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he/him Film critterings and witterings. https://thegeekshow.co.uk/author/stramshaw/
A decade since David Bowie passed away, superfan Graham is joined by Mick to talk about the 1983 vampire movie, The Hunger #PodernFamily
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Out now part one of our almighty review of #2025inmovies.
Its an epic doozy. Out now on all good podcast providers, part one of our almighty review of #2025inmovies. We start on Pop Screen for part one.
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Part One of takes both celebratory and scabrous as I round up the wild cinematic year that was 2025.
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Playing recently at @sohohorrorfest.bsky.social and coming out on @signatureuk.bsky.social Blu-Ray very soon, Luc Besson returns to the English language with the lavish, Dracula: A Love Tale
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/dracula-a-lo...
Romanian satirist and experimental filmmaking punk rocker Radu Jude returns to his usual feel-good(!) terrain with his latest movie, Kontinental '25. Out in cinemas now (link in article)
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/kontinental-...
FRANKENSTEIN: del Toro’s itch is finally scratched! Extravagantly silly and sentimental, packed with fleshy cadavers and jaw-ripping grue. Elordi follows in the footsteps of Doug Jones as a pretty, lanky, pale beastie among del Toro’s finest. Isaac does a Ruffalo in Poor Things voice. #LFF
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The Police Crime thriller is a completely different mood in 2025 than it was in 2002, a mood that Joe Carnahan's underrated and endlessly grimy NARC taps into. Out now on @arrowvideo.bsky.social Blu-Ray #review
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/narc-2002-re...
We wrap up today with a very different spin on the Invisible Man formula with Yoshiyuki Kuroda's family friendly The Invisible Swordsman.
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social release here:
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I might be right, I might be wrong…any thoughts anyone? 7/7
22.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the wake of an event that nearly wiped us out, that should have shown us how to cope with the worst and cherish what we have left. When one threat has vanished, how do we deal with the suspicions that another isn’t just around the corner? 6/7
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The toxic codes of yesteryear kept by its sects of uninfected and the permanent states of rage found in everyone else are going to be the real terrors going forward, as isn’t our post-pandemic reality just that? Big ideas and entitled powers vying for dominance still, even in 5/7
22.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
All this leads me to think DaCosta and Garland are going to serve up a second instalment where the trouble isn’t the virus any longer, but the calcified cultural codes that have turned stale and gaudy in the three decades since the world froze. 4/7
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The “magic of the placenta” seemed too convenient to me; surely the flesh and blood of two infected people would be more than enough to make their offspring as such too. If babies can be born in our world with addictions and viruses, it stands to reason they should here too. 3/7
22.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We see plenty of near-misses: Spike splattering his mother’s forehead with blood and quickly wiping it off; Isla linking hands with the infected woman in labour; Kelson being nearly smothered by Samson’s huge hands; the baby born without the virus at all. 2/7
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Not wanting to stoke any irl conspiracies here, but I left questioning if the virus was actually infectious anymore. In fact, this is a film where the only transmission of the virus happens in the initial outbreak in the prologue. 1/7
Join @uncutrobcast.bsky.social, @simonramshaw.bsky.social, @jimmydeanfilm.bsky.social & Graham for the latest episode of Uncut. In this edition, we discuss the work of #classichollywood acting legend, Marlene Dietrich.
That tickles your fancy, listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/75XN...
A nostalgic blast from Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, In the Lost Lands. It recalls the DVD era of action cinema that we've missed so much.
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @studiocanal.com release here: thegeekshow.co.uk/in-the-lost-...
Friendship first half vs Friendship second half
12.06.2025 22:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New crittering over at @moviemarker.bsky.social
08.05.2025 07:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Irishman has been officially renamed ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’.
05.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was intrigued, moved, alarmed and provoked by @joshuaoppenheimer.bsky.social’s #TheEnd, which is, for my money, the most interesting thing currently playing in theatres. Here’s why 👉 thegeekshow.co.uk/the-end-2024...
04.04.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do you get when you mash together zone of interest & the act of killing as a musical? Well, something very divisive for starters. But also, Joshua Oppenheimer's The End #mubi
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-end-2024...
Drawing a line under the The Japan Touring Film Programme for 2025, @simonramshaw.bsky.social looks at the Light Samurai Sci-fi of A Samurai in Time. Which is also out from @thirdwindowfilms.com at the end of the Month #review
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Turning on the film grain in the last shot of Severance was deliciously diabolical, possibly the most evil visual decision they could have taken, what a way to rub salt in the wound.
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Closing the weekend, Tom Noonan's lost american indie classic isn't just ahead of its time, What Happened Was and its awkward anti-romance is decades ahead of the curve.
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @filmsradiance.bsky.social blu-ray here: thegeekshow.co.uk/what-happene...
Happy Oscar Night to all who celebrate! In anticipation of an upcoming longer video that celebrates the previous cinematic year, here is a taste of my audiovisual remix of the best films of 2024.
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embrace #betterman, embrace #monke
#TheMonkey
The burgeoning 'real life soldiers telling their experiences through fiction’ sub-genre returns with Sunray: Fallen Soldier. Out now on Digital Platforms via @vertigorel.bsky.social
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social on the Site now: thegeekshow.co.uk/sunray-falle...
The man who liberated my sense of what art could be more than any other, a pitch-dark sunbeam straight to the psyche, is no longer sharing the planet with us. I feel privileged to have existed when he did, and to experience his art in real time is a treasure I cannot relive. Rest in peace, Director.
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