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Neveldine and Taylor stormed the scene in
2006 when they unleashed Crank onto the masses. Crank 2 established
their style and Gamer is the film that takes it even a few steps
further. How many fans they're going to lose along the way is hard to
predict, but if you're looking for ...
Action
Just as SARS did back in the day, human quandaries and the endless shenanigans of pharmaceutical superpowers constantly prove to be good filler for a disaster flick, and now its directors can always claim they played it softer than Roland Emmerich. So, no, not everyone but a chosen lucky ...
Other
"Film must provide audiences the opportunity to discover questions."--Lisandro Alonso.
La Libertad ( Freedom , 2001) screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival , and scored nominations and wins on the film festival circuit, including the FIPRESCI ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
Adam Sekular, Program Director for Seattle's Northwest Film Forum (NWFF) , organized the retrospective "At the Edge of the World: the Cinema of Lisandro Alonso" , which ran this past week November 11-19, 2009. All four of Alonso's films-- La Libertad (2001) , Los Muertos (2004) , ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
Let this be a lesson to you all. Never write something when you've too much wine with your dinner, as I am about to do. Cause even though I know this next promo we're going to show you is crap I simply lack the discernment qualities to say to myself, 'Andrew, don't do it. You don't ...
Adventure
There's been a slight programming change folks. But there is no doubt that this is the place for any self-respecting Chicago based horror fan to be on December 5, 2009 Presented by Movieside BUY TICKETS NOW AT: www.brownpapertickets.com Tickets are $12 - Pay once - Come and go as ...
Horror
Chicago
Night of the Creeps
The Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity
Martin Short
(And another film with no Twitch review. Allow me to put that right.)
The
Longest Night in Shanghai could have been a disaster. It's a
formula rom-com at heart, yet another riff on Pygmalion where a
glossy pan-Asian cast is headed up by two lonely beautiful people who
only need ...
Drama
Shanghai
Publicity stills and poster art for mainland director Zhang Yibai's 2008 film The Longest Night in Shanghai .
Drama
Shanghai
When this came in my jaw dropped. 15 DVDs containing more than 2000 minutes of Justice League action encased in a gorgeous, heavy duty metal sleeve. Besides all 91 episodes, correct aspect ratios, scads of commentaries, and featurettes you get an extra disc containing a retrospective ...
Other
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival which ran from 4th-22nd November 2009. Didn't see a Twitch review for this at all, so here we are.)
The
biggest problem with Yōjirō Takita's Departures is probably how
utterly predictable it is. After all, this is a ...
Drama
(Screened as part of the 23rd Leeds International Film Festival which ran from 4th-22nd November 2009.)
Virtual
worlds as depicted in film and television can be something of a sore
point for many people. It doesn't take a geek to realise filmmakers
frequently find it hard to ...
Other
It seems India has an answer to Conan or Gladiator with period epic Veer starring beefcake stud Salman Khan who consider this film as his long time dream project and touts it as the biggest Bollywood blockbuster event ever according to the blog site. From the misty pages of ...
Action
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.]
James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin opens with its most successful sequence. In a non-descript hideout in Japan, a group of Yakuza gangsters laugh aloud in the manner of mad scientists as an old-timer warns ...
Other
After six years in the making and then screened at a number of international film festivals as well as getting selected to be part of the 2006 Academy Award Nominated Shorts theatrical tour, Australian animator Chris Jones' has uploaded a low-res version of his entirely self-funded and ...
Adventure
Martin Short
Australia
Shorts
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.]
Everyone loves an underdog story. From The Bad News Bears to perhaps a more suitable comparison, Braveheart , people love seeing the little guy pull through against all odds. At its heart, John Woo's ...
Action
Red Cliff
John Woo
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review to the Twitch readership.]
There are many breathtaking, enduring images in The Road . I suppose that's largely what the film is: a succession of breathtaking images. Director John Hillcoat has created an utterly convincing ...
Drama
The Road
Viggo Mortensen
Charlize Theron
Michael Keaton
Guy Pearce
Robert Duvall
Yes, kids, it's time for the weekly Twitch Video Player Top Ten where, this week, try though she might the flying Dutch girl-thing was not quite able to catch up with the Filipino, crab battling boxer. This is not a sentence you get the opportunity to read (or write) often. ...
Comedy
The Ten
Oh, Asylum, you're wacky. What does everyone's favorite purveyor of mockbusters - by which I mean films that spoof on big blockbuster titles and skirt the edge of copyright infringement in the name of making a quick buck - do when there are no busters to mock? Simple! Grab ...
Action
James Cameron
Avatar
[Our thanks to Peter Galvin for offering his review for the Twitch readership.]
How strange it must have been to be tasked with adapting Wes Anderson's eccentric and idiosyncratic live-action style to the animation required for Fantastic Mr. Fox . Mark Gustafson was the brave ...
