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Oh Yeah Wow Releases Curious Blue Octopus For Wax Tailor

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Oh Yeah Wow Releases Curious Blue Octopus For Wax Tailor

Oh Yeah Wow Releases Curious Blue Octopus For Wax Tailor

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:45 PM PDT

Just on two months ago it was a Minotaur hulking through the streets of Melbourne, fighting people, getting wasted, and generally behaving like a morose beast of legend. That was for a music video for British India by production house Oh Yeah Wow. Nigh on two months later and the crew from Oh Yeah Wow have struck again, this time unleashing a curious stop-motion blue octopus into the streets and alleyways, for Wax Tailor's latest single 'Time To Go' featuring Aloe Blacc. Check out the video below, directed by Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury, to see why Oh Yeah Wow are widely regarded among the best animators in Australia. ...

Early Look: GRYNING (aka BREAK OF DAY) Copes With Loss Of A Child

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:30 PM PDT

Swedish film studio JÄMTFILM AB and the director of the Swedish drama/horror Marianne are working together again on a new project, hoping to help the careers along of new talent with the drama Gryning. JÄMTFILM AB, the company that produced last year's indie horror hit "MARIANNE" is currently developing their next film "GRYNING" (international title "BREAK OF DAY"). GRYNING is written by newcomer Maria Östlund and making her feature film directorial debut is arthouse filmmaker and transmedia artist Jasmine Idun Lyman. It is produced by Filip Tegstedt ("MARIANNE") and Johan Bergqvist.GRYNING tells the story of Anna, a part time musician who struggles with the grief over losing her 4-year-old son Lucas to cancer. The film has not completed financing yet so the project is...

Blu-ray Review: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN/TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:01 PM PDT

Third Window's Blu-ray debut of Tsukamoto Shinya's breakout feature, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, has been one of my most anticipated titles of 2012 since we broke the news earlier this year. Tetsuo is a film that transcends its bizarre and hyperactive content to deliver one of the most aggressive experiences ever committed to 16mm celluloid. This is the film that, for better or worse, put Japanese experimental film on the map back in 1989 and in turn created a legend around Tsukamoto which he has been assertively living up to for the last 23 years.Tetsuo is the story of a metal fetishist (Tsukamoto) and a businessman (Taguchi Tomorowo) who cross paths after an unfortunate accident in which the latter hits the former with his car....

Drowning? Shipwrecked? On Fire? Dolph Lundgren To The Rescue In RESCUE 3!

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 08:35 PM PDT

You say you need your Dolph Lundgren fix a little more often. Do you think you can stave off the cravings until the Fall of 2013? The Swedish-born action film star, has staged a sort of comeback of late and he is riding that wave of popularity to the small screen in a new adventure/drama syndicated television show titled Rescue 3. The show will center around the Southern California elite multi-agency task force Rescue 3. This agency's members are made up of the best of Los Angeles' Lifeguard, Firefighter and Coast Guard agencies The show will bow in the Fall of 2013. Dolph will play "Captain John Mathews, a reluctant hero and career firefighter and lifeguard who leads a highly specialized unit made up of experts...

Ralph Fiennes In Talks To Join Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 06:35 PM PDT

Look how happy Lord Voldemort is!Variety reports that Ralph Fiennes is in talks to join the cast of Wes Anderson's ensemble comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel. Though Anderson is working with much of his regular cast in this latest outing he is also - as is his normal practice - reaching out to a few new faces, Fiennes included.  The British actor is reportedly set to take on the part of M. Gustave, the titular hotel's concierge.This seems like a more than solid choice for both Anderson and Fiennes as Fiennes has fabulous comedy chops that he rarely gets the chance to show off....

Beyonce Drops Out Of Clint Eastwood's A STAR IS BORN

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 06:26 PM PDT

Clint needs himself a new star.Clint Eastwood's long in the works remake of A Star Is Born has had trouble landing itself a male lead but at least, or so they thought, they had the female lead in place with Beyonce Knowles handling the part last played by Barbra Streisand. But not any more.With casting dragging on and the schedule becoming something of a moving target as a result, Variety has broken word that Knowles has dropped off the project, meaning Eastwood now has to start from scratch on the casting front once again. Word is that no offers will go out to a female lead now until the male lead is cast....

