Tribeca 2012 Review: CONSUMING SPIRITS, Hard Times in Animated Appalachia
Every frame in Chris Sullivan's American Gothic saga aches and echoes from a place of unique artistry, meticulous craftsmanship and great imagination. And though most viewers will remember Consuming Spirits for its always inventive, lovingly hand-crafted animation, which consists of... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: JOURNEY TO PLANET X
Who doesn't love a good doc about the trials and tribulations of the aspiring filmmaker? I'm not talking your Heart of Darknesses or Burden of Dreamses, as classic as those films are. I'm talking VHS Kahloucha, Audience of One, and... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: RUBBERNECK
Actor and director Alex Karpovsky has been a fixture in the past few years in low-budget American indies, many of which have fallen under the rubric (though I hate the term) of "mumblecore." In many of these films, both directed... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: In REPLICAS Hysteria Isn't Always Enough
The sense of dread and terror first time director Jeremy Power Regimbal sets in the opening moments of Replicas is potent, and remains so, until that creeping, crawling something-is-a-miss turns into out and out hysteria by the film's mid-point. It... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: FRANCOPHRENIA (OR DON'T KILL ME, I KNOW WHERE THE BABY IS)
The symbiotic relationship between celebrities and their adoring public is an interesting one. And it's films like James Franco's FRANCOPHRENIA (OR PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TYPE OUT THE FULL TITLE EVERY TIME) that force me to consider my own role... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: POSTCARDS FROM THE ZOO Offers a Menagerie of Wonders
According to Lana there are three types of beings that find themselves at the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta. Firstly, there are the visitors (the watchers and those that want to be watched). Then there are the animals (those who watch... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: WAR WITCH
I am of two minds when it comes to cinematic depictions of the African continent, in both fiction and documentary films. On the one hand, the sad reality is that civil war, corruption, political instability, and famine are inescapable features... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: JACK & DIANE, A Dark Romance With Little Bite
The practice of transposing horror elements for the use of visual metaphors and nightmares in a film which is more or less a drama isn't a new thing. We at Twitch come across films that aren't quite full on horror... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: RESOLUTION
"I think they were searching for monsters... and found each other."This bit of dialogue isn't the tagline for Resolution, and in fact isn't even spoken about the protagonists (the reverse would be closer to the truth), but it does offer... More »
  

Tribeca 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 »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: POLISSE Makes for an Atypical & Harrowing Procedural
It's been over eight hours since I left the theater; eight hours after taking in the third film from filmmaker/actress Maïwenn, largely my first experience with her work. Polisse (a clever, simple, kid-inspired misspelling) is an in-depth and very intense... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: EDDIE - THE SLEEPWALKING CANNIBAL
With a title that screams "campy fun ahead," Eddie -The Sleepwalking Cannibal both telegraphs its pleasures and sells them short. Yes, this Danish-Canadian co-production is pure fun from its first moment to its last (and beyond: stay for the credits),... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: YOUR SISTER'S SISTER
There are many pleasures to be had in watching Your Sister's Sister, the fourth feature by writer/director Lynn Shelton (We Go Way Back, My Effortless Brilliance, Humpday), one of the great highlights of Tribeca 2012.  For example, there is the... More »
  

Ben's 2011 In Film: Reflections And A Top 10
One early November afternoon, as I took my seat for a screening of Take Shelter (a film I had been greatly looking forward to since its Sundance premiere), the realization that I had not stepped foot into a movie theater... More »
  

THE SWELL SEASON Review
[With the film extending its run in Los Angeles and opening tomorrow in New York, we now revisit Peter's review from Tribeca.] Overall, I must say that I was struck by the similarity of The Swell Season to Hobo with... More »
  

THE TRIP Review
[With "The Trip" opening in most major U.S. markets tomorrow, now seems a good time to revisit my review from last April's Tribeca.]I hereby subtitle this review of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, "The Misadventures of the Dueling Caines" or "A... More »
  

Tribeca 2011: Team Twitch Wraps Up
This evening sees the 10th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival come to a close. My gallant colleague, Peter Gutierrez and I would like to thank the staff and volunteers, publicists and assistants for making TFF 2011 quite a cool... More »
  

HOFF 2011: BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW Review
Ethereal and Transgressive (Capitals E & T being very important), Beyond The Black Rainbow and its director, Panos Cosmatos, largely live up to their strange namesakes. It would be far too easy to label Cosmatos' first feature effort as overly... More »
  

Tribeca 2011: EVERYTHING MUST GO Review
[The following review originally appeared as part of my TIFF coverage at Showcase and we thank the powers that be there for allowing us to reprint it now on Twitch.]With Dan Rush's Everything Must Go, star Will Ferrell delivers... More »
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Tribeca 2011: Short Film Round-Up 2
Back again with a selection of six films from Tribeca's short film selection. We've got possible space ships in Iceland, mustaches, avant-garde experiments that dazzle the eye and turn the mind on end... the sun, the moon, and a kiss.... More »
  
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