Belgians have a hard time recognizing their own talent. That's a fact of life. We're simply not good at promoting our own stuff, even when it's obviously quite awesome. We don't expect to make things that matter in the global...
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by Onderhond, November 10, 2009 6:40 AM
[Just a couple more days before the Reel Asian International Film Festival begins on November 11th. Don't miss out]Saleh used to be a reporter. But, his stories were too sensational to put to print so he is a reporter...
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by Andrew Mack, November 8, 2009 9:59 PM
So fast he can surprise his own shadow, so precise he can split the layers of paper in a playing card, Jean Dujardin is Lucky Luke - the wild west's fastest gun and most famed hero. Lucky for villains,...
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by Todd Brown, November 7, 2009 3:33 PM
They were called 汉奸 (Hanjian), traitors to the Han race, a term which was only made official in the late 1930s, but had existed ever since the Qing dynasty. At the time of its inception, it was actually used in...
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by X, November 7, 2009 1:33 PM
[Keeping Twitch team mate Peter Martin company, Peter Galvin offers the Twitch readership his own take on The Fourth Kind. Thanks, Peter!] Another week, another "found footage" horror film. The Fourth Kind claims only half of its run-time is...
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by Michael Guillen, November 7, 2009 1:04 PM
With 5 critically acclaimed films in almost 20 years time (and only one failure) Jeunet has settled himself between the greats of contemporary cinema. Amélie was the film that granted him access to a larger international audience, but like many...
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by Onderhond, November 6, 2009 6:38 AM
As Keanu Reeves might say: "Whoa!" Deliciously bizarre, The Box, Richard Kelly's meditation on the meaning of life, masquerades as a slow-boiling mystery thriller. Building on a slender, clever premise dreamed up by the great Richard Matheson in the short...
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by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 1:04 AM
Sometimes too much sincerity can be a bad thing. I applaud the effort made by director Olatunde Osunsanmi to forge a new trail in depicting alien encounters in The Fourth Kind. With its extensive reenactments "based on actual case studies,"...
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by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 12:32 AM