NYFF 2012 Review: GINGER & ROSA Goes Nuclear

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Director Sally Potter (Orlando, Tango Lesson)'s new film starts with stock footage of an atomic blast. A great way to open a film if it was an Ed Wood B-picture. But it's not. It's the story of BFFs Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert, daughter of Aussie director Jane Campion) both born in 1945, going through their lives in 60s London where everyone lives under the shadow of nuclear annihilation. It's also the time of the nuclear family. Rosa's father split early on. Ginger's ultra liberal dad, Roland (Alessandro Nivola), can't seem to keep his pants zipped, causing heartaches for mom (Mad Men's Christina Hendricks) and not providing any emotional support for the increasingly confused Ginger.These feisty teenagers do everything together. Rosa usually leads...

Hey Chicago! Wanna Get Massacred By Linnea Quiggley And Jack Hill?

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:30 PM PDT

One of Chicago's longest running horror movie marathons is back and we have two pairs of admit two tickets to giveaway. The show is going to be great. Linnea Quiggley will be on hand for a special screening of Return of the Living Dead (1985). But the big news for me is the presence of legendary horror/exploitation filmmaker Jack Hill and the special screening of his cult classic Spider Baby (1968)! If you've never seen Spider Baby there's really no preparing yourself. The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. as the caretaker of a bizarre and savage young family  that includes Sid Haig in one of his earliest roles. Whether you find it disturbing, funny, or a metaphor for our current national identity, you will be...

IFC Midnight Enters The CRAWLSPACE

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:15 PM PDT

Justin Dix's claustrophobic special forces thriller Crawlspace, which is currently playing in competition at prestigious genre film festival Sitges in Spain, has now found a home in North America, with IFC Midnight picking up the film for a 2013 release across all its platforms. Written by Dix, Eddie Baroo and Adam Patrick Foster, Crawlspace is about a group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate one of Australia's top secret underground military compounds and extract the lead science team, after the base comes under attack from unknown forces. They quickly discover all is not as it seems and the facility is a testing ground for something far more sinister. Here's the rest of the synopsis: Set beneath the real-world Australian military base at Pine Gap, Crawlspace follows a...

Director RODNEY ASCHER Enters ROOM 237

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 04:00 PM PDT

I had never heard of the various conspiracy theories built up around The Shining (1980) prior to seeing Room 237. But even if I had the doc would still have blown me away. Rather than debunk the idea that Kubrick helped fake moon landing footage - yes, you read that right - or attempt to prove the more supportable theories out there about The Shining's hidden symbolic commentary on race, genocide and westward expansion, filmmaker Rodney Ascher simply presents the material hand in hand with the haunting imagery from the film. Interviews with talking heads serve as eerie signposts as viewers travel the breathtaking road to the Overlook, into madness and beyond. It is a great documentary accomplishment that manages to create a serious film...

EVANGELION Goes Equine In New Promo

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 03:00 PM PDT

What's this? An equine Evangelion unit? You bet ...Produced as a cross promotion with Japanese horse racing organization JRA, a series of new television ads have been released in Japan featuring an animated version of jockey Yutaka Take, the cast of the Neon Genesis Evangelion series and a new horse-hybrid Eva unit created jointly by NERV and the JRA in response to the Spear Of Longinus falling from the sky into the middle of the track. Four ads have been created in all but as they are very repetitive I am including only the fourth below, which features the most generous assortment of footage....

Gorgeous Trailer For Anders Ronnow Klarlund's LA JETEE Inspired THE SECRET SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Denmark's Anders Ronnow Klarlund has never been a director shy to challenge himself or his audience. He first came to international attention thanks to Strings, a fantasy tale executed beautifully entirely with marionettes. That was followed with How To Get Rid Of The Others, a more conventionally filmed tale that firmly embraced a sense of Swiftian satire. And now Klarlund is back with another experiment, The Secret Society Of Fine Arts.An experiment in more than one sense, Klarlund claims Secret Society will be his final film. Clearly inspired by La Jetee, the film was created through the manipulation of 3D still photographs and is being distributed within Denmark as a DVD insert on the film magazine Ekko with Chris Marker's La Jetee included as a...

