Hey Australia, Win LONE WOLF AND CUB Ultimate Collection DVD Boxset As We Celebrate Toho Month At Twitch!
Oh Australians, you lucky so-and-so's and devoted readers of our fine site. You have an awesome month ahead of you as we celebrate Toho Studios and give away prizes galore in the process!Founded in 1932 and still going strong today... More »
  

Full St Kilda Film Festival Program Announced For 2013
Australia's best short film festival, the St Kilda Film Festival, is turning 30 this year and in the lead up has unveiled an epic line-up of shorts, music videos, sidebars from SXSW, retrospectives and restored short films. Twitch will dissect... More »
  

Watch Steve Coogan And Rob Brydon Impersonate Michael Caine While Dubbed In Spanish
Call this today's moment of cognitive disconnect.As any regular reader of this site will know, we are big fans of Steve Coogan in these parts and particularly big fans when he teams up with director Michael Winterbottom. He did just... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Out, Damned Spot! Natalie Portman To Play Lady Macbeth In Justin Kurzel's MACBETH
After news broke yesterday that rising-fast Australian director Justin Kurzel would direct Michael Fassbender as Macbeth for the producers of The King's Speech, we heard the reveal of who would play Lady Macbeth wasn't far away. Well, turns out that... More »
  

Christiaan Van Vuuren Directs Alternate Party Universes for Dutch
We're big fans of rising director Christiaan Van Vuuren here at Twitch, so it's great to see him unveil a new music video for Sydney hip hop dude Dutch. Made for the song Hank Moody, the video depicts Dutch experiencing... More »
  

Hey Australia & New Zealand! Win Amiel Courtin-Wilson's Brilliant HAIL On DVD!
Update: Due to an overwhelming response from readers the competition is already closed and all DVD's claimed - with both Australian and New Zealand readers getting copies, which is great.One of the most acclaimed Australian films of last year and... More »
  

Jeremy Irvine And Phoebe Fox Join WOMAN IN BLACK: ANGEL OF DEATH
Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Phoebe Fox (Black Mirror) have been cast in the sequel to Hammer Films The Woman In Black. The next installment, The Woman In Black: Angel of Death, takes place 40 years later during WWII. Irvine... More »
  

Hugo's Picks From the 2013 Sydney Film Festival
The Sydney Film Festival is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, and the good news is that it will be here in just over a month's time! As a Sydneysider, I am particularly proud of the Sydney Film Festival because it... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  

John Noble Joining Hugo Weaving In THE MULE
It was just this past Friday that we first caught wind of The Mule, the Leigh Whannel and Angus Sampson scripted crime thriller to be directed by first timer Tony Mahony with the producer of Chopper also on board.  The... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Hugo Weaving Stars In Leigh Whannel's THE MULE
Yeah, let Luc Besson have his drug mule movie. No problem. But the one I really want to see is The Mule, an upcoming Australian effort from the producer of Chopper with first timer Tony Mahony directing from a script... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SHAUN THE SHEEP Headed To The Big Screen
Initially a spin off from the popular - and Oscar winning - stop motion animated Wallace And Gromit series of short films, Shaun the Sheep has gone on to become arguably the biggest title in the Aardman Animation catalog. Shaun... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Steve Coogan Shows Off The Bachelor Pad In New THE LOOK OF LOVE Clip
Steve Coogan reteams with director Michael Winterbottom - director of 24 Hour Party People, The Trip, A Cock And Bull Story, etc - for the upcoming The Look Of Love, a biopic of British pornographer Paul Raymond.After starting his show... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

100 BLOODY ACRES Teaser: Morgans Organic Will Get Your Garden Growin' Great!
During the Melbourne International Film Festival last year, one of the most raucous premieres was for horror comedy 100 Bloody Acres. While it starts off as a slow burn, once it gets going the movie is pretty damn funny -... More »
  

Abe Forsythe, Summer DeRoche, Darcy Prendergast, Natasha Pincus Among First St Kilda Programme Announcements
One of the best short film festivals of the annual calendar is St Kilda. While there have been many pretenders over the years, St Kilda has remained as the premier event for short films (and music videos) in Australia. This... More »
  

Masters of Cinema Announces June/July Slate: Shindo, Murnau, Griffith, Rivette
Eureka Entertainment's always-excellent Masters of Cinema series has just announced its new titles for June and July, which includes five fantastc new releases. There will be Blu-ray upgrades of Shindo Kaneto's The Naked Island and Kureneko, which will be released... More »
  

JOHN DOE Trailer Reveals Jamie Bamber as Vigilante Serial Killer
Update: It seems whoever posted this trailer didn't have permission to. It's been pulled from the web in recent days due to a copyright claim from the producers.Not many non-Australian actors can do an Aussie accent. Most, like Quentin Tarantino... More »
  

BYZANTIUM Trailer Beautifully Depicts the Flow of Blood and Time
In a post-Twilight movie landscape, where zombies seem to own the pop cultural zeitgeist for the moment, Neil Jordan's Byzantium is a bit of a curious creature out of time. The film, which played to a muted, somewhat baffled, response... More »
  

Hey New Zealand! Ant Timpson Sends You An Invitation To Death
A couple of days ago I received an invite in my inbox from ABCs of Death producer Ant Timpson to attend the New Zealand premiere of the film on April 20 at The Civic in Auckland. The invite is such a... More »
  

Objection Australia! Win ACE ATTORNEY On DVD!
Madman is releasing Miike's latest, a video game adaptation of the hugely successful Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series! Check out our review here.To win one of five copies of this awesome hyper-mystery on DVD - state your case as to why you... More »
  

Magic New Poster for Aussie-Indian Film MY CORNERSTONE
Update: We now have a second poster for the film, which gives a more balanced idea of what the film is about. This one firmly pitches the film as a romantic comedy, although the magic vest still features. Check it... More »
  
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