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AFM 09: Marrese Crump And Jija Yanin Cast In Untitled Prachya Pinkaew Project

AFM 2009, Action, Asia, Martial Arts

[UPDATE: We originally reported that the project referred to here was Prachya Pinkaew's Ta Bang Marn but we have just learned that this is not the case. Ta Bang Marn is in production now while this project will not... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 9, 2009 10:56 PM

WANT TO ATTEND THE MIDWEST PREMIERE OF REC 2, MEET FRED DEKKER, EDUARDO SANCHEZ AND WENDY ROBIE ALL FOR $12?!

Exploitation, Horror

This is the first of a few stories I'll run on this event cuz I'm truly excited about it. So be on the lookout for a ticket giveaway, interviews and some other press. Chicagos own TERROR IN THE AISLES 3... More >>

by Canfield, November 9, 2009 4:44 PM

ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING UP FOR PRE-ORDER

Book Reviews

While I'm getting my holiday gift guide together I thought I'd make special mention of the amazing work being done over at Centipede Press. I was so intrigued at the variety and quality of work being done there that I... More >>

by Canfield, November 9, 2009 4:06 PM

First Images Surface From Brian Yuzna's Giant Scorpion Flick AMPHIBIOUS

Asia, Cult, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Still best known from his long-running association with the Re-Animator films - some of which he directed, others of which he produced - Brian Yuzna has been absent from the directors' chair for a good few years now but... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 9, 2009 1:43 PM

The Makers Of SEVEN Reincarnate PETER PROUD

Thriller, USA & Canada

David Fincher and Andrew Kevin Walker are doing it again. The last time the director and writer teamed up the result was Seven, an instant classic to fans of crime thrillers around the globe and the film that immediately... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 9, 2009 1:34 PM

AFM 09: Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung Star In Pang Ho-Cheung's LOVE IN A PUFF

AFM 2009, Asia, Comedy, Drama

Though director Pang Ho-Cheung is still in post-production on his slasher picture Dream Home, Media Asia have already announced his next effort. Sounding very much like a Kevin Smith sort of indie-comedy, Love In A Puff will star Shawn... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 9, 2009 1:05 PM

Lee Joon-Ik Preparing Sequel to 2003 Action Historical

Action, Asia, Comedy, Drama

Remakes have become the main topic of this season in Chungmuro, with a seemingly endless array of titles and even a few major directors (Park Chan-Wook, Im Sang-Soo, Kim Ji-Woon) slated for such projects, trend which has sort of relegated... More >>

by X, November 9, 2009 12:31 PM

AFM 09: DETECTIVE DEE Sees Tsui Hark In Epic Form.

AFM 2009, Action, Asia, Martial Arts

For fans of large scale martial arts film, Tsui Hark's Detective Dee is awaited with a mix of excitement and trepidation. Excitement because this is a truly classic character, perfectly suited to the big screen, executed on a simply... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 9, 2009 12:10 PM

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Reviews

Nuit Noire review

Continental Europe & Russia, Cult

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... More >>

by Onderhond, November 10, 2009 6:40 AM

Reel Asian 09: When the Full Moon Rises

Action, Asia, Comedy, Cult, Horror, Musical, Reel Asian 2009

[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... More >>

by Andrew Mack, November 8, 2009 9:59 PM

AFM 09: LUCKY LUKE Review

AFM 2009, Action, Comedy, Continental Europe & Russia, Western

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,... More >>

by Todd Brown, November 7, 2009 3:33 PM

[MAINLAND REVIEWS] 风声 (The Message)

Asia, Drama, Thriller

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... More >>

by X, November 7, 2009 1:33 PM

THE FOURTH KIND: Review

Horror, USA & Canada

[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... More >>

by Michael Guillen, November 7, 2009 1:04 PM

Micmacs A Tire-Larigot review

Comedy, Continental Europe & Russia

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... More >>

by Onderhond, November 6, 2009 6:38 AM

Review: THE BOX

Cult, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller, USA & Canada

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... More >>

by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 1:04 AM

Review: THE FOURTH KIND

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thriller, USA & Canada

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,"... More >>

by Peter Martin, November 6, 2009 12:32 AM

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Twitch-o-meter

[BACK IN THE DAY - 01] 영원한 제국 (Eternal Empire) and Chungmuro's Love-Hate for History

Asia, Drama, Thriller

by X, November 3, 2009 5:21 AM

[Starting with this installment, we'll feature some of the most interesting films to grace Korean shores from before the mid 1990s renaissance, which does have its roots (amongst a million other reasons) in late 80s social protest films, the "proto-blockbusters" of the early-to-mid 90s democratization and the VHS blank-filling impetus of chaebol groups, but symbolically started with the success of...