Moustache. Alien. Dirty Balls. A Trailer For Thai SciFi Comedy SOOBKUU

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

If what you're looking for is subtlety and nuance in a film than Thai comedy is, in general, not the right place to look. They like their laughs big and broad over there and there are few performers that Thai audiences like better than Mum Jokmok - best known to western audiences as Dirty Balls in Ong Bak. Are his balls dirty in upcoming science fiction comedy Soobkuu? Well, he gets a nice scrub down from his facially hairy friend at the end of the trailer so if they are at the beginning they certainly aren't at the end but Jokmok is there front and center as one of the leads in the picture. The story itself? It involves bikers with bad moustaches and silly...

JOHN DIES AT THE END Lands Some Quality Poster Art

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 01:45 PM PDT

There's very little to say about Don Coscarelli's adaptation of David Wong's John Dies At The End that we haven't said already - check the links below - but here's a little something new: Final poster art for the film courtesy of US distributor Magnet Releasing. The director of Bubba Ho-Tep's latest hits VOD on December 27th prior to a February theatrical run....

Blu-ray Review: Shinya Tsukamoto's KOTOKO

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 01:30 PM PDT

Third Window Films is releasing Shinya Tsukamoto's psychological thriller Kotoko on Blu-ray and DVD this week. I reviewed this title when it played at the International Film Festival earlier this year, so my opinion of the film itself has been copied from that article. Feel free to jump to the part of the review which says "On To The Disc," and you will find the details of this specific release. So, has Third Window Films done a good job on this release? Well, the short of it is that it is rather meager in extras but the film itself looks marvelous. For more detail, read on!...

Books To Be Scene: Elizabeth Wein's CODE NAME VERITY

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 01:00 PM PDT

"The air-raid siren went. Every head in the room looked up in dismay and exhaustion at the canteen's pasteboard ceiling, as if they could see through it. Then everybody rocketed from their borrowed church hall wooden folding chairs to meet the next battle.Maddie stood facing her new friend by the table they had just abandoned, people around her whirling into action. She felt as though she were at the eye of a tropical storm. The still point of the turning world.[...]It's like being in love, discovering your best friend."Hey. Hey! You've been going dark and edgy for the past couple of months with this column. How about something cheerful? Like a romantic comedy?You think? Hmmm... I've got a meet-cute?You don't sound too sure of yourself.Okay,...

Drafthouse Films Nabs U.S. Rights To Kim Ki-duk's PIETÀ

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 12:30 PM PDT

When it screened last month at TIFF, one mister Todd Brown found Pieta, the 18th flick from Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, to be a rather successful filmic endeavor that constantly challenged the audience with its very dark tale of a debt collector. In Todd's words:[Kim] is a master provocateur playing out his own neuroses and obsessions on the big screen. Like Von Trier, Kim never says anything quietly when he can shout. And like Von Trier, his films don't always work. But when they do ... well, when they do Kim is capable of creating work that disturbs and troubles and finds beauty in unexpected places. This is one of those films.  Agreeing with our big man on campus, the folks at Drafthouse Films have...

BIFF 2012 Review: Strong Performances Can't Save Revenge Flick AZOOMA

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

When exploring Korean cinema, you can't go very far without bumping into a revenge thriller. Park Chan-wook's 'Vengeance' trilogy and Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life (2005) are just a few of the more high profile examples. However, of late, this sub-genre has become increasingly popular among independent filmmakers looking to make their mark in the industry. The format seems to supersede horror, sci-fi and other genres as the low-budget debut of choice. The results, however, have been very mixed.From a narrative standpoint, revenge flicks are rather easy to construct though putting together one that stands out becomes a more complicated task. Azooma, a new offering featuring a female protagonist, doesn't take great pains to present us with an original story. Instead, it experiments with structure...

