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Grimmfest 2012, Day 1: COMEDOWN Is One Hell Of A Rush

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Grimmfest 2012, Day 1: COMEDOWN Is One Hell Of A Rush

Grimmfest 2012, Day 1: COMEDOWN Is One Hell Of A Rush

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 04:30 AM PDT

Grimmfest 2012 kicked off in earnest - after the special preview night on Wednesday 4th October - with a gala screening of the world premiere for Comedown, the new film from Mehnaj Huda (Kidulthood) swapping social commentary for stalk-and-slash. To make it a double bill of London-themed splatter, they followed this up with a screening of the horror-comedy Cockneys vs. Zombies, and rounded things off with the first of four advance slots for last year's Some Guy Who Kills People - for which the festival crew are handling the UK release, the first film on their new distribution venture (as Grimm Up North Entertainment). Having followed Grimmfest for the past few years it was very gratifying seeing their efforts rewarded by a healthy turnout, with...

Sitges 2012: VANISHING WAVES Wins Méliés d'Or For Best European Fantastic Film

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

It was late to the party, having just been placed in competition after winning the Méliés d'Argent at Lund this weekend, but Vanishing Waves, the much-loved, erotic sci-fi romance from Lithuania, took home the Méliés d'Or (that's "gold" in French) award for best European fantastic film. Peter Volkart's Room 666 took the award for best short.  Obviously, I'm thrilled with the decision, not only because I really liked the movie, but because the film once again shows how effectively high-art and genre elements can blend together, which is a truth that that always bears repeating. Also, I'm pretty sure it's been a while since a film from Lithuania was honored with a prestigious genre prize. And just so your clear about the organization and the...

TRIAD Trailer Delivers Old School Hong Kong Gangster Thrills

Posted: 05 Oct 2012 02:57 AM PDT

Emperor Motion Pictures has just released a trailer for its forthcoming gangster drama, Triad, and it looks like a real blast from the past. Clearly set in the present day, Triad nevertheless exudes an old school 90s vibe with its trio of young wannabes engaging in all number of bloody turf wars on the streets of Mong Kok when not chasing girls, getting gang tattoos or declaring their undying loyalty to each other. The film's Category III rating clearly isn't simply for graphic triad activity either, as was the case for Johnnie To's Election, as Daniel Chan's film looks incredibly violent and brimming with chopper action. William Chan, Patrick Tam and Eric Tsang's son Derek head up the cast, which also includes Michelle Wai and Irene...

UPDATED: Listen to ALL of Adele's Bond Theme SKYFALL

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:00 PM PDT

UPDATED: You can now listen to the complete version of Adele's "Skyfall" track below!I gotta be honest, when it comes to all things Bond-related I find it pretty hard to be truly critical. I love everything about the Bond universe, from Moonraker's gondola-hovercraft to George Lazenby's kilt to Denise Richards' nuclear physicist and Die Another Day's invisible car. I'm simply incapable of stepping back and judging any individual elements of the series as anything other than parts of the tower of cinematic awesome that is the James Bond franchise. This blinkered appreciation even extends as far as the series' theme songs. While nobody is going to argue with Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" or Wings' "Live And Let Die" being championed as classics, I will...

It's Crowe VS. Wahlberg In The Trailer For BROKEN CITY

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:40 PM PDT

Allen Hughes, one half of the brotherly duo behind the 2002 From Hell adaption, is stepping out on his own for Broken City, Hollywood's latest cinematic spin on the world of regional politics, scandals and just general douche-baggery and/or bad-assery. Russel Crowe plays the seemingly beloved mayor of New York, who hires ex-cop Mark Wahlberg to tail his wife (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones), whom he thinks is having an affair. Now with a title like Broken City you just know that's the plot to get things crumbling even further. From the looks of this first trailer it really feels like both Wahlberg and Crowe could do these kinds of roles in their sleep, though they also appear to be bringing their usual level of brevity,...

Wanna Break Into Bollywood? Ticket 2 Bollywood In NYC Might Be Just What You Need

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:30 PM PDT

Here at Twitch we've watched Bollywood begin to expand outside of India in new and exciting ways over the last few years. Big Bollywood blockbusters regularly crack the box office top 10 in the US, and events featuring Bollywood stars can create mass hysteria as far from India as Singapore and Toronto, Canada. If you've ever wondered what it takes to break into the world of Bollywood either in front of or behind the camera, this event might be just what you're looking for.  Look for special Twitch discount information at the bottom of this post, after the press release.Molecule Communications has put together a fascinating looking workshop weekend in NYC on October 6th-7th that is packed with amazing talent and really cool looking seminars....

