Interview: Director Jason Mann On His Deliciously Dark DELICACY

If there is a lesson to be derived from Jason Mann's whimsically morbid short film Delicacy it is to expect the unexpected... and to relish it.Premiering last fall at the Telluride Film Festival, I saw Jason's film during this year's... More »

By Ben Umstead

H.G. Lewis Needs Help To Make ZOMBIFICADOR A Reality

Herschell Gordon Lewis is one of the most polarizing figures in horror for a number of reasons.He, along with producer David Friedman, introduced the idea of the gore film to the drive-in masses and changed the face of modern horror.... More »

By J Hurtado

Help TODD AND THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL Get Animated!

If you are already familiar with horror-comedy television series Todd And The Book Of Pure Evil then you are already familiar with one basic fact: After hitting a cliffhanger ending in Season Two the show was not renewed and that... More »

By Todd Brown

Now on DVD: MANBORG Brings Retro-Future Sci-Fi Into Your Home!

I believe my Manborg review from Fantastic Fest 2011 was the first one published online, and I'm republishing here with notes on Dark Sky's DVD release out today.Do you remember when Mortal Kombat first hit arcades? I do. We were... More »

By J Hurtado

The AXE GIANT Comes A-Chopping.

Paul Bunyan's pissed off and he's not going to calm down until he's chopped himself an Estevez. These are the basics of what you need to know about the upcoming Axe Giant, a pulpy B flick featuring Joe Estevez (brother... More »

By Todd Brown

Hot Docs 2013 Review: TALES FROM THE ORGAN TRADE Is Wonderfully Nuanced

Far too often "issue" films play out as mere polemics, dogmatically reemphasizing a given point of view to a receptive audience. I often find these type of films dreary and intellectually barren, a lazy form of near propaganda that does... More »

By Jason Gorber

Watch The Meditative Short Film BRIDGES

Bridges is a quiet, minimalist short film from critic-turned-filmmaker Christopher Bell. It's worth noting in these here pages because at its core it features a finely tuned, nuanced performance from the brilliant Joslyn Jensen. Those with their finger on the... More »

By Ben Umstead

Fresh Poster For Unforgettable Festival Favorite A BAND CALLED DEATH Tells The Truth

This year's SXSW had an amazing wealth of fantastic documentaries, three of which (Unhung Hero, I Am Divine, and Rewind This!) I reviewed back in March. One that I didn't review but managed to catch on my last day in... More »

By J Hurtado

Hot Docs 2013 Review: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF DORIS PAYNE is Glamorous and Mundane

It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to walk into a jewelry store and pull a pure short-con swindle. Doris Payne, now in her early eighties, remains as wiry and razor sharp as she ever was, pulling one jewel... More »

By Kurt Halfyard

NYIFF 2013 Preview: Bringing South Asia To NYC For The 13th Year

Just as the door closes on the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, the 13th annual New York Indian Film Festival is nearly upon us (both closely followed by the London Indian Film Festival in a few weeks time). This... More »

By J Hurtado

Review: AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY Connects On A Visceral, Emotional Level

Terence Nance's An Oversimplification of Her Beauty teeters precariously on the border between unbearably pretentious and brazenly original. With a film as potentially divisive as this one, I often fall on the side of condemnation, branding pretentious films as full... More »

By J Hurtado

Review: SUN DON'T SHINE Haunts A Fateful Road Trip

There's a small scene in Sun Don't Shine that keeps playing over and over again in my head. A woman is telling a story about the time she was making a pizza and almost burned her house down. She mixed... More »

By Chase Whale

Review: MUD Soars Far Beyond Its Roots

Jeff Nichols is fully in tune with nature and how people relate to it, reminiscent of certain Australian filmmakers in the 1970s. The feature films he has made so far are pure pieces of modern Americana, though, reflecting a sensibility... More »

By Peter Martin

Victor Crowley Crushes Heads In Super Bloody HATCHET 3 Trailer

Here are the basic rules of franchise entertainment. The first film establishes the world and the basic rules. The second film (usually the best) expands on that world and ups the ante. The third film? That's where things generally either... More »

By Todd Brown

Tribeca 2013 Review: FLEX IS KINGS Liberates And Enchants

Those addicted to documentaries will immediately recall David LaChappelle's 2005 film Rize once they've read the plot summary of Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols' fascinating Flex is Kings. The two films are certainly not dissimilar, but in the end,... More »

By John Jarzemsky

Interview: MOLLY MAXWELL Director Sara St. Onge

Here at Twitch I've had the opportunity to do a number of long form interviews with the likes of Guillermo Del Toro and Bill Paxton, well established filmmakers that when given the opportunity to properly express themselves outside of... More »

By Jason Gorber

The Writer And Star Of PONTYPOOL Enter The HELLMOUTH! Help Bring It To Life!

The words written by Tony Burgess sound awfully good coming out of the mouth of Stephen McHattie, or so seems to be the general consensus among those who have seen Bruce McDonald directed zombie film Pontypool. McHattie took the lead... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch WRECKED, A New Short From The Directors Of RESOLUTION

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are well known and appreciated in these parts for their genre subverting feature film Resolution. Some of you may also know them because of their absurd and hysterical promo videos, which were made to help... More »

By Ben Umstead

Ariane Fortin And Mary Spencer Don The Gloves In Boxing Doc LAST WOMAN STANDING

Soon to premiere at the Hot Docs festival in Toronto, directors Juliette Lammers and Lorraine Price step into the fascinating world of women's boxing for the documentary feature Last Woman Standing.In 2012, the Olympic Games included women's boxing for the... More »

By Todd Brown

Review: ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY Captures Frailty And Darkness

Geneticist Geoff Burton relocates to Dresden, Germany to work on groundbreaking new project, a human regenerative gene. Burton is a celebrity in the field, his reputation based on his work and research into a rare genetic mutation that took the... More »

By Andrew Mack

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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 »