Elegy for Gas-Guzzling Supercharged Car Movies
With gasoline prices soaring past $4.00 per gallon in the US, it may be time to kiss all those gorgeous, big-engined, gas-guzzling, supercharged automobile movies goodbye. Starting in the late 60s with a certain motorcycle movie, American filmmakers began to... More »
  

The B-Movie Splendor of Herman Yau
Herman Yau is arguably one of Hong Kong film's strangest fruits. After all, it is hard to find a director whose ouvre shifts between the most despicable expoitation flicks ever conceived (Need I name them?), thoughtful sociopolitical commentary (From the... More »
By Timo   
  

When Plants Attack!
[Twitch-O-Meters will remain at the top of the page during the duration of the day they were published. Please scroll down for today's film news] Recently we got a nice mainstream genre (yes, they exist!) surprise in the cinemas with... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Summer Floppin'
Summer, at least according to Hollywood, is almost here. With the high-dollar Iron Man set to kick off the blockbuster season tomorrow, now seemed like the perfect time revisit a few of those inevitable, potentially career-crippling box office misfires that... More »
  

Mystique of the Miniseries
This week's edition of the Twitch-o-Meter presents a very unusual topic, yet one that everyone somewhat old enough may still relate to - at least if you grew up somewhere around Europe. I am here to tell you about a... More »
By Timo   
  

The Apocalypse on a Budget
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, George Miller must really be feeling the love right now. Neil Marshall’s anticipated follow-up to The Descent, Doomsday hits multiplexes tomorrow and looks to pay more than a little lip service... More »
  

The Home Depot. You can kill it. We can help.
Whenever I am at Todd’s house we’re doing one of a few things. Either we’re playing video games with the boy or we’re talking about movies and all things Twitch. Last week I was in a mild state of panic... More »
  

Top 5 Twitch-y Films From 1972
If Twitch existed 35 years ago, what would we be writing about? The question occurred to me as I was reminiscing about 1982, a justifiably famous year for great genre flicks released by Hollywood studios. That year's faves included Blade... More »
  

Category III Madness!
Hong Kong's Category III rating can be considered unique in that it not only represents an age restriction imposed on films, but, to some, a seal of quality as well - after the Hong Kong government introduced the film rating... More »
By Timo   
  

Movies that bear repeating!
When watching movies the magic of seeing it for the first time is often lost afterwards when you watch it again. Comedies are never as funny as the first time you watch them. The shock of the horror film... More »
  

Animals Amuck!!!
Ever since a giant ape ascended the Empire State building and swatted down a squadron’s worth of bi-planes, nature – specifically animals – running wild(er than usual) has been a staple trope for filmmakers with fantastic bents.  Along with... More »
  

Top 5 film watching experiences
We all love movies and film. We don’t write here because someone is twisting our arm and no one is holding a gun to your head making you read our site. We’re all here because we love movies and... More »
  

Superior Sequels
Seeing as how this is my second try at the Twitch-O-Meter, I thought it fun to have a stab at sequels. Sequels are generally maligned, and most of the time rightly so. If a movie has been financially succesful... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

The Heebie Jeebies
I wasn’t the type of guy who went out of his way to watch scary movies. Still to this day, the Horror genre- and it’s many off-shoots- are not tops on my list of genres of film I want... More »
  

Memories of IFFR's past.
As the 2007 edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam coincides with my turn on the Twitch-O-Meter, let me provide you with a countdown of the favorite experiences and surprises I had with this festival in the past. For... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Rites of Passage
Like your old man taking you to the bar when you're of legal age, or paying the local villiage prostitute to welcome you into manhood, everyone should have a Rite of Passage that they wish to bestow upon the... More »
  

'All In Good Time'.
Going back a couple of years now, to the start of Twitch. I personally thought the major power in what Todd had offered me the chance to be a part of was the upfront opportunity to bring much of... More »
By logboy   
  

My personal Fight Club List [film related]
There were a number of different topics rolling through my cranium as time approached for me to submit my first Twitch-O-Meter topic but one stood out one fine Saturday morning as a customer in my shop shared with me... More »
  

Take Off, You Hoser!
Hoser (hōz ´әr): noun. 1. A clumsy, boorish person, especially an uncouth, beer-drinking man often clothed in a flannel lumberjack coat, Kodiak boots and a toque. 2. What you call your little brother when your mother isn't in the... More »
  

THE FIVE FILMS THAT MADE ME LOVE MOVIE GORE
I wanted my first stab at a Twitch-O_Meter column to be personal and, for me, there is no more personal type of film than the horror film. But rather than asemble yet another scariest movies of all time type... More »
  
 
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