by J Hurtado, February 22, 2012 9:55 PM
The '70s were a great time for creepy/groovy films, and Baba Yaga is a prime example of this style of film. The witch, Baba Yaga, is a component of many ancient Slavic folk tales, but I'm not sure that she...
by J Hurtado, February 21, 2012 9:46 PM
Since about the age of thirteen I have consciously immersed myself in the cultural underground. I realized, as many kids my age do, that the same things that interested the masses held little sway over my adolescent heart. I began...
by Ard Vijn, February 21, 2012 7:51 PM
(It's a haunted house story that is... wait for it... BASED ON TRUE EVENTS!!!) Hands up anyone who is surprised when a horror movie these days claims to be based on something that actually happened. For real. It's a tired...
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by James Dennis, February 21, 2012 5:53 PM
That difficult second feature from Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer director Jon Knautz slips quietly onto home video here in the UK, nearly a year after screening at Glasgow Frightfest. Marking a shift in tone, The Shrine leads us into some...
by Charles Webb, February 21, 2012 5:30 PM
It's taken me a couple of weeks beyond my initial viewing of George Clooney's adaptation of the play Farragut North to come around to exactly what I thought about it. Certainly, it's my preferred movie featuring Ryan Gosling from 2011...
by J Hurtado, February 20, 2012 9:30 PM
In the immortal words of Danny Glover, I'm getting too old for this shit.Modus Operandi is one of the glut of new school exploitation films shot with tongue firmly in cheek in the wake of financial disaster that was the...
by Peter Martin, February 20, 2012 2:13 PM
The recent death of New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid in Syria is a bracing reminder that all journalists in war zones are facing mortal danger on a regular basis. Shooting Robert King is a solid, absorbing documentary that...
by J Hurtado, February 20, 2012 9:00 AM
Kim Han-min's War of the Arrows (Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon) was the second highest grossing homegrown film in Korea in 2011. Normally, such an achievement wouldn't impress me much, as I'm the last person on this earth to equate financial...
by Canfield, February 19, 2012 5:01 PM
Sideshow's acquisition of the DC License was, to my mind the biggest collectible news of the year. The idea of Sideshow finally being able to turn their team loose on Batman and Superman and the Joker ...um....wow. I had no...
by Oggs Cruz, February 19, 2012 12:18 PM
Perhaps the primary motivation for Cathy Garcia-Molina's Unofficially Yours is to craft a love story that has graduated from the conservative romances that the Catholic Church would give their blessings to. Not all love stories happily end with the...
by J Hurtado, February 18, 2012 9:49 PM
Chilean action star Marko Zaror kinda looks like a jock and certainly doesn't fit the profile for a martial arts hero of his caliber. Most of the really big names in martial arts are smallish men with lightning speed and...
by Hugo Ozman, February 18, 2012 6:22 PM
GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX is one of the best anime series ever made, and ranks above other classics such as NEON GENESIS EVANGELION and COWBOY BEBOP in my personal list of all-time favorite animes. It is...
by Brian Clark, February 18, 2012 6:05 PM
In his follow up to The Last Circus, As Luck Would Have It (La Chispa de la Vida), Álex De La Iglesia moves out from under the literal big top and sets his sites on the mass media --...
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by J Hurtado, February 17, 2012 10:36 PM
Most film fans will recognize Fritz Lang as the man behind such classics as Metropolis, M, and Dr. Mabuse series. These films were all made during his early career when he was among the brilliant group of German filmmakers shaping...
by Joshua Chaplinsky, February 17, 2012 5:10 PM
What is there to say about Tom Six's coprophagic endurance test that hasn't already been said? About as much as Martin had to say to his victims, I would think. Consequently, this review will be the reverse of my recent...
by Brian Clark, February 17, 2012 12:08 PM
Tabu calls to mind the oft-repeated comparison between film directors and magicians. Indeed, how else but with magic could Portuguese director Miguel Gomes have created such a joyful, enthralling film from this wild mix of historical adventure, deadpan humor,...
by Scott Weinberg, February 17, 2012 12:01 PM
Maybe it's just because I've been at this "writing about movies" thing for a pretty long time, but once in a while I see a flick that doesn't even feel like a movie. It comes off more like a...
by Jim Tudor, February 17, 2012 4:01 AM
Arriving early in the year, Japan's "The Secret World of Arrietty" may go on to stand tall as one of the best films of the year. Graceful and elegant, unafraid to take its time but never boring, this adaptation...
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by Peter Martin, February 17, 2012 12:00 AM
"Let's talk about Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock, that is, the film director. Surely you've heard of him. Haven't you? Most people have heard of him. But allow me to recommend one of his motion pictures for you to watch on the...
by J Hurtado, February 16, 2012 10:20 PM
Wong Ching-Po's Revenge: A Love Story is a film close to our hearts here at Twitch. The film contains all the right elements required to make a dent in our Twitchy minds, and it does so with an incredible amount...
by Peter Gutierrez, February 16, 2012 6:00 PM
If you needed any confirmation about the deep-seated fannishness of film critics, all you'd have to do is eavesdrop on their pre-screening chatter as they find their seats or their post-screening blabfests over their beverages of choice. Rather than dazzlingly...
by Jason Gorber, February 16, 2012 4:10 PM
[Editor's note: Undefeated played at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, where Jason Gorber saw it and then reviewed it for his site, FilmFest.ca. The film was recently nominated for an Academy Award as Best Documentary (Feature) and will...
by Peter Martin, February 16, 2012 12:00 PM
An extraordinarily powerful film, and my #1 pick among films I saw in 2011, Michael Roskam's Bullhead opens tomorrow in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, courtesy of Drafthouse Films, before expanding to other U.S. cities on Friday, Feb. 24....
by Niels Matthijs, February 16, 2012 8:11 AM
Tekon Kinkurito is without a doubt one of the most unlikely Japanese animation projects ever realized. Based on an obscure manga, helmed by an American director, conceived in the bowels of Studio 4° offices, there seemed to be no commercial...
by Ard Vijn, February 15, 2012 8:06 PM
(I see people loving the film and people hating the film, but thankfully they are not the same people...) Shinya Tsukamoto's newest movie "Kotoko" shows a woman whose life is destroyed by her madness-induced hallucinations. A bold view on insanity...
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by Charles Webb, February 15, 2012 10:52 AM
Writer-director Bruce Robinson's adaptation of The Rum Diary isn't a particularly good movie, but then I'm not really sure it had a whole lot of a chance. Based on an early novel by journalist/brilliant writer/crazy person Hunter S. Thompson, the...
by J Hurtado, February 14, 2012 10:45 PM
Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet is a film with a strange hold over horror film fans built mainly upon the fact that for a very long time it has been very difficult to get a hold of. It...
by Brian Clark, February 14, 2012 5:31 PM
Despite the impressive cast and generally positive word of mouth, I still sat down to Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car wondering, "Does anybody really need another nostalgic family comedy/drama? What could Thornton possibly have to add to this...
by Peter Martin, February 14, 2012 3:28 PM
I'd love to say that Elise Robertson, actress turned director, brings something new or fresh to the "serial killer in the frozen woods" sub-genre, thanks to her distaff perspective on horror. While her work is certainly competent, however, she's not...
by Charles Webb, February 14, 2012 10:29 AM
It's a great piece of fortuitous timing, scheduling, or whatever that two films featuring what feels like the breadth of leading man Gregory Peck's acting career reached Blu-ray recently. Spellbound and To Kill A Mockingbird, separated by a gap of...
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