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DOMS DOCS King Dom is back to where he once belonged, to journey with epic moviemaker Peter Jackson who follows The Fab Four in a miniseries that is "a documentary about a documentary". The Beatles: Get Back covers the group's creative process and divisions within a challenging runtime for an audience.The 'Let It Be' album is often cited as a collaboration beset by tensions between the Beatles; Jay provides vocals on a miniseries that debunks old myths and releases unseen footage instead that shows more insight and a more upbeat side to its production.Joining our line-up is the multi-talented content creator Jess Paul of This Is Jess Paul channel, sharing her music journalist expertise and Beatlemania on argumentatively the biggest band in the world.#AbbeyRoad #AHardDaysNight #art #Beatlemania #BeatlesForever #beatles #BeatlesForSale #BiggerThanJesus #ClassicRock #DisneyPlus #FabFour #follow #GetBack #GeorgeHarrison #happy #help #InHisOwnWrite #JohnLennon #JohnPaulGeorgeRingo #LetItBe #Liverpool #love #MagicalMysteryTour #PaulMcCartney #photography #PlasticOnoBand #PleasePleaseMe #restoration #revolver #RingoStarr #rock #SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand #songwriters #style #TheBeatles #TheBeatlesExperience #TheBeatlesGetBack #WhiteAlbum
STREAM TEAM Sound the siren on the white hearse of doom and get ready to zap into those traps as TJ takes us into the other world adventure that is Ghostbusters: Afterlife.Strapping on his podcast pack and preparing to cross the streams of opinion is King Dom who can barely believe the resurrection of the classic comedy franchise that has been the hunting ground for 'Saturday Night Live' alumni.We will be joined by the spirited Wayne G. of ReCasted 2.0 podcast who will help analyse the DNA of this film and its out-of-body connection to the franchise and let us know if this movie can hold a pulse to its predecessors.#afterlife #art #BillMurray #BustinMakesMeFeelGood #ComicCon #cosplay #cosplayer #DanAykroyd #ecto #EgonSpengler #ErnieHudson #FinnWolfhard#follow #GB #ghost #ghosts #Ghostbuster #Ghostbusters #GhostbustersAfterlife #GhostTrap #happy #HaroldRamis #HeSlimedMe #IAintAfraidOfNoGhost #IvanReitman #JasonReitman #love #MasrhmallowMan #movies #PeterVenkamn #photography #ProtonPack #RaytStantz #SigourneyWeaver #slimer #spengler #stantz #StayPuft #StrangerThings #style #venkman #WhoYaGonnaCall #WhoYouGonnaCall #WinstonZeddemore #zeddemore #zuul
HOT TOPIC King Dom breaks down what's broken on Netflix as they report dramatic losses of Subscriber numbers on their platform in the first quarter of 2022 (also reported on by UK tech editor Alex Hern at The Guardian)What stranger things are afoot with this streaming behemoth? Are there 13 reasons why it's happening?? Will Netflix and chill finally look into the black mirror???Jay & TJ look under the crown of the lead streaming site to see where the riverdale of members are flowing and take more than seven seconds to assess this trend of altered carbon.#AmazonPrime #AppleTV #art #BingeWatching #BritBox #DisneyPlus #follow #iPlayer #losing #loss #MarketShare #movies #negative #netflix #NetflixAndChill #NetflixMovies #NetflixOriginal #NetflixSeries #NetflixShows #NetflixTime #numbers #PrimeVideo #quarantine #renewals #SexEducation #SquidGame #StopTheCount #shareholders #StillWatching #StrangerThings #subscriber #SubscriberNumbers #subscribers
DOMS DOCS Geeksweat serves up a delightful dish as we explore the fascinating world of one of America's most enigmatic figures and acclaimed culinary veteran chef Anthony Bourdain as part of this segment.King Dom salivates over the tasty morsels of Roadrunner: Anthony Bourdain; an insightful documentary that explores the career, chaos and complexity of a celebrity chef, author and travel documentarian.Joining this table for two is TJ who will whet his appetite on the journey of a world-renowned cultural icon who tantalized the taste buds and curiosity about the wider world in equal measure.#ACooksTour #AnthonyBourdain #AnthonyBourdainApproved #AnthonyBourdainPartsUnknown #AnthