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THE WHITE STORM And SNOWPIERCER Bookend Hong Kong Asian Film Fest

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THE WHITE STORM And SNOWPIERCER Bookend Hong Kong Asian Film Fest

THE WHITE STORM And SNOWPIERCER Bookend Hong Kong Asian Film Fest

Posted: 11 Oct 2013 12:00 AM PDT

The full line-up for this year's Hong Kong Asian Film Festival has just been unveiled and it looks to be an incredibly strong year, bookended by two of the region's most hotly-anticipated thrillers. Opening the festival on 25 October is the world premiere of Benny Chan's drug trafficking drama The White Storm, starring three of Hong Kong's most prolific actors of the moment, Nick Cheung, Lau Ching Wan and Louis Koo. Perhaps more exciting, however, is that Bong Joon-ho's stellar science-fiction thriller, Snowpiercer will be closing the festival on 19 November, screening in its full Korean version ahead of going on general release in the city the following week. Other highlights of the programme include a special presentation of Tsai Ming Liang's Stray Dogs, winner of...

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San Diego Film Fest 2013 Awards Wrap Up

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT

As the SoCal summer comes to an end, we also bid adieu to the 12th Annual San Diego Film Fest. The long sun-drenched weekend brought a combination of Hollywood features, celebrity tributes, indie hits, and shorts from around the world to the lovely city-by-the-border. One of the major highlights was the fest's centerpiece tribute to Judd Apatow, which saw the writer/director/producer given the "Visionary Filmmaker" award. The audience was treated to a hilarious introduction by David Koechner and an off-the-cuff video tribute from Will Ferrell in full Ron Burgundy regalia from the set of Anchorman 2. The night also saw the "Emerging Producer" award given to Justin Nappi (Arbitrage, All is Lost) and a surprise appearance by Boondock Saints director Troy Duffy who emotionally...

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Halloween Comes To Philadelphia Early For The 2013 Tele-Terror Fest!

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:30 PM PDT

It's a safe assumption to make, that for the vast majority of readers here at Twitch, and certainly anyone who's viewing this page right now, that October is probably your favorite month of the year. I imagine many of you look forward year round to the horror movie discount sales at whatever brick and mortar stores in your area that still exist and carry a decent DVD selection. It's safe to say that many of you have already written down the horror film schedules for television networks like Turner Classics, and are now programming your DVRs to record midnight showings of Val Lewton classics after you spent the evening watching Poltergeist marathons on basic cable. And most of you are already planning on attending a...

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Review: SWEETWATER Would Go Down Better With A Bit More Sugar

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Sweetwater isn't easy to enjoy. For such a spare and tight film, there seems to be a lot of dead air. Part of that is because it brings together three narratives that don't mesh until nearly halfway into the film. The fun really begins once those three characters converge and things are truly sent spiraling. Like a ricocheting bullet, it's hard to determine where Sweetwater --directed by Logan Miller from a script by Andrew McKenzie, Logan, and brother Noah Miller -- is going to end. Violent and dark, this feels like a William Friedkin-esque attempt at a Western set in the New Mexico territory around the 1800s. There are rare spurts of humor and most of it is from the way that people are dispatched...

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Interview: Jim Mickle On WE ARE WHAT WE ARE

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Jim Mickle is quietly making a name for himself as one of the most important horror directors working today. Whether it's tenement dwellers fighting off a rat zombie horde in Mulberry Street (2006), or a religious vampire cult ruling over an apocalyptic future America in Stakeland (2010) Mickle and his writing partner Nick Damici have returned time and again to the theme of societies struggle to strike a balance between community and individuality. His latest film, a remake of Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are hits at the heart of horror by questioning the connective tissue between family ties, rigid belief systems and the need to breakout. Twitch: People in your movies have to struggle to survive. Some sacrifice community and some don't in...

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Review: ZERO CHARISMA Declares War On False Nerds

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 12:00 PM PDT

Zero Charisma is probably the most realistic portrayal of the alienation of the adult nerd that I've ever seen on screen. I had four friends when I was in high school. Brendon, Jagjeet, Ryan, Nick, and I met in junior high. We had nothing in common culturally, our families were all from different ends of the Earth, but we were all smart kids who hated "normals" and preferred each other's company to that of the popular crowd, or at least that's the way I looked at it. I suppose the reality of the situation was that the popular crowd looked right through us and we just banded together as a defense mechanism. In any case, we bonded pretty hard in those early years. We were...

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Trailer: ARCHER Feels "The Need...The Need For Speed"

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Behold - characters from what is perhaps the finest comedy in the history of artistic expression riffing on the best F16 F-14 Tomcat training school Tony Scott movie ever made. For those too young to remember when MTV played music videos and Kenny Loggins was finally flying solo from Monsieur Messina, this is some supremely excellent stuff.Careful, it's a dangerous road to the Danger Zone. Archer's new season starts January 2014....

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Review: ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE, The Very Real Horror Of Teenage Manipulation

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 11:01 AM PDT

Mandy Lane is the object of every young man's desire at her school. She's a desirable creature, made all the more desirable by her inclination to lead a pure lifestyle and abstain from common teenage vices. You want what you can't have and it drives the male teenage population around her mad. A weekend away at a classmates' Texas ranch appears to be the perfect opportunity to crack that nut and be the first to get with Mandy. Jostling for position begins and the game is on. Unfortunately, another game is being played and someone lurks in the shadows, quickly eliminating the competition. Is someone taking their affection for the lovely Mandy Lane too far? What I liked, first of all, was that not in...

