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Help Thomas Edison Or He Will Break You

Help Thomas Edison Or He Will Break You

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 06:01 PM PST

Yesterday we posted some short animated clips to get you in the Yuletide spirit, from stop-motion duo the Davison Brothers. Now today we have the first look at their next project, a clearly true-to-life story about Thomas Edison, inventor and knife-wielding egomaniac. A crowd-funding campaign to help the project launched yesterday on Pozible, and the avalanche of support in one day has been so great they should reach their target by tomorrow. But you can still help! See below to watch the clips, and support the project. Because every dollar they get to make this will bring them one step closer to making an awesome stop-motion feature....

100 Kills Not Out: WYRMWOOD Combines MAD MAX, The Undead And Cricket

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 05:30 PM PST

For those out there who think that Mad Max was a work of fiction think again. As a relatively young nation, Australians grasp hold of anything that gives them a skerrick of identity. With the first Mad Max film now 33 years old (not to mention The Cars That Ate Paris and Stone coming before it in the mid-1970s, and all that Ozploitation) the badass apocalyptic car culture has seeped right into the identity of an entire generation of young men. This generation is now making movies.One of the most exciting movies of this bunch is Wyrmwood, an audacious feature film that is shaping up to be both the most patriotic but irreverently Australian horror movie in ages. The team behind Wyrmwood have basically cut...

Kaiju Smash! Robo Bash! Here's The Trailer For Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 04:42 PM PST

On our radar for years now, Guillermo's del Toro's first foray into truly big, big, BIG budget filmmaking is nearly upon us. So after many a teasing image and viral video, we now have a solid, if very standard trailer-cut look at Pacific Rim. While I find myself less than enthused with the trailer itself, much of the content hidden under the flash-fades and booming Inception-clone tone, makes the 10-year old in me smile. But what do you all think? Does del Toro's monster-mash look more like proper homage or is this an out and out aping of the Kaiju classics and giant robo anime so many of us love, or at least being Twitch readers, know a thing or two about. Talk it out...

I Feel the Need...The Need for TOP GUN in IMAX 3D!!!

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 02:00 PM PST

"Is this your idea of fun, man?" Why yes, Goose, it really does conform with my idea of fun.We finally have a release date for the IMAX 3D post-convert of Tony Scott's sublime Top Gun. A deliciously homoerotic jingoistic recruitment video for the US Navy, this film defined an entire decade, helped make Tom Cruise into an Icon, and forever made the F14 far more hip than its lowly F16 cousin.Between Harold Faltermeyer sweeping synth-and-rock guitar score, the perfect mushy pop ballad ("Take My Breath Away"), and the propulsive Logginsian squeal of "Danger Zone", even the music will make for a heck of an evening, the sounds of whooshing jets and vintage keyboard sounds erupting from the massive sound system.On the giant screen, we're likely...

2INKER 2AILOR? Sequel in the Works for SOLDIER SPY film

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:30 PM PST

A year ago almost to the day, I posted my first article on Twitch, a gushing review of Thomas Alfredson's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The film proved to be my favourite of 2011, joining the likes of Children of Men and Syriana as films from the last decade or so that I think are far less appreciated than they should be.Despite my admonition that it's didn't receive quite the number of plaudits I thought it deserved, the Gary Oldman-starrer made enough coin for its producers, and Alfredson and co. had a good enough time with the project, that there's long been rumblings of another round of le Carré goodness coming from the ensemble.Collider is now pointing to an interview with producer Eric Fellner, who states...

Look At The Wacky White Lady Pretending To Be Japanese!

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:00 PM PST

So, the new trailer for The Lone Ranger arrived yesterday sparking a good amount of discussion around these parts around the issue of racial stereotyping, particularly where the character of Tonto is concerned. Well, here's a little something to take your mind off of that particular film because upcoming Dutch comedy Ushi Must Marry is here to demonstrate that while they may not be able to rival Hollywood budgets there are other areas where they've got the big studios beat, no problem.Yep, this is a movie that seemingly exists solely so that audiences can laugh at Wendy Van Dijk donning a wig and riffing on and most flagrant Japanese stereotypes possible as the titular Ushi Hirosaki. It's a part Van Dijk created for a series...

