by Jason Gorber, May 15, 2012 2:59 PM
Antiviral marks the feature debut of the scion of one of the world's most esteemed genre filmmakers. The film will be competing as part of the Un Certain Regard series, an immesely prestigious honor for this young filmmaker.Brandon Cronenberg's name...
by Hugo Ozman, May 10, 2012 7:00 AM
Grace Folsom may not be a name familiar to many of you at present, but I have little doubt that you will see and hear a lot more from this actress in the years to come. Her debut feature film...
by Peter Gutierrez, May 4, 2012 11:28 AM
The temptation in the headline above is to say "Winnifred Bonjean-Alpart... the star of Sexy Baby." But aside from the fact that docs don't really have stars, she's also just one of the three subjects of Ronna Gradus and Jill...
by Peter Gutierrez, April 27, 2012 10:30 AM
Of all the films I've seen this year at Tribeca -- and the tally is starting to add up -- none brings a smile to my face faster than Eddie - The Sleepwalking Cannibal. And I'm guessing I'm not the...
by Peter Gutierrez, April 26, 2012 5:17 PM
I'll tell you what kind of guys Messrs. Benson and Moorhead are, in addition, of course, to being the co-directors of one of Tribeca's breakout hits this year, Resolution. When I met them a couple of days ago in the...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, April 24, 2012 3:43 PM
Ti West first made an impression back in 2005, when his horror film The Roost premiered at SXSW. Since then, West has directed the somewhat ill-fated (and received) Cabin Fever 2, and the surprise hit House Of The Devil,...
by Jason Gorber, April 20, 2012 12:01 AM
Yes, I called Dr. Jane Goodall the "chimp lady", and I'm probably going to catch some sort of monkey ape hell for it. The best part, of course, is that she'd take it as a compliment. Meeting this pioneering naturalist...
by Canfield, April 19, 2012 11:32 AM
Twitch was created because so many good little films fall through the cracks of fandom. When one of those movies is rescued from obscurity, or especially from studio politics or just plain because we get a little crazy around here....
by Canfield, April 18, 2012 1:25 AM
A short exchange with Greta Gerwig goes a long way. She's identified with a loosely defined film movement called mumblecore but she is beholden to no style but her own. Scene stealing work in Ti West's House of the Devil...
by Fred Ambroisine, April 17, 2012 3:53 AM
During the 16th Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART) (March 19-22, 2012), the Hong Kong production and distribution company Universe announced the big new projects of Benny Chan, who has come back to the explosive modern action genre...
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by Dustin Chang, April 16, 2012 9:00 AM
Mia Hansen-Løve's third film, Goodbye First Love is being released in New York and LA on 4/20. This is my interview with her, conducted last year during the New York Film Festival.Hansen-Løve, the 30-year old gifted French writer/director, made her...
by Fred Ambroisine, April 12, 2012 6:59 AM
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Bangkok, Peter Chan Ho-sun studied cinema in the United States at the UCLA film school before coming back to his native country in the early 80's. He started work in the film industry...
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by Fred Ambroisine, April 10, 2012 1:24 AM
The 8th edition of Entertainment Expo Hong Kong ( March 19 -April 15, 2012) features nine spectacular events covering a global mix of film, TV, music and digital entertainment. It includes FILMART (Hong Kong International Film & TV Market), the...
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by Jason Gorber, April 9, 2012 12:00 PM
Mickey Gilbert is a tough sonofabitch, a direct line to the glory days action cinema. His credits go back decades, from his his dozens of roles in The Wild Bunchas and acting as Redford's double in Butch Cassidy, to...
by Fred Ambroisine, April 4, 2012 3:57 AM
From March 19th to March 22nd, 2012, more than 20 Japanese film companies attended the 16th Hong Kong International Film & TV Market (FILMART) organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC). One of the film companies, Pictures dept....