Roman Porno Double Feature: NYMPHO DIVER: G-STRING FESTIVAL & FEMALE TEACHER: DIRTY AFTERNOON

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 11:30 AM PDT

This fourth batch of Nikkatsu Roman Porno discs from Impulse Pictures is, in my humble opinion, the finest of the series so far. Between the genuinely joyous sexual exploration of Nympho Diver: G-String Festival and the proper melodrama and thrill of Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon, Nikkatsu did kick out some quality films without unnecessary sexual violence from time to time. If I've had any recurring complaint about the series it is the persistent and pervasive sexual violence played for entertainment value, thankfully, that's not the case with these two films, which makes them a breath of fresh air.The first of the pair, spine #7 Nympho Diver: G-String Festival, is a pretty straight forward sex comedy, but centered around a specifically Japanese character, the ama, or...

Actor, Musician And Knife Maker: Johnny Strong Talks SINNERS AND SAINTS

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Johnny Strong is one busy man, being an artist, actor, musician, martial artist and knife maker. As an actor, he has appeared in features films such as Black Hawk Down, The Fast and The Furious and Get Carter. Most recently, he played the lead character Detective Sean Riley in William Kaufman's Sinners and Saints, a role that won him the Breakout Action Star Award at the Action On Film International Film Festival. Johnny also composed and performed the music for the film. One of his upcoming projects is the sequel to Sinners and Saints, in which he will collaborate again with director William Kaufman. I had the pleasure of chatting with Johnny recently about his films, music, martial arts and knife making. TWITCH: After THE...

Win A Copy of the PROMETHEUS 4-Disc Blu-ray Set

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 10:00 AM PDT

Ridley Scott's "Is it an Alien prequel/It's not/But it is" Prometheus is coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week from Twentieth Century Fox, and we've got two copies of the four-disc Blu-ray to give away to a pair of our lucky readers. Here's the official copy from the studio: Renowned director Ridley Scott takes fans on a gripping sci-fi adventure that "kicks ass so hard and often that it's impossible not to be thrilled by it" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone). Launching into space to discover the mysterious creators of the human race, the "genuinely epic" (Tom Long, Detroit News) film, PROMETHEUS, debuts globally on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD October 9 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. An unmatched home entertainment experience, watch the highly-anticipated...

Streets Behind. Season 4 Of COMMUNITY Delayed.

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 09:30 AM PDT

As some keen eyes will know, we here at Twitch do watch TV (and review it too!). For reasons that should be obvious to readers of a film site, one show we like is NBC's Community. Last season, fans (and cast and crew) had to deal with much behind the scenes drama and musical chairs as the show was put on a three month hiatus, with production continuing in the dark. When a feud between creator and showrunner Dan Harmon and star Chevy Chase went public, concerns for the show's future were at an all-time high. But by spring the show was back on the air and renewed for a fourth season. Things looked bright again. And then just the morning after its season finale,...

SAVE YOUR LEGS Trailer Knocks It Out Of The Park

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 08:00 AM PDT

We've come a long way since Bodyline. While this staid period miniseries was a huge success for George Miller and Australian television, it didn't exactly launch cricket as a genre we started seeing more on screens - whether as a backdrop to drama or as the backbone of an inspirational sports story in the vein of what Hollywood does so well. Almost two decades later and this is starting to change, and in a major way. A few years ago we had the silly I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer, which took the sport of cricket and thrust it headlong into horror-comedy territory. It was a largely mindless comedy which, like Black Sheep, took every cliche and pun about its central topic and mined it for comedy. But...

FIRST BLOOD Director Ted Kotcheff Talks His Australian Classic WAKE IN FRIGHT

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

After cutting his teeth on TV in the sixties Ted Kotcheff broke out big time with Wake In Fright (1971) a devastatingly cinematic adaptation of Kenneth Cook's novel. It and L'avventura (1960) by Michelangelo Antonioni are the only films ever to play Cannes twice and Wake in Fright was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It didn't win but Cannes recently gave it a special award Autour de la Sélection, Heritage Film when the film was rediscovered just days away from having it's negative burned on a garbage scow. Recently it was painstakingly restored revealing it to be a film of remarkable beauty and brutality, a true masterpiece of slow burn illumination offering one unforgettable image and scene after another as it tells the story of...
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