New Release Date, New Trailer For GI JOE: RETALIATION

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:30 PM PST

Hey, everybody remember GI Joe: Retaliation? Pulled from the schedule shortly before it was supposed to be released earlier this year for reasons that have never been particularly clear, the film has been pushed to a late March release and the powers that be are now restarting their aborted PR campaign with a new trailer.Framed for a crime they did not commit, the G.I. Joes must not only fight Cobra but also vindicate themselves to a government that condemned them.The odd thing about the aborted release the first time around was that all of the trailers so far - this new one included - have actually been very good, promising exactly the sort of big, stupid fun that would have played like gangbusters through the...

Arnold Has An Idea That Doesn't Involve Shooting Johnny Knoxville In New THE LAST STAND Teaser

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Arnold has a gun. Luis has a sword. Johnny has a silly hat. And it all adds up to lots of firearms discharge, crashing cars and Forest Whitaker looking concerned in the latest one minute long teaser for Schwarzenegger's Kim Jee-woon directed comeback vehicle The Last Stand.The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff.While I don't expect for a moment that Kim will have been given free rein on this one the action looks typically slick for the Korean auteur and while I keep hoping that Arnold will put a bullet in Knoxville the rest of the cast is pretty damn solid,...

Swedish Horror Comes FROM THE DEPTH OF MY HEART

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 11:08 AM PST

Though Sweden doesn't ever seem to get the same amount of attention on the festival circuit as their Scandinavian neighbors Norway and Denmark the nation is certainly in the thick of things when it comes to producing intelligent genre fare. The nation as a whole may not go there often but when they do, they generally do it well.Producer Magnus Paulsson (Frostbite, Wake Wood) has been around the center of the Swedish indie horror scene for years now and Paulsson's production house Solid Entertainment - along with Erik Magnusson and Anagram Film - have just wrapped production on their latest feature, From The Depth Of My Heart.Written by Måns FG Thunberg and directed by Magnus Hedberg, From The Depth Of My Heart tracks a group...

'I Envision All These Great Small Movies in the Ruins of Hollywood': Christian Petzold Interview

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

Christian Petzold's fantastic new film Barbara opens in the US on December 21, after garnering critical acclaim; Petzold won the Best Director award at Berlin International Film Festival this year and the film is the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. It was exciting to talk to one of the key figures in new German cinema at NYFF this past September.Twitch: I have to admit that I wasn't really familiar with new German cinema until recently. My idea of German cinema always has been that of the 60s and 70s by directors like Schlendörff, Fassbinder and Wenders.Christian Petzold: That's also my experience. That's the time I was brought up. Back then we never went to see a German film in theaters. When we...

Mondo Unveils Limited Edition Olly Moss LORD OF THE RINGS Poster

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 09:30 AM PST

It is what we have come to expect from Mondo and Olly Moss: Striking, minimal and pretty much perfect. Timed to coincide with the release of The Hobbit, Mondo are releasing a strictly limited edition Lord Of The Rings poster in both regular (pictured) and variant editions. The total print run together sits at only 865 so expect these to disappear very, very quickly when they go on sale tomorrow.Follow Mondo on Twitter for the on sale announcement....

There And Back Again: Twitch Survives The 14th Butt-Numb-A-Thon

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 09:00 AM PST

For my second year in a row, I made my way down to Austin, Texas, home of the infamous celebration of Movie Geekery known as Butt-Numb-a-Thon. This was the fourteenth iteration of this mad festival, what amounts to an annual birthday celebration for the iconoclast Harry Knowles, the so-called "headgeek" from Ain't It Cool News. In years past, BNAT has been home to a wide variety of premieres, obscure cult films, and rare projections of 35mm vintage presentations, all taking place within the palace of cinema known as Alamo Drafthouse. For over 24 consecutive hours, a select group gather to revel in the insanity of the event, embracing film after film in succession with intervals spent watching smokers get their nicotine fixes, trying in...

