Todd Brown
Founder and Editor; Toronto, Canada

Todd founded Twitch in September of 2004 under the assumption that nobody in particular would care. Some people did, so he kept going. Todd is also Director of International Programming at Fantastic Fest, a partner at XYZ Films and father to a remarkably geeky child.

Watch THE GUILLOTINES In Action In Exclusive Clip
Andrew Lau's Hong Kong action picture The Guillotines hits VOD platforms across the US today in advance of a June 14th theatrical release from WellGo USA and Twitch has an exclusive clip to share from the film. During the Manchurian-ruled... More »
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US Trailer And Poster For Peter Strickland's BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Peter Strickland's ode to classic giallo film, Berberian Sound Studio hits screens of all shapes and sizes in the US on June 14th when IFC Midnight releases the film in select cinemas, on iTunes and VOD June 14th. And that... More »
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Unofficial, Yet Rather Amusing, Poster Art For THE RAID 2
Take that Wolf Creek 2 and your Evil Dead poster filching ways. It was a slow day at work for a certain poster designer and so shortly after the WC2 art turned up here at Twitch I had this turn... More »
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Watch The First Five Minutes Of Shinkai's GARDEN OF WORDS
With a Japanese release slated for May 31st, the first five minutes of Shinkai Makoto's Garden Of Words was broadcast on Japanese television a couple days back and that footage has now arrived online. Shinkai has long been loved for... More »
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Huppert, Eisenberg And Byrne Join Joachim Trier's LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Though just two films into his young career, Norway's Joachim Trier has already built a very well deserved reputation as one of the brightest young talents in the international arthouse scene. His two features to date - Reprise and Oslo,... More »
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Matsumoto Hitoshi Wraps Sex Comedy R100
As has proven to be his normal modus operandi, Matsumoto Hitoshi - the enormously popular comedian turned film director responsible for Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan), Symbol and Scabbard Samurai - has wrapped his latest feature without anyone particularly noticing... More »
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Watch A Pair Of Clips From Jarmusch's ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Are you ready for a little vampire action, Jim Jarmusch style? The iconoclastic indie director heads to Cannes with his Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston starring vampire picture Only Lovers Left Alive and while plot information remains relatively scarce a... More »
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THE COSMONAUT Takes Flight. Watch An Exclusive Scene.
Nicolas Alcala's The Cosmonaut is a film we have been keeping a close eye on here at Twitch for years now, and with the crowd funded scifi drama arriving for free viewing on the official website May 18 we're pleased... More »
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Theatrical Trailer For GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE: GHOST PAIN
The latest entry in the hugely popular - and for good reason, they're great - anime series Ghost In The Shell hits Japanese theaters June 22nd with the arrival of Ghost In The Shell Arise: Ghost Pain. A series of... More »
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Lorenzo Bianchini Returns With ACROSS THE RIVER
[Updated with new poster art]Though scarcely known outside of his native Italy - or even inside it, honestly - writer-director Lorenzo Bianchini remains, to my mind, one of the most intriguing talents in the region. The man simply has a... More »
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Watch The Astounding International Trailer For Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS
How do you follow a ground breaking film like Waltz With Bashir? If you're Ari Folman you break more ground with the next one, the next one in this case being a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress... More »
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Massive Destruction In First Trailer For Bondarchuk's STALINGRAD
Oh. My.Russia's Fedor Bondarchuk should need no introduction in these pages, the man being active as an actor, producer and director on numerous projects covered heavily on Twitch over the years. But for those who need refreshing, on the directing... More »
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Hey, New York! Jackie Chan's Coming! No, Really ... Jackie Chan Is Coming!
Hey, New York! Jackie Chan will shoot you in the face if you fail to attend the massive retrospective of his films headed your way this summer! No, really, he will. Well, probably not, but he could if he wanted... More »
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Indulging A Sweet Tooth Has Tragically Hilarious Results In Dutch Short SUGAR. Watch It Now!
It was at Fantastic Fest 2012 that I first had the chance to see Jeroen Annokkee's deliciously black comedy Sugar (Suiker), a short film that takes a simple premise and pushes it to a hysterical extreme. A beautifully constructed bit... More »
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Review: GAME OF THRONES S3E07, THE BEAR AND THE MAIDEN FAIR (Or, Stumpy Grows A Conscience And Does Something Entertainingly Stupid)
A note to whoever wrote Sansa's dialogue in this week's episode of Game Of Thrones: Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Listening to Sansa describe herself as a stupid little girl - arguably the biggest moment of insight... More »
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Fabrice Du Welz Brandishes A COLT 45
Belgium's reigning enfant terrible, Fabrice du Welz burst on to the international scene in 2004 with Calvaire (The Ordeal), a punishing horror picture he followed in 2008 with Vinyan. There have been false starts on projects since then but du... More »
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Drafthouse Films Heads To A FIELD IN ENGLAND
Drafthouse Films is heading to A Field In England, with word out now that the distribution company has picked up North American rights to the latest from Kill List director Ben Wheatley. Earlier today we ran a report on the... More »
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Buy A Trap. Kill A Cub.
What do you mean you don't think 'Belgium' when you think 'horror'? Okay, fine, the nation known best for its monastic beer has never been much of a player in the horror scene but director Jonas Govaerts is looking to... More »
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Review: NO ONE LIVES Takes On A Certain Kind Of Lunatic Charm
What new stalk and slash move No One Lives does well: It gives Versus and Midnight Meat Train director Kitamura Ryuhei ample room to stage and execute a series of elaborate and gory kills. What it does poorly: Everything else.... More »
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Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
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