Opening with a blend of orchestral beauty and vague pangs of Kool & The Gang, Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, from director Jindřich Polák, shows off its frivolous, light-hearted antics immediately. Pairing this high quality, era-defining funk with reversed and repetitive footage of soulless vermin Adolf Hitler, the […]
Reviews
12 Hour Shift (2020) Another Bettis Star Turn (Review)
Frightfest Presents returns in 2021 to release a smaller title that played a previous Festival, this time it’s the turn of actor/sophomore director, Brea Grant and her Crime Thriller/Comedy Horror, 12 Hour Shift. Grant made her name as an actor who works within the American indie horror scene, a highlight, […]
Rolling Thunder Revue (2019) One for the Martin Scorsese & Bob Dylan completists (Review)
Having one of the greatest film directors of all time engage with a titillating period from one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived is quite a remarkable premise. Such a meeting of great minds should bring about moving and influential art, musing on the highs and lows of […]
A Rainy Day in New York (2019): and a grim day for Woody Allen fans (Review)
You might have missed it, but A Rainy Day in New York briefly became the first Woody Allen film to hit number one at the global box office. This is, admittedly, because it was May 2020 and nothing else was out – a strong showing in South Korea was enough […]
Inner Sanctum Mysteries (1943/45) Campy 1940s Murder Melodrama’s (Review)
Podcasting just does not get the credit it deserves, it removed the barriers to provide a platform for the everyman to broadcast around the globe. Let’s just ignore the fact the industry has been diminished by overexposure and broadcasting giants like the BBC getting involved making it very difficult for […]
The Tin Drum (1979) He Bangs the Drum (Review)
I guess there’s something symbiotic in the fact that, in the month in which Donald Trump’s presidency ends in acrimony, scandalous insurrection and a historic second impeachment, the two reviews I have been asked to write here at The Geek Show have been The Don is Dead and The Tin […]
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) Authoritarian Italian Gonzo Satire with a musical score from the Heavens (Review)
Italian cinema isn’t much to write about these days, their industry fell to pieces in the 90s which isn’t just a shame its downright criminal that a national cinema full of eccentrics, innovators and masters could go the way of the dodo. The same sentiment can be shared by the […]
The Don is Dead (1973) Donsploitation! (Review)
TV. It’s all the same isn’t it? Switch on the gogglebox at any point and you’re basically confronted with the same show in various guises. Singing contests, dancing contests, afternoon quizzes. They’re all the same. It’s like there’s only three original shows out there and everything else that fills up […]
Liberté (2019) If you go down to the woods today… (Review)
There’s an image late on in Albert Serra’s Liberté which seems to contain something of the film in its entirety. A woman is walking through the woods, the scene of an orgy held by decadent aristocrats exiled from the court of France’s last king Louis XVI. She is in period […]
The New World (three cuts, 2005-8): choose your own adventure (Review)
Terrence Malick is often caricatured as the Fotherington-Tomas of cinema, whose tendency to wander around saying hullo birds hullo trees hullo skies can appear ridiculous in modern-day films like Lawless [5]. If you want to see Malick’s style and thematic concerns in a world where they make absolute, perfect sense, […]