Hey, Toronto! The Orbs Of Death Zip Across The Big Screen With PHANTASM This Saturday!

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

Hey, Toronto! All your favorite slasher villains are coming to the big screen, projected on glorious 35mm, as part of the Twitch presented Birth Of A Villain series at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Keeping things rolling this Saturday, it's The Tall Man and his silver balls of death in Don Coscarelli's Phantasm!The one-two punch of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and John Carpenter's megahit Halloween in the 1970s put a new face to American horror movies. While previously the genre had its share of tortured, sympathetic anti-heroes (the Frankenstein Monster, the Wolf Man), this new breed of monster was a hero because of his villainy -- and the more gleefully he set about his gruesome work, the better. Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy...

First Teaser and Stills for Korean Spy Thriller THE BERLIN FILE

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 07:01 AM PST

Korea's action kid, Ryoo Seung-wan, who previously brought us Arahan (2004), The City of Violence (2006) and The Unjust (2010), is getting ready to launch his biggest project yet, the star-studded spy thriller The Berlin File. Shot on location in Berlin, Germany and Latvia, the big-budget espionage actioneer stars Ha Jung-woo, Han Suk-kyu, Jeon Ji-hyeon and Ryoo Seung-beom.Here is a gallery of the film's first official stills, as well as a teaser courtesy of distributor CJ Entertainment. The film will be released in Korea in February next year, during the Lunar New Year holiday....

Have Your Say: What Are You Eagerly Anticipating In 2013?

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 06:01 AM PST

How time flies! Soon, this very site will be rife again with end-of-year top 10 lists, looking back at the entirety of 2012. Being a lists sort of person (and I know there are more of us here at Twitch who share that trait), I'm already looking forward to it. Beyond that, though, lies the year 2013. What am I looking forward to next year? At the end of its first month there will be a new International Film Festival Rotterdam, where hopefully I'll be seeing The Master. Ehm ... not really a typical 2013 title perhaps. As I said, what am I looking forward to? I wrote almost exactly the same words a year ago, and can easily just redo the whole article: I...

More Details on HWAYI, Jang Joon-hwan's SAVE THE GREEN PLANET follow-up

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 05:30 AM PST

Recently, news broke that director Jang Joon-hwan would finally be making a new film to follow Save the Green Planet (2003). Coming a full 10 years after his debut, his new project also attracted Korean megastar Kim Yun-seok (The Thieves, The Yellow Sea) for its lead role. Now more details have surfaced for the hotly anticipated feature. Hwayi, which has assembled a cast that includes Cho Jin-woong, Jang Hyun-sung, Kim Sung-kyun, Park Hae-joon and Yeo Jin-goo, starts shooting today and is aiming for a release in the third quarter of next year. Here's a synopsis from distributor Showbox: 'Hwayi tells the story about a boy named Hwa-yi, a 16 year-old who naturally becomes a perfect killer after being raised by 5 criminal fathers and has to...

Cinemanila 2012 Review: Gym Lumbera's TAGLISH, Alienating and Hypnotic

Posted: 12 Dec 2012 05:08 AM PST

In response to a query as to when he felt his feature film was already finished, director Gym Lumbera replied with a statement of disarming practicality. Floodwaters have damaged the prints of Tagalog, prompting Lumbera to use them as the first part of Taglish. It is a physically excruciating watch. Eye-straining stains, scratches and shapes, caused by the untimely deterioration, turn the black and white images into odd shadows of their former forms. At times, the eerie transformation of the images are enthralling, like when the face of an old man break and melt, turning what was once a comforting visual into something nightmarishly foreign. There is a discomforting absence of sound, further alienating the audience, accomplishing Lumbera's goals of portraying his distrust with...
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