Akshay Kumar Gives Us Deja Vu In The Trailer For KHILADI 786

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:15 PM PDT

2012 has been a very busy, and mostly successful, year for Bollywood action star Akshay Kumar. Of the four films in which he's played a role this year, two have been mega-blockbusters (Housefull 2, Rowdy Rathore), one has been a surprise critical hit (OMG), and the last was a momentous financial disaster (Joker). Normally, this would be the time when an actor takes a breather and starts to plan next year, but Akshay Kumar says FUCK THAT, and he's going to bring back the crazy action packed adventures of the Khiladi (the boss), the role that made him a star back in the '90s.The brightly colored, wire-fu, crazy car, goofball action filled trailer for Khiladi 786 says that the film is reviving Bollywood's biggest franchise,...

VIFF 2012 Review: THE COMEDY Is Hilarious, Transgressive, Brilliant, and Most People Will Find It Unwatchable

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 07:00 PM PDT

I've never set foot in Vancouver, but I did see The Comedy at BAMcinemaFest back in June. That's right, I saw it before it was cool. And since there's no full review of the film in the Twitch archive, it has fallen to me to remedy the situation. Because even though the film itself is wrong, wrong, wrong; ye gods, it just feels so right.  But I'm guessing most people won't share that opinion.Let me get this out of the way right up front: I hate hipsters. Who doesn't? I mean, even hipsters hate hipsters, they just don't know or won't admit they are hipsters. And if you're only pretending to be a hipster out of irony, guess what? You're a fucking hipster. In fact,...

COMPETITION: Win a Copy Of Horror Comedy REDD INC. On Blu-ray (Australia Only)

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 06:00 PM PDT

Thanks to our friends at Pinnacle Films, we have two copies of Redd Inc. on Blu-ray to give away to our Australian readers. This is an entertaining horror comedy from director Daniel Krige and writers Anthony O'Connor and Jonathon Green. The legendary Tom Savini (Friday the 13th, Dawn of the Dead) was the film's special make-up effects supervisor. Synopsis: Six captive office workers are chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Nicholas Hope). Redd assigns his 'staff' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences. Under his twisted managerial style, written warnings are carved into foreheads, filing cabinets overflow with body parts and a trip to Human Resources is likely to end in a grisly...

Nathan Phillips Leads Apocalyptic Thriller THESE FINAL HOURS

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

Apocalyptic science fiction or movies set in a dystopian future have been a staple of Australian cinema since 1970s classics Mad Max and The Cars That Ate Paris - and even arguably as far back as the 1959 Gregory Peck post-apocalyptic drama On The Beach. We're starting to see a resurgence in this genre now with two high-class projects, Zak Hilditch's These Final Hours and David Michôd's The Rover, set to start filming in Australia in the coming months. These Final Hours is especially exciting as it's the first major feature from writer/director Zak Hilditch, who has been building up to this for years with a string of indie features and - significantly - the festival-acclaimed short film Transmission, which was made as a dystopian companion piece...

Well Beyond Bollywood: SAIFF Announces Eclectic 2012 Line-up

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 03:30 PM PDT

While a certain Mister J. Hurtado is the resident reviewer of South Asian fare here at Twitch, many of us do enjoy the kaleidoscopic kind of cinema that the region churns out. And there probably isn't a better place to catch such eclectic stuff in the West then at the South Asian International Film Fest. I can tell ya from a little first hand experience SAIFF has screened rom-coms with more wit and heart than most American offerings can muster. They've shown action pictures that are just as heavy on the boom-boom as they are the politics, and offered us films that have chronicled the early days of the region's cinema -- goes without saying that it is one of the oldest and richest in...

Japanese Folklore Creature Arrives In Hungary. LIZA, THE FOX FAIRY Teaser.

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

Budapest seems an odd place to discover a Japanese folktale creature, which is pretty much the entire point of Károly Ujj Mészáros' Liza, The Fox Fairy. The story revolves around Liza, a shy Hungarian nurse looking for love. Which would be straightforward enough if her dates didn't keep turning up dead, a surefire sign that Liza also happens to be a fox fairy.Though it is still very early days for the film a first teaser has turned up and it's just loaded with charm. Check it below....

THE TUNNEL's Bel Deliá Resurfaces For LOVE OF MY LIFE

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

It seems a week doesn't go by at the moment without news that an Australian indie genre flick is about to start shooting. Seriously, there must be growth hormones in the water out here.Now comes news that body-horror love story Love Of My Life, is preparing a whiplash quick shoot in December this year to turnaround the film for release in March 2013! Now that's fast. To kick things off and show they mean business, the production has cast Bel Deliá - last seen going into meltdown as the lead in viral horror The Tunnel. The film also stars Diarmid Heidenreich and Brendan Clearkin. Love Of My Life is written by Liam Barrett and will be co-directed by Barrett and Michael Budd. Here's the synopsis: Inside one of the many operating theatres...

