Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg
London, England

Shelagh is a Toronto-born, London-based writer. She also a programmer for Toronto After Dark Film Festival, and is writing her PhD on contemporary Spanish fantastic film.

Sci-Fi London 2012: TRUE LOVE Review
How do you know when it's true love (even if such a thing exists?) If you knew everything, and I mean everything, about your partner, would you stay? Would you punish them for their misdeeds? Would you leave? Would you... More »
  

Sci-Fi London 2012: STRANGE FRAME Review
In the current climate of parody, pastiche, re-hashing, re-booting and recycling of films, it is so refreshing to see a film as unique, original and enjoyable as Strange Frame: Love and Sax. Billed as a animated sci-fi lesbian rock musical,... More »
  

Sci-Fi London 2012: EXTRACTED Review
You don't need to set something in space, or have aliens invading the planet, or lots of grand special effects, to make a science fiction story. The final frontier is perhaps not space, but the human mind, about which we... More »
  

Elijah Wood set to tickle the ivories in upcoming thriller GRAND PIANO
Elijah Wood is one busy and diverse acting bee these days. Besides doing voice work in Disney XD's animated series Tron: Uprising, the premiere of his star turn in Maniac at Cannes later this month, and continuing with a second season of the... More »
  

Hedgehogs & Hair: Trailer for A FANTASTIC FEAR OF EVERYTHING
Simon Pegg is afraid. Of Hedgehogs, launderettes, and his own underwear, among other things. First time co-directors Chris Hopewell and Crispian Mills (who wrote the screenplay) put poor Pegg through the ringer in this dark comedy. Simon Pegg plays Jack,... More »
  

¡Los Españoles! The Atlantida International Film Festival has Arrived at an Internet Connection Near you!
While the atmosphere of film festivals make them wonderful events to attend, not everyone has the money or time to do so. Online film festivals are becoming more common, and in this era of wider internet availability and quality of... More »
  

Holding Out for a Hero: Katniss and the New (Female) Role Model
It's not easy to be a hero. Just ask Katniss, the main character in the new film The Hunger Games, based on the book of the same name (the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins.) Living a life of... More »
  

Trailer for Sci-Fi Short HIBERNATION Haunts and Intrigues
There are some tremendous short genre films coming out of Spain right now. With the availability of online platforms such as Vimeo and YouTube, it's easier to broadcast your work, and easier for audiences around the world to view it.... More »
  

Europe is About to Get Evil: Teaser for SUPERCROOKS
I don't know when Nacho Vigalondo or Mark Millar ever find time to sleep. Both are two of the most active artists in their field. Vigalondo's latest feature, Extraterrestrial, is opening in Spain on Friday, and he's already got other... More »
  

SXSW 2012 Review: BEAST
With BEAST making its U.S. Premiere tonight SXSW, we take this opportunity to look back at Shelagh's review from Sitges 2011.Love can make anyone behave strangely. The chemicals that flood the brain when love arrives turn all our emotions into... More »
  

Kingdom Come: New Pics from Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM
I am unabashed in my love for Wes Anderson. Even his weaker films are miles ahead of many of his contemporaries, narratively and aesthetically. His canon of work, Bottle Rocket to Fantastic Mr. Fox, displays the bizarre, the earnest, the... More »
  

Charges against Sitges Festival & director Ángel Sala dropped
In 2010, the Sitges Film Festival and its director Ángel Sala were charged with exihibiting child pornography in connection with the screening of A Serbian Film. Today, newspaper El País is reporting that the charges have been dropped. The charges... More »
  

Banderas to the future: First Poster for AUTÓMATA
Antonio Banderas is on an interesting and somewhat fantastical path in his mid-career. 2011 saw him voice a swashbuckling cat in Puss-in-Boots, play a mad-yet-broken scientist in the wonderfully weird new Pedro Almodóvar film The Skin I Live In, and... More »
  

That's one kick-ass President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER Trailer
Russian director Timur Bekmambetov impressed a lot of people with his fantastic vampire films, Night Watch and Day Watch, and again with his first english-language film Wanted, based on the Mark Millar/JG. Jones graphic novel. Now, backed by producer Tim Burton and writer Seth... More »
  

Magnolia acquires US rights to EMERGO
When Rodrigo Cortés looks back on the early days of 2012, he will no doubt do so with a smile. His second feature film, Red Lights, impressed audiences at Sundance and was picked up by Millennium Entertainment. And now Emergo,... More »
  

The Sleeper has Awakened: New EXTRATERRESTRIAL Trailer
We here at Twitch are big fans of director & screenwriter Nacho Vigalondo. And there's a lot to be a fan of, from his plethora of short films (including the deliciously surreal 7:35 in the Morning, which was nominated for... More »
  

The Bride will throw a Chainsaw: New [REC] GENESIS Images
This is not going to be your typical wedding video. Paco Plaza's [REC] GENESIS, set to be unleashed in Spain on March 30, looks like it might be taking a slight detour from the previous two films. However, it doesn't... More »
  

Spanish trailer for RED LIGHTS
While Rodrigo Cortés' new film Red Lights has been receiving mixed reviews during its run at the Sundance Festival this week, that hasn't stopped Millennium Entertainment from acquiring the film for US distribution for just under the tidy sum of... More »
  

The Duty of Film Festivals: The Gijón Festival & the Question of Programming
As a former employee of several festivals in Toronto, a current programmer for Toronto After Dark, and an attendee of festivals around the world, I know full well that running a film festival is a juggling act. Festival directors want... More »
  

BLACKTHORN DVD Review
One of my favourite films of 2011, Blackthorn has recently been nominated for 11 Premios Goya (Spanish Oscars.) Now available on DVD and Blu Ray, Mateo Gil's haunting, elegiac western is both an homage to the second wave films of... More »
  
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