As the Summer season winds down, we take a look at the good, the bad, the mediocre, the just plain wrong, the unexpected and the anger-inducing anime of the last three months. Our featured animated movie and cartoon are Michaël Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle and Netflix’s Neo Yokio. […]
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Literary Loitering 70 – Blistering Postman on Postman Action
Doberman Cop (1977) A peculiar Sonny Chiba character in an endlessly odd police thriller (Review)
Once upon a time, it was instantly apparent when a film was based on a comic or graphic novel as those films concerned themselves with the super-powered and the otherworldly, then around the mid-1990s there was a paradigm shift and the nature of these titles became indistinguishable from the more […]
Keyframe 72 – For All Your Death Stationary Needs
This week we’ve got export restrictions, dragon dentists, same faces, strange mousemats and all sorts of other paraphernalia that make animation such an odd place to visit. Our featured anime are Berserk (1997), and Death Note. Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all the latest news, discussions […]
Keyframe 68 – Will Smith's Fishatar
Things take a turn for the strange with a mess of trailers and some anthropomorphic technology jargon. Our featured anime are When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace (Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de), and Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary), part 2 Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all […]
Keyframe 68 – Will Smith’s Fishatar
Things take a turn for the strange with a mess of trailers and some anthropomorphic technology jargon. Our featured anime are When Supernatural Battles Become Commonplace (Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de), and Mirai Nikki (The Future Diary), part 2 Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all […]
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) The sleeper hit of John Carpenter’s Killer Run (Review)
John Carpenter’s filmography is a curious animal, subject to both wild scrutiny and glorious celebration. What’s more, his work has been remade, twisted and contorted by both genre stalwarts and studio remit with wildly different results – from the heinous [the] Fog to the solidly entertaining Assault on Precinct 13 […]
PX06 – Burning Sherlock Holmes's Car
PX06 – Burning Sherlock Holmes’s Car
Cinema Eclectica 71 – Werner Herzog: King of the Internet
This week it’s official, Werner Herzog is the king of the internet. In Off The Shelf we look at Michael Mann’s “Thief”, 1976 horror “The Premonition”, Peter Watkins’ docu-drama “Edvard Munch” and Cristi Puiu’s debut “Stuff and Dough”. Our feature film is Shane Black’s comedy thriller “The Nice Guys”. “You […]