Watch A Pair Of Clips From Jarmusch's ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
Are you ready for a little vampire action, Jim Jarmusch style? The iconoclastic indie director heads to Cannes with his Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston starring vampire picture Only Lovers Left Alive and while plot information remains relatively scarce a... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE COSMONAUT Takes Flight. Watch An Exclusive Scene.
Nicolas Alcala's The Cosmonaut is a film we have been keeping a close eye on here at Twitch for years now, and with the crowd funded scifi drama arriving for free viewing on the official website May 18 we're pleased... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Cannes 2013 Preview: The Official Competition
Yesterday European Editor Brian Clark and I took you through the Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight sidebars and today we turn our attention to the main event, the competition for the coveted Palme d'Or at the 66th Annual Cannes... More »
  

Lorenzo Bianchini Returns With ACROSS THE RIVER
[Updated with new poster art]Though scarcely known outside of his native Italy - or even inside it, honestly - writer-director Lorenzo Bianchini remains, to my mind, one of the most intriguing talents in the region. The man simply has a... More »
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Watch The Astounding International Trailer For Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS
How do you follow a ground breaking film like Waltz With Bashir? If you're Ari Folman you break more ground with the next one, the next one in this case being a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress... More »
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Massive Destruction In First Trailer For Bondarchuk's STALINGRAD
Oh. My.Russia's Fedor Bondarchuk should need no introduction in these pages, the man being active as an actor, producer and director on numerous projects covered heavily on Twitch over the years. But for those who need refreshing, on the directing... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Indulging A Sweet Tooth Has Tragically Hilarious Results In Dutch Short SUGAR. Watch It Now!
It was at Fantastic Fest 2012 that I first had the chance to see Jeroen Annokkee's deliciously black comedy Sugar (Suiker), a short film that takes a simple premise and pushes it to a hysterical extreme. A beautifully constructed bit... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Cannes 2013 Preview: Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight Sidebars
It's that wonderful time of the year again where brightest stars of the film world take to the French Riviera to unveil their latest masterpieces -- with a few duds likely thrown in as well. Yes it's almost time... More »
  

Trailer For Swedish Thriller RE. Someone Else Is In The House!
While Sweden may not be a hotbed for genre cinema, thankfully there are a handful of filmmakers in the country who feel that Sweden's exports should be more than just bikini teams, easy to assemble furniture, meatballs, and pop quartets. Enter... More »
  

Review: DOCTOR WHO S7E13, NIGHTMARE IN SILVER (Or, An Underwhelming Episode Sees The Doctor Battle Cybermen While Irritating Kids Tag Along)
Neil Gaiman's previous scripting effort, "The Doctor's Wife," is acknowledged as one of the strongest episodes of recent Doctor Who, effortlessly feeling like something that fits very naturally into the show's past while giving us a fresh spin on something... More »
  

Fabrice Du Welz Brandishes A COLT 45
Belgium's reigning enfant terrible, Fabrice du Welz burst on to the international scene in 2004 with Calvaire (The Ordeal), a punishing horror picture he followed in 2008 with Vinyan. There have been false starts on projects since then but du... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

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   
  

Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Julien Leclerq Delivers Intrigue In First Teaser For GIBRALTAR (THE INFORMANT)
In many ways it is quite strange that French director Julien Leclerq has not yet been snapped up by Luc Besson and the Europa machine, for if there is someone more capable of shooting the sort of glossy, technically impressive... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

New Poster For Balaguero's [REC]4: APOCALYPSE
With Cannes around the corner the deep thinkers at Spanish production company Filmax want to let people know that their super-popular horror franchise [REC] hasn't wrapped up just yet. Series co-creator Jaume Balaguero is hard at work on the fourth... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THALE Director Brings Another Forest Creature To Life With Animated MUSHROOM MONSTER
It was back in October of 2011 while we awaited the premiere of Norwegian indie Thale that we first caught wind of an upcoming animated feature from director Aleksander Nordaas. Like Thale, Morkel The Moss Monster would present a revisionist... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

James Franco To Star In Wim Wenders' EVERY THING WILL BE FINE
The peculiar career path of James Franco takes another interesting turn with word that the star has taken on the lead role in Wim Wenders' 3D drama Every Thing Will Be Fine and while it's been quite some time since... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Wong Kar Wai Is Now A 'Commander' In France
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the French have long been head over heels for Wong Kar Wai's signature blend of Nouvelle Vague playfulness, melancholy and culture-specific subject-matter. But the country has gone ahead and confirmed it again anyway, having just... More »
  

MSPIFF 2013 Review: THE DEEP Is A Modest, Well-Made Adventure
Baltasar Kormakur's The Deep is one of those rare examples of a fictionalized true story that doesn't ooze with exaggerated melodrama for false effect. Kormakur (101 Reykjavík, the excellent Jar City, and Reykjavík-Rotterdam remake Contraband) crafts a plainspoken tale of... More »
  

Now on DVD: HAPPY PEOPLE - A YEAR IN THE TAIGA Shows What Werner Herzog Can Do
Werner Herzog sharing a director credit with Dmitry Vasyukov? That immediately raises the question: who did what? Our own Jim Tudor saw Happy People - A Year in the Taiga during its U.S. theatrical run earlier this year. He began... More »
  
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