by Ard Vijn, February 15, 2012 8:28 PM
(...and blood and sperm of course, because he is Shinya Tsukamoto after all.) Last year Tsukamoto Shinya visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam as part of a group of directors promoting the excellent "Kaidan: Horror Classics" and Twitch put up...
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by Ard Vijn, February 11, 2012 10:49 AM
(...and blood and sperm of course, because he is Miike Takashi after all.) This year the popular and VERY prolific Japanese director Miike Takashi visited the International Film Festival Rotterdam to present his newest film... well, his newest finished one...
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by Fred Ambroisine, February 10, 2012 3:21 PM
From 1970 to the 2000's, Raymond Chow produced more than 150 movies in Hong Kong and Hollywood, the former Shaw Brothers production manager rising to stardom along with his greatest discovery: Bruce Lee.Chow has not given interviews for years...
by Alex Koehne, February 2, 2012 9:33 PM
If you read my review of John Dies at the End, you know that I had a great time watching the movie, at midnight, in the Egyptian Theater during The Sundance FIlm Festival. Introduced by a bushy bearded Paul Giamatti who...
by Jason Gorber, January 28, 2012 4:00 PM
Yesterday afternoon I had the chance to sit down with Daniel Radcliffe, star of the new Hammer / Alliance co-production The Woman In Black.In person he's a bundle of energy, quick with a smile or deprecating joke, but never lacking...
by Kurt Halfyard, January 27, 2012 12:03 AM
It has indeed been nearly 40 years since the release of the British cult film about cults: The Wicker Man. Director Robin Hardy has a fairly sparse resume in the ensuing years, only a single film, and a single...
by Charles Webb, January 23, 2012 10:00 AM
This week Real Steel hits DVD and Blu-ray in North America. My review is forthcoming, but no one was more surprised than I was at the how effective the mix of sports and shamelessly earnest heartstring-pulling drama was thanks to...
by Canfield, January 19, 2012 9:56 AM
Finally getting to see Cold Sweat, as well as Penumbra at this years Fantastic Fest cemented in my mind that Adrian Garcia Bogliano is a filmmaker to watch. That such flimsy plots could still deliver such suspense and outright genre...
by Chase Whale, January 17, 2012 10:24 PM
Filmmaker Kat Candler is a goddamned rarity. Having been in the industry over 10 years now, she's constantly working on new projects, winning awards, and remains one of the most down-to-earth people I've ever met. I would put her...
by Peter Martin, January 5, 2012 4:44 PM
As Peter Gutierrez expressed in his recent review for Twitch, coming-of-age films are often "too facile, their emphases clouded by an adult perspective that's slyly looking back rather than truly honoring the young person who should be at the center...
by Simon de Bruyn, January 4, 2012 10:15 AM
Nash Edgerton is one of the most exciting cats in filmmaking today. It's strange to still call him upcoming, but while his style is signature; his videos insanely viral; his fans among the most famous; and his mark on indie...
by Charles Webb, January 3, 2012 11:00 AM
Professional wrestler and fledgling actor Dave Bautista plays a heavy in the upcoming second sequel to the Scorpion King franchise, The Scorpion King 3: The Battle for Redemption, which hits home video on January 10th. Bautista joins MMA star Kimbo...
by Dustin Chang, January 2, 2012 9:00 AM
When I heard that Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese-born auteur of Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo and I Come with the Rain, was going to be adapting Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood back in 2008, I couldn't be happier. I honestly...
by Matthew Lee, December 18, 2011 9:54 PM
Filp Tegstedt's Marianne stood out among some pretty impressive genre productions at the Leeds Film Festival 2011 given the Swedish director's debut almost doesn't feel like a conventional horror film at all. The story of a man eaten alive by...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 16, 2011 12:00 PM
Chances are that if you love movies you know who Roger Corman is. If you're not sure, however, about all the things that he's accomplished in his nearly sixty-year career, you may want to check out his page at IMDb--but...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 15, 2011 10:00 AM
In an awards season awash with nostalgia for the movie culture of yore, it's nice to see a bit of living history up on the screen in the form of Alex Stapleton's Corman's World. No question that Hugo and The...
by Charles Webb, December 7, 2011 11:00 AM
After watching the Lethal Ladies Collection DVD recently, I got curious about the line of 70's and 80's exploitation fare from publisher Shout! Factory and what has gone into developing this line. Why these titles? How were they going about...
by Charles Webb, November 29, 2011 3:01 PM
Today, the horror-comedy anthology Chillerama hits DVD and Blu-ray via Image Entertainment. Featuring mini features written and directed by indie horror filmmakers Tim Sullivan, Adam Rifkin, Adam Green, and Joe Lynch, the four-piece film has spent much of the last...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 29, 2011 12:57 PM
For some, the art of filmmaking is a deeply personal passion that reaches far into that person's soul and extracts their own perspective, to be splashed across the screen for others to ponder, and appreciate. For others, not so...
by Ben Umstead, November 21, 2011 12:30 PM
[A final thank you to Diva Velez for her coverage from the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two DVD release at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, Florida. What follows are highlight from the...
by Charles Webb, November 21, 2011 11:23 AM
This summer's Conan the Barbarian saw pulp novelist Robert E. Howard's brutal antihero back on the screen for the first time in a quarter century. With Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa in the lead and Marcus Nispel (Texas Chainsaw...
by Ben Umstead, November 20, 2011 8:00 PM
[Once again thanks goes to Diva Velez for the following interview with four-time Harry Potter helmer, David Yates, which took place in early November during the Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part Two DVD press conference at the Wizarding...
by Ben Umstead, November 20, 2011 1:33 PM
[A hearty thank you to the Diva Velez, aka The Lady Miz Diva, for the following interview with Star Wars/Harry Potter veteran Warwick Davis. This interview was conducted during the press conference for the DVD release of 'Harry Potter And...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 19, 2011 5:45 PM
ELITE SQUAD: The Enemy Within is the second in writer/director Jose Padilha's intricate and operatic crime duology, about the turmoil and extreme violence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, between the police and gangs, who are interminably locked...
by Ross Miller, November 19, 2011 10:08 AM
Earlier this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival I had the chance to see Calvet (read my review here), a powerful and gripping documentary about a French painter called Jean Marc Calvet who turned his troubled life around. It...
by Hugo Ozman, November 17, 2011 2:14 PM
SINNERS AND SAINTS is one of the best action films I have seen in 2011, and it was an absolute pleasure for me to catch up with the film's director William Kaufman to talk about SINNERS, his new projects,...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 16, 2011 6:45 PM
Tom Savini should need no introduction. He IS The Master Of Splatter, the legendary and twisted visionary behind so many iconic moments in horror cinema they are too many to recount.This last October, Twitch contributors and Night Crew hosts...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 15, 2011 9:32 PM
You know Martin P. Robinson. While his name might not be instantly familiar, chances are you've seen his work. For the last 30 years he has been part of The Jim Henson Company, where he began when he took...
by Joshua Chaplinsky, November 14, 2011 1:44 PM
Herzog's latest, the death row documentary Into The Abyss, opened in select theaters on Friday, November 11th. Werner Herzog is an imposing cinematic figure whose body of work casts a very long shadow. On warm summer days children frolic in...
by Peter Martin, November 11, 2011 2:58 PM
"I was very much a part of that world." Nick Hamm's Killing Bono provides an insider's view of the UK music scene in the late 70s and 80s, as U2 ascended into the stratosphere, leaving their high school compatriots...
