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The Trailer For Slamdance Title BEST FRIENDS FOREVER Goes Nuclear

The Trailer For Slamdance Title BEST FRIENDS FOREVER Goes Nuclear

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:45 PM PST

What better way to spend the oncoming apocalypse than on a road trip with your BFF? The alternately bubbly and gruesome trailer for Brea Grant and Vera Miao's Best Friends Forever, which makes its bow next week at Slamdance, asks just that. And then some. Give it a watch below. Oh, here's a brief synopsis:Harriet, a comic book artist with a secret, and her reckless BFF, Reba, take their '76 AMC Pacer on the open road and instead get a wild ride towards an impending nuclear apocalypse.     ...

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Toronto Celebrates The Nikkatsu Centennial With Twitch Curated Series TOKYO DRIFTERS: 100 YEARS OF NIKKATSU

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:00 PM PST

The TIFF Bell Lightbox here in Toronto announced today a major Japanese focus for the upcoming winter season with three major Japanese themed programs among them Japanese Divas: The Great Actresses of Japanese Cinema's Golden Age and The Catch: Japanese Cinema of the Eighties. And while there are stellar titles in both of these the series closer to our hearts - because the selection was made by yours truly - is Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu.Yes, Nikkatsu are celebrating their hundredth year and Twitch is proud to present a selection of twelve titles spanning the Nikkatsu Golden Age, which ran from the opening of their massive sound stage complex through until the company shifted their focus entirely to the production of Roman Porno in...

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J Hurtado's Top Home Video Releases of 2012

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

In my short tenure here at Twitch, I've managed to carve out a niche for myself as an advocate for independent home video, and it's a position in which I take great pride. As such, my list of the top home video releases of the year is entirely devoid of studio releases. The basic reason for this is that, in my mind, it isn't impressive when a multi million dollar company turns out a decent home video release, however, when a small, dedicated crew of film fanatics does the same it's something to get excited about.I had considerable trouble whittling this list down to ten releases, so I just decided that ten was an arbitrary and bullshit number and made my own fucking list that...

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Jean Dujardin Versus Tim Roth In Full Trailer For International Thriller MOBIUS

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

International intrigue and espionage ... The Artist star Jean Dujardin has already tackled this world in comedic style with the OSS 117 films but he's giving it a serious spin now with Eric Rochant's Möbius, a Luc Besson produced thriller due to hit French screens in February. Tim Roth stars opposite as Dujardin's nemesis though who's really on which side is very much up in the air, in keeping with the twisty title of the film. The first teaser arrived back in November and has now been followed by a full trailer. Check it below....

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Tom Stone's Best Of 2012, Served With Delicious Australian Gravy

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST

I look at end-of-year best of lists rather differently than many of my peers. I consume a lot of media: scripts, films, shorts, TV, interweb shows and ridiculous skits that I should know better about watching. (But seriously, watch this.) As a result of this overeating I'm presenting a best of 2012 list that encompasses most of these mediums.Given I write predominantly about antipodean content and filmmakers, there is definitely a skew towards stuff from down under. But this doesn't mean it's hard to track down - and I fully recommend hunting around for many of these movies and shows. I've also included a few clips from YouTube below, as some of the content I loved is available for everyone to watch.Best Five FilmsI'm not going to dwell too heavily here...

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COMBUSTION: A Sexed Up Spanish Spin On THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 09:00 AM PST

Manly men, fast cars and equally fast women. It's a formula played to great success in The Fast And The Furious franchise and it would seem that Spain is now (belatedly) getting in on the act with director Daniel Calparsoro's Combustion.At the party to announce his engagement to Julia, a jewelry store heiress, Mikel meets the captivating catering waitress Ari. He tries to keep his ill-timed infatuation in check, but fate throws them together and Mikel experiences the most passionate night of his life. Hooked on Ari, he gets sucked into her fascinating world of illegal car races. By the time he realizes he is mixed up in an elaborate plan designed by Ari and her dangerous boyfriend to rob Julia's multi-million euro business, there's...

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Shelagh's Intense, Low-Fi Top Films of 2012

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

This was a great year in film for me, for two big reasons. One: great sci-films are making a comeback, ones that care about story, not just explosions. Two: the classical, cause-and-effect narrative, where the audience is led by the hand from one scene to the next, seems to be disappearing, at least among the better filmmakers, in exchange for something more surreal, where the audience is expected to use their brains. When I was going through my list for 2012, the films that I remember most, that I loved, are the ones which take a more intimate approach to the human condition, focusing on a few people in very specific circumstances. Considering my work in programming and academia, my tastes tend to lead towards...

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Preview: Global Lens 2013 At MoMA Offers High Caliber Cinema From Around The World

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

Global Film Initiative (GFI) and MoMA present Global Lens 2013: 10 films from developing film communities as diverse as Kazakhstan and Chile, in a traveling exhibition. From January 10th - 25th, the program holds up shop in NYC, where many of the titles are making their North American or New York premieres. To celebrate the 10th year, Global Lens starts with a week-long run of Zhang Yuan's Beijing Flickers and Eduardo Nunes's Southwest; an overlooked earlier film, Life Kills Me (2007), from Chilean director Sebastián Silva (whose 2009 film The Maid was much admired); Cairo 678, a big hit at MoMA's 2011 New Directors/New Films festival, and much more. I am just stupefied by the caliber of these films. I just wish I had more...

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For Your Consideration: THAT'S MY BOY

Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:00 AM PST

I'll begin my case for the Adam Sandler raunch-fest That's My Boy by referencing one of the greatest movies ever made, and one which has probably been often used to defend what's perceived as low-art many times before -- Sullivan's Travels. In that classic, comedy director John Sullivan becomes embarrassed about his low brow comedies like Ants in the Pants (a potential title for a Sandler movie if there ever was one) and goes out to live among America's homeless so that he can direct a more "serious" effort for the common man, O Brother Where Art Thou? As is prone to happen to a penniless hobo, Sullivan ends up in jail by the end of the movie, spending more time than he bargained for...

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