Review: I DECLARE WAR Goes To Battle With Boys And Bullying

One weekend day a number of the nerdier kids from the local middle school gather their sticks and twine and balloons filled with red dye, and head into the local woods to play capture-the-flag. Oh, those tweens today with their... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

Review: WHITE FROG Cries Out For Love, Tolerance, Tenderness

Everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time. White Frog establishes a happy family before promptly destroying it. Promising and popular high school senior Chaz Young (Harry Shum Jr.) dies unexpectedly. His mother (Joan Chen) goes to... More »

By Peter Martin

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 »

By Todd Brown

Hot Docs 2013 Review: 12 O'CLOCK BOYS Is A Hell Of A Ride

It's no surprise to long term readers of my reviews that I'm kind of enamoured with David Simon's Baltimore. From Homicide: Life On The Streets, through The Corner and of course The Wire (still perhaps the best programme that has... More »

By Jason Gorber

Hot Docs 2013 Review: MUSCLE SHOALS Is A Stunning, Soulful Achievement

It's a rare thing, the truly engaging music documentary. You have to have a number of things come together to make it more than just a series of clips from some music you feel palatable. The best films are those... More »

By Jason Gorber

Watch The Coen Brothers' INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Cannes Trailer

The Coen Brothers are headed to Cannes with Inside Llewyn Davis and they've got a new trailer to celebrate that fact. This one plays largely as an extended version of the earlier offering with a good deal of repeated footage... More »

By Todd Brown

A Martial Arts Fantasy Anchored In A Tragic Reality, Watch Eric Lim's THE FORGE

There are certain filmmakers here at Twitch that we feel a certain bond with, creators that have somehow crossed over the line of simply being someone who made something cool and have become a part of the extended family. Most... More »

By Todd Brown

Exclusive Clip From Creeptastic Horror Flick GUT, Out On DVD May 28

Elias Ganster's super tense and creepy indie horror film, Gut, comes to DVD on May 28. To help you prepare for the intense unease you're destined to feel, we've been given an exclusive clip of the film. Here's a synopsis:Something... More »

By J Hurtado

Dolph Lundgren! Billy Zane! Vinnie Jones! It's The Best Bad Cast Ever In BLOOD OF REDEMPTION

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, one thing can be certain with a film like Blood Of Redemption. With a principal cast made up of Dolph Lundgren, Billy Zane and Vinnie Jones it will be filled with manly men doing manly things.... More »

By Todd Brown

It's Fun Time With BUCKLES

It was back in 2008 that we first came across the work of Joe Ballarini here at Twitch. He'd penned indie horror-comedy Dance Of The Dead - still a great favorite - and a couple years later he turned up... More »

By Todd Brown

NYIFF 2013 Review: OONGA Is A Little Boy's Dream Made Real

No matter where you come from, children are all the same. Mischief is their main motivator, and it is everything for them to feel a part of something. When a young boy, Oonga, in a remote rural village discovers that... More »

By J Hurtado

Now on Blu-ray: ANY DAY NOW Showcases Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, and the Challenges for Gay Couples

Sterling performances by Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt help elevate Any Day Now above a premise that may sound quite familiar: a non-traditional couple runs into trouble when they try to adopt a special-needs child. Set in West Hollywood, California,... More »

By Peter Martin

Exclusive Clip From Kitamura's NO ONE LIVES Shows How To Escape From Ruthless Criminals

Let's say you're a lovely-looking blonde lady and you happen to be kidnapped by a ruthless gang of criminals. Let's go further and say that your good-looking boyfriend * kidnapper has left you alone for some reason, leaving you to... More »

By Peter Martin

Twitchvision: Talking IRON MAN 3 and More HOT DOCS!

With Hot Docs winding down this weekend, was time to highlight a couple more faves, from the Ross Brother's 3-hour-epic River, through Caucus, After Tiller, and 12 O'Clock Boys. Full reviews of these to come, so consider these a video... More »

By Jason Gorber

AMERICAN BURGER Will Bring 100% Dead Meat Worldwide This Fall

As technology shifts we continue to see independent producers experiment with alternative models to bring their films to audiences worldwide. And while they're not yet saying much in terms of specifics the producers of horror-comedy American Burger are gearing up... More »

By Todd Brown

Darth Vader Gets Up Close, Personal, And First Person

[Cue May The Fourth joke here ...]Darth Vader gets up close and personal with the second in a series of videos from Eric Jacobus and The Stunt People titled quite simply First Person Darth Vader. It's exactly what it says... More »

By Todd Brown

Tribeca 2013 Review: RAZE, A Bloody and Brutal Female-Centered Action Spectacle Headlined by Stuntwoman Turned Thespian Zoe Bell

If you're the type of person who ever thought, "Man, I wish there was a movie filled with attractive women beating the shit out of each other," well, Raze has come along to answer your prayers. A brutal, relentless machine... More »

By Christopher Bourne

Kustom Kulture Doc FLAKE & FLAMES Now Available On DVD!

Dirk Behlau & Jesper Bram's Kustom Kulture doc Flake & Flames is finally on DVD and available with some really cool swag! This is a film I've been following with some interest as I spent a lot of my youth... More »

By J Hurtado

Bloody Clips From Kitamura's NO ONE LIVES Threaten Brutal Deaths To All

Kitamura Ryuhei's No One Lives is one of my picks for most intriguing indies getting released this month, and three newly-released clips -- plus the new poster -- amplify my interest. As a reminder, the official synopsis is diabolical simplicity... More »

By Peter Martin

Review: KISS OF THE DAMNED Recreates Euro-Horror On A Grand Scale

There are few sub-genres of film quite as specific and instantly recognizable as '70s Euro-horror. Filmmakers like Jean Rollin, Jess Franco, Jose Ramon Larraz and a few others left an indelible mark on the international horror market. Their creations were... More »

By J Hurtado

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FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 3: EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL AND I'M TRIPPING BALLS

CHAPTER 6: THERE'S NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A PURPLE BEACH SMOTHERED IN MELTING TROMMETTES DURING A CRIMSON TINGED SUNSET ON THE FRENCH RIVERIA, HOLY SHIT I'M TRIPPING MY FUCKING FACE OFF.It's night. When the fuck did it become night? I'm naked. Where the fuck did my clothes go? I'm on... More »

Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock

They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back to us - though, I guess, not at wholesale, but... More »

Interview: Twitch Talks to HANGOVER III's Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong may often play a lunatic on both big and small screen, but in person it's quite disarming to see just how calm and considerate he comes across. While he got his big screen start in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Jeong's real breakthrough was taking a small-on-paper role... More »

Hollywood Beat: Notes On Cutting The Cord And NBC's Genre Programs

I cut the cable cord last year, but I'm not always happy about it. I had to wait a year before seeing Season 2 of Game of Thrones, for example, and will have to wait to see Season 3 until next year. I only have to wait to see Mad... More »

Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few... More »