Euro Beat: British Censors Vow to Get Tougher, Plus Roman Polanski's Editor Speaks
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has already made waves over the last several years by heavily censoring A Serbian Film and The Human Centipede 2, and calling for an all-out ban on The Bunny Game. Now, according to... More »
  

Twitch In Bondage: Why THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is the Perfect Bond Film
The Internet, and media platforms across the board, have been ablaze the last few weeks in the run-up to the release of Skyfall, the 23rd official installment in the James Bond series of spy movies. The film has received incredibly... More »
  

Twitch In Bondage: Our Favorite Bonds
The task: to reveal your favorite among the 22 Bond films. The rules: keep it to two sentences. That was the challenge set before my fellow Twitch writers recently and they seized it with gusto. Curating this list, I noted... More »
  

Twitch in Bondage: 7 Intense, Unfilmed Action Scenes from Ian Fleming's 007 Books
It's tough to watch many of the James Bond movies after reading the novels. Rather than simply a suave killing machine, Ian Fleming's Bond was a more troubled, complex character, capable of genuine fear, stubborn determination and surprising humor, and... More »
  

Sitges 2012 Dispatch: MANIAC Crowds, STITCHES and SLICE AND DICE: THE SLASHER FILM FOREVER
My second day at Sitges was the day of the slasher movie. Besides watching the Irish comedy/slasher, Stitches, and a blood-soaked documentary on the evolution of the genre, I once again contemplated the Maniac remake, which I found inspired and... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Preview: Australia & NZ Attack Austin
There are many reasons to be fired up about Fantastic Fest this year, and my biggest reason is the awesome selection of Australian (and New Zealand) genre films playing the festival - after yet another year of these countries churning... More »
  

FrightFest 2012: The Whole Bloody Affair - Part Two
And so continues my blow-by-blow account of Film4 FrightFest the 13th at the Empire Leicester Square (23-27 August, 2012). Click here to read Part One.Day 3 - Saturday, 25th August Eurocrime! The Italian Cop And Gangster Films That Ruled The... More »
  

Books to be Scene: Chris Womersley's BEREFT
Quinn threw down his cigarette and ground it out under his boot heel. A woman and her young daughter indicated they wished to pass, prompting Quinn and his new companion to stand back as far as the cramped space would... More »
  

FrightFest 2012: The Whole Bloody Affair - Part One
Now that the blood has had time to curdle, the ominous shadows have retreated from whence they came and the screams of terror finally ceased ringing in my ears, it seems an opportune moment to look back over the... More »
  

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 »
  

Five For The Future!
With this being my last shot at writing a Twitch-o-Meter in 2009 I've decided that rather than looking back - as I normally do with these things - I'm going to look forward. This column is dedicated to five young,... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Go To Your Happy Place
I’ve been a little blue lately. Reason being, we’ve recently wrapped production on a short film that had rattled around the back of my mind from January to April and occupied all of it from May up until about a... More »
  

Remakes Done Wrong
A little while back, yours truly posted a ToM dealing with remakes that I felt, at the very least, equaled their inspiration for one reason or another. It shouldn’t surprise that reader response was pretty divided, with some people decrying... More »
  

Nicholas Roeg's BAD TIMING and the Art of the Bad Relationship
This post will remain at the top of the page for a single day. There are countless films about obsessive relationships but one of the very best is Nicolas Roeg's 1980 film Bad Timing. Roeg's film is an absolutely beautiful... More »
  

What Came Before 101: A Big List Of All Twitch-O-Meters So Far
[Twitch-O-Meters will remain at the top of the page for the duration of the day they were published. Please scroll down for today’s film news] Time flies when you're having fun, especially if you can't count. I expected that shortly... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Movies That Apparently Have Nothing in Common
Do these five movies have anything in common? 5. Jersey Girl (2004) The most damning praise that can be heaped upon Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl is to call it "sweet" and nothing else. All his movies have a core of... More »
  

It is more blessed to give than to receive.
[In accordance with Twitch Law this post will remain here at the top for the one day. Please scroll down for today's news. I'm a day late but I have an excuse. In a couple hours I heading out to... More »
  

Time to put together your 'Dream Team'
[Abiding by the Twitch-O-Meter rules of conduct and fair play this post will remain up top for one day. Further posts about far more interesting things are below this. Scroll down!] Well, Day 5 of the Olympics came and went... More »
  

The Home Depot. You can kill it. We can help.
Whenever I am at Todd’s house we’re doing one of a few things. Either we’re playing video games with the boy or we’re talking about movies and all things Twitch. Last week I was in a mild state of panic... More »
  
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