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Twitch In Bondage: Why THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is the Perfect Bond Film

Twitch In Bondage: Why THE SPY WHO LOVED ME is the Perfect Bond Film

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:00 PM PST

The Internet, and media platforms across the board, have been ablaze the last few weeks in the run-up to the release of Skyfall, the 23rd official installment in the James Bond series of spy movies. The film has received incredibly high praise, both for its comparatively dense, character-focused narrative and yet another impressive turn from Daniel Craig as the battle weary secret agent. The reception to Skyfall has been so strong, in fact, that it has caused more than a few to label it as the best Bond film of all time, and there has been increasing momentum backing Daniel Craig's bid to usurp Sean Connery as the best screen Bond ever.Unsurprisingly this has caused every man and his exploding pen to weigh in with...

Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney Start Shooting FELONY In Sydney

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:00 PM PST

Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, Tom Wilkinson and Melissa George have begun filming Felony in Sydney, a crime and corruption thriller set inside the Australian police force - which was also written by Edgerton.Matthew Saville directs the feature which makes this the second cop thriller in his oeuvre, after 2007's brilliant Noise. Felony is about a decorated Australian cop (Edgerton) who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. His split-second decision to lie about the incident changes everyone's lives forever. Tom Wilkinson plays the lead investigator who arrives first on the scene and Courtney will play a fresh-faced police detective who suspects Edgerton's character is lying and gradually builds a criminal case against him. Felony will be distributed...

TWO LITTLE BOYS And THE ORATOR Dominate NZ Film Award Noms

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 03:30 PM PST

Two Little Boys and The Orator dominate the nominations of the inaugural Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards, with 11 nominations each.The awards organised by Hugh Sundae of nzherald.co.nz and ABCs of Death producer Ant Timpson, and presented by the New Zealand Herald and Rialto Channel, announced their nominations for the awards ceremony to be held on December 4 in Wellywood.The nominations are as follows.Feature filmRialto Channel Best FilmThe OratorHow to Meet Girls From a DistanceTwo Little BoysGood For NothingThe Most Fun You Can Have DyingBest Self-Funded FilmNetherwoodGood For NothingWe Feel FineThe Red HouseCanon Best DirectorDean Hewison - How to Meet Girls From a DistanceTusi Tamasese - The OratorMike Wallis - Good For NothingKirstin Marcon - The Most Fun You Can Have DyingRobert Sarkies - Two...

Celluloid Screams 2012: Who Likes Short Shorts?

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST

I was very kindly invited to be part of the jury selecting the best short films screening at Celluloid Screams 2012. Nothing to it, right? Still, while seventeen films might not seem like that much (particularly for those people who have to whittle countless submissions down to just eighteen), it's quite a handful for a festival that only lasts two and a half days. Three hours of back-to-back screenings in Sheffield Hallam University's The Void lecture theatre (yes, you read that right) and we'd argued it down to three, but with such a varied lineup I thought it might be worth going into the winners as well as the ones that got away. Ready? Let's do this thing.FAMILIAR (Richard Powell, Canada, 2011)Familiar (shown above) started...

Hey, Toronto! Reel Asian Kicks Of Tomorrow!

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 11:08 AM PST

Hey, Toronto! The sixteenth annual Reel Asian festival kicks off tomorrow with a typically fantastic slate of screenings from all around Asia. Twitch is proud to co-present screenings of Filipino thriller Graceland on the 8th and Chinese action flick Cold Steel on the 10th but the festival runs deeper and wider than that. Check out the official website for all the details and come on out for a rare chance to see some of the year's best films on the big screen!...

Sony Classics Releases New WEST OF MEMPHIS Trailer

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:31 AM PST

Sony Pictures Classics has released a powerful new trailer for its Christmas release of West Of Memphis, the Peter Jackson-produced documentary on the West Memphis Three.Directed by Academy Award-nominated director Amy Berg, the documentary centers around Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, who were tried and convicted by the State of Arkansas in 1993 for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. From Indiewire:Wrongly imprisoned for eighteen years, the three convicts were eventually brought to justice and released when Academy Award winning team Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh financed private investigators and forensic testing in search of the truth. The new West Of Memphis trailer is a showcase for this spectacular story, supplemented by research, interviews with those involved in the 1993...

Blu-ray Review: This Election Eve, THEY LIVE Warns Against Voting For Reagan!

