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 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...
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