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: NAMELESS GANGSTER, TWO JACKS, and STARLET

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

I would pretty much watch any film starring Choi Min-sik at this point, and his towering performance as a befuddled civil worker who weasels and networks his way to the top of the crime underworld in Busan is reason enough to check out Nameless Gangster (the full title of which contains the awkward subtitle "Rules of the Time"). Happily, the movie offers further incentives in the form of an equally good performance from Ha Jung-woo as a brutally violent gangster with trust issues, competent if Scorsese-indebted direction, and an endless parade of stylish locales. At 134 minutes, though, the shenanigans -- entertaining as they may be -- take time finding focus or narrative thrust, and the ending becomes a bit convoluted. The movie shines brightest when...

Exclusive GAME OF WEREWOLVES Clip: What is Under That Old Blanket?

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Way back in April, our own Ard Vijn heralded the Spanish horror/comedy Game of Werewolves as "A Spanish Shaun of the Dead, only with Werewolves," and now we've got a clip showing off some nice werewolf appendages.   Back when we posted the review, it was called Lobos De Arga, which translated into Werewolf Party. Then it became Game of Werewolves, and now, for the UK Blu Ray release October 8, it's called Attack of the Werewolves. But enough title confusion! Check out the clip, which teases the horror aspects of the movie. Although it's also a little funny that anyone would think it's a good idea to check underneath such a decrepit looking blanket... Voila! Horror/Comedy. Have a look for yourself below....

Hollywood Beat: Sequels Are Cool! (APES!) Except When They're Not (TAKEN 2)

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

Matt Reeves has been chosen to direct Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the next installment in the newly-revived Fox franchise. It's the rare sequel that is anticipated rather than dreaded, mainly because Rise of the Planet of the Apes was much better than anyone expected, a dynamic combination of story, character, and action. Now, of course, since expectations have been raised so high, we can look forward to being disappointed by Dawn. How could it be otherwise? No one expected anything from Rise because the previous attempt to resurrect Apes failed miserably. Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake followed the storyline of the 1968 original too closely to provide any excitement for hardcore fans, without adding any fresh new elements. Mark Wahlberg...

UK Comic Ross Noble Lays On The Red Stuff In First Trailer For Horror Comedy STITCHES

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT

Here's a secret: Clowns hate us as much as we hate them. And their hatred burns so strong that if we kill them - even by accident - it will bring them back to exact bloody vengeance. Even - or perhaps especially - if the killers are just a bunch of obnoxious kids.Ross Noble stars as Richard "Stitches" Grindle, a clown killed by a birthday party prank gone horribly - and hilariously - wrong. Years later, he is brought back from the dead by a cult of black magic clowns, and plots his revenge on the teenagers who killed him. Comedy and gore come together in this twisted tale of a very bad clown.Directed by Irish splatter hound Conor McMahon (Dead Meat), Stitches is backed...

NYFF 2012 Review: SOMETHING IN THE AIR -- And It Might be Hope

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

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 olds, most of them first-time actors, reenact the youth of perhaps the most volatile time in contemporaneous French society, when the revolution seemed palpable. As it was revealed in my interview with Mia Hansen-Løve (director of Goodbye First Love and the current wife of Assayas) early this year that Assayas has a real knack for connecting with and getting great performances out of young actors (Hansen-Løve herself was in Assayas's Late August, Early September when she was 17 and swears that the experience changed her life)....

Netflix Releasing Entire Season Of Fincher's HOUSE OF CARDS Simultaneously

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

It would appear that, once again, Netflix is gunning to change the rules of content distribution. The standard rules for episode television have been the same forever. You release one episode at a time, give people time to watch it, talk about it and anticipate the next one, and then give them the second. But Netflix are having none of that with House Of Cards, their new original series produced by David Fincher - who also directs the first two episodes - and starring Kevin Spacey. They're releasing it all, all at once, on February 1st. So if you want to gorge yourself silly, you can.Were this any other outlet the assumption would be that the producers have lost faith in the show and are...

Twitch in Bondage: The Spies Who Never Loved Us

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:02 AM PDT

There have been a fairly large group of actors who have donned the tuxedo and strapped on the Walther PPK to play the iconic James Bond at this point.The cinematic incarnation of the world's most suave secret agent is now turning half a century old, and all any fan need do is pick up the new Bond At 50 Blu-ray set to take a cohesive walk down memory lane with 007 in his many guises. That said, we are personally fans of the "What If...?" scenario, and in that spirit, we'd like to take a walk down a different memory lane, one that is an alternate universe, where we can catch glimpses of the also-rans ... the numerous Spies Who Never Loved Me, to paraphrase...

