The Holocaust Serves As Backdrop For Psycho Sexual Thriller IN HIDING
Assuming that filmmakers around the globe wish to continue making films about the Holocaust - and given that such films are routinely trotted out as awards bait in countries across Europe, I would assume that is the case - then... More »
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Even More Ricardo Darin In This Teaser Trailer For HISTORIAS SALVAJES
Whenever Argentina's top leading man, Ricardo Darin, shows up in a film, one can't help but feel giddy with anticipation, which makes the epic teaser trailer for next year's Historias Salvajes seem even more promising than it already is.Darin is... More »
  

Live Action 009-1 Trailer Features Plenty Of Female Cyborg Action!
009-1: The End Of The Beginning is an upcoming live action adaptation of Ishinomori Shotaro's classic manga 009-1, which was published from the mid-60s to early 70s and previously adapted into an anime series in 2006. It tells the story... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Brazil's RIO 2096: A STORY OF LOVE AND FURY Wins Top Prize At Annecy Film Festival
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury, the feature debut from Brazilian director Luiz Bolognesi, has won the top prize at Annecy Film Festival. The film revolves "around the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

Giuseppe Tornatore's THE BEST OFFER Wins Big at the Embarassing Italian Oscars
Do you know the worst awards show in the world? They are the David di Donatello -- sort of an Italian Academy Awards -- the only awards where the presenters talk more than the winners, where the hosts confuse one... More »
  

Updated With High Quality Version: Epic SNOWPIERCER Trailer Finally Rolls In
Editor's update: When the trailer was first released, much of the dialogue was indecipherable due to the sound mix and compression. It was also a Korean domestic trailer without English subtitles. We have added an updated version of the trailer below... More »
  

Watch The New US Trailer For Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES
Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives arrives on US shores in July with the sleepy eyed Ryan Gosling aiming to do bloody vengeance at his mother's command. And an impending release means a brand new trailer.Julian (Gosling), an American fugitive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013 Returns to NYC With An Impressive Slate of Provocative Films From Around the Globe
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 24th edition, returns to New York from June 13 through 23 with 20 films, 18 documentaries and 2 fiction films, with screenings at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the... More »
  

Watch The First Teaser For Ato Bautista's MEMORIES OF RAIN
Recently named as one of the brightest young Filipino talents by our own Pierre Hombrebueno and with a new project announced as part of the NAFF Project Market at PiFan in Korea, Ato Bautista is a director on the rise... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

First Teaser For New Italian TV Series DIABOLIK
No one knows anything about it. There's still no director attached and no cast has been announced. All we know is that Italian broadcaster Sky is producing a new Diabolik TV series  through their production company, Sky Cinema. The famous... More »
  

New To Netflix: Twitch Picks The Best Of The New Stuff
Welcome to a brand new column highlighting, well, what is New To Netflix.  Not that we are actually new to Netflix, we're just happy, able, willing to help you find out what kind of 'Twitch-y' material is coming to the... More »
  

Interview: Christopher Nelius Talks Big Wave Surfing Documentary STORM SURFERS 3D
Storm Surfers 3D offers far more than run-of-the-mill nature-porn docs. Sure, it's got tremendous footage of waves and silly people on funny boards trying to catch them. I saw the film on a big screen last September at TIFF, and... More »
  

Check A Trio Of Character Posters For Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES
With Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives hitting US screens in July, US distributors Radius have been rolling out character posters for the primary players in the piece and we've got all three below.Julian (Gosling), an American fugitive from justice,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Theatrical Trailer For SPACE PIRATE CAPTAIN HARLOCK Reaches Ramming Speed
Aramaki Shinji's upcoming big screen adaptation of Space Pirate Captain Harlock is, without a doubt, one of the more anticipated events of the anime world. The Appleseed director has recruited talent from the Square Enix ranks for a CGI animated... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

LA Film Fest 2013 Review: SHORT TERM 12 Is The Rare Film That Gets Child-Adult Relationships Right
As someone who has spent much of his adult life working extensively with children and teenagers (from being a kindergarten aide to high school substitute, to a 1:1 aide at home and in school) I am always very wary going... More »
  

Watch The First Eight Minutes Of GHOST IN THE SHELL ARISE: GHOST PAIN, Subtitles Included
Looking for a taste of prequel series Ghost In The Shell Arise? Well, here it is. The story of how Kusanagi Motoko was recruited into Public Security Section 9 will play out as a series of four fifty minute films,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Hey, Toronto! Win Tickets To See King Hu's A TOUCH OF ZEN On The Big Screen!
The Twitch presented Swordsmen, Gangsters And Ghosts retrospective at the TIFF Bell Lightbox heads to Taiwan on Saturday for a screening of King Hu's A Touch Of Zen, project in 35mm from a rare archival print! See this classic as... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Mikkelsen Gets His Gun In First Shot From Danish Western THE SALVATION
A Danish western? I can't say that it's the first genre I'd expect to come from the Nordic nation but given the high number of Scandinavian settlers who emigrated to North America in the 1800s there is certainly some history... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Stellan Skarsgard And A Battered Kristofer Hivju Share A Laugh In First Shot From THE PRIZE IDIOT
Director Hans Petter Moland won a lot of fans around these parts with his 2010 effort A Somewhat Gentle Man. The Berlin selected comedy starred Stellan Skarsgard as a man freshly released from prison and trying to put his life... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Review: CALL ME KUCHU Sheds Light on Gays' Plight in Uganda
There hasn't been a lot of good P.R. for civil rights in Uganda in the last few years, what with its parliament's proposed legislation that would make homosexual activity punishable by death. Call Me Kuchu, a powerful documentary by first-time... More »
  
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