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Review: CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, A Remarkably Rich And Thrilling Tale Of Piracy On The High Seas

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 10:01 AM PDT

In April 2009, Captain Richard Phillips was aboard the MV Maersk Alabama, a container ship bringing supplies and donations to Kenya. Passing through international waters off the coast of Somalia, the ship was commandeered by a small band of pirates, who would eventually take over the vessel. Many who follow the news know of what transpired after that initial incident, and any that have seen the trailer for the film have a pretty decent idea of the main brushstrokes of the story. It's to the filmmakers' credit that the movie doesn't rely on a lack of familiarity with the actual events in order to artificially invoke suspense. There are great moments of tension even if you know the entirely of the tale, a maritime drama...

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Review: ROMEO & JULIET, I Pray Thee Know This Movie Loves Close-Ups

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

If every generation gets the Romeo & Juliet it deserves, then this generation is doomed to relive the past in a reverential and utterly unremarkable series of close-ups. Adapted without distinction by Julian Fellowes and directed without distraction by Carlo Carlei, the 2013 movie edition of William Shakespeare's tragedy features Hailee Steinfeld (15 years old at the time of filming) and Douglas Booth (19 or 20) as the young lovers, and even there the casting is mismatched. Perhaps if Kodi Smit-McPhee (15) had starred as Romeo opposite Steinfeld's Juliet, the story of two teenagers caught up in smoldering adolescent passion would have played better, and possibly would have elicited greater empathy for the characters. As it is, however, Smit-McPhee is relegated to playing Benvolio, Romeo's...

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Check Out An Exclusive Teaser And Character Posters For Indie Weirdness TOAD ROAD

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Jason Banker's Toad Road is the sort of film that defies easy categorization, a deliberately raw and naturalistic indie that veers off down unexpected trails whilst dabbling in psychoactive drugs and elements of horror. It is, in other words, the sort of film that Twitch exists for. And it is soon to be hitting screens with a limited theatrical release beginning October 18 in LA and October 25 in New York.A different kind of American independent horror film, the hypnotic Toad Road, presented by Elijah Wood and his SpectreVision production company, unfolds like a hallucinatory cross between the sexual candor of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, and the backwoods creep-out of The Blair Witch Project. Young James kills time with his small town druggie friends,...

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Review: CASSADAGA, Conquering Gruesome Horror With Reasonable Behavior

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 08:00 AM PDT

Plucking disparate elements from the air and planting them in a slowly-burning field of Southern horror tropes, Cassadaga eventually reveals itself to be more of a mystery drama than any kind of suspense or horror piece. And what at first appears to be a grab bag of half-baked ideas eventually resolves into a cohesive picture of a woman dealing with crippling memories and an uncertain future. As played with empathy by Kelen Coleman, Lily has physically survived the horror of losing her younger sister, who was in her care as an adult guardian after the passing of both their parents, in an automobile accident. But emotionally, Lily is still devastated. In an effort to change her life, she applies for and wins an art scholarship...

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Interview: ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW With Director Randall Moore And Cinematographer Lucas Lee Graham

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Like many, I never thought I'd have a chance to see Escape from Tomorrow, but I held out the faint hope that it would make some sort of other festival appearance after premiering to much controversy at Sundance for being the film that would never see the light of day because it was shot incognito at Disney World. When I found out it was playing Fantastic Fest 2013 and that director Randall Moore would be there I was overjoyed. It's basic plot follows the story of a middle aged man getting fired the morning of his family's last vacation day at Disneyland. What follows is a nightmare of hallucinatory cine-madness that is part horror, part science fiction, part comedy, and at times, very disturbing. If you've...

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Busan 2013 Review: EINSTEIN AND EINSTEIN Is A Searing Generational Indictment

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 06:00 AM PDT

Einstein And Einstein is a smart and assured cinematic drama from mainland China that is rife with underlying politics and cutting-edge metaphors.When thirteen year old Li Wan (an incredible performance from Zhang Xueying) rebels against her estranged father for lying and breaking promises to her, he guiltily responds by buying her a puppy. The puppy is named Einstein and at first, driven by disdain for her dad, she neglects it. An unfortunate mishap occurs regarding the dog which reveals the inherent absurdity and lack of understanding between generations in China. This snowballs into even more events that paint a damning portrait of the brave new world of China's millennial generation as they work against the grain of the stubborn old ways valued in the system.Director...

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Udo Has An Orgasm In The New Poster Campaign For Lars Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC

Posted: 10 Oct 2013 05:35 AM PDT

Ever wondered what Udo Kier looks like when having an orgasm? Stellan Skarsgard? Uma Thurman? Willem Dafoe? Charlotte Gainsbourg? Jamie Bell? Christian Slater? Connie Nielsen? Well, wonder no more because a new poster campaign has arrived for Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac which features the entire principal cast - other than Shia Labeouf, who is apparently too dignified for such things - making their very best Oh Face. It's pretty hilarious stuff and we've got the entire series of posters in the gallery below. NYMPHOMANIAC is the wild and poetic story of a woman's journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Gainsbourg). On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Skarsgård), finds Joe...

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