From January 27th till February the 7th, the 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam will be held. And even though the final line-up won't be released until the second week of January, details are slowly but surely emerging.   Such as...

Up for bids the previous week at AFM and now part of After Dark Films' Horrorfest 4 lineup this new year Joey Stewart's The Final joins the lineup. The bullied teen revenge horror joins Hidden, Dread, The Graves, Lake... More >>

It may not be Canada's oldest festival of animation but the Waterloo Festival For Animated Cinema is certainly my favorite, consistently selecting the most interesting animated films from around the world to bring to their audience.  And the 2009...

[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for his preview of San Francisco's animation festival in progress.] By and large, animation gets a bum rap. The average filmgoer long ago decided that the medium catered either to kids or art house... More >>

How fortunate can Twitch be to have two of the Bay Area's best film writers offer previews of what I consider to be this weekend's winner of--as Michael Hawley aptly terms it--November's "smackdown." Film festivalism has never been more... More >>

[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 >>

(Once again, thanks goes to Dustin Chang for the review)Harishchandrachi Factory, a first feature from Marathi theater director Pareshi Mokathi is immensely crowd-pleasing. It tells the story of the father of Indian cinema, Dadasaheb Phalke (Nandu Madhav), a Groucho Marx-esque,...

A comedy of errors and manners, there's something very classical yet fresh about Indian director/actor Saurabh Shukla's new film. And while it doesn't bat one hundred percent, it's an honest little take on the breakdown of communication that can happen...

Let me get this out of the way fast! Don't let the title fool you, it's kind of a misrepresentation of Rajat Kapoor's film, especially with such a limited meaning in English. In fact, Kapoor doesn't even like the title... More >>

Shot through with Yojimbo like dynamics and seemingly Shakespearean family vendettas, Sadik Ahmed's debut feature is neither a wily commentary on violence nor an overwrought tragedy. It is a meditative, slow burn of a picture, of men drowning in... More >>