South African industrial metal + werewolves = horror you can tap your feet to
The association with metal music and horror film has been a long standing one. Bands have been drawing inspiration from horror films for as long as Metal has been around. Case in point, the South African industrial metal band Terminatryx. Inspired... More »
  

From The Makers of WHO KILLED CAPTAIN ALEX Comes Uganda's Action Madness THE RETURN OF UNCLE BENON

Hold on to your seat and brace yourself for the thrill ride of your life! Ramon film productions, Uganda's leading film making company that unexpectedly took the action world by storm back in July when they unleashed the trailer to... More »
By Al Young   
  

Pierre Laffargue's BLACK on BLU (in the UK)
I cannot bring myself to post up the painfully generic Blu-Ray cover of Pierre Laffargue's wonderfully oddball neo-blaxploitation action-fantasy starring French rapper McJean Gab'1 as an on-the-lam Parisian bank robber down in Senegal for a diamond heist.  The best way to... More »
  

PSIFF 2011: CINEMA SAFARI: A Showcase of AFRICAN Cinema
This is the time of year when most film journalists are making arrangements to attend Sundance; but, I eschew the snow, the steamy auditoriums and the lookalike independents and opt instead for the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) where... More »
  

John Cleese Stars In South African Comedy SPUD
It's hard to find a nation on the globe whose box office is not being dominated by either Harry Potter or Tangled right now, but there are a few. In Japan it's Space Battleship Yamato topping the chart. And Finland... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

What Is Neill Blomkamp's AGM HEARTLAND?
Here's an intriguing mystery for fans of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Included in the iPad edition of the current issue of Wired is a one minute teaser titled AGM Heartland, a teaser that arrives with no explanation and no... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Trailer For 1978 South African Grindhouse Picture DEATH OF A SNOWMAN, Now On DVD!
Freshly released on DVD by the good folk at Synapse is 1978 South African grindhouse picture Death Of A Snowman. Also known as Soul Patrol and Black Trash this one is a reminder of why so many of the current... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Billy Zane Heads To Nigeria For Jeta Amata's BLACK GOLD
[Updated with full theatrical trailer.]Though you wouldn't know it from the amount of coverage it gets in the west - i.e. virtually none - Nigeria is home to one of the most prolific film industries in the world, the nation... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Foreign Language Oscar List
While I do not think that something as edgy or unusual as Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth (pictured above) will make the 'final five' short list, but kudos to Greece for throwing it out there.  Perhaps something like Tetsuya Nakashima's Confessions will... More »
  

MVFF33 2010: LINEUP PREVIEW
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his preview of the upcoming Mill Valley Film Festival line-up to the Twitch readership.]At the press conference announcing the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival (MFFF) line-up, Founder/Executive Director Mark Fishkin referred to... More »
  

TIFF10 Galas and Special Presentations
Here comes the 35th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, and the line-up thus far of Galas and Special Presentations (that is code for High Profile Films) is looking quite stellar. In this first taster, there are new films... More »
  

First wave of Fantastic Fest 2010 titles announced!

God, I feel like I've left my girlfriend back at the hotel to go out with some floozy I saw back at the bar. Here I am in Montreal at FanTasia and I'm writing about another festival. Going to... More »
  

Fantastic Trailer For Japanese Indie-Animation THE MESSENGER FROM THE SEA
Over the last few years an interesting trend has emerged in the world of Japanese animation. You can call it the rise of the indies, a wave of purely independent animators creating their own feature films and OVA releases at... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

An Exclusive First Look At DISTRICT 9 Star Sharlto Copley's Directorial Debut SPOON!
Before he rose to fame as the leading man in District 9 and long before he was cast as Mad Murdock in Joe Carnahan's revival of The A-Team, Sharlto Copley's future plans involved working on the other side of the... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Movie number 500 is about to be guessed in our forum...
In our forum, there is a place where you can find both stunning beauty and disgusting horror. Yes, Sola Aoi's breasts are on display there (amongst many others) but you'll also come across gross facial trauma. Here, banal blockbusters are... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

SFIFF53: 25 Review Capsules
And since variance of opinion by its very nature defines a film festival audience, Twitch is proud to offer 24 review capsules from Frako Loden to compare, contrast and conflate with Michael Hawley's previous 14. [Frako warns that a few... More »
  

SFIFF53 2010: Line-Up Preview, Pt. One
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley's continuing contributions to the Twitch readership.] The full line-up for the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) was announced at an unusually subdued press conference last week. With Executive Director Graham Leggat taking... More »
  

SFIFF53 2010: Preview of the Early Press Announcements
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering his recap of the early SFIFF53 press announcements to the Twitch readership.] In a matter of days, the full line-up for the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 to May... More »
  

FILM FESTIVAL YEARBOOK 2: FILM FESTIVALS AND IMAGINED COMMUNITIES
I am pleased to announce the publication of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung, published by University of St. Andrews Film Studies in conjunction with their Dynamics of World... More »
  

Sundance 2010: From The Producer Of Neill Blomkamp's ALIVE IN JOBURG, Trailer For Kenyan SciFi Short PUMZI
While there's no doubt at all that Neill Blomkamp deserves every scrap of praise that he has received for the fantastic District 9, there is also no doubt that these sorts of creations never happen in a vacuum. There are... More »
By Todd Brown   
  
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