Watch Award Winning Short GOOD TASTE

Watch Award Winning Short GOOD TASTE


Watch Award Winning Short GOOD TASTE

Posted: 06 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST

Director Greg Hanson has been a favorite here at Twitch for some time thanks to his short films Thy Kill Be Done and Meat Me In Plainville. It's not hard to tell what sort of space Hanson occupies from the titles of his films and now his latest effort - titled Good Taste - has arrived online. Good Taste has had a healthy festival life thus far - selected at high profile events such as Raindance and winning Best Short at the 2011 Melbourne Underground Film Festival - and now you can experience this tale of obsessive collecting, violence and lunch for yourself below....

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TV Review: SWORD ART ONLINE

Posted: 06 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Sword Art Online represents everything wrong with Japanese animation right now. No, seriously - and this isn't because the show is irredeemably bad or anything. Rather it takes a decent premise and over the course of twenty-five episodes proceeds to waste pretty much every last scrap of potential this premise offers up. Every time the plot presents an opportunity to explore a compelling moral dilemma, to better develop someone who could be an interesting character, to think about the implications of some new aspect of the world the writers have created, the show sidelines it without fail in favour of an easy out. This is what happens when you pander to a core audience of unrepentant nerds; the big questions never get answered, characters show...

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Full Disclosure: Twitch Tackles Its Lists Of Shame (A New Year's Resolution)

Posted: 06 Jan 2013 08:00 AM PST

Opinions are just like arseholes, everybody's got one. And everybody's got their List of Shame too. Their dirty little secret that they've been hiding from the world, that they fear will ruin their credibility if anyone ever found out, that has haunted them so long they can't even bear to utter its name...For anyone who considers themselves a cinephile or critic of note, their occupation can all too often become a labour of Sisyphean proportions, and inevitably some bona fide classics get left behind in the rabid desire to stay on top. Be it Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia or Seven Samurai, everyone has their albatross to carry, everyone has that string of titles that makes them fall uncharacteristically silent when the pub conversation turns...

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