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TOPAZ DUO's Musical Frequencies Are Calculated To Bring You Fun And Happiness!

by Todd Brown, April 23, 2012 12:30 PM


Got a problem with space demons? Call combination lounge singers / Cosmic Exorcists Topaz Duo! Their musical frequencies are calculated to bring you fun and happiness!A cult musical scifi adventure produced in Qatar, we brought the first teaser for...

Review: FOOTNOTE achieves moving feats of note

by Jim Tudor, April 12, 2012 9:29 PM


What is it to love your enemy? That's not a question I hear very often at the movies. That's a question I hear at church. It's been said that the two, movie going and church going, aren't as different as... More >>

Dallas IFF Artistic Director James Faust Offers Up 10 Picks For Twitch Readers

by J Hurtado, April 11, 2012 11:45 PM


The Dallas International Film Festival is mere days away, and I've been slacking in my duty to inform you all of the great films playing here in my city.  Several of the films I've had the opportunity to see either...

Brace Yourselves For The World's First Arab SciFi Comedy Musical

by Todd Brown, April 10, 2012 5:15 PM


Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Topaz Duo. Lounge singers and Quantum Exorcists they battle evil intergalactic forces with their customized musical weaponry and - of course - love.The first screen battle for these would-be saviors of Earth -...

Series Preview: New Directors/New Films Offers Up a Feast of Fresh Cinematic Treats

by Ben Umstead, March 19, 2012 12:30 PM


2012 marks the 41st year in which The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art present to New York City audiences an intriguing and exciting new set of films and filmmakers from across the globe in...

Series Preview: Nina Menkes Retro at New York's Anthology Film Archives

by Peter Gutierrez, March 8, 2012 9:40 PM


"It took me a long time to understand my own film." That's writer-director Nina Menkes on what may be her best known work, The Bloody Child (1996). To say that it uses reverse-chronology to tell the based-on-true-events tale of a...

NYC Happenings: Hong Sang-soo At MoMI And Asghar Farhadi At FSLC

by Ben Umstead, March 8, 2012 12:00 PM


In addition to some of the films playing this year's New Directors/New Films -- running March 21st - April 1st at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA (keep an eye out for Twitch's coverage) -- springtime in NYC...

THIS IS NOT A FILM Review

by Dustin Chang, February 27, 2012 9:00 AM


This is Not a Film is not a film. Not in a conventional sense anyway. Rather, it's a 75-minute documentation of an idling film director who has been banned from filmmaking, screenwriting, leaving the country and giving interviews for...

US Trailer For Iranian Director Jafar Panahi's THIS IS NOT A FILM

by Hugo Ozman, February 3, 2012 5:34 AM


Director Jafar Panahi is a key figure in Iranian cinema, having made some amazing films during his career like THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE. Sadly he was banned from making films for 20 years and placed under house arrest...

Watch The Sales Trailer For Tobe Hooper's DJINN

by Todd Brown, January 10, 2012 4:40 PM


Just days after the first images from Tobe Hooper's Djinn first surfaced along with rumors that the film was being buried at the behest of the royal family of the United Arab Emirates - rumors since denied by producers...
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