It’s been strange seeing the Doctor Who fandom, a fandom that was so divided and downhearted during the Chris Chibnall era and therefore ecstatic when Russell T Davies and Disney+ got involved, go back to the exact same mood after last year’s series finale. A rewatch of Empire of Death […]
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The Doom Busters (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
Maybe in the future, I should judge what films I watch based on if I crack a smile or not looking at the synopsis, because when I noticed that The Doom Busters was about British citizens serving in the Home Guard uncovering an alien presence during World War II, I […]
Memoir Of A Snail (2024): The Best Stop-Motion Film Since Coraline – Yes, Really
For as much as several stop-motion films are among my favourite films of all time, I always have to pinch myself whenever I get to see a new one. I’m still by no means a connoisseur of the medium but damn if I don’t treasure the opportunity to see people […]
A Latecomer To Emilia Perez (2024): What’s All The Fuss About?
My sudden interest in the Oscars has not necessarily come from a fascination about the ceremony itself, which is always a deeply cringe-worthy affair that has to pad out time between each award and acceptance speech with bizarre jokes and banal platitudes. The only reason I’ve been interested the last couple […]
2024 in Review: A Mad Year For Cinema, and For Me
In 2022, I did a roundup of my favourite films of the year, even though I’d only managed to see a small handful of new films that came out. Last year I did the same, and I was fairly proud that I’d managed to see nearly 20 films at the […]
The Secret of NIMH (1982) – Don Bluth Gives Animation The Respect It Deserves
Don Bluth is one of those filmmakers who fascinates me, despite the fact that I had never seen one of his films until now. People talk about his animated efforts with even more reverence than we normally reserve for the best Disney and Pixar films. If you’re like me and […]
Classic Film Kid Revisited: Jaws, 8 Years Later (1975)
On November 6th 2016, I started my grand journey aboard The Geek Show with a review of the all-time classic Jaws. The ‘classic’ part was particularly relevant for me as I used to review films as the Classic Film Kid (those words felt nostalgic just to type), judging whether they […]
The Great Escape (1963) Christmas Classics and the Issue of Historical Accuracy
The Great Escape (4K) is out now on Arrow Video Blu-Ray Alex’s Archive – The Great Escape (1963)
Night Of The Living Dead (1968) A Pioneering but Imperfect Trailblazer
At this point in time it’s fair to say that the reputation of George A Romero’s zombie trilogy is so embedded into the history of horror that no amount of criticism would be able to shift their reputation. Even me, apologetically as a first-timer to these films, knew so much […]
Megalopolis (2024) It’s A Lot, And A Lot Of It Is Not Good
At the age of 85, Francis Ford Coppola has literally nothing to prove as a director, and whatever the reception was to his small-scale films throughout the 1990s and 2000s, they managed to coast by due to the fact that the filmmaker behind them made the first two Godfather films […]