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 […]
Movies & Documentaries
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 […]
Sake Bomb (2013): far lovelier than a film about racism has any right being (Review)
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) […]
The Last American Virgin (1982): The 1980s sex comedy with a conscious
Nostalgia is a potent emotional state, as much as it can transport you back to your younger days it’s equally able to ask questions about what your younger self was thinking. This contrast defines everything about The Last American Virgin. Directed by Tel-Aviv-born Boaz Davidson, who had more success as […]
Time Bandits (1980): The definitive article of 1980s Kid’s Adventure Movies (Review)
Falling in with fellow 1980s fantasy adventure movies like The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, The Goonies, Dark Crystal and The NeverEnding Story – Time Bandits is an icon from a time when kids’ movies meant films for all the family. Fast forward a few decades, and studios have adopted a ‘them […]
Space Battleship Yamato (2010): Sci-Fi Throwback that rarely steps out of the shadow of fandom
This most illustrious of anime intellectual properties has a legacy stretching back to 1974, through various series and OVA spells. The Space Battleship Yamato is as influential in Japan as Star Trek is throughout the world. Now receiving its first run on UK shores through the Manga label, the live-action […]