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Transylvania International Film Fest: Dispatch One

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Transylvania International Film Fest: Dispatch One

Transylvania International Film Fest: Dispatch One

Posted: 06 Jun 2014 03:00 AM PDT

The sun strikes the great green Carpathian mountains, if only in a teasing way, as clouds and rain showers begin to roll in. However, this weather does not stop the city of Cluj-Napoca from transforming itself into a hub for a diverse variety of films from all over the world, as well as the crossroad for the domestic film industry. The city is pulsating with cinema. The Transylvania International Film Festival has started. The giant inflatable screen is pitched right in the middle of the main square to bring the films closer to the general public during evening screenings where they can enjoy them after the workday is over. That´s a nice gesture to locals. The organizers of the festival have gone a little farther...

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THE MACHINE: Watch This Exclusive Clip From Caradog James' Sci-Fi Flick

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 06:00 PM PDT

With the Blu-ray/DVD release just around the corner (June 17th) it is time to whet your appetite for Caradog James' sci-fi flick The Machine. We have an exclusive clip to share with you.Set in the near-future Britain, two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, designed to help humanity. But things go terribly wrong when the British Government steals their breakthrough and teaches it to become a robotic weapon. The film is written and directed by new filmmaker Caradog W. James and stars Caity Lotz (Arrow) in a breakthrough role as "Ava" the machine alongside Toby Stephens (Black Sails) as the other computer programmer.  This clip is at the opening of the film so there is no...

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Aronofsky Adapting Atwood's MADDADDAM Trilogy For HBO Series

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 05:30 PM PDT

Some folk just are not content to flood the world once; Noah director Darren Aronofsky hopes to be at it again. Deadline is reporting that he will be adapting Canadian author Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam book trilogy and turn it into a HBO series. It is also possible that Aronofsky will be directing the series himself. He will be meeting with writers for the adaptation process. Atwood will be a consulting producer for the show. The story in the MaddAddam books, part of Atwood's self-described genre of "speculative fiction," is set in the mid-21st century in a world where corporations have taken over for governments and the genetic modification of organisms is perversely ubiquitous. It centers on the events before and after a Waterless Flood that wipes out...

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Review: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, When Tear-Jerking Is Not Enough

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 03:00 PM PDT

To paraphrase Shakespeare (badly): If you place cancer kids in front of me, will I not cry? What human being with an ounce of empathy would not be touched deeply at the sight of a terminally-ill person, especially a child or teenager? Most everyone on Earth has lost a loved one to cancer or some other horrible disease, myself included multiple times over, so any movie that declares it, and it alone, intends to "tell the truth" about terminally-ill cancer kids is courting disaster. Foolhardy as it may be for Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) to declare that sentiment in the opening moments of The Fault in Our Stars, however, it reveals something essential about her character: she seeks the truth with resolute zeal, despite...

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Watch The Trailer For Season 2 Of SPACE DANDY

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 02:00 PM PDT

If felt like only yesterday that season one of Watanabe Shinichiro's Space Dandy finished airing in Japan. (See above image.) With the second season getting ready to air on July 6, we were about due for a proper trailer! Though there are less boobies then one would expect from the show, there is no mistaking the zany energy and colorful characters. Enjoy!...

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Denzel Washington And Antoine Fuqua In Talks For MAGNIFICENT SEVEN Remake

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 01:00 PM PDT

Word from the land of remakes, and Variety, is that Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua are the latest talent to have received offers from MGM to take the reins on their remake of The Magnificent Seven. Washington and Fuqua have already worked together on Training Day and most recently The Equalizer (which I included a trailer for below), which hits cinemas in September. The original The Magnificent Seven from 1960, directed by John Sturges, is a lauded Western, a remake of Kurosawa's 1954 pic Seven Samurai, which is equally if not more highly-regarded by the folks here at Twitch.John Lee Hancock (Snow White and the Huntsman) was the last to have his go at the script. Before that, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto wrote the previous version. I would...

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Our Facebook Quiz Will Shortly Have Its 300th Film Guessed!

