With 5 critically acclaimed films in almost 20 years time (and only one failure) Jeunet has settled himself between the greats of contemporary cinema. Amélie was the film that granted him access to a larger international audience, but like many...

As Keanu Reeves might say: "Whoa!" Deliciously bizarre, The Box, Richard Kelly's  meditation on the meaning of life, masquerades as a slow-boiling mystery thriller. Building on a slender, clever premise dreamed up by the great Richard Matheson in the short...

Sometimes too much sincerity can be a bad thing. I applaud the effort made by director Olatunde Osunsanmi to forge a new trail in depicting alien encounters in The Fourth Kind. With its extensive reenactments "based on actual case studies,"...

Note: This is a companion-piece to my "Genius Party" DVD-review published yesterday.   When Studio 4ºC released the results of their "Genius Party"-project, they were clever enough not to do it as one giant 3-hour-long movie as that would have just... 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...

It's no secret we are very big fans of Studio 4ºC here at Twitch. From all major animation studios currently busy in Japan, Studio 4ºC is the one which is consistently pushing the boundaries of the medium the most. Their... More >>

[Many thanks to Serdar Kokceoglu for the following review.]Turkey's ever-changing political agenda bears a significant impact on the lives of its people  And the use of visual and written media are the most effective way of communicating this political...

It's Cube meets The Apprentice, as eight high-flying candidates for an exclusive job at a mysterious corporation arrive for the final round of the selection process. In a basement room, devoid of artificial light, they must sit an exam...

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 >>

In the category "better late than never", my review of Adrift in Tokyo (Tenten) Satoshi Miki is a rising star in the Japanese film scene. His first film established him as a somewhat strange and atypical director, Adrift in Tokyo...

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 >>

Jamil Dehlavi's Born of Fire (1986) received both a theatrical and home video release in the 1980s, but the film has languished in complete obscurity since that time. This obscurity is undeserved because, as revealed by Mondo Macabro's new DVD...

Ananth Mahadevan's political thriller exposes Westerners to a little known history of a decades long struggle that began in 1947 India, and escalated in '67 with the splitting of their Communist parties, and of the self proclaimed champions of the... More >>

(Our thanks to Dustin Chang for the review) Manjadikuru tells a bittersweet story about a family getting together for the funeral of its patriarch, seen through a 10 year old boy named Vicky. While the grown-ups bicker and wait anxiously... More >>