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Yes, boys and girls ... another contest completed and more winners to announce. Congratulations to Kiyoung Nam and Chris Jones who eahc score a copy of Joko Anwar’s Kala thanks to the generosity of Twitch reader Tuan Jim.
You can check out the trailer below the break and if you happen to be in the New York area Kala will be part of the upcoming New York Asian Film Festival.
Yes, kids, the time has come to announce our five winners of Seagalology - the new Steven Seagal book written by Aint it Cool’s Vern. Now, I got an early proof version of this to read and I’ve got to say this is one of the most compulsively readable film books I’ve ever owned. Seriously, you want this. Anyway, our winners:
John Daly, Krzysztof Skorka, Jaime Wolf, Stuart Muller and Mark Ferguson.
Yes, boys and girls, we have one fine DVD giveaway for you today. The fine lads at Mondo Macabro have been doing stellar work finding and restoring the absolute classics of international cult film and we’ve got five copies of their latest release - the legendary Indonesian shocker Queen of Black Magic - to give away.
The story is set in the exotic countryside of far-off Indonesia . A wedding ceremony goes dreadfully wrong and the groom suspects black magic. He seeks out the woman he believes is responsible and she is hurtled to her death over a high cliff. She is rescued from the dark jungle by a strange hermit, who tells her she must seek revenge. They accused her of black magic – now she must learn to use that magic against them and become the Queen of Evil. One of the first Asian horror movies to be widely released on video in the U.S, THE QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC is one of the true cult classics of Asian cinema. Setting the pattern for crazy special effects and wild gore sequences that were unique at the time and are still eye-popping today, it’s often been imitated but rarely been duplicated. Still fondly remembered by those who discovered it on cut and badly cropped VHS tapes, it is now available uncut and in all its widescreen glory for the first time anywhere!
Want one? Just before May 26th - the film’s release date - saying you want in on the draw and we’ll select five winners at random. Check out a scene from the film below the break and hit the link below to check some stills.
We’ve been tracking the progress of John Bergin’s upcoming animated feature From Inside for quite some time now and with the film edging up on completion we’ve got another incredible From Inside giveaway for you. That image to the left is the second in a series of ultra limited edition, giclee prints featuring artwork from the film that Bergin is making available for sale. There are only one hundred and fifty of these being made and Bergin is offering one up for a lucky Twitch reader. Want it? You’ve got until May 20th to saying you want in on the From Inside art giveaway. And don’t forget to check out the trailer in the Twitch Player below the break.
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We first wrote about Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Saawariya all the way back in August and with the film about to hit DVD worldwide - the North American release strikes tomorrow - we’ve got three copies of the American release from Sony to give away to you, the Twitch faithful. The film is an adaptation of a Dostoevsky short story and in Bansali’s hands it becomes a lush, sumptuously designed thing. I have yet to watch my own copy of the film but the trailer for this - which you can find below the break in the Twitch Player - is flat out gorgeous, eye candy of the highest order. Very nice.
Want one of these to call your own? Simple enough. You have until May 15th to . Saawariya doesn’t count. The three people who send the most words get the DVD.
Yes, boys and girls, our giveaway for a free screening of Garth Jennings’ Son of Rambow here in Toronto on May 7th has come to our close and our congratulations go out to our winners: Pam MacPherson, Jason Chu, Ray Yick, Carlos Bobadilla, Ping Cheung, Isidoro Magi, Steven Landry, Clinton Goodman, Stephen Smith, Yayoi Takamoto, Don Maeske, and James Dunn.
You’ll find trailers and clips below the break.
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From Inside director John Bergin was kind enough to offer up a high quality giclee print of the key art for his upcoming animated opus to a lucky reader here at Twitch. Our contest has just wrapped up and the lucky winner is Michael McCauley. Congratulations!
If you weren’t lucky enough to win more From Inside prints are available at the film’s official website and don’t forget to check out the trailer below the break!
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Okay, kids, the Over the Top Fest gets rolling here in Toronto today - visit the official festival website for details - and we’ve got a stack of tickets to give away! Here we go!
Winning double passes to Pop Skull, Blood Boobs and Beast, Machine Girl, and Frownland are: Oblit 9, Anna Olowianczyk, Sean Normoyle, Sean O’Grady and Justin Decloux.
Winning double passes to Pop Skull, Blood Boobs and Beast, Hokuro Brothers / 100 Tears and I Think We’re Alone Now are: Vale Clark, Dan Krbavac, David Barmak, Ante Kovac and Michael Paszt.
And winning a double pass to the second Crispin Glover night is Marina Usher.
Congratulations to all the winners!
