One of the pieces of advice given to prospective writers across any medium, whether visually inclined or literary, it’s to write what you know. Writer/director Mark MacNicol has used that vague counsel to write his debut feature, Dreaded Light – a deeply personal drama that sashays past some horror tropes […]
Movies & Documentaries
A Wounded Fawn (2022) A Bold, Inventive One-of-a-Kind Horror (VOD review)
Invited on a second date with the handsome Bruce (Josh Ruben) to his secluded cabin, Meredith (Sarah Lind) is ready for a weekend she won’t forget. Bruce, however, is fuelled by a dark need, and Meredith will have to fight for her survival. Travis Stevens, director of the previous Shudder […]
Infernal Affairs Trilogy (2002/3) A Significant if flawed Film Trilogy (Blu-Ray Review)
In 2002, the producing-writing-directing team Andrew Lau Wai-Keung and Alan Mak released Infernal Affairs, a distinctive crime thriller that exploded across Hong Kong cinemas and had a worldwide impact. The film garnered multiple awards including Best Film at the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards and Film of Merit at the […]
The Power of the Dog (2021) An inspirational Western for those with the patience to ride with it (Blu-Ray Review)
The word “literary” stalks descriptions of Jane Campion’s work like “quirky” does Wes Anderson’s, so let’s top-and-tail this review of Criterion’s Blu-Ray of her most recent film with some book talk. The most pleasingly unexpected extra here is an interview with Annie Proulx, who mentions getting a letter from The […]
She Said (2022)A call to arms for the power of voices (Cinema Review)
Roger Ebert famously wrote that cinema is an empathy machine, a medium that can present the position of those you have little in common with and allow you to relate to them. She Said is a story that takes the position of women and makes it entirely relatable for a male […]
The Witch Part 2: The Other One (2022) Korean Superpowered Franchise, reheated (VOD review)
In July 2006 the South Korean government, in a trade agreement with the United States of America, halved the number of days dedicated to South Korean films being shown in their own domestic market. This went from 146 days to just 73. This had a significant impact on the types […]
Reservoir Dogs (1992) Surprisingly Emotional and Effortlessly Cool Crime Classic (Blu-Ray Review)
CONTAINS SPOILERS Hello Geek Show, and welcome once again! Today I’m looking at another recent re-release on Blu-Ray, but instead of an underappreciated historical gem or unearthed Japanese monster movies from the 50s, it’s a much more widely-known film, generally accepted to be a classic. It’s Quentin Tarantino’s first feature […]
The Dead And The Deadly (1982) Sammo is on fine supernatural form (Blu-Ray Review)
The Dead And The Deadly is a horror comedy directed by and starring the legendary Hong Kong stalwart Wu Ma. Alongside martial arts heroes Sammo Hung (Dragons Forever, Eastern Condors) and Lam Ching-Ying (Mr Vampire, Magic Cop) Ma stars as a man who fakes his own death in order to […]
The Runner (2021) The Ideal Actors Showcase (VOD review)
Independent film is full of people from other professions in the creative industries taking a turn behind the camera. Stunt men, visual effects artists, action choreographers, cinematographers, and stand-up comedians have and continue to make the leaps necessary to direct. With her latest directorial project, The Runner, Michelle Danner is […]
Son of the White Mare (1981): a one-man mission to demonstrate animation’s possibilities (Review)
If Eureka Masters of Cinema’s new Blu-Ray release just contained Marcell Jankovics’s 1981 film Son of the White Mare, that would be enough for an unqualified recommendation. Revered in his native Hungary after making the nation’s first animated feature – of which more later – Jankovics’s work has not always […]