by James Marsh, May 25, 2012 6:16 AM
Director Kazuya Ogawa (Pink Subaru) and producer Akira Yamaguchi (Robogeisha) attempt to put a distinctly Japanese spin on the American slasher film with Killer Motel. Assembling a cast packed with beautiful, promiscuous "sex junkies", taking them deep into the woods...
by J Hurtado, May 24, 2012 8:48 PM
The greatest benefit of writing for this Twitch is the soapbox effect. This site gives our staff the ability to champion projects that we believe in that often fall through the cracks at larger outlets. Astron-6 is a perfect...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 6:38 PM
Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral has proven to be one of the more challenging and divisive titles at Cannes this year - check the links below for Brian Clark's positive take on it - and those wondering what the chatter is...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 6:20 PM
Dear Korea, your filmmakers are trying to tell you something. You need to clean up your rivers. First they spawned a monster in The Host. And now they're just skipping right over the middle man and making the general...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 5:35 PM
Elijah's got a knife and he's not afraid to use it.The Franck Khalfoun directed remake of Bill Lustig's cult hit Maniac promises to put a bloody end to things in Cannes and horror fans are itching for any indication...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 4:20 PM
What? You expected restraint from a movie titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter? Give director Timur Bekmambetov a man with an axe and, by god, he's going to make use of it. And he does that and more in the...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 4:00 PM
Liev Schreiber narrates Felt, the dark tale of a bunny cursed to forever appear happy and friendly on the outside while his insides are anything but. Darkly hilarious, the five minute short film delights in twisting and subverting expectations...
by Todd Brown, May 24, 2012 3:00 PM
Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as his nation's pre-eminent auteur of teen angst, his...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
Leos Carax's Cannes-selected Holy Motors is a weird one. And it's got itself a weird trailer to match. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 3:00 PM
Hey Toronto! Twitch and MO Pictures - the genre imprint of Canada's Mongrel Media - will be presenting a screening of Eduardo Sanchez' Lovely Molly on Saturday, May 26th at 11pm in the Bloor Hotdocs Cinema and we want...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 2:30 PM
Walter Salles' adaptation of Jack Kerouac classic On The Road takes a bow in Cannes this year and US distributor IFC Films / Sundance Selects have just premiered a pair of clips to give audiences a first look at...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 1:55 PM
Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt (Jagten) has had a warm reception from both critics and distributors in Cannes - the competition title has already been picked up for distribution in more than twenty territories around the world - and the...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 12:15 PM
Fresh from its premiere in Cannes, two clips and seven character posters have been released from John Hillcoat's prohibition era action-drama Lawless. LAWLESS is the true story of the infamous Bondurant Brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for...
by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 11:46 AM
If ever a talent were engineered specifically for the TV minds at HBO I imagine that talent would emerge looking very much like Aaron Sorkin. The creator of The West Wing and writer of David Fincher's The Social Network,...
by Peter Martin, May 23, 2012 12:09 AM
What did you expect from Baz Luhrmann's upcoming version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? Restraint? However the finished product turns out -- it's not due for release until the end of 2012 -- the first trailer for...
by J Hurtado, May 22, 2012 10:25 PM
This Friday, May 25th, Disney and UTV are taking another stab at the Indian film market with the 2D CG animated epic, Arjun: The Warrior Prince. The film has been in the works for several years, and I recall...
by Al Young, May 22, 2012 6:26 PM
Only a week after the last trailer for Soi Cheang's car chase flick Motorway surfaced, Media Asia has uploaded another one on its official Youtube channel with even more footage of stunt driving goodness. As mentioned before, the film is produced by...
by Hugo Ozman, May 21, 2012 10:59 AM
As many of you would know, Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters now has a scheduled released date of December 2012. While the world is waiting with anticipation and WKW is presumably busy with post-production(and possibly shooting / reshooting scenes) of...
by James Marsh, May 21, 2012 4:38 AM
It doesn't really matter that Ridley Scott is releasing a prequel to his own insanely influential science fiction opus Alien next month, or that Christopher Nolan will be wrapping up his Batman trilogy a few weeks later. There is a...
by Andrew Mack, May 20, 2012 10:52 PM
Check out the North American trailer for Tom Lin's Starry Starry Night. The film has been playing this weekend (19th, 20th and 22nd) at the Seattle Film Festival, then at the New York Asian Film Festival and then opening July 6th...
by Hugo Ozman, May 19, 2012 8:23 AM
When launching his latest film Chinese Zodiac in Cannes, Jackie Chan announced that the film will be his 'last big action movie' because of factors such as his age, safety and his family. The 58-year old actor is the action choreographer,...
by Al Young, May 19, 2012 8:22 AM
As the Cannes film festival is underway, a trailer for Switch (富春山居图) has been release at this event. No official word on the story behind the 20-million budgeted action adventure film yet but from the trailer, I'm assuming leading...
by Al Young, May 19, 2012 8:22 AM
What's old is new again. Exactly two decades ago, notorious filmmaker Wong Jing produced Naked Killer, a "Girls With Guns" film that became a Hong Kong cult classic due to its graphic violence and explicit sexual nature. He then followed...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 9:06 PM
Who would have thought - when he first appeared on the scene as part of The Art Of The Devil directing collective Ronin Team - that Thailand's Kongkiat Khomsiri would emerge as one of his nation's most consistently compelling and...
by Andrew Mack, May 18, 2012 8:29 PM
The collective of Canadian filmmakers out of Geulph, Ontario who brought us If A Tree Falls and Neverlost have just wrapped up post on their next film, the psychological thriller In The House of Flies. And we have the first exclusive...
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by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 8:15 PM
San Francisco based horror directors The Butcher Brothers - helmers of Sundance selected The Violent Kind - are paying a fresh visit to their favorite family with their latest effort. A sequel to their breakout hit The Hamiltons, The...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 7:30 PM
Rubber and Wrong director Quentin Dupieux is sending his Wrong Cops to arrest the internet on May 24th. That would be the day that the cult director premieres the first chunk of his proposed Marilyn Manson starring feature film...
by James Marsh, May 18, 2012 1:22 AM
No this isn't the reptilian sequel to Million Dollar Baby (although that would be awesome), but closer to a Mainland Chinese reimagining of Greg McLean's Rogue. Taiwanese starlet Barbie Hsu (Connected, Reign Of Assassins) plays a vengeful bride-to-be who goes...
by Hugo Ozman, May 17, 2012 9:10 AM
The final trailer for Painted Skin 2: The Resurrection has just arrived! At the helm of the supernatural fantasy sequel is The Butcher, The Chef And The Swordsman director Wuershan. As you probably know already, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei and...
by Ard Vijn, May 17, 2012 6:17 AM
There's all sorts of exciting stuff happening at Cannes this year and not just in the arthouse sector, as this trailer for the Franck Khalfoun remake of "Maniac" shows. Bill Lustig's original was sleazy and gory and well, guess what:...
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