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 12:00 PM PDT

Way back when Twitch had its own separate forum, the most-trafficked topic used to be the screenshot quiz. The rules were simple: someone would post a screenshot, and the person who guessed the movie won the right to post the NEXT screenshot. And this went on for seven years, until well over a thousand films had been guessed. Then times changed: the forum went dead as people moved discussions over to social media. When, a while ago, our site upgraded and we at Twitch became a bit more social-media-savvy, we decided to relaunch a new forum on our Facebook page. And what was the first topic we put on it? The screenshot quiz, of course! And we decided to reboot it fresh, with slightly revised...

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Japan Cuts 2014 Serves Up An Eclectic, Enticing Slate

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Partnered as always with your NYC go-to for summer movie madness, the New York Asian Film Festival, Japan Cuts' full lineup of fresh or rare Japanese films is, on its own, always something to talk about, and never something to miss. So thank the gods the 2014 edition, happening at Japan Society, July 10-20, is looking mighty robust. While such 2013 Festival stalwarts, like Sono Sion's Why Don't You Play In Hell, finally get their NYC premieres, its the inclusion of work new to these shores that is getting my head to turn. Of note: the world premiere of 0.5mm, which stars Love Exposure's Ando Sakura as an at-home elder care worker.  Ando Momoko's film is being touted as a comedy. And yes, star and...

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Review: RIGOR MORTIS Pays Eerie Homage To Hong Kong Vampires

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Hong Kong popstar-turned-actor Juno Mak continues to defy expectations with his directorial debut, a sombre and eerie eulogy to the hopping vampires of the 1980s that trades the sub-genre's signature laughs for world-weary melancholy from a fine cast of screen veterans. After the surprise success of Wong Ching Po's Revenge A Love Story, lead actor Juno Mak, who also conceived of the bleak thriller's premise, felt sufficiently empowered to step behind the camera and helm a feature film of his own. Inspired by the traditional Chinese vampire films of his youth, most notably Ricky Lau's Mr. Vampire (1985), Mak set out to resurrect and ultimately lay to rest that particular sub-genre of Hong Kong horror. Set in a shadowy, otherworldly apartment complex, populated by a...

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Review: BORGMAN Fiendishly Recounts The Time The Devil Went Up To Holland

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 09:00 AM PDT

The titular character of Alex van Warmerdam's Borgman does not have horns, nor does he command grotesque demons spawned from hellfire. Emaciated, clothed in rags with long hair and a beard, he actually looks a lot like Jesus at first. But since he's being hunted by a priest with a rifle when we first meet him, it seems pretty safe to assume that he's more likely the exact opposite of the son of God. The gun doesn't do much good, and while some of the priest's posse has a bit more luck with a spear, Borgman's underground clubhouse type lair, complete with a periscope and escape tunnel, gives him the upper hand from square one. Off he flees through the woods, and eventually, to the...

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Review: THE SACRAMENT Is Delicious Kool-Aid For Thirsty Viewers

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 08:00 AM PDT

Sometimes we are frankly limited by our terminology. What do you call a film that uses in-world video? That is to say, what do you call a film where the camera used to exclusively record the footage is incorporated as a prop and plot element in the story? The popular answer is "found footage." But found footage implies that a character in the story lost the footage at some point. The term also carries with it plenty of baggage from the current slew of low budget horror films that have used this as a primary storytelling device. But you also can't call it a documentary, because, well, it's made up. Mock-umentary isn't correct either. Faux doc? Perhaps -- but it's not quite right. You can...

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Watch An Exclusive Clip From Richie Mehta's I'LL FOLLOW YOU DOWN

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Opening tomorrow, June 6, in limited release is Richie Mehta's time travel drama/thriller, I'll Follow You Down. Mehta's brief CV is quite impressive, starting with Amal back in 2007, and moving on to last year's Siddharth (Todd Brown's top film of 2013). I'll Follow You Down premiered at last year's Fantasia Film Festival where our Kurt Halfyard hemmed and hawed about the film, praising Mehta's writing abilities but somewhat less effusive about his directorial abilities.The good people at Well Go USA have, once again, served us up an exclusive clip to whet the appetite of viewers and readers eager for a new time travel story. Kurt places I'll Follow You Down's story alongside formidable company like Rian Johnson's Looper, and such immortals as Back to...

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