Skip to content
Saturday, Sep 5, 2026
New REVIEWS!
Holy Days (2026) Your Granny’s Feel-Good Movie of the Year
Vampire’s Kiss (1988) The Patient Zero of Nicolas Cage Performances
Hellcat (2025) Breathes Fresh Life into One-Location Horror
Jiří Trnka – Puppet Master: The Czech Year (1947), Old Czech Legends (1953), The Hand (1965)
Stolen Kingdom (2026) – A whole new world behind the curtain
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) A Taut and Terrifying Tale of Abuse and Revenge
Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain (1972 & 1974) Unabashed horror that puts most feature lengths to shame
Cruel Hands (2026) A Grim and Tense Domestic Horror of Flight and Fire
Into the Forest: Folktales at DEFA (1955-77) The Film That Made Paul Whitehouse Pee His Pants (as a child)
Desperate Living (1977) The darkest, cruellest, and most shocking entry in Waters’ Trash Trilogy
The Odyssey (2026) Grounded & Terrifying, Nolan’s Boldest Adaptation to Date
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 4K (1974) – an underrated work from a legendary filmmaker

The Geek Show

Reviews, Podcasts and More by Geeks, for Geeks

  • About
  • Movies & Docs
    • Film Festivals
  • Pop Culture
    • Doctor Who
    • Twin Peaks
    • From the Geek Show Team
  • Podcasts
    • All Of Us Are Lost
    • Pop Screen
    • The Geek Show
    • UNCUT
  • Patreon
  • YouTube
  • Get In Touch
  • Join Us

Trending Now

1

Dragged Across Concrete: a tense thriller, a hard pill to swallow (Review)

30/04/2019
2

Eva (1962): All About Eva (Review)

12/10/2020
3

Boy Kills World (2023) Skarsgård Kills Role (Review)

30/04/2024
4

Story of my Death (2013) A Dracula film for the more adventurous moviegoer (Review)

26/06/2015
5

Dark City (1998) — An unfathomably influential cult classic

30/06/2025
6

Yakuza Apocalypse (2015) The Best Punk Rock Kaiju Movie (Review)

13/05/2016
7

John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Way outside the West (Review)

28/04/2020
8

Sayonara Girls (2022) & Kalanchoe (2017) Raw, Authentic High School Stories from Indie Japan (Review)

11/09/2024
9

Yellow Submarine

10/07/2018
10

Paranormal Activity (2007) all these years later, still the best of the bunch (Review)

27/09/2021
11

Adrift In Tokyo (2007) – An understated gem thankfully rediscovered (Blu-Ray Review)

15/12/2022
12

Maniacal Mayhem (1936/1940/1951) (Blu-Ray Review)

17/10/2022
  • Home
  • Jake Kazanis
  • Page 3

Jake Kazanis

Essex Boy, Gus Van Sant loyalist, Shyamalan truther, gets unreasonably sad if I don't watch a film every day.
  • Movies & Documentaries
  • Reviews

The Exorcism (2024) Russell Crowe Goes Method in Meta-horror Mix-up (Review)

Jake Kazanis 20/06/2024
The Exorcism (2024) Russell Crowe Goes Method in Meta-horror Mix-up (Review)

Let’s get the obvious out the way first; no, The Exorcism has no connection to The Pope’s Exorcist, the uniformly-titled occult horror released only last year where Russell Crowe played an exorcist and also shares a near identical poster. In fact, this uncanny case of cinematic deja-vu is one of […]

  • Movies & Documentaries
  • Reviews

The Moor (2024) – Thick in atmosphere, thin on character (Review)

Jake Kazanis 14/06/2024
The Moor (2024) – Thick in atmosphere, thin on character (Review)

The Moor is the debut feature-film from Chris Cronin, and it stays true to the UK’s rich history of regional folk horror while making damn sure to get the most out of the locality it’s named after – specifically Yorkshire. Horror has a long history rooted in the area, from […]

  • Reviews
  • Movies & Documentaries

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II (2024) Superior Splatterfest Still Misses the Punchline (Review)

Jake Kazanis 06/06/2024
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II (2024) Superior Splatterfest Still Misses the Punchline (Review)

Have you heard that joke levelled at films that take a funny, novel premise and stretch it out far beyond the life cycle of the gag that goes ‘This is why SNL sketches are five minutes long’? Few films have ever earned that jab more than Winnie the Pooh: Blood […]

Posts navigation

Newer posts