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 James Marsh, April 24, 2012 5:29 AM
The last five years have seen the meteoric rise of Dante Lam, from hack director-for-hire to the forefront of the Hong Kong action scene. A string of films that began with The Sniper, followed by The Beast Stalker, Fire of...
by Ben Umstead, April 23, 2012 5:40 PM
The sense of dread and terror first time director Jeremy Power Regimbal sets in the opening moments of Replicas is potent, and remains so, until that creeping, crawling something-is-a-miss turns into out and out hysteria by the film's mid-point. It...
by Niels Matthijs, April 23, 2012 6:07 AM
Nightfall is what you call quality genre film making. It's a film that raises clichés to an artform. There are no surprises, no deviations from the norm, but the execution is simply flawless. Amidst an endless list of competing police...
by Peter Gutierrez, April 20, 2012 5:31 PM
As anyone reading, or writing for, Twitch will probably tell you, there's a fine line between genre conventions and outright clichés. To an outsider, someone who's not a fan of a particular genre, anything that looks somewhat familiar can...
by Peter Martin, April 19, 2012 2:26 PM
[Penumbra opens in limited release in the U.S. tomorrow and will also be available widely via various VOD platforms. Here's my review from Fantastic Fest last fall.] No movie is set unintentionally on the day of a solar eclipse,...
by Hugo Ozman, April 19, 2012 8:34 AM
Based on Don DeLillo's novel, COSMOPOLIS is 'a day in the life of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old New York stock market multi-millionaire, as he crosses Manhattan in his customized limousine to go for a haircut. His cross-town journey becomes an...
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by Canfield, April 18, 2012 10:27 AM
I submit to you the latest review reminder roundup. It was an interesting batch of stuff last month. Highlights for me def included the emergence of Battle Royale and Wizards on Blu as well as the release of Melancholia and...
by Todd Brown, April 17, 2012 2:30 PM
Hey, look! It's Bobby Briggs being a badass! And then getting his ass kicked by a little kid which, admittedly, reduces the badass factor a little bit. Twin Peaks veteran Dana Ashbrook plays the lead villain in Steven C...
by Todd Brown, April 17, 2012 10:58 AM
Pablo Trapero's Carancho was quite simply one of the best films of its year, the Cannes selected dramatic thriller a slow burning exercise in moral decay. At the heart of Carancho was Ricardo Darin and his astounding performance as...
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