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DVD Review: TORA-SAN Collector's Set Volume 1

by Rodney Perkins, November 21, 2009 11:00 AM

2009 has been a great year for the release of vintage Japanese films on North American DVD. One of the more unique and unexpected Japanese releases of the year is AnimEigo's four disc collector's set of the sentimental Tora-san...
 
 

ADVENTURES OF POWER Review

by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 19, 2009 7:15 PM

Writer/director Ari Gold also stars as the title character Power in this underdog/rock n' roll/road comedy. The story is as simple as it's protagonist: Power is a full-on loser, who works at the local energy plant with his gruff...
 
 

Chandmani Sum review

by Onderhond, November 19, 2009 3:36 PM

Little bump as I included the trailer for your viewing pleasure. Mongolia is faraway, barren and mostly unknown territory for us Westerners. Most of us know very little about it, except maybe a little trivia about Genghis Kahn. Rowan Lee...
 
 

A TOWN CALLED PANIC Review

by Ben Umstead, November 19, 2009 3:00 PM

(Our thanks goes out to Joseph Sylvers for the review)The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy's book within the book begins with the phrase "Don't Panic", because the universe is a dizzying, dazzlingly complex place, that to take it all...
 
 

FANTASTIC MISTER FOX Review

by Todd Brown, November 19, 2009 9:38 AM

[Our thanks to regular reader indiemaker for the following review.] "Uh, my dad's on fire..." Fantastic Mr. Fox might just be one of the biggest surprises of the year for me.  2009 has really shaped up to be a...
 
 

WHITE ON RICE Review

by Todd Brown, November 18, 2009 10:22 AM

[Our thanks to regular Twitch reader Indiemaker for the following review of Dave Boyle's indie comedy White on Rice.]White on Rice is a film that has slowly but surely garnered its fair share of buzz these past few months....
 
 

Alone review

by Onderhond, November 18, 2009 10:03 AM

Reading the reactions beneath the 4Bia 2 review it seems that I'm not the only one who waited a long time before actually sitting down to watch Alone. Since I just saw it yesterday, here's my take on the film....
 
 

PHOBIA 2 Review

by Todd Brown, November 17, 2009 11:56 AM

Horror anthologies are notoriously uneven affairs, typically ill-matched collections of low budget efforts from little known talent trying to make a name for themselves with a quick scare or two.  Such was very definitely not the case with Thai...
 
 

MID-AUGUST LUNCH UK DVD Review

by James Dennis, November 16, 2009 4:56 PM

Offered up with an array of awards from its festival run in 2008, Gianni Di Gregorio's Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo Di Ferragosto) finally makes it to DVD on 7th December through Artificial Eye. A warm, likeable and gently comic drama,...
 
 

HIGANJIMA Review

by Todd Brown, November 16, 2009 9:58 AM

Akira is a boy with issues.  Yes, this could be said about virtually any high schooler and while it is true of Akira for the typical reasons - the girl he loves is in love with his best friend,...
 
 

Pop Skull review

by Onderhond, November 16, 2009 5:30 AM

Even though this film has had quite some Twitch coverage already, many people still seem reluctant to watch it. Which is a damn shame, as Pop Skull is the first American film in 5 years that gets a full score...
 
 

[K-FILM REVIEWS] 국가대표 (Take Off)

by X, November 16, 2009 2:27 AM

Park Ji-Sung, Kim Yeon-Ah, names which carry the brand image of Korea around the world just as much as Samsung, LG and Hyundai do. Where exactly the idea of sports fits into all this, that's an entirely different matter. There...
 
 

Reel Asian 2009: The Ache

by Andrew Mack, November 15, 2009 11:00 PM

The heroine, Sheri, is a young Chinese Canadian who, despite her mother's obsessive fear of anything "dirty," secretly works in a fetish parlor. One day, she comes across a strange woman, Celeste, going through her trash. Disturbed by what... More >>
 
 

[SOUTH ASIAN REVIEWS] கந்தசாமி (Kanthaswamy)

by X, November 15, 2009 1:58 AM

With super powers come super responsibilities.If there's anything that India's insanely vibrant and varied film culture has taught us to expect, that is its continued defiance of any and all expectations. And when it comes to Kollywood, Tamil Nadu's own...
 
 

[K-FILM REVIEWS] 날아라 펭귄 (Fly, Penguin)

by X, November 14, 2009 5:13 PM

It's almost a metaphor for the intents behind the long series of projects funded by the Human Rights Commission of Korea, the idea that a penguin could manage to fly despite its evident physical limitations, but the results have often...
 
 
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