Ard Vijn
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Ard joined Twitch in November 2006, promising Todd to share information about the Dutch film industry. Instead, he focuses on Asian cinema and Japanese animation in particular. Once every year he nearly becomes the writer he so desperately wants to be and that is during the International Film Festival Rotterdam. He juggles his time between his wife and two sons, films, and a career-on-the-side as a financial analyst.
Review: George Sluizer's Unfinished River Phoenix Film, DARK BLOOD
Last night, Twitch was present at the first public screening of Dutch director George Sluizer's unfinished film starring River Phoenix, Dark Blood. Previously, on Thursday, there was a screening for the crew and press, which was followed by a long...
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DARK BLOOD Has Finally Made It To A Silver Screen
Last Thursday at the Dutch Film Festival in Utrecht, George Sluizer's "new" film Dark Blood premiered in front of a non-paying audience. The few Dutch reviews which are slowly appearing on the Internet are favorable, yet the question if there...
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Walter Hill Seriously Wants To Remake WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE
Today The Hollywood Reporter ehm... reports from Hollywood that Walter Hill has secured funding from Lakeshore Entertainment to direct a remake of Robert Aldrich's classic horror film Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?. The new film will be based on Hill's...
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When Fans Cry: Waiting For The Second Half Of A Story
On these here pages of Twitch we've paid quite some attention to the Australian DVD release of the Japanese anime horror-thriller series When They Cry, with several reviews for both season one and season two. For good reason: When seen...
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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...
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Twitch-O-Meter: Know Your Anime And Guess That Angel!
One of the attractive things about Japanese animation is the way it can differ so much from animation we consider to be traditional, so it is disheartening to see how much recent series are basically rehashing ideas from earlier efforts....
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We Now Have a FORUM Again, Ho Ho Hooo!
A few weeks back Twitch closed down its old forum, creating a new one in its place. And here it is: at the top right of the Twitch Facebook page. Just hit the "TTF" button. Why the move to Facebook?...
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TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D Has A Trailer. That Fades to Black. A Lot.
In January 2013, a new chapter will be added to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, with this particular title dropping the Massacre but adding 3D. Instead of a reboot of the original story or a remake of the 1986 film...
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New FRANKENWEENIE Clip: Meet Dr. Ryzkroski (bzzzzzzt...)
While the general enthusiasm surrounding a new Tim Burton film has noticeably waned from, say, a similar event 20 years ago, Frankenweenie is a project which still gets most of us here at Twitch excited. Why? Well, this time Tim...
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Camera Japan 2012 Festival Reveals Line-up
If you're a Western fan of Japanese cinema, there are worse places to live than Rotterdam. Each January the International Film Festival Rotterdam provides viewers with a very wide selection of movies from all around the globe. It is, however,...
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TIFF 2012 Review: CLIP Shocks and Compels
(Warning: this film has gross content. GROSS!) Serbia is certainly a country to keep track of, film-wise. With a rich tradition of grand, beautiful cinema, an ingrained wry sense of humor and a history that is tragic and eclectic,...
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The SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D Poster Reveals Ehm... That The Film Is In 3D
Back in July we posted the trailer to "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D", the sequel to Christophe Gans' videogame-to-movie adaptation "Silent Hill". What was successful about the first film worked because it kept the mood, visual design and especially its SOUND...
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Have Your Say: What the Hell Happened Here, OOGIELOVES?
Know that I am not writing this article with any sort of glee in mind, nor do I hate the film or the people involved. How could I? I haven't seen it yet. Until today I had never even heard...
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Have Your Say: Is Sequelitis On The Wane?
When writing gets tough, the tough turn to statistics. Well actually they don't but I do. Checking the latest US box office numbers I wondered what the total score for 2012 was so far, and what it had been for 2011....
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HOLLOW has a trailer
Anyone who has visited Great Britain knows that you cannot visit any village over there (big or small) without virtually stumbling over the damnedest pieces of history and ghost stories. It should come as no surprise that someone would make...
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DVD/BluRay Review: BLACK LAGOON (First Two Seasons)
(Tag along. You're it...) In the Japanese animated series "Black Lagoon" a low-level Japanese office salary slave becomes a member of a South-East Asian band of modern-day pirates. It is almost the ultimate fish out of the water scenario: the...
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Have Your Say: The Hunt For A Modern Horror Classic
Those who know me a bit here at Twitch will not be surprised to hear that I am a bit of a statistics nut: I can be quite happy poring over a sheet of numbers for minutes and see all...
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R.I.P. Carlo Rambaldi, creature creator extraordinaire.
Sad news: today the Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi died, aged 86. Mr. Rambaldi was responsible for many a memorable practical gore effect in the seventies, especially in seminal Italian gialli like Bava's "Twitch of the Death Nerve" and...
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KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE and ONLY YESTERDAY announced on BluRay
Good things happen in twos over at Studio Ghibli, as yet another two of their classics are released simultaneously. And again both founding fathers are represented here: one title is the fantastic "Kiki's Delivery Service" by Hayao Miyazaki and the...
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DVD Review: PANTY AND STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT
(I cannot top this release's own tagline: "Drop Those Britches, Bitches!") When animation studio Gainax (home of the "Evangelion" franchise) announced "Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt" we sort of threw a wobbler here at Twitch. The ever more worrying 'lolicon'...
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