Genre Film Festivals are a wide parish, and some movies appear at certain events to play the field – either to find the highest bidder to launch something onto the unsuspecting masses, or they’ve already got distribution and want to build up hype before their eventual release. Other titles aren’t […]
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Host of the Uncut Network. With a love of movies kicked off by Hong Kong Action and Claymation Monsters, Rob has forever been cradled in the bosom of Cinema. Rob has his hands in many a pie, including no budget film making.
Generation Terror (Frightfest 2024) Review
Horror is the subject of much scrutiny and, ironically, most of that comes from horror fans themselves, for as the adage goes, “No one hates wrestling more than wrestling fans”. A key aspect of this scrutiny involves breaking horror into decades, and enough sub-genres to make metal music green with […]
Looking Forward to Fantastic Fest (2024 Curtain Raiser)
The Geek Show has undergone numerous changes and evolutions over the fourteen years since our inception, and these days we’re painting on a much larger canvas that includes genre movies, world cinema, and titles that we feel we can help as they don’t have vast marketing behemoths behind them. This […]
Gonjiam Haunted Asylum (2018) Old School Haunted House Terror from Korea (Review)
Korean Horror is a little known entity outside of the TV format, and even though, like Japan, it has a reductive abbreviation to pack all of its horrors together in a digestible sub-genre (K-Horror), there’s no poster child, no Ringu, Cure, or Dark Water level threat. You could cite the […]
The Valiant Ones (1975) Lesser King Hu saved from Absolute Obscurity (Review)
Opening a review of Eureka’s latest King Hu movie by touching upon film restoration probably isn’t the most winning of writing tactics, yet the Valiant Ones opens with a text card explaining how this print came to be. It’s relevant for us fans of movies from that corner of the […]
Nightwatch: Demons are Forever (2023) Left-Field Legacy Horror Sequel with Lashings of Nordic Noir (Review)
I am not one of those horror fans who watched Hellraiser at 8 and instantly fell for the macabre of the movie world. I was a late bloomer. Even so, two movies cut through during my teen years and helped move me from ambivalence to acceptance and later, fandom: Hideo […]
Infested (2023) Shudder by Name, Shudder by Nature (Review)
Shudder is a cool name for a horror streaming platform, but never have I considered the word until the release of their latest Original, 2023’s Infested (A.K.A. Vermines) – the feature debut by French director Sébastien Vaniček. The reason why that train of thought ran through my head was that […]
The Bounty Hunter Trilogy (1969/72) Samurai Western Trilogy by way of James Bond? (Review)
Shogun Assassin gained infamy on the midnight cinema circuit, yet its leading man didn’t enjoy fame comparable to Ogami Ittō’s hellish saga. Tomisaburo Wakayama, although prolific and renowned in his own right, is nought but a footnote for World Cinema fans next to the likes of Tetsuya Watari, Joe Shishido, […]
Shadow of Fire (2023)Tsukamoto At His Most… Hopeful? (Review)
While he doesn’t have the same cut-through of his halycon days with Tetsuo, Bullet Ballet or A Snake of June, Shinya Tsukamoto is undoubtedly one of the more consistent filmmakers in Japan. This is partly due to that movie industry not being as buoyant as it once was, but also because he’s a director […]
A Million Days (2023)Hard Sci-Fi or Hardly Sci-Fi?(Review)
Artificial Intelligence is a concept as old as science fiction itself, and for much of that history it wasn’t the practical (if weird and problematic) tool that we know today. It was instead manifested as something that threatened humanity, and you need look no further than some classic examples like […]