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Matthew Lee Chronicles 60 SECONDS OF SOLITUDE IN YEAR ZERO

by Matthew Lee, January 16, 2012 6:29 PM


Just before Christmas 2011 I got the opportunity to fly to Estonia to see a truly special piece of cinema; a one-off project to be screened once and once only anywhere in the world; a compilation of short films featuring...

LIFF 2011: THE GHOST CAT AND THE MYSTERIOUS SHAMISEN (1938) review

by Matthew Lee, November 23, 2011 7:45 PM


Sometimes it's fun to watch an older film and tease out an early example of such-and-such a visual or narrative trope, whether it's to get a sense of how far we've come or to admire how far a particular director...

Twitch Picks: What To Watch This Halloween, Part 2

by Charles Webb, October 29, 2011 9:00 AM


With Halloween just around the corner, we at Twitch thought we'd provide a valuable public service of listing some our contributors' top picks for movies to watch this weekend. In this, our second installment, our writers have unearthed some...

Twitch Picks: What To Watch This Halloween, Part 1

by Charles Webb, October 28, 2011 9:00 AM


With Halloween just around the corner, we at Twitch thought we'd provide a valuable public service by listing some of our contributors' top picks for movies to watch this weekend. In this, our first of two installments, our writers have... More >>

Daggers: The Short Festival Of Short Horror: A Preview

by Ben Umstead, October 18, 2011 8:47 PM


If you're in NYC and reading this then you will most definitely want to consider heading out this Thursday, the 20th, or Saturday, the 22nd to the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) for the third edition of Daggers: The...

ETRANGE 2011: A POOL WITHOUT WATER (1982) review

by Matthew Lee, September 13, 2011 3:22 PM


(Another retro screening from L'Etrange 2011, which I wanted to write a review for since I went in blind, ended up watching the whole thing and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to.) Kôji Wakamatsu's A Pool Without...

ETRANGE 2011: COME AND SEE (1985) review

by Matthew Lee, September 10, 2011 10:21 AM


(Since this astonishing film is part of the 17th L'Estrange Film Festival's retro screenings, I'm using that as an excuse to write a review.)"And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth beast say, Come and see."(Revelation)Countless...

ETRANGE 2011: BOYD RICE plays DEMENTIA review

by Matthew Lee, September 9, 2011 5:48 AM


Labelling John Parker's haunting, wonderfully bizarre little movie Dementia: Daughter of Horror as a 'cult classic' is, well, kind of unfair, no? It's a weirdly stylised piece of fifties noir, part detective story, part slasher, part revenge flick that plays...

Twitch Retro: SWEET SUBSTITUTE Review

by Kurt Halfyard, August 26, 2011 5:20 PM


[In light of his 'secret handshake' anonymity in Canadian film-circles, and a brief encounter at Fantasia this year with yours truly, you will see a few of these Twitch Retro reviews focusing on the cinema of underground/indie filmmaker Larry Kent:...

Twitch Retro: THE BITTER ASH Review

by Kurt Halfyard, August 18, 2011 8:05 PM


[In light of his 'secret handshake' anonymity in Canadian film-circles, and a brief encounter at Fantasia this year with yours truly, you will see a few of these Twitch Retro reviews focusing on the cinema of underground/indie filmmaker Larry Kent:...
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