The Fury (1978): Too Many Plots spoil this broth (Review)

Rob Simpson 30/10/2013

Brian De Palma, telekinesis and violence. When most people are addressed with those few facts the film they are going to come out with is Carrie. Unfortunately, lost under the legend of one of his few masterworks is 1978’s the Fury; Brian De Palma’s other telekinetic thriller. Even if the […]

S07E09 – Tokyo Games Show & Review Day 2

Archaeon 27/10/2013

This week we decided to find out what the Eastern games market is looking forward to over the coming year. With it also being a major release week we certainly had plenty of stuff to review, so join us as we take a virtual wander around the Tokyo Games Show […]

S07E09 – Tokyo Games Show & Review Day 2

Archaeon 27/10/2013

This week we decided to find out what the Eastern games market is looking forward to over the coming year. With it also being a major release week we certainly had plenty of stuff to review, so join us as we take a virtual wander around the Tokyo Games Show […]

Late Mizoguchi (1951-1956): The final years of one of Japan’s Greatest Masters (Review)

Rob Simpson 25/10/2013

Japanese cinema has an odd relationship with crowds for assorted reasons; two of the chief come from genres like horror and anime. The usual response to the question of what a person’s favourite Japanese film or film-maker is will often be met with any number of studio Ghibli films, a […]

S07E08 – Revenge of the Babysat

Archaeon 23/10/2013

On this week’s show we decided to take a look at the role that children play in entertainment media. Join us as we find out what happened to children’s cartoons, what makes a good videogame child character, and why Hollywood keeps insisting on adding kids to movies that don’t need […]

Shady (2012): Remarkable Japanese Micro-Budget Coming of Age Thriller (Review)

Rob Simpson 30/09/2013 1

Third Windows Films are a firm favourite here at The Geek Show due to them releasing a healthy mix of classics and new titles from Asian cinema. They are the last and best men (and women) left standing after Hong Kong Legends and Tartan fell by the wayside. With that, […]

Bring me the head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012): GTA flavoured Latinosploitation (Review)

Rob Simpson 28/09/2013

Bring me the Head of… is one of those historic movie titles along with Once upon a time in… that has a legacy entirely unique to themselves, spanning continents, styles and genre like no other. The most recent to see release comes in the shape of Bring me the Head […]

Sake Bomb (2013): far lovelier than a film about racism has any right being (Review)

Rob Simpson 27/09/2013

A Saké Bomb is a beer cocktail made by pouring Saké into a shot glass and dropping it into a glass of beer, it’s also the feature debut of Junya Sakino that’s making its international premiere at the 2013 Raindance Film Festival. In Sakino’s debut, rising star Gaku Hamada (Naoto) […]

S07E06 – Review Day

Archaeon 25/09/2013

This week we’re overwhelmed with the sheer number of games, movies and anime that we’re being released, so we decided to dedicate a show to the reviews of all of those titles you’ve been waiting for. We also took the opportunity to do a post-con recap with our new presenter […]

S0E05 – ONECon 2013 Special

Archaeon 20/09/2013

We’re big fans of conventions in the North of England so it’s only natural that we were eager to witness the birth of a new one – and to make things even better it was in our home town! The ONECon committee gave us a lovely room so we could […]

The Curse of Rosalie (2022) Too Much Movie in this Movie (Review)

The Cat and the Canary & The Ghost Breakers (1939/1940) (Blu-Ray Review)

Skinamarink (II) (2022): TikTok’s favourite liminal horror takes its Blu-Ray bow (review)

Big Trouble in Little China (1986): The Most Entertaining Action Movie in the West (Review)

Wild Men (2021) Absurd Danish Comedy Drama with one plot too many (Cinema Review)

Antonio Gaudí (1984): pure cinema explores pure imagination (review)

Ikarie XB-1 (1963): The best Space & Soap Opera you’ve never seen (Review)

La Syndicaliste (2022): A Conspiracy Thriller for the #MeToo World (Review)

The Ascent (1977) The Greatest Anti-War Film You Haven’t Seen (Review)

A Time for Dying (1969) Audie Murphy’s Last Stand (Review)

Masculin Féminin (1966): further adventures of Jean-Luc Godard (Review)

Iron Monkey (1993) One of the best entry points of Kung-Fu Cinema (Review)

Year: 2013

The Fury (1978): Too Many Plots spoil this broth (Review)

S07E09 – Tokyo Games Show & Review Day 2

S07E09 – Tokyo Games Show & Review Day 2

Late Mizoguchi (1951-1956): The final years of one of Japan’s Greatest Masters (Review)

S07E08 – Revenge of the Babysat

Shady (2012): Remarkable Japanese Micro-Budget Coming of Age Thriller (Review)

Bring me the head of the Machine Gun Woman (2012): GTA flavoured Latinosploitation (Review)

Sake Bomb (2013): far lovelier than a film about racism has any right being (Review)

S07E06 – Review Day

S0E05 – ONECon 2013 Special