Hey NYC! Wanna Win Tix To Apocalyptic Comedy PHASE 7?

Nicholas Goldbart's pandemic-panic Phase 7 has been making the festival rounds with stops off at SXSW, EIFF, and will soon be making an appearance at Fantasia Fest. Well, that same week Bloody Disgusting and AMC theaters will be bringing it... More »

By Ben Umstead

Thomas Clay's THE GREAT ECSTASY OF ROBERT CARMICHAEL, starring Dan Spencer, Ryan Winsley, Charles Mn

There are eleven stills from Thomas Clay's The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael on the website of international sales agent Wild Bunch Sales Limited. The screenplay for The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael was written by Clay and Joseph... More »

By The Gomorrahizer

American Film Market (AFM): Update on Jannik Johansen's MURK (MØRKE), w/ Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas

As was reported here on Twitch back on August 6th, there's a downloadable trailer (see the bottom of this article) for Jannik Johansen's psychological thriller Murk (Mørke) on Locomotive Corporation's excellent PLAY.dk website. Murk was produced by Fine &... More »

By The Gomorrahizer

Festival. by Annie Griffin (Writer & Director of 'The Book Group').

First I heard of this was the varying reviews on 'Newsnight Review' last night. For those outside the UK, the show is a bit more 'highbrow' than the sort of shows that would normally give such a thing coverage.... More »

By logboy

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Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »

LA Film Fest 2013: Twitch Picks 12 Must-See Films

It's LA Film Fest time with LA's downtown fest kicking off tonight with Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited. Twitch will be on hand with a small crew to bring you news and reviews from around the fest. You can follow us on twitter at @TwitchFilm | @BenUmstead | @AlexKoehne... More »

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