Mack

Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Last call for film submissions!!!

All you budding or established genre filmmakers out there pay heed to our words. There is only one more week left to submit your film for the 2nd Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival coming up in October. Twitch... More »

By Andrew Mack

Toronto After Dark Film Festival : Submission Deadline announcement

The Toronto After Dark Film Festival, of which we are a media sponsor, is reminding everyone that the early-bird submission deadline has passed but that only means that the keeners have already put their names in the hat. If... More »

By Andrew Mack

Bring On The Dutch Body-Hopping Ghosts! Slaughter Night Hits US DVD April 10th!

Pardon me if I feel a little burst of parental pride over this ... Dutch slasher film SL8N8 AKA Slaughter Night received its North American premiere - and second public screening anywhere - at the Toronto After Dark Film... More »

By Todd Brown

Toronto After Dark Award Winners Announced!

Well, here we are with the final piece of Toronto After Dark 2006 business - except, of course, for a few overdue reviews. cough. - namely our award winners. Audience Award Gold: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie... More »

By Todd Brown

Toronto After Dark Diary: Day 5 - SL8N8 and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Toronto After Dark drew to a close on Tuesday night on a very high note. The return to the real world wasn’t nearly as horrific as TIFF was and I can only attribute it to one thing. Not enough... More »

By Andrew Mack

Thanks From Toronto After Dark

Well, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival has wrapped up and we're all greatly looking forward to being able to sleep regular hours again. I got the chance to meet a lot of Twitch readers at this things and... More »

By Todd Brown

Toronto After Dark Is A Go!

This is my last piece of shill. I promise. Unless a last minute special guest becomes reality ... there's something mighty cool a'brewin' ... The Toronto After Dark Film Festival launches tonight and will unleash cinematic mayhem, on the... More »

By Todd Brown

Bask in My Manly Goodness! Bask!

So, last week I spent a little bit of time in the SPACE TV studios talking about the whole Toronto After Dark thing. SPACE are one of our title sponsors and have been really amazing to deal with and... More »

By Todd Brown

More Guests Confirmed For Toronto After Dark!

Toronto After Dark's Friday launch date is fast approaching and we're able to confirm some more guests for you ... I've already mentioned here that Special co-director and Toronto native Hal Haberman will be in attendance on opening night,... More »

By Todd Brown

First Review For Kurosawa's Retribution!

It's not often that we point to off-site reviews these days but when the film in question is the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, not to mention a film that I programmed myself for the fast-approaching Toronto After Dark Film... More »

By Todd Brown

Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore's Special Hits UK Screens November 17th!

This is news that makes Todd a happy man. We're big fans of Special around here, having tracked its progress since first finding the trailer a good while back and given it a glowing review not so long later.... More »

By Todd Brown

A Deleted Scene From Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist

A deleted scene from Lloyd Kaufman's zombie chicken musical Poultrygeist has made it's way online and it is, as you would expect, high class all the way. Heh. Actually it's a musical number sung by despondent Muslim immigrant Jihad... More »

By Todd Brown

First Footage From Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution (Sakebi)!

Glory be, boys and girls. We were most disappointed that we were unable to present a trailer for Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Retribution at Thursday's Toronto After Dark launch party - reason being that there hasn't been one cut yet -... More »

By Todd Brown

Complete Toronto After Dark Lineup Announced! Single Tickets Now On Sale!

[This post will remain at the top of the page for the next twenty four hours. New content will continue to be added below.] Having just now cleared my head of the after affects of last night's Toronto After... 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 »