Lights! Camera! ZOMBIES!

by Ben Umstead, October 27, 2009 8:00 PM

The idea for this T-o-M is simple enough (hell it's probably been done before!)... a list of directors who should make (or should have made) a zombie movie. After all, zombies are the new vampires... or is that the other way around?First and foremost this is supposed to be fun. I didn't set up any real criteria, other than to... More >>

Shinya Tsukamoto is ready for his extreme close-up, Mr. deMille!

by Ard Vijn, October 22, 2009 5:51 PM

We all know and love Shinya Tsukamoto for being one of the most exciting directors working today. It helps that he isn't afraid to create genre movies, that he frequently manages to transcend those genres and that he has a wicked sense of humor. But Tsukamoto-San is also a very accomplished actor, able to play both nice and creepy roles...

Interviews

HASHMATSA / DEFAMATION (2009): Interview With Yoav Shamir

Documentary, Middle East

by Michael Guillen, November 3, 2009 2:46 PM

Simone Bitton's Rachel took the bullet for Yoav Shamir's Hashmatsa / Defamation (2009), which I would have predicted to be the target of outrage at the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF). By the time Defamation finally screened, voices were perhaps already hoarse... More >>

STREET ART SAN FRANCISCO: MISSION MURALISMO: Interview with Annice Jacoby

Book Reviews, USA & Canada

by Michael Guillen, November 2, 2009 5:54 PM

"Like the Loisada of New York or the Left Bank of Paris," Annice Jacoby writes in the introduction to her visually stunning publication Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo (Abrams, 2009:29), "the Mission is a café society that scoffs at excess, complains about money,... More >>

ARGENTINE CINEMA: LOS SANTOS SUCIOS / THE DIRTY SAINTS (2009)--Q&A With Luis Ortega

Cult, Drama, Mexico & South America, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Toronto Film Festival 2009

by Michael Guillen, October 30, 2009 3:04 PM

Speaking with Diana Sanchez at the start of this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), she advised that one of her criteria for choosing Latino films for TIFF is to determine the films that most characterize the cinematic landscape of any given country's national... More >>

From the festival: AFM 2009

News

AFM 09: Billy Zane's Finest Hour.

AFM 2009, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, USA & Canada

by Todd Brown, November 1, 2009 11:53 PM

Err ... not so much. Nice wig, though.... More >>

AFM 09: Following Up The KILL SPEED Smear Campaign.

AFM 2009, Action, USA & Canada

by Todd Brown, November 5, 2009 4:26 AM

You can't miss it if you're here at the American Film Market. Mass emails, sign-waving picketers, and rolling sign trucks claiming that action picture Kill Speed is stolen goods and any purchase or sale of the film a violation... More >>

AFM 09: This Truck Carries a Load Of Evil!

AFM 2009, Cult, Horror, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand

by Todd Brown, November 5, 2009 3:44 AM

Whatever will all those many Twilight fans make of Xavier Samuel when they start digging through his filmography after Eclipse hits? Not only does the young Aussie have the lead role in stellar horror picture The Loved Ones but... More >>

AFM 09: STAKE LAND Promo Impresses!

AFM 2009, Horror, USA & Canada

by Todd Brown, November 5, 2009 3:22 AM

Given the widespread success of Ti West's House of the Devil - the first product of a production relationship between MPI Media and Larry Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix - the expectations are high for Jim Mickle's Stake Land. The... More >>

AFM 09: Nishimura, Iguchi, Sono, Miike And Shimomura Whip Up A Sushi Typhoon!

AFM 2009, Action, Asia, Comedy, Cult, Exploitation, Horror, Martial Arts, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

by Todd Brown, November 4, 2009 12:00 PM

Break out the rain slickers, kids, because there's a massive spray of blood on the horizon. Japan's Nikkatsu studios have just announced the creation of Sushi Typhoon, a goofily titled new sub-label that will exist to create the sort... More >>

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