Is It Really A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD? Bruce's Smile Says Yes.

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 10:35 AM PDT

Well, now. That's looking better than expected. Like much, much better than expected. Sure, there's hardly a spoken word but lots of guns are fired, lots of cars explode and Bruce's little grin is remarkably well timed. I'd smile, too, Bruce. I'd smile too.Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Cole Hauser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anne Vyalitsyna and Julia Snigir also star in the tale that sends Willis' John McClane to Russia with his son. Where they shoot things. Watch the trailer below....

Poppa Must Be So Proud. Kimber Eastwood Prepares For The RAPTURE

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 10:30 AM PDT

Funny thing ... I know rapture theology is young and all - the concept being only around a hundred years old, a relative drop in the bucket of theological history - but last time I checked the concept was that God was going to take all the good Christians away before things got nasty. It very definitely was not that lightning bolts were going to come from the sky and blast people to black smudges on the pavement. But, hey! That's what reformation gets you, everybody just making their own shit up! Like rapture theology in general. (*)It happens without warning. All electrical devices are abruptly shut down. Dark, unearthly clouds form over cities and towns from which lightning strikes and vaporizes its victims. Food...

New International Trailer For Park Chan-wook's STOKER Is Loaded With New Footage

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 10:25 AM PDT

International trailers for upcoming films are - as often as not - little more than slight remixes on the main US trailer. There's a little tweak here, a buff and polish there, but nothing significantly different. That is very definitely NOT the case with the latest trailer for Oldboy director Park Chan-wook's English language debut, Stoker, which takes us through the story from an entirely different angle.After India's (Wasikowska's) father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie (Goode), who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evelyn (Kidman). Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with...

Fantastic Fest 2012: Twitch's Super Festival Wrap

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

As sad as it is to admit, Fantastic Fest has closed up shop for yet another year. Yes, the empty Shiner bottles are in the recycling, the karaoke books are on the shelves, and the regrets over new tattoos from the closing night party are already fading away (unlike the tattoos). As an added nugget of nostalgia, Fantastic Fest 2012 marked the final fest in the old South Lamar Drafthouse/High Ball configuration. Now get to digging! We are all nervously optimistic the renovations will be done in time for Fantastic Fest 2013. While the good times have come and gone, we have plenty of letters put together into English language words and sentences to remember them by. Here is our extensive list of links to...

Review: BUTTER is a Sassy Movie That Spreads Charm and Laughs. And Butter.

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Greed. Blackmail. Sex. Butter. Are you hooked yet? OK, read on and give this a chance.  Butter stars Jennifer Garner and Ty Burrell as Laura and Bob Pickler. They live in a small town in Iowa and are Small Town Famous for Bob's skills as a butter sculptor. He uses pounds of butter and carves them into masterpieces. Word on the street is his carving of The Last Supper is better than the original. That's how serious this family and the town they live in take butter sculpting. But all good things come to an end, and at his 15th anniversary celebration of being the number one butter sculptor in town, Bob is asked to step out of the upcoming Iowa State Fair Mastery in...

US Trailer And Character Posters For Korea's All Time Chart Topper THE THIEVES

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Is it fair to say that Choi Dong-hoo's The Thieves has dominated the Korean box office? Given that the film is Korea's number one top grossing film of all time I would say yes, yes it is. It's not hard to see why it's been so successful either, with the film offering up a rip roaring heist tale populated by an all star cast of quirky characters.It's the score of their lives - if they can pull it off.  Five thieves at the top of their game, and the crew is assembling for their biggest job yet.  Popie's the muscle and brains, Pepsee's the safecracker.  Yenicall climbs walls,  Zampano is the strategy man, and Chewingum is the master of disguise.  But this new score -...

Witness The Grisly Consequences Of Encountering A Troll In New VEIL OF TWILIGHT Image

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

For a time it appeared as though Paul Lundo's Veil Of Twilight would go down as a tragic cautionary tale for young filmmakers, a warning that when things go wrong they can go very wrong indeed. The film was nearing the end of production back in November of 2011 when disaster struck and a three man camera crew, which included one of the film's producers, was swept out to sea. Only one made it back.It's the sort of event that could either crush you or strengthen resolve and for Lundo it was the latter. After a break to allow some emotional healing the crew returned to work and are now wrapping up on what promises to be a unique genre mashup. How unique? Well, it's...
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