Ryland Aldrich
Festivals Editor; Los Angeles, California

Ryland is a filmmaker and freelance writer based in sunny Los Angeles. He has been contributing to Twitch since 2009 and covering the festival beat as Festivals Editor since 2011. He writes on topics from sports to politics to tech at enderzero.net and spends the rest of his time on twitter at @RylandAldrich.

AFI Fest 2012 Preview: 10 to Watch - Galas & Specials
Hollywood's big pre-Awards festival AFI Fest is set to kick off this Thursday, November 1 and Twitch has got you covered. We've got a three-part 10 to Watch preview series for you beginning now with a look at some... More »
  

Adam Berg, John Bryant, Carter Smith and More to Showcase Talents at Halloween Shorts Fest in LA
Some great short filmmakers will be strutting their stuff at the 3rd annual Razorblades In Your Reese's short film fest, a free event taking place at LA's Downtown Independent on Halloween (Wednesday October 31). One name to watch on... More »
  

AFI Fest 2012 Announces Midnight, World Cinema, Breakthrough, and Shorts Lineups

Los Angeles's big awards season festival, AFI Fest will kick off on November 1 and they've just announced the lion share of the rest of their film programming (see the announcement of Young Americans and New Auteurs from a... More »
  

EXCLUSIVE Poster Premiere for Peter Chan's DRAGON
Formerly known as Wu Xia, Peter Ho-Sun Chan's Dragon is finally making its way to American screens via RADiUS/TWC on VOD October 26, 2012 and in limited theaters November 30, 2012. Guess what, we've got the exclusive debut of... More »
  

Tel-Aviv International Fantastic Festival Announces Winners
The 2012 Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science-Fiction, Imagination and the Future (IconTLV), aka Israel's International Fantastic Film Festival has announced their winners. Along with prizes in their International Competition for two fest favorites, the festival also awarded a Special Project... More »
  

Review: ARGO Storms Into Iran, Via Hollywood
Ben Affleck may not be the easiest guy to root for. Between his meteoric rise from indie actor to A-lister, his high profile relationships with some of the most beautiful women in the world, and his Oscar win for his... More »
  

Farrell, Walken, Rockwell, & McDonagh Talk SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
During this year's Toronto International Film Festival, Twitch had a chance to sit down with the stars and director of the upcoming Seven Psychopaths. Here are some of the highlights: Twitch: Seven Psychopaths was a big hit with the... More »
  

5 Questions with LOOPER's Summer Qing
Rian Johnson's time travelling actioner Looper has been tearing up critics' charts and box offices from Boston to Beijing since its release last week. While Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis are winning plenty of much-due praise, the whole cast deserves... More »
  

Lo-Def Chiller V/H/S Hits Theaters Today
It always feels like it's been a long wait when awards season rolls around and the hits from Sundance finally find their way into theaters. One of the most talked about films in Park City this year drops into cinemas... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: Twitch's Super Festival Wrap
As sad as it is to admit, Fantastic Fest has closed up shop for yet another year. Yes, the empty Shiner bottles are in the recycling, the karaoke books are on the shelves, and the regrets over new tattoos from... More »
  

AFI Fest 2012 Announces Seimetz, Cronenberg, Lindholm in Young Americans and New Auteurs Programs
It's less than a month until the kickoff of Los Angeles's AFI Fest 2012 on November 1, and we have the first lineup bulletin for you out today. Announced so far are the Young Americans and New Auteurs sidebars featuring... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TWO RABBITS Looks Good But Makes Little Sense
The first thing you'll notice in Afonso Poyart's light-hearted Brazilian crime actioner is the impressive bright yellow subtitles. I couldn't help but think for the first ten minutes about how remarkably legible those subtitles were. Why don't all movies have... More »
  

Boston, Minneapolis, St. Louis - Get Your Free Tix To See SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS + New Behind the Scenes Clip
Do you live in Boston, Minneapolis, or St. Louis? If so, we have a treat for you. Twitch has five pairs of tickets to preview screenings of Martin McDonagh's (In Bruges) new comedy Seven Psychopaths that we are giving away... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN is Sexy Violent Fun

There are few filmmakers who know how to create as much onscreen fun with as small of a budget as Chilean writer/director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza. With 70s cinematic sensibilities, funk-filled soundtracks, and always awesome action, Mirageman and Mandrill were fun-packed... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: DOM - A RUSSIAN FAMILY and its Brilliant Brutality
And you thought your family reunions were rough... It's a bitter dance of family dynamics and gangster guns a-blazin' in the engaging drama Dom - A Russian Family. With a more serious tone than one might expect, Oleg Pogodin's film... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012: The Great Open Preview
FANTASTIC FEST IS UPON US!! If you spend much time around Twitch, then you know how excited we get about America's number one genre fest, kicking off at Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema tomorrow. And just like our coverage from... More »
  

TIFF 2012: Twitch's Festival Mega Wrap Rounds Up All the Reviews
No doubt about it, the 2012 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was an affair to remember. With hundreds of memorable films, Twitch was by your side throughout, clocking in more than five dozen reviews. We've got links... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE LORDS OF SALEM Is a Slick Satanic Head Trip
It appears that Rob Zombie may have been studying up on his David Lynch lately as the metal-head-turned-filmmaker's latest is more head trip than it is horror. That's not to say The Lords of Salem doesn't have plenty of... More »
  

Review: ARBITRAGE Finds Gere's Stock Rising
They say cinematic trends are a snapshot of our times, and that certainly seems to be the case with the uptick of financial services dramas we've seen of late. Last year it was J.C. Chandor's Margin Call which made a... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ARGO Is Academy Catnip For Affleck
Ben Affleck may not be the easiest guy to root for. Between his meteoric rise from indie actor to A-lister, his high profile relationships with some of the most beautiful women in the world, and his Oscar win for... More »
  
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