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 »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - January (Part 2)
January's List of Shame entries continue on apace.You can find the first part of this month's list here, and the project's formal introduction right here.Easy Rider (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1969, USA)Winner of "Best First Work" at Cannes Film Festival, nominated for... More »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch's Lists of Shame - January (Part 1)
And so it begins...While there are certainly wrong ways to approach this feature - either as a contributor or a reader - there are many different right ways to do so. For a full debriefing on exactly what we are... More »
  

Marshy's 10 Favourite Asian Movies of 2012 Part 2
Every six months I like to take stock of the many new Asian films that have played in front of me, and consolidate my favourites into a Top 10 list to share with the Twitch readership. I should point out... More »
  

Full Disclosure: Twitch Tackles Its Lists Of Shame (A New Year's Resolution)
Just like opinions and arseholes, everyone's got their List of Shame. Their dirty little secret that they've been hiding from the world, that they fear will ruin their credibility if anyone ever found out, that has haunted them so long... More »
  

5 Films That Frightened Me
You might laugh at what frightens me. Everyone is built different; one person's fear is another's source of amusement. One evening a friend came over just as I was starting to watch The Shining on TV. My friend laughed as... More »
  

Video Home Invasion: Hindi Horror Hits Home At Mondo Macabro! (And Some Urdu, Too)

Earlier today, we posted a review for the Hindi independent film, Miss Lovely. While the film isn't a horror picture itself, it very much lives in the world of the cheap creature feature that was a staple of late '80s-early... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Hawaii International Film Festival Dispatch: ULTRAMAN SAGA, CHINESE TAKEAWAY
Note to self: The weather in Hawaii is significantly better than in Toronto. Come here more often. The Hawaii International Film Festival kicked off two nights ago with a typically excellent lineup focused on Pacific Rim film. I'm here... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

China Beat: Box Office Blooper over Johnson's LOOPER
The Chinese Box Office was the subject of much discussion and scrutiny by Hollywood industry observers this past week, only for all their speculations and prognostications to prove premature. The incident in question revolved around the release of Rian... More »
  

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: NAMELESS GANGSTER, TWO JACKS, and STARLET
I would pretty much watch any film starring Choi Min-sik at this point, and his towering performance as a befuddled civil worker who weasels and networks his way to the top of the crime underworld in Busan is reason enough... More »
  

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: SLEEPLESS NIGHT and SORRY, I AM SO SORRY
Korean filmmaker Jang Kun-jae (whose Eighteen won the Dragons & Tigers award, VIFF's prize for new Asian directors, in 2009) delivers a heartfelt, sweet, genuine, yet never cloying portrayal of an average married couple in Sleepless Night. Essentially a series... More »
  

When Fans Cry: Waiting For The Second Half Of A Story
On these here pages of Twitch we've paid quite some attention to the Australian DVD release of the Japanese anime horror-thriller series When They Cry, with several reviews for both season one and season two. For good reason: When seen... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

"Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today" Reviews: HELPLESS, JESUS HOSPITAL, BLIND
The third edition of "Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today" is now playing at the Museum of Modern Art, through September 30. This year's selection, which is heavy on independent features, is especially impressive, with young talents offering unique and provocative visions.... More »
  

Twitch-O-Meter: Know Your Anime And Guess That Angel!
One of the attractive things about Japanese animation is the way it can differ so much from animation we consider to be traditional, so it is disheartening to see how much recent series are basically rehashing ideas from earlier efforts.... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

NYAFF 2012 Preview: The Usual Unusual
The summer months roll around and much of the world is cooling off in the dark of the theater with the likes of brooding vigilantes, rebooted wall-crawlers and vampire hunting presidents. This is all well and good, or at the... More »
  

Watching anime with the missus...
If you've read any of my recent reviews it will probably come as no surprise that I am fairly fond of anime. Actually, that is understating it quite a bit. While I will agree that there is loads and loads... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Let's talk quantity
Time for a confession ladies and gentlemen. Like many other male specimen on this planet, I suffer from a very serious, yet very common disease. Well ... maybe it's not an actual disease, it's more like a default really. I've... More »
  

HANNA and the Top 5 Pint-Sized Killers of the Past 5 Years
To call Hanna far superior to Sucker Punch is to damn Hanna with faint praise. Coming from director Joe Wright, who make the good-looking but dramatically unsatisfying Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and The Soloist, Hanna is a total shock, a... More »
  

The good old days
As you might be aware, Twitch is a site that specializes in the weird and obscure, with a firm focus on modern films. We use Twitch to write about what we love, but not all we love is deemed Twitch-worthy... More »
  

Master of Dreams
A week ago on Monday the 23rd of August, the famous anime director Satoshi Kon died of pancreatic cancer, aged 46. This news was the most startling item for me that day. I think it hit me harder than usual... More »
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