Sean Smithson
Contributor;
Salt Lake City, Utah
Sean "The Butcher" Smithson left the world of music, in which he helped found the thrash genre in the early 80's, to pursue his first love... cinema. Now a writer at both Fangoria magazine and Twitch Film, Sean is able to bask in his slave-like addiction to films from any and every genre. These days instead of banging heads, he bangs the keyboard, dispensing his love of all things film related. Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.
Anaglyphic 3D Goodness Throwback Superman Fantoon BIZARRO CLASSIC 3D
Oh happy day! 2D cell animation is not dead, thanks in part to people like animator Robb Pratt. In a follow up to his massively viewed Superman Classic, the animator has a mix of styles on display, particularly the Paul...
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America Loses A Dad - RIP Andy Griffith June 1, 1926 - July 3, 2012
Musician. Monologist. Actor. Mostly a stalwart friend and defacto father figure for a lot of latch key kids like myself with his self-titled classic television program, The Andy Griffith Show.Yesterday, July 3, 2012, the proud son from Mount Airy, North...
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JAMES BOND Mania Invades Comic-Con San Diego!
007's cinematic incarnation may be turning 50, but he's still The Man. The Golden Anniversary for everyone's favorite spy is upon us. With the humungous all-inclusive blu ray set Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection coming in September, and...
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New French Trailer For Pascal Laugier's THE TALL MAN
Pascal Laugier, the director behind the controversial Martyrs, and the understated (and under-appreciated) House Of Voices, is out to scare us again with The Tall Man, or The Secret as this new French trailer is titled, for it's overseas release.For...
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MEGAFORCE And The New Beverly Cinemas Are Calling To You This Saturday!
Attention Los Angeles area readers! If silver lame' jumpsuits, rocket launching motorcycles, and fighting for justice and freedom are your thing, then get down to The New Beverly Cinemas this Saturday, June 23, at 7:30 pm, and join in celebrating...
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Paul Williams Is STILL ALIVE And Has Only Just Begun!
I'm a kid of the 1970's and if you grew up when I did, then you pretty much couldn't go through life without coming into contact with the work of the diminutive Paul Williams, at least a few hundred...
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THE WALKING DEAD's The Governor Revealed!
Today the first picture of David Morrissey in bad-ass mode as The Governor was revealed. The Governor aka Phillip Blake is of course the sadistic bastard in The Walking Dead comics who leads the community of survivors known as Woodbury....
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The First Time I Saw: ALIEN
Any hardcore cinegeek knows that certain films are more than just things we love, and have set in some nostalgic and romanticized mental time-capsule. No. Sometimes a certain flick will resonate so hard it actually becomes a sense memory, and...
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HAVE YOUR SAY: It Finally Happened...THE EXORCIST Is Being Remade.
Some things are holy. If a person were to ask me "What film properties are off limits for remakes?" sitting at the very tip top of that list would be The Exorcist . William Peter Blatty's novel, and subsequent...
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Talking With OSLO, AUGUST 31'ST Director Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier's second feature, Oslo, August 31'st is a day in the life of young Anders (played in a great turn by Anders Danielsen Lie), an affable and seemingly nice young man, who happens to be a recovering junkie, day...
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PROMETHEUS Featurette With Charlize Theron And New Footage
Bursting with tons of new footage, this teaser featurette only ampilfies my anticipation for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. All that can be said about this up-coming science fiction has been said. Let's just sit back and let the amazing visuals wash...
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THE WALKING DEAD Season 3 Behind The Scenes Pt1
Last season AMC's The Walking Dead really pulled a hat trick, wrapping up a lot of loose ends, ramping up the action, and making some serious ballsy moves as far as who lives and who dies. The series got viewers...
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Teaser For Paul Thomas Anderson's Highly Anticipated THE MASTER Arrives
It's been 5 long years since P.T. Anderson's last triumph, with the expansive and challenging There Will Be Blood. Now, on Oct. 12 the Weinstein Company will release Anderson's latest film, The Master. A period piece set in the 1950's,...
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THE RAID Writer/Director Gareth Evans Speaks With TWITCH's Andrew Mack On THE NIGHT CREW
Still can't get enough of The Raid? Head on over to The Night Crew's website and stream or download the interview, which first appeared here at Twitch, and can now be heard in a vastly expanded version. beware, the...
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Ti West Talks THE INNKEEPERS Dvd Blu-Ray And THE SIDE EFFECT
Ti West first made an impression back in 2005, when his horror film The Roost premiered at SXSW. Since then, West has directed the somewhat ill-fated (and received) Cabin Fever 2, and the surprise hit House Of The Devil, a...
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Ash Gets Animated In A Rotoscoped EVIL DEAD 2 Trailer
In the "This is just plain ole' cool!" department, this wonderful rotoscoped version of the trailer for Sam Raimi's horror/comedy megaclassic Evil Dead 2 popped up on my radar today. It comes from a studio calling itself Pretend For Real,...
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CAINE'S ARCADE Turns Cardboard Into Magic
I'm sure most of you reading this site are firm believers, like I am, in the therapeutic power of film. Well, if you have had a crummy day, I can darn near guarantee this little short film will help turn...
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DEXTER's Michael C. Hall Talks About THE TROUBLE WITH BLISS
Michael C. Hall, already a well known face after playing David Fisher, the gay funeral director on the legendary HBO cable program Six Feet Under, and now currently hovering around bona fide cultural icon status due to his turn as...
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Directors Don Argott And Demian Fenton Speak About Their LAST DAYS HERE
Full disclosure: I am a metal fanatic. Grew up on it. Played it professionally for 20 plus years. Still obsessed with crushing riffs and and crunchy guitars. So when I found out that there was a documentary about one of...
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4 Minutes Of JOHN CARTER...And It Feels So Right!
So far, director Andrew Stanton has pulled off what many others couldn't, and that is to finally bring a version of Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter (OF MARS, dammit) to the screen. It's been a long, strange trip, as crazy...
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