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...

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...

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...

(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...

[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...

[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....

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....

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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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 >>

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...

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...