Todd Brown
Founder and Editor; Toronto, Canada

Todd founded Twitch in September of 2004 under the assumption that nobody in particular would care. Some people did, so he kept going. Todd is also Director of International Programming at Fantastic Fest, a partner at XYZ Films and father to a remarkably geeky child.

Winterbottom! Coogan! Brydon! THE TRIP TO ITALY Starts Shooting This Week!
There will be more food, there will be more bickering, but will there be more Michael Caine?Following the runaway success of The Trip - the Michael Winterbottom directed BBC comedy starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as somewhat fictionalized versions... More »
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New WOLVERINE Trailer Features More Jean Grey, More Swordplay
Logan is sad in the new trailer for James Mangold's The Wolverine. And when Logan gets sad he likes to stab things. That about sums it up, right?... More »
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Donnie Yen Cometh In ICEMAN 3D. Watch The Trailer Now!
Donnie Yen is all thawed out and ready to go in Iceman 3D, the Law Wing Cheong directed remake of the 1989 Clarence Fok directed The Iceman Cometh, with Yen playing the role of a Ming era warrior frozen on... More »
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Watch The Trailer For Jodorowsky's LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD
An old master makes his long awaited return to the big screen with La Danza de la Realidad, and while it must be said that CGI visual effects and digital photography are not particularly Alejandro Jodorowsky's friends long time fans... More »
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Clive Owen, Mila Kunis And Billy Crudup In First Trailer For Guillaume Canet's BLOOD TIES
Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, the first trailer has arrived for Blood Ties. The first English language offering from acclaimed French director Guillaume Canet, Blood Ties stars Clive Owen, Mila Kunis, Billy Crudup, Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, James Caan... More »
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First Poster Released For IRON SKY: THE COMING RACE
The Moon Nazis aren't done yet, apparently, as a sequel has been announced for Finnish scifi comedy Iron Sky. Titled Iron Sky: The Coming Race, and director Timo Vuorensola promises that the tone of this one will be "dark, crazier... More »
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Review: GAME OF THRONES S3E08, SECOND SONS (Or, Sam Gets To Be A Hero But Mostly By Accident And Only For A Couple Seconds)
A question for those who - like me - have been watching Game Of Thrones very closely. Who does Season Three belong to? Whose story is driving the narrative? Because, frankly, I don't know and not being able to answer... More »
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More Is Not Always Better. Extended EMPIRES OF THE DEEP Trailer Every Bit As Laughable As The First.
Oh, golly. After keeping an eye on Chinese financed vanity project Empires Of The Deep for years - it first crossed our desks in 2009 - Twitch ran the first trailer for the film back in October of 2012. And... More »
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New International Trailer For Perpetually Delayed Russian Horror VIY
It was all the way back in November of 2005 that Twitch first wrote about Russian horror film Viy, a remake of one of that nation's earliest horror films which is itself an adaptation of a story by Nikolai Gogol.... More »
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Cannes 2013: Why Would Someone Want To Blow Up Christoph Waltz?
A live broadcast of Canal Plus show Le Grand Journal - broadcasting from the Martinez beach during Cannes - was interrupted today when two blanks were fired into the air by a man holding what appeared to be a grenade... More »
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Hey, Toronto! Win Free Passes For The Lost Episode Fest!
Remember that episode of the original Star Trek where Spock won the break dancing competition? Yeah, that was awesome. Or, it would be if it existed. And it could exist if you made it. Welcome to the core concept of... More »
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Chinese Only Trailer For Jet Li's BADGES OF FURY Aims Up-Kilt
Let there be no doubt about it. While the western marketing for upcoming Jet Li starring picture Badges Of Fury has done everything in its power to present the film as an action thriller, this is a comedy through and... More »
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Watch The International Trailer For Mark Hartley's PATRICK
What, ho? Could that be Tywin Lannister menacing a man in a coma? Why, yes it is, Charles Dance having taken on the role of a sinister doctor in Not Quite Hollywood director Mark Hartley's long awaited remake of Australian... More »
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Watch A Clip From Jeremy Saulnier's BLUE RUIN
Back on Wednesday Twitch was proud to present the first teaser for Jeremy Saulnier's Cannes selected revenge thriller Blue Ruin and with the premiere edging nearer a new, extended clip from the film has now arrived as well.A beach bum... More »
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Watch The First Trailer For Jeunet's THE YOUNG AND PRODIGIOUS SPIVET
Are you ready to see what happens when Jean-Pierre Jeunet delivers his particular vision of Americana? Because that's what's coming in his first 3D film, an adaptation of Reif Larsen's The Selected Works Of T.S. Spivet starring Helena Bonham Carter,... More »
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Shudder With The First Teaser For Danish Horror POSTPARTUM

Ah, children. We're supposed to love 'em all the time but if we're honest the process of making them is kind of icky, kind of sticky while having them is even moreso, smells bad, and - if I may dare... More »
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Hong Kong Hits The Marche! New Posters For Donnie Yen Starrers SPECIAL IDENTITY And THE ICEMAN COMETH Plus Dante Lam's THAT DEMON WITHIN
You want poster art? The Cannes Marche Du Films - the sales market component of the Cannes Film Festival - has got poster art. Lots and lots and lots of poster art. And popping up over the last twenty four... More »
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Big Time Monster Fighting Action In Main PACIFIC RIM Trailer
Giant monster, meet giant robot fist. After a storm of teasers, posters, viral clips and other sundry marketing materials the official main trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim has arrived. And it has lots and lots of what people... More »
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Review: PIETA, Searching For Humanity In An Unspeakable Monster
Throughout his career, Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has been a director known to explore the extreme poles of human experience. The divide in his work, in the style and content of one film to the next, is often so sharp... More »
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Life Imitates Art In Korean Thriller KILLER TOON
Life imitating art is the central premise of upcoming Korean thriller Killer Toon, the story of a series of murders closely mimicking the works of a popular comic artist.Popular horror webcomic artist Ji-yoon finds life imitating her own work when... More »
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Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

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Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE MURDERER LIVES AT 21

While Henri-Georges Clouzot is best remembered for many of his later films, including The Wages of Fear and Diabolique, the French filmmaker's 1942 debut has gone largely unseen by Western audiences until now. The Murderer Lives at 21 (L'Assassin Habite au 21), based on the novel by Belgian author Stanislas-Andre... More »

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

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