Opening this year's Hong Kong Summer International Film Festival on Wednesday night was Johnnie To's latest offering, VENGEANCE. A good old fashioned revenge thriller, the film is a collision of ideas and styles and an obvious attempt by the... More >>

Life's a bitch when your soul is owed to the devil. It's even more of a bitch when you're not even the guy who sold it off. But such is the sad state of affairs for Solomon Kane, the... More >>

Following hard on the heels of similarly themed Danish feature Flame and Citron - the chronicle of two famous Danish resistance fighters in WWII - Norwegian blockbuster Max Manus aims to shed light on a largely forgotten episode of... More >>

It's a tale of two John's in Hong Kong / French co-production Vengeance. On one side of the coin is iconic Hong Kong director Johnnie To, here tipping his hat to his beloved library of classic French gangster films while... More >>

If American crime films are guilty of one fatal flaw it is that the huge majority of them not only glamorize the world that they are set it but focus only on the big fish while doing so. And... More >>

[We had the chance to speak with Denmark's Nicolas Winding Refn nearly a year ago about his pair of 2009 films - Bronson and Valhalla Rising - and with Valhalla now premiering at TIFF we thought it was a... More >>

Apparently Canada is looking to corner the market on unusual lo-fi superhero films. In 2006 Toronto native Hal Haberman co-wrote and co-directed a little film that received big love in these pages. Titled Special it starred Michael Rapaport as... More >>

[This review was originally conducted slightly more than a year ago when the film was still in progress but with Bitch Slap taking its first public appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival now seems like a good time... More >>

[While Tony Jaa's Ong Bak 2 finally made it through its tortuous production process and arrived in Thai theaters to a hugely positive response - a response that has already led to a third Ong Bak film being confirmed... More >>

[Twitch is undergoing some behind the scenes tire kicking and bolt-tightening over the next few days, work that may slow down the regular flow of new information a little bit. So, while that's going on we'll be presenting a...