You know, I think we just might be running the most simultaneous contests that have ever run in Twitch’s history - scroll down the right column to find a complete list and the relevant links - but there can never be too much free stuff, right? Well, all of you readers out there say a nice thank you to regular reader Tuan Jim who just had a relative return from vacation in Indonesia with multiple copies of Joko Anwar’s neo-noir thriller Kala. Tuan’s a clever enough fellow to know that he is unlikely to ever watch more than one copy of any film, no matter how good it is, simultaneously and so he offered up the extra two copies to us for giveaway.
Now, to my mind Anwar is by far the best thing going in Indonesian film today. His debut film, Joni’s Promise, is a clever little charmer and this one’s got style and atmosphere to spare. We’ve got the trailer embedded in the Twitch Player for you to check out and if you want a chance at a free copy all you have to do is telling me the name of the sex comedy Anwar recently penned for another director. And not to worry, if you’re feeling lazy you’ll find the answer lurking in the bowels of our forum.
Everybody say thanks to Tuan Jim and get to it!
Yes, kids, if you’ve ever read one of Vern’s frequent reviews of Steven Seagal’s straight-to-video output over at Aint It Cool then you know why this is a momentous day. Vern has written a book. It’s about Steven Seagal. It’s being published, no less. And we’ve got five copies to give away. I absolutely guarantee that this will be one of the most compulsively readable film books ever published and I’m not kidding about that even a little bit.
Want a copy to call your own? Well, you could wait and pick one up via normal channels or you could predicting the outcome of a fictional cage match between Seagal, Van Damme and Chuck Norris. We’ll accept entries until May 15th. You’ll find the complete press release for the book below the break.
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Do we love this film? Why, yes we do and now fifteen lucky Twitch readers can drag a friend out to love it too, a wee bit early and for free. Yup. We’ve got fifteen double passes for Garth Jennings’ fantastic sophomore film to give away for an advance screening here in Toronto on May 7th. Want one? saying you want in on the giveaway and we’ll draw our winners shortly thereafter.
SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80’s, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God’s ‘chosen ones’ and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other ‘worldlies,’ listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will’s mind is blown wide open and he’s easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters’ diabolical home movie. Will’s imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter’s complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point.
You’ll find trailers and clips below the break.
Alright, all you Toronto folk! The Over The Top festival arrives in town soon and we’ve got stacks of stuff to give away. Want passes to see Pop Skull? We got those. Machine Girl? We got those, too. Hokuro Brothers: Full Throttle? 100 Tears? Frownland? I Think We’re Alone Now? Blood, Boobs and Beast? Crispin Glover’s It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine? Yep, we got passes to all of those in varying quantities. Want ‘em? before Monday with your preferred screenings and we’ll try and accommodate as many of you as we can.
Our giveaway contest for free passes to see Belgian festival hit Ben X plus copies of the Archlord video game featured prominently int he film ahs come to an end and it’s time to congratulate our winners: Pam MacPherson, Jayme Isaacs, Seth Martiniuk, Evgueni Rypine, Alex Schuster, Anna Olowianczyk, Tong Yang, the mysteriously named drywall, and Kent Jones. Get yourselves to the Cumberland Theatre around 6:30 on Wednesday the 16th where you will find your prizes in the clutches of the lovely and talented Ms. MacPherson since I’ll be tied up elsewhere myself.
Ben is different.
His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favourite online computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn’t part of the plan…
You’ll find the trailer below the break.
One killer contest here courtesy of writer / animator / director John Bergin. We’ve been tracking the progress of his feature debut, From Inside, for a good while now and with the film in the final stages of production now - all that remains is some of the scoring - Bergin has offered up one stellar giveaway to the Twitch faithful. In the lead up to releasing the film, which Bergin is adapting from his own graphic novel, he will be producing a series of limited edition, high quality giclée prints of artwork from the film and he is offering up a signed copy of the first one - the key art poster for the film - to one lucky Twitch reader. This sort of print typically retails for a couple hundred dollars so, yes, it is very suitable for framing. Hit the link below to see the image, check the trailer below the break and before May 1st saying you want in on the From Inside giveaway for your shot at the print.
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The fine people over at the UK’s Third Window Films will be releasing the stellar Korean gangster drama Friend on DVD in just a weeks time - it hits UK shelves April 21st - and they have offered up five free copies of the film to you, the loyal Twitch readers.
This expansive crime drama follows four friends from their formative years in 1970s Korea until adulthood. Though each of the four came from different family backgrounds, they stayed together through the tough economic times of those years. However, as they mature into adults, the boys’ lifelong friendship is broken when two of the group turn to crime to make their living. Soon, this once close quartet has split into two rival factions, turning old friends into bitter enemies whose differences erupt in violence.
The Third Window release comes with a new transfer of the film, optional English subtitles, a thirty five minute Making Of featurette and a few other assorted bits and pieces. Want one? explaining why you should be considered for the open position of Mack’s friend. Because he needs more. You’ve got until May 5th.
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