For those of you who haven’t seen Big Trouble in Little China, I don’t know who you are what with it being one of the most over-broadcast films of UK TV of the past twenty years, but I’ll continue. John Carpenter’s 9th feature-length film is a Chinese Fantasy movie veiled […]
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The Long Goodbye (1973) The Beatnik and Neo-Noir Classic (Review)
Despite the number of classics that fit under the banner, film noir is a style of crime cinema that has been bizarrely confined to the era of its inception. More often than not, those films made outside of the 1940s and 50s tend to be classics of their respective era. […]
Tokyo Fist (1998): The Most Extreme Boxing Movie Ever Made (Review)
You would think that by moving away from the industrial body horror of the Tetsuo films to Boxing, Shinya Tsukamoto would produce a less hostile film. With the film reissued by third window films, I learned that you should never assume anything with the Body Horror sweetheart. Tokyo Fist is […]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The King of the Horror Remake (Review)
Arrow’s latest release and one of the highlights of the year’s home release calendar is 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It comes with the embarrassment of extra footage, interviews, and making-of videos. The Blu-ray also features a characteristic effort to bring the film into the 21st century with a […]
Nosferatu (1922): The most important Horror film ever made (Review)
Each and every Halloween a classic Horror film is lavished with a limited cinema run. Taking high street cinema chain Cineworld for example, over the last two years they have screened Wes Craven’s 1984 classic Nightmare on Elm Street and Joe Dante’s anarchic delight, Gremlins. This year there’s something that […]
Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Fritz Lang, again, decades and decades ahead of his time (Review)
Cinema in its essence is a visual medium; the silent film can be viewed as nothing but cinema in its purest form. That’s the theory anyhow. Contemporary audiences have written pre-sound cinema as archaic and therefore unworthy of any prolonged attention beyond that which one would pay to a historical […]
The Fury (1978): Too Many Plots spoil this broth (Review)
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 […]
Late Mizoguchi (1951-1956): The final years of one of Japan’s Greatest Masters (Review)
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 […]
Shady (2012): Remarkable Japanese Micro-Budget Coming of Age Thriller (Review)
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)
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 […]