Review: SOMETHING IN THE AIR Inspires Youthful Passion And Energy

At the outset, Olivier Assayas's Something in the Air is a biographical nostalgia piece about growing up in the aftermath of the May '68 events in France. But what it really is, is a social experiment in which 18-19 year... More »

By Dustin Chang

Review: POST TENEBRAS LUX Brings The Devil Home

As I review more and more films out of festivals, I'm beginning to notice a pattern: I'm much more forgiving and enthusiastic about films that shoot for the moon and fall somewhere short than with serviceable movies trodding well-worn territory... More »

By Brian Clark

3 New ONLY GOD FORGIVES Clips Give The People What They Want

The people in this case being those who didn't wish Drive was more like The Fast and The Furious. Indeed, here are three new clips from Nicolas Winding Refn's Cannes-selected Only God Forgives. While I don't want to spoil even... More »

By Brian Clark

Opening: KON TIKI Drifts Deep Into Dangerous Waters

"If you take anything away from Kon-Tiki, it's how amazingly brave the pioneers of exploration were." That's how Bill Graham began his review of Kon-Tiki, which we published recently during the Dallas International Film Festival. The film, directed by Joachim... More »

By Peter Martin

Joyeux Noel! PANIQUE AU VILLAGE (A TOWN CALLED PANIC) Returns With New Christmas Special!

Here's an early Christmas present worth getting excited about: Panique Au Village - best known on these shores as A Town Called Panic - is returning to screens later this year with a brand new Christmas special. For those unfamiliar,... More »

By Todd Brown

DEAD SNOW Team Returns With KILL BULJO 2, Watch The Teaser Now!

Before there was Dead Snow, there was Kill Buljo. An irreverent action comedy that sort of spoofed Kill Bill whilst very much ripping into the stereotypes of northern Norway - home to director Tommy Wirkola and writer-star Stig Frode Henriksen... More »

By Todd Brown

Cannes Selected BORGMAN Delivers A Dark And Twisted Teaser

The selection of Alex Van Warmerdam's Borgman as part of the competition program in Cannes marks the first time a Dutch film has vied for the top prizes on the Croisette in thirty eight years. And long time fans of... More »

By Todd Brown

Review: IN THE HOUSE is François Ozon's Best in Years

In François Ozon's new film In the House, it is clear from the title sequence on a school notebook and as Fabrice Luchini's jaded high school literature teacher cynically commenting on the new rule on school uniforms in the first... More »

By Dustin Chang

New Trailer For Refn's ONLY GOD FORGIVES Features Fresh Footage, Fresh Violence

Freshly announced in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, a new international trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives has arrived online boasting a decent amount of new footage, an increased focus on the story and a bit more... More »

By Todd Brown

Science, Faith And Suicide In THE HOUR OF THE LYNX

Director Soren Kragh-Jacobsen returns to the big screen with The Hour Of The Lynx, a dark drama starring Sofie Grabol - the lead in the original Danish version of The Killing - in a story that challenges notions of science,... More »

By Todd Brown

Antonio Tublen's LFO Will Control Your Brain With Science!

Sweden's Antonio Tublen wants to control your mind, and he has the exact tools to do it. It all comes down to sound, you see, specific frequencies that make the human mind incredibly open to suggestion. It's a fearsome power,... More »

By Todd Brown

Behold The Camel Riding, Yodeling Norwegians.

Meet Polkabjorn and Heine Bugge, a pair of young men from Norway who like to yodel. Specifically, they like to yodel popular hits from the 1930s. Which somehow got them invited to Israel, whence they were accompanied by a camera... More »

By Todd Brown

Watch New ROMEO AND JULIET Unfold In Classic Style

It's not revisionist and it's not flashy -- in other words, it's not Baz Luhrmann's modernistic vision. But it does feature 16-year-old Hailee Steinfeld and a script by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellows. The new version of Romeo and Juliet... More »

By Peter Martin

James McAvoy Wallows In FILTH (Trailer)

Cussing and vomiting and sniffing cocaine and making love like it's going out of style, James McAvoy looks like he's completely out of control. And ... he's a cop! The official synopsis for Filth, based on a novel by Irvine... More »

By Peter Martin

Karma Issues A Dire Warning In Clip From Patrik Eklund's SYNDROMEDA

Patrik Eklund needs no introduction around these parts, the dry wit of the Oscar nominated Swedish director making him a big favorite right from his earliest short films. Eklund's debut feature, Flicker, was a major winner at Fantastic Fest last year... More »

By Todd Brown

The Director Of TAPED Returns With Another Taut Thriller In DAYLIGHT

While you may not recognize the name of Dutch director Diederik van Rooijen there's a very good chance that you're either familiar with his work already or will be very soon. You see, van Rooijen was the writer and director... More »

By Todd Brown

Truly Haunting Trailer For Dutch Doc DEAD BODY WELCOME

When you deal with as much genre film as we do here at Twitch, you see a lot of death on screen. Or at least you pretend you do. Which is why, when you stumble across the real thing, it... More »

By Todd Brown

Eureka Nabs UK Rights to Geoffrey Enthoven's COME AS YOU ARE

Eureka Entertainment announced today that they have picked up UK theatrical and DVD rights for Geofrrey Enthoven's award-winning Belgian tragi-comic road movie, Come As You Are (aka Hasta La Vista). The film tells the story of three handicapped Flemish lads... More »

By James Marsh

Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Claude Chabrol's LE BEAU SERGE and LES COUSINS

Welcome to a new regular feature looking at the new releases from Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. It will publish on release day, whenever a new title (or titles) hits the shelves, taking in the film(s) in question and... More »

By James Marsh

Ryan Gosling Is Looking For A Fight In Red Band ONLY GOD FORGIVES Trailer

Ryan Gosling reunites with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn for the upcoming Only God Forgives and to say that anticipation has been running high since the project was announced is a bit of an understatement. And now it's time for... More »

By Todd Brown

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James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

China Beat: What did China See in IRON MAN 3?

Much has already been written, both on these pages and many others, about the landmark Hollywood-China co-production that is Marvel and DMG Entertainment's Iron Man 3. The film, directed by Shane Black, is the third solo outing for Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark, and has proved a phenomenal success around... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 2: I'M IN LOVE WITH EVERYBODY'S GIRL

CHAPTER 4: THE PHILOSOPHY OF ANNA KARINA AND BUTT PLUGSI'm sitting outside at a small Café that my editor told me to meet him at. I'm a 10 minute walk from the Marche Du Film convention hall and I'm still waiting for my editor to arrive so he take guide... More »

CINEMA HOLOCAUST ON THE FRENCH RIVIERA, PART 1: THOSE GOD DAMN FILM BLOGGERS

MIKE'S JOURNAL. MAY 13. MORNINGI wake up sometime around five AM. My flight to France doesn't leave until five PM. I should be there for security check in sometime around 3PM. There is no reason for me to be up this early but I'm feeling anxious. I have an itch... More »

FEAR & LOATHING AT CANNES, PART 1: A MAN'S HANDSHAKE SAYS EVERYTHING

CHAPTER ONE: THE BIGGER THE SIDEBURNS, THE BIGGER THE ASSHOLE. I've hit the big time now. I've finally made it. I'm in like Flint from here on out. I'm boarding a plane to France where I'll be attending the Cannes Film Festival for the first time.No more unpaid blogging from... More »

Destroy All Monsters: Leo DiCaprio and the Myth of the Chick Flick

I have a running argument about whether or not movie box office is a zero-sum game. I tend to attack film earning potential from the "mother of two" perspective - which is that while yes, it's nice to believe that if a film is good it has a theoretically unlimited... More »