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST

Politics in genre cinema is nothing new. Long before John Carpenter took on Reagan with They Live, or Don Siegel took on the communists (or the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, depending on how you interepret the film) with Invasion of the Body Snatchers, genre filmmakers, authors, and artists had taken firm political stances for decades. The beauty of genre based art is that it is able to pass below the radar of most intellectuals because they think it to be beneath them in the first place. So, the message reaches in intended targets, the proletariat, without ever having so much as raised an eyebrow. Of the two major works of the late '80s to take on Reaganism in America, Carpenter's They Live and...

Spectacular Full Trailer for Wong Kar Wai's THE GRANDMASTERS

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:25 AM PST

It may have taken close to five years to make it to the screen, but Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters has finally finished shooting and appears to be committed to its 18 December release date. The film stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai as legendary wing chun practitioner Ip Man, with fight choreography from the legendary Yuen Wo Ping, and a supporting cast that boasts Zhang Zi Yi, Chang Chen, Cung Le, Bruce Leung Siu Lung and Wang Qingxiang.Yes, we've already seen this story told a number of times in recent years, most successfully by Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip, but when Wong Kar Wai brings something to the big screen, you know that it's going to be worth waiting for. Five years might have been...

Review: MISFITS S4E01 (Or, Finn Keeps His Girlfriend Tied Up And Locked In His Bedroom)

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 09:00 AM PST

Misfits has always had a very strange way of touching on themes that are much more interesting than they seem on the surface. For example, Curtis' episode in the third series turned out to be a more challenging look at gender issues than the audience perhaps expected. Last week's episode ended with the reveal that Finn is keeping his girlfriend tied up and locked in his bedroom. This episode explores the reasons why he's doing that and finds itself discussing free will in a surprisingly intriguing manner.Finn's girlfriend Sadie has the power to make him into her perfect boyfriend. Through subtle behavioural changes, she makes him better for her. The reason that he then tied her up and locked her away is that he wants...

EXIT Finds Release In US & Canada

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 08:30 AM PST

Sci fi mystery Exit has finished a successful run of the film festival circuit and found a home for a North American VOD release, with Gravitas Ventures releasing the film on iTunes, Amazon Instant and a range of cable providers.Available right now through these platforms, Exit is about a group of people who believe the city is a maze and are obsessively searching for the lost exit. Exit was written by Martyn Pedler and directed by Marek Polgar.Twitch's own Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg reviewed the film back in May:This is a quiet, deliberately somewhat uncomfortable, and engaging film, meant for rainy afternoons when you can leave the theatre and walk the streets and wonder. Heavy, most definitely, but not unbearably so. It's the kind of film...

Wild Bunch Moves Into Nicholas McCarthy's HOME

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:30 AM PST

Nicholas McCarthy's follow-up to Sundance hit The Pact has found a *cough* home, with premium elevated genre distributor Wild Bunch picking up his sophomore horror feature Home for France, Germany and Spain.Home tells the story of a young woman who investigates mysterious goings-on at a house where she learns the previous tenant unwittingly summoned the devil.Sonny Mallhi (The Strangers, Shutter) will produce the film, which is currently in pre-production. The deal was done by Celluloid Nightmares. UTA reps North American rights. Watch the trailer for McCarthy's previous film below. The above image is also from The Pact. ...

Celluloid Screams 2012, Day 3: Promise Me You'll Check Out RESOLUTION

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST

Round three of Celluloid Screams and the final day was unfortunately marred by a technical hitch that saw Memory of the Dead pulled due to a sound system that gave up the ghost at the last minute. Which meant I suddenly had a lot of time to kill, as I'd already caught Dominic Brunt's Before Dawn at Grimmfest and didn't like it much, but the festival-goers took this in stride for the most part - I saw more annoyance from regular members of the public being told re-organising the remaining screenings meant a handful of non-festival films had been cancelled for the morning. Despite these disappointments Celluloid Screams still wound up in style, with some of the strongest films I've seen all year. I even...

AFM 2012: Sharks Join The Breakfast Club In BAIT 2: LOS ANGELES

Posted: 05 Nov 2012 04:30 AM PST

In what is probably not the best timing, Arclight Films has announced the sequel to its internationally successful sharkspoitation thriller Bait will take place in Los Angeles, with Great Whites terrorizing kids in a school after a freak super-tsunami raises water levels across the city.The plot sounds like The Breakfast Club gone horribly wrong.It's just another perfect day in the City of Angels. That is, until a three mile long, 100-foot tsunami completely obliterates Los Angeles, not only destroying it, but effectively wiping it from the map. However, for five students in a private school, on detention and missing out on a class trip, they turn out to be the lucky ones...or are they? Because before the day is through they will have to battle a...
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