Kurt Halfyard
Toronto, Canada

Scientist by day, cinema aficionado by night. Film festival addict and family man. Kurt has been writing for Twitch since pretty much the inception of the site and can often be found in rep-houses around Toronto taking his kids to films that are rather inappropriate for their age.

Trailer: ROBOT & FRANK
Robot & Frank is an Asimov-ian robot sci-fi inflected romantic dramedy which doubles as a one-last-score heist flick. Jake Schreier's Sundance hit (it won the Alfred P. Sloan prize at this year festival (an award previously given out to Another Earth,... More »
  

The Kids Talk Film: BRAVE
Twitch is certainly not the youngest of movie websites, and a number of the writing staff have children that are old enough to understand and consume media in a way that is both raw and fresh, but also with the... More »
  

Second Teaser for THE MASTER is Astounding!
[Video is live again.]Giving Daniel Day Lewis a run for his money in the 'Monster Performance' department is Philip Seymour Hoffman in the second teaser trailer for the upcoming quasi-Scientology drama, The Master.  Hoffman of course is no stranger to... More »
  

Fantasia Co-Production Market EXTENDS itself with "Off-Frontières"
One of the big new additions to the growing prominence of Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival was the addition this year of a marketplace for co-productions in the early stages of development.  In their excitement, the festival has just added a... More »
  

Ripley's Inferno: Deep Down, You Should Love ALIEN3
Think back to 1992 for a moment. Six years after James Cameron's Aliens turned what was a magnificent stand-alone science fiction horror mash-up into fully viable franchise and created a legion of breathless fanboys quoting Bill Paxton or Michael Biehn.... More »
  

Short Film, Short Review: THE CAPTURED BIRD
A tranquil, domesticated park, shows a couple caught up in their new infant, while their six year-old daughter (round-faced Skyler Wexler, clad in white satin and bows) draws pictures with chalk on the playground.  The establishing shots are held just a... More »
  

Trailer for the Best Doc of 2012 Thus Far: THE IMPOSTER
The best film I saw at this years HotDocs festival, and unanimously praised amongst the Twitch staff thus far, Bart Layton's marvelously constructed The Imposter dropped its trailer onto the interweb and it is a good one.  Without revealing... More »
  

Review: MOONRISE KINGDOM
Perhaps the chief delight of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is that it is the most quintessential Wes Anderson movie to date. That is not to say it is his best film, or his most insightful film, or even his... More »
  

PROMETHEUS Viral Video sees Dr. Shaw Pitching her Philosophy
Running one of the best lead-up campaigns to a big blockbuster in years, a combination of  advertising, teasing, and otherwise setting the mood, team-Prometheus now gives you a real good look at who is most likely to be the lead character... More »
  

THE CAPTURED BIRD to premiere at World Wide Short Festival
Written and directed by former Rue Morgue editor-in-chief Jovanka Vuckovic and produced by Jason Lapeyre (I Declare War) with Guillermo del Toro tying a ribbon on top as executive producer, The Captured Bird is has an astounding pool of talent in the... More »
  

Fantasia's Co-Production Marketplace Titles Are Exciting!
The 2012 edition of Fantasia will feature the inaugural addition of a Co-Production marketplace, called Frontières (not to be confused with the crazy genre-mash-up from Xavier Gens, but perhaps evoking the spirit of that film.)  The very first thing that gets me excited... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: LOVE STORY Review
An exceptionally tall girl in an orange dress with a piece of red-velvet cake on a plate and a lanky New Zealander with a video camera meet on the subway headed for Coney Island.  They chat.  They separate.  They meet... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE Review
There is a lot of passion, soul baring, and white-knuckle anxiety on display in Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky's documentary on the world of independent games and their micro-sized design teams.  Instead of hundreds of people working on all aspects of a top... More »
  

The Expendables 2 Trailer: What's The Plan? Find'em. Trap'em. Kill'em.
The gang is all here and stuff must be shot at and blown up real, real good.  And there must be cool walks, ominous statements and mondo wise-crackin'.  As promised by Terry Crews earlier in the week, and intro'd by... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: FRANCOPHRENIA (or Don't Kill Me, I Know Where The Baby Is) Review
I will be brief, as to not waste too much of your time, as it would be doubly a crime for Francophrenia to kill the sum of my 70 minutes viewing the thing, another hour writing about it, and then... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: THE AMBASSADOR Review
Either Mads Brügger has balls the size of grapefruits or there is mondo chicanery going on in The Ambassador.  Well, it's a given that there is trickery happening, so the thing to figure out is who the trick is on: The... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: AI WEI WEI: NEVER SORRY Review
A common phrase on the internet, particularly in social media circles is "Pictures, or it didn't happen."  This certainly treads close enough to the general ethos of documentary film-making to make Ai Wei Wei:  Never Sorry about the most appropriate film to... More »
  

HotDocs 2012: DESPITE THE GODS Review
"This is mayhem.  This is India.  Isn't it beautiful?" This observation to the camera, uttered by a crew member at one point during a bit of down-time during the shooting of Bollywood horror-fantasy HISSS, nearly encapsulates things in a single thought.... More »
  

Ghibli Retrospective: The Kids Talk NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND
Twitch is certainly not the youngest of movie websites, and a number of the writing staff have children that are old enough to understand and consume media in a way that is both raw and fresh, but also with the... More »
  

ActionFest 2012: SLEEPLESS NIGHT Review
[One of ActionFest 2012 secret screenings was Frederic Jardin wonderfully convoluted thriller, Sleepless night.  Here is a previous review of the film from our archives.]During an early morning drug robbery, the culprits make off with a dozens of kilograms of cocaine,... More »
  
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