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Finish Him! Keanu Reeves' MAN OF TAI CHI Gets An International Trailer!

Keanu Reeves directorial debut Man of Tai Chi is fast becoming illuminated, with this second trailer showing plenty more footage and story from the anticipated tournament film. We even get a tiny glimpse of The Raid star Iko Uwais amid... More »

By Simon de Bruyn

Unofficial, Yet Rather Amusing, Poster Art For THE RAID 2

Take that Wolf Creek 2 and your Evil Dead poster filching ways. It was a slow day at work for a certain poster designer and so shortly after the WC2 art turned up here at Twitch I had this turn... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch The First Trailer For Keanu Reeves' MAN OF TAI CHI

Though there is still no North American release date announced for Keanu Reeves' directorial effort Man Of Tai Chi the international marketing campaign is already well under way. The poster intended for the Chinese market turned up last week and... More »

By Todd Brown

Check Out A Bloody New Still From THE RAID 2: BERANDAL

Production on Gareth Huw Evans' sequel to The Raid is roughly at the half way mark now and with things humming along nicely director Evans posted a super bloody image from the shoot to his Twitter account earlier today. The... More »

By Todd Brown

BERANDAL (aka THE RAID 2) Announces New Cast, More Ass Kicking

With principal photography on Berandal - the upcoming sequel to The Raid - now just weeks away a handful of new cast members have been announced. We know star Iko Uwais will be back but who will be joining him?... More »

By Todd Brown

Leading Voices in Global Cinema

Todd Brown, Founder & Editor Toronto
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Ryland Aldrich, Festivals Editor Los Angeles
James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »

LA Film Fest 2013: Twitch Picks 12 Must-See Films

It's LA Film Fest time with LA's downtown fest kicking off tonight with Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited. Twitch will be on hand with a small crew to bring you news and reviews from around the fest. You can follow us on twitter at @TwitchFilm | @BenUmstead | @AlexKoehne... More »

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