YELLOW Director Ventures Into Antoni Maiovvi's DARKROOM
The giallo is strong with this one. Director Ryan Haysom and cinematographer Jon Britt enjoyed a great year in 2012, with their neo-giallo serial killer short Yellow proving something of a festival darling around the world. I was able to... More »
  

Lee Hardcastle Blows Up Clay Russia In A GOOD CLAY TO DIE HARD!
The ABCs of Death alumnus is back at it again. Having earned his spot on one of last year's best omnibus horror films with his short T is for Toilet and won over fans with his claycat homages to Evil Dead... More »
  

Lionsgate Buys UK Rights To Hammer's THE QUIET ONES
Good news if you're a Hammer film fan in the UK. Actually, can you be a fan of horror film in the UK and not be a fan of Hammer?  Seems inconceivable. Isn't that in their DNA? Moving along. Lionsgate has... More »
  

Ben Wheatley And Jim Hosking Join Forces For Gothic Horror WHITAKER
If you have roamed the pages of Twitch for any length of time then you should be well aware of my personal, deep, and abiding love for the work of one Mr Jim Hosking. Sundance selected for his short film... More »
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Kickstart This! Sci-Fi Short ELLIPSE Will Span Centuries, Spread Inspiration

Sci-Fi London, the venerable British film festival devoted to all things fantastic and, er, science fictional, is making its very first short film. And they need your (modest) financial support to get 'er done. Titled Ellipse, it's to be directed... More »
  

The UK to be Schooled in Its ABCs (OF DEATH) This April
Monster Pictures has announced that it will release epic horror anthology The ABCs of Death theatrically in the UK and Eire on 26 April 2013. The film, which features 26 short films from 26 of the world's most exciting up-and-coming... More »
  

Watch Nash Edgerton's BEAR!
We are big fans of Australian actor / director Nash Edgerton around these parts and have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of his Cannes selected short film Bear online so that we can finally have the chance to see it.... More »
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Charlie Brooker's BLACK MIRROR Returns In 2013
[Now with added trailer.]Though scarcely known outside of the UK, critic turned writer-director Charlie Brooker is considered something of a giant within certain circles in the UK. As a writer he made his splash early, the enormously controversial Pedophilia episode... More »
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Taste Plasmodial Slime Mould in THE CREEPING GARDEN
For many readers, the name Jasper Sharp is familiar as a leading voice in Japanese film criticism, co-founder of MidnightEye.com and author of Behind The Pink Curtain, the Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Last summer, over a couple of... More »
  

THE FALLOW FIELD Trailer Invites You to the English Countryside
The debut feature from writer-director Leigh Dovey originally appeared back in 2009 and now resurfaces courtesy of Monster Pictures for a belated UK DVD release on 11 March. Branding itself as Memento meets Wolf Creek in the English countryside, this... More »
  

Mark Leonard Winter Shines In Majestic ONE EYED GIRL Teaser
While majestic might not be the best way to describe a doomsday cult thriller which, in part, seems to feature some shocking bloodshed, it's a great word to illustrate the first teaser for One Eyed Girl, the debut feature from... More »
  

Get Charmed By Existentialist Crime Rom-Com EVERYONE'S GOING TO DIE
SXSW issued their first programming announcement yesterday and while The Evil Dead and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone may have dominated the headlines there were other worthwhile gems lurking within. Gems like Everyone's Going To Die, a feature film by UK... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Fellini's CITY OF WOMEN Comes to Blu-ray! Watch the Deranged Original Trailer
Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema brings Federico Fellini's "victory of cinema" City of Women to Blu-ray for the very first time, when it releases the film in the UK on 25 February. After scoring a series of international successes with... More »
  

Hey London! Don't Miss THE ECHO OF ASTRO BOY'S FOOTSTEPS This Saturday!
One of the real highlights of Summer 2012 for me was the opportunity to attend Zipangu Fest - a 3-day orgy of some of the most eclectic and avant garde Japanese Cinema, curated by the singular talents of Jasper Sharp... More »
  

Watch An Exclusive Clip From Sundance Selection SHOPPING
New Zealand directors Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland made an instant fan of me with their 2009 short The Six Dollar Fifty Man, a gem that perfectly captures both the wonder and imagination of being a child and the darkness... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Simon de Bruyn's Best Of 2012
I look at end-of-year best of lists rather differently than many of my peers. I consume a lot of media: scripts, films, shorts, TV, interweb shows and ridiculous skits that I should know better about watching. (But seriously, watch this.)... More »
  

Watch WWI Short Film COWARD Right Now
Proving that big, impressive things can come in "smaller" packages, David Roddham's short film Coward is a lovingly detailed throwback to the sentimental epics of yesteryear and a sobering snapshot of "the last great war". And you can watch it... More »
  

Exclusive: In This CRAWLSPACE Clip, No One Else Can See Your Nightmare
Australian horror thriller Crawlspace will be available for U.S. audiences to view via various Video On Demand platforms starting today, January 4. And to whet your appetite, we've got an exclusive look at a new clip from the film. Crawlspace... More »
  

Review: QUARTET, Dustin Hoffman's Affectionate Tribute To Great Artists Of The Stage, Screen, And Concert Hall
Dustin Hoffman, as an actor, has essayed some of the most iconic and edgy roles to hit the big screen: counterculture hero Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy, the nebbish turned avenger in Straw Dogs, Lenny... More »
  

DANGER 5 Arrives On Hulu, Gets Straight To The Biscuits
One of the greatest TV shows to premiere in 2012 was Danger 5. A madcap pastiche of spy tropes, ridiculous costumes and elaborate plywood sets, Danger 5 asks what if World War II happened during the swinging 1960s, and a... More »
  
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China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

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CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

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MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »
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