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Review: EARTH TO ECHO, An Alien Loose In Suburbia

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Review: EARTH TO ECHO, An Alien Loose In Suburbia

Review: EARTH TO ECHO, An Alien Loose In Suburbia

Posted: 02 Jul 2014 01:00 AM PDT

Somewhere beneath the wreckage of its found-footage conceit, a heartfelt, 80s-style, family-friendly, science-fiction adventure lurks within Earth to Echo. Revolving around the friendship of three boys, the film seeks to recapture the moment when childhood yields to adolescence, and an optimistic willingness to believe is replaced by the pessimistic sting of continual doubt. It's set in the classic, idealistic suburbs of Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, a quiet neighborhood in the fictional Mulberry Falls, Nevada, that will soon become extinct because a highway will be constructed straight through the middle of it. With all the families busily preparing to move, the three boys have noticed strange things happening -- all the cell phones "barfing," as one example -- and decide to investigate, enjoying one last...

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NYAFF 2014 Review: BLIND MASSAGE, An Artful And Affecting Ensemble Drama

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:01 PM PDT

Often controversial Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye delivers one of his finest films with Blind Massage, a delicately observed and artfully directed ensemble drama, based on the novel of the same name by Bi Feiyu. Putting aside, at least for the time being, the intensely sexualized scenarios that marked some of his previous films (Summer Palace, Spring Fever, Love and Bruises, Mystery), Lou immerses us in a unique world - that of the blind - that's never been captured on film in quite this way. Sighted professional actors playing blind, including some Lou regulars, mesh seamlessly with actual non-sighted and partially-sighted amateurs to create a broad canvas encompassing several stories that are all engrossing and beautifully rendered.Blind Massage begins with an offscreen narrator (who is heard...

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Review: DELIVER US FROM EVIL Delivers The Horror Goods

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 10:01 PM PDT

A totally engrossing freak-out, Deliver Us From Evil may not make you believe in demons, but it will convince you that talented filmmakers can create a world in which such spirit creatures exist and exert a powerful influence upon unfortunate souls. Grounded in hard-bitten reality, which makes it all the more unsettling, the film is inspired by the true-life experiences of Sergeant Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), a wary veteran in the New York Police Department who has a nose for trouble. His partner Butler (Joel McHale), a self-admitted "adrenaline junkie," calls it "radar." Sarchie's "radar" leads them to a troubling domestic disturbance call and then to the aftermath of a horrifying incident at the bedarkened Bronx Zoo, where they must locate a woman who attemped...

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Hey Australia! Win Tickets To See Z STORM In Cinemas!

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 06:00 PM PDT

Z Storm is a new corruption thriller from Hong Kong that stars Louis Koo, Gordon Lam and Dada Chan. It also has a strong supporting cast including Lo Hoi Pang, Liu Kai Chi and Michael Wong. It is due to be released in Australian cinemas on July 10, and thanks to its distributor Magnum Films, we have FIVE double passes for our readers to win. To enter this competition, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Like the Magnum Film Facebook page, and2) Email your name and postal address to me at: hugo[at]twitchfilm.netThe competition will close at 3pm on July 8. -- Good luck!...

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FIDOCS 2014 Review: TIMOTEO'S FABULOUS RAGGED CIRCUS, A True Crowd Pleaser

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 12:00 PM PDT

FIDOCS (Festival Internacional Documentales Santiago Chile) has always been a showcase of the best documentary output that the world has to offer. At the same time it has managed to always choose the best documentaries that will have Chile talk for the rest of the year, and sometimes even the entire film world. In its 18 years of history, there's never been one Chilean documentary that was forgettable or in any way a shameful representation of the best that we can offer.This year the Chilean lineup had an amazing level, but the film that the people will mostly talk about is this one, the chronicle of two years in the life and activities of one of the most classic circuses of Chile, the Timoteo's Fabulous Ragged...

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Absolutely Gorgeous Concept Art For Julien Mokrani's Alex Aja Produced Adaptation Of French Graphic Novel LES SENTINELLES

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:30 AM PDT

Oh, golly. We brought word back in July that Welcome To Hoxford director Julien Mokrani was teaming with producer Alex Aja to bring an adaptation of French graphic novel Les Sentinelles to the big screen. And now we've got an extensive gallery of concept art from the project and if this is what's going on the screen, well hot damn ... sign me up.Alexandre Aja and The Ministry of Content have acquired sci-fi cult graphic novel SENTINELLES written by Xavier Dorison, drawn by Enrique Breccia and published by Delcourt, for Julien Mokrani to direct. Alexandre Aja, Pavlina Hatoupis will produce. Alix Taylor is attached as Executive Producer.A Paris-based music video director on the move, Mokrani caught the producers' eye with his unofficial short fan film...

