Sigur Ros is a favorite band of Twitch writers, here in Toronto at least, and we know that Swarez rolls with the boys when they're back home in Iceland but in case you never picked up your copy of...

[Our sincere thanks to Frako Loden for contributing her preview of this year's 3rd i line-up to the Twitch readership.] All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent... More >>

Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009), which I would have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened,... More >>

There are two directors named Chris Smith who have become favored children of the Toronto International Film Festival.  One is the fiction director who helmed horror pictures Creep and Severance.  The other is the documentarian behind American Movie and...

Ahh... Song Il-Gon, how we missed you.His films might have barely registered a blip at the domestic box office, but you'd be hard pressed to find a more consistent director than Song (OK, Bong Joon-Ho. But is that human talent?)...

Mocked and misunderstood in life, deified in death - is it any wonder that Michael Jackson appears in the form of a crucifix on the posters for his new film, "This Is It"? Understandably, this comparison of JC and MJ... More >>

Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me is the second documentary in the New Artist People Series from Viz Pictures. The film's subject is avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose complex life and art make for a fascinating subject. Yayoi Kusama: I Love...

And now for something completely different... here's Mads Brügger's unbelievable documentary The Red Chapel ! Imagine this, if you can : a filmmaker with the project of denouncing the destructive dictatorship of North Korea packs his bags for the...

The great thing about the Haunted Histories collection is the way they feed that spooky little itch and hunger for history at the same time. These short hour long docs make for lively party conversation and novel double features with...

Even if you didn't grow up watching stuff like In Search Of.... there's no escaping the nostalgic wonderment shows like this provide. At their heart they carry on the tradition of P.T. Barnum and Robert Ripley of Ripley's Believe...