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by Jason Gorber, April 3, 2012 11:00 AM
I sat down Monday afternoon with director Lee Hirsch to talk about his film Bully (read my review of the film here), the challenges of making a film about kids in terrible situations, and the latest on the ratings issue...
by Jason Gorber, April 2, 2012 12:00 PM
I sat down with Drew Goddard when he was here in Toronto promoting his extraordinary debut, The Cabin in the Woods [my review of the film]. Tall, assured, with an infectious enthusiasm and a rapid fire way of talking,...
by Charles Webb, April 2, 2012 10:00 AM
A couple of months back, I brought you information about the short Frankie. Written and directed by artist, animator, and game developer Mike Pappa, the short is making the rounds at film fests and the like. Full disclosure: Mike...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, March 30, 2012 5:37 PM
Michael C. Hall, already a well known face after playing David Fisher, the gay funeral director on the legendary HBO cable program Six Feet Under, and now currently hovering around bona fide cultural icon status due to his turn ...
by Canfield, March 30, 2012 4:36 PM
Gareth Evans sat there. I had brought a gun to our interview knowing he would appear perfectly harmless and sure enough, the bastard just sat there, calmly waiting for me to ask him questions, giving me thoughtful, interesting answers etc....
by Fred Ambroisine, March 29, 2012 4:36 AM
Exactly one year ago at the Hong Kong International Film & Television Market (FILMART), Hong Kong producer Stephen Shiu Jr. was starting to sell the erotic movie "3D Sex & Zen" which at that time had not been released in...
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by Chase Whale, March 23, 2012 9:15 PM
We have been quite loud about our love for Gareth Evan's second feature, The Raid: Redemption. That's because, well, this movie is just plain badass. Science doesn't lie! I haven't seen a film this adrenaline-fueled in a long time and...
by Chase Whale, March 23, 2012 8:55 PM
As if The Raid: Redemption wasn't already cool enough when it got picked up by Sony Pictures Classics immediately after it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, writer/director Gareth Evans and company wrangled in musicians Mike Shinoda and Joseph...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, March 23, 2012 2:12 PM
Full disclosure: I am a metal fanatic. Grew up on it. Played it professionally for 20 plus years. Still obsessed with crushing riffs and and crunchy guitars. So when I found out that there was a documentary about one...
by Jason Gorber, March 16, 2012 12:00 PM
After a week of teasing, here's the complete text of the Bill Paxton interview, conducted 60 storeys below some of the oldest rock on the planet. Twitch was there to visit the Northern Ontario location for the forthcoming post-apocalyptic cannibal...
by Jason Gorber, March 15, 2012 12:06 PM
In this last excerpt before tomorrow's complete transcription the Bil Paxton interview conducted in the subterranean set of THE COLONY - click for Part One, Part Two and Part Three - the long-time friend of James Cameron talks about a...
by Jason Gorber, March 14, 2012 12:00 PM
In the third part of the our interview with Bill Paxton - click for part one and part two - from the set of The Colony, he touches upon the five years he spent living as an Henrickson on HBO's...
by Alex Koehne, March 13, 2012 8:09 PM
After it's amazing reception at Sundance this year, including winning the Best of NEXT audience award, Sleepwalk With Me is continuing with that momentum at SXSW. Mike Birbiglia, sat down with us to discuss his debut feature, sleepwalking and...
by Jason Gorber, March 13, 2012 12:00 PM
Continuing the conversation from yesterday's talk of Kung Fu, Paxton's wide ranging interview from the set of The Colony also touched upon his thoughts on the much-maligned Apollo 18, the lauded Scorsese pic Hugo, and best picture winner The Artist. ...
by Ard Vijn, March 13, 2012 6:09 AM
(How to look composed while your high-profile debut film has its world premiere at an international festival, lesson 1...) On Wednesday the 1st of February 2012, the Icelandic crime thriller "Svartur á Leik" aka. "Black's Game" had its world premiere...
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