Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 2)
Continued from here...The Wages of Fear (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953 France)Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival, Golen Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, BAFTA for Best Film from any Source, Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language... More »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - March (Part 1)
It is confession time once again, and this month is a special Easter edition of Full Disclosure. In our monthly efforts to catch up with revered classics and widely-considered must-sees that have thus far passed us by, not only are... More »
  

Euro Beat: France Campaigns To 'Free John McTiernan,' Plus Abel Ferrara Finds His Anne Sinclair
Die Hard and Predator director John McTiernan has been ordered to begin a one year prison sentence by April 3 (eight days from now) ... but not if the French have anything to say about it. Citizens of the country... More »
  

Twitchvision: Talking SPRING BREAKERS, ADMISSION, and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
This week saw a bunch of films worth talking about, including what for me is the first non-awful Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers, the innocuous and thus disappointing Admission, and the best goddamn movie of the weekend, Olympus Has Fallen... More »
  

Twitchvision: Talking THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE, Magic Movies, and more!
Continuing the magician theme this week, with talk of the disappointing Burt Wonderstone, along with that magical year of 2006 where competing magician movies tried to impress at the cinema.... More »
  

Twitchvision: Talking OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
With only one major release this week, we concentrated on Raimi's OZ-stravaganza™ that features Franco being Franco and a Kunis in distractingly delicious tight leather pants. Oh, and the flying monkey's Jar Jar. No, totally.At any rate, here's my brief... More »
  

TTTT: On Eating New Orleans (and OZ)
Tudor's Twitchin' Travel Tours has always had a travel motif. If one were to go back and look at all my "TTTT" column banner graphics (and you know you want to!), the one consistent element would be that they... More »
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The Stack March Episode One: WESTWORLD Finally Hits Blu, Plus ELM STREET Films, SCHINDLER'S LIST, PHANTASM II, And More
Welcome Back to The Stack! They say March comes in like a lion and in this case I'm inclined to agree. This turned out to be one of my most fun months ever. The 70s sci-fi dystopian classic Westworld hit Blu,... More »
  

Books to be Scene: Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD
Those first boot prints in the snow - they began at the vanished [snowman] and ran from there into the woods. No tracks came into the yard.Then there was the frost that crystallised on the window as she and Jack... More »
  

Twitchvision: Talking JACK THE GIANT SLAYER, STOKER, And THE GATEKEEPERS
Back again with another Twitchvision, this time talking about three good movies that came out this week (Jack: The Giant Slayer, Stoker and The Gatekeepers), and trying to pretend that we live in a world where 21 And Over doesn't... More »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - February (Part 2)
Continued from here...Cinderella (dir. Clyde Geronimi/Wilfred Jackson/Hamilton Luske, 1950 USA)Winner of Golden Bear for Best Musical at Berlin International Film Festival, Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, including Best Original Score Charles Webb, Contributing Writer:First, a brief bit of personal biography before... More »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - February (Part 1)
The intention for February's edition of Full Disclosure was to acknowledge Valentine's Day and, where possible, have our team of writers tackle a romance from their respective Lists of Shame. Whether that means an epic melodrama like Gone With The... More »
  

Oscar Rundown, Part III: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, AMOUR, and LIFE OF PI
In this final stretch of examining the nine Academy Award nominees for Best Picture (don't miss parts one and two), the focus switches from the large, patriotically minded spectacles to more personal endeavors. Typically, such efforts tend to be... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Oscar Rundown, Part II: ARGO, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, and LES MISERABLES
Previously in this column, I took a comparing/contrasting look at three of this year's Best Picture Oscar nominees, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, and Lincoln. Now it's time to continue the process of asking whether or not the nine Best... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Meeting The Criterion: THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1934), Nolan's FOLLOWING, THE QATSI TRILOGY, BRAZIL

Behold the tale of how I came to dive deep into The Criterion Collection. Almost all of us own the stray Criterion disc or two of our favorite films. Some of us have dozens of Criterion titles but collect far more... More »
  

Oscar Rundown: ZERO DARK THIRTY, DJANGO UNCHAINED, LINCOLN
Most any seasoned film fan has at one time or another come to experience the annual Oscar race in varying parts exciting, perilous, exhausting, fun, and dismissible. If you're at all like me, your attention to this annual ritual (and... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

China Beat: Re-Tooling Hollywood For The Mainland
Kung Hei Fat Choi. As we welcome in the Year of the Snake, it seems the perfect opportunity to kick start China Beat and bring back my regular reports on the industry and box office in Mainland China. Last time... More »
  

5 Films That Make Me Glad I'm Single
As a confirmed bachelor -- confirmed to me by a number of other people, by the way, sometimes by court order -- the annual celebration of Valentine's Day is something of a trial, one that is only assuaged by watching... More »
  

"A Pryor Engagement" at BAM Is a Welcome Reminder of the Film Work of an Influential Comic Genius
"A Pryor Engagement," an 18-title survey of films featuring Richard Pryor, a comedian whose influence continues to loom over many others who followed in his wake (Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, and Louis C.K. being only a few examples), screens at... More »
  

STAR WARS Ruminations: Post-Postquels Confirmed, Top 10 Characters For Solo Movies
Since last we checked in on all things Star Wars-ian, we've had a couple more confirmations about what had been rumoured since the deal initially went through, and some more details about the J.J.-as-director madness.When asked back in December, Abrams... More »
  
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