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TIME LAPSE: Watch The Trailer For Fantasia Selected Indie SciFi

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Indie scifi Time Lapse will soon make its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal and a trailer has arrived online to whet the appetite.Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.Take a look at the trailer below!...

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Thanks To Everyone Who Helped Mattie Do's DEAREST SISTER Blow Past Its Crowdfunding Goal!

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 11:00 AM PDT

Not so much news here as a hearty thank you!Back on May 19th we announced that Twitch and IndieGoGo were partnering up to help Laotian director Mattie Do - Laos' first ever female feature film director and helmer of first ever Laotian horror film Chanthaly - raise the funds for her proposed second film, Dearest Sister. Well, with a little under two days remaining in her crowd funding campaign we're happy to say that Do is now a whopping 27% over her goal which means she can buy a whole lot of pig blood. And a new camera. And secure the locations needed for the film.In short you lot have helped make a little bit of history here, so good on you. And if you...

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Crowdfund This! Aussie Online Scifi Miniseries RESTORATION!

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT

Fans of cerebral science fiction (heh) crack out your wallets because Australian effort Restoration is coming down the line and it needs your help.2019. A company - RESTORATION LIFE SERVICES - offers individuals the service of having their memories downloaded for backup. So, in the event of death, those memories can be uploaded into a new body, a generic host, nicknamed a "jerry". After a routine backup, Oliver Klein wakes up to find that his memories have been restored into a body that is not his own. Trapped in this foreign body, Oliver Klein struggles to reconnect with his family and his life, and must come face-to-face-with the truth that he is not the only Oliver Klein.Restoration is a three part miniseries from director Stuart Willis...

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Watch POV Short RANDOM STOP

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Director Ben Arfmann turned heads at SXSW with his seven minute POV short film Random Stop. Based on the true story of a sheriff's deputy encountering an aggressive driver on the road this is raw and powerful stuff, enough so that it's just been made a selection of Short Of The Week and is now available to watch online in its entirety. Check it out below....

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ALLELUIA, COLD IN JULY, GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE at Sitges 2014

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:30 AM PDT

The countdown is on to my favourite festival! Sitges 2014 is on this October 3 - 12 on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, and the first wave of amazing programing was announced this morning. Among a plethora of titles, is was announced that the festival's Grand Honourary Award will be given to Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Universal Soldier, Stargate).As previously announced, the festival will open with [REC]4, the final installment of the amazing pseudo-zombie saga, directed by Jaume Balagueró. Among other great titles to be seen are Cold in July, Under the Skin, What We Do in the Shadows, Map to the Stars, Alleluia, Goodbye to Language (is this the first Godard to be at Sitges, I wonder?), and the latest from...

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Hey Toronto! Win Double Passes For Any LOST EPISODE FEST Program!

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 09:00 AM PDT

Well now, Toronto. Do we have a giveaway for you! We have Twenty-Five (25!!!) double passes to giveaway for the upcoming Lost Episode Festival (LEFT) this weekend, Saturday July 4th and Sunday July 5th. The festival will be held at the bestowed Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; one of only a couple fully licensed cinemas in the heart of Toronto! If you want to see either of the thrillers Anna or Patrick on Saturday, all you have to do is ask. If you have a hot date and you think that taking him or her to the Naked Zombie Girl and Nerd Girl Burlesque show late Saturday night is a great idea for date night, all you have to do is ask. Or, if you want to...

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Blu-ray Review: THE COMPLETE PHIBES Boxset Provides Plenty Of Priceless Price

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 08:30 AM PDT

(Love means: following your wife in death, after first killing off everyone you hold responsible for her demise...) In the late fifties, sixties and early seventies, horror fans young and old flocked to cinemas to see three iconic actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price. All three brought class to even the crappiest of pictures, all three were better actors than they were being given credit for at the time, and all three possessed wonderful speaking voices. But on that last point, Vincent Price was the winner. As a kid, I primarily knew Price's voice from the monologue at the end of Michael Jackson's song Thriller. But I became a full-fledged fan of Vincent Price when I saw The Abominable Doctor Phibes, a...

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Review: THIRD PERSON, Awful People In An Awful World

Posted: 01 Jul 2014 08:00 AM PDT

As amply evidenced by his latest film, Third Person, Paul Haggis is a purveyor of pain, which isn't something I would ever expect from someone who wrote for the 1980s TV sitcom The Facts of Life and created small-screen shows such as Walker, Texas Ranger and Due South. It's possible that Haggis' career since then has been a reaction to those experiences, although the more likely explanation is that he is more willing than most to tap a deep personal reservoir of despair, whether from personality or knowledge, and express dark emotions through his characters, especially in films he has directed, such as Crash and The Next Three Days. The latter, at least, had a strong narrative hook that gave the film a modest impetus....

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