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.

Elijah Wood Carves Through US Poster And Trailer For MANIAC
Last year around this time the horror set in Cannes was all abuzz about Maniac, the Elijah Wood starring, Alex Aja produced remake of the cult hit horror film. A year later the film finally has a US release date... More »
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Gorgeous First Images From Cannes Selected Masked-Wrestling Noir OUR HEROES ARE DEAD TONIGHT (NOS HEROS SONT MORTS CE SOIR)
Yes, you read that headline correctly: David Perrault's debut feature Our Heroes Are Dead Tonight - a selection of the Critic's Week sidebar in Cannes this year - is a crime noir set in the world of masked wrestling in... More »
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Hoist Another Pint With The US Trailer For Edgar Wright's THE WORLD'S END
The end of the world is coming and if Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost et al have any say in the matter we'll all be too drunk to notice. Yup, the third collaboration from the team behind Shaun Of... More »
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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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FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 3: EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL AND I'M TRIPPING BALLS

CHAPTER 6: THERE'S NOTHING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A PURPLE BEACH SMOTHERED IN MELTING TROMMETTES DURING A CRIMSON TINGED SUNSET ON THE FRENCH RIVERIA, HOLY SHIT I'M TRIPPING MY FUCKING FACE OFF.It's night. When the fuck did it become night? I'm naked. Where the fuck did my clothes go? I'm on... More »

Destroy All Monsters: I Think We've Been This Way Before, Mr. Spock

They can remember it for you wholesale, and they do. At some point, we licensed our pop cultural nostalgia to a handful of multinational conglomerates (well, to be fair, they always owned the licenses) and now they're selling them back to us - though, I guess, not at wholesale, but... More »

Interview: Twitch Talks to HANGOVER III's Ken Jeong

Ken Jeong may often play a lunatic on both big and small screen, but in person it's quite disarming to see just how calm and considerate he comes across. While he got his big screen start in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Jeong's real breakthrough was taking a small-on-paper role... More »

Hollywood Beat: Notes On Cutting The Cord And NBC's Genre Programs

I cut the cable cord last year, but I'm not always happy about it. I had to wait a year before seeing Season 2 of Game of Thrones, for example, and will have to wait to see Season 3 until next year. I only have to wait to see Mad... More »

Twitchvision: Talking STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS, MUD and THE ICEMAN

Another Twitchvision chat with Scott Laurie, this time me gushing about J.J.'s latest Star Trek film, which I unabashedly loved.Also talked about he fabbo Mud, and the less fabbo The Iceman, both with Michael Shannon doing his thing.Video embedded below.Update: Was asked to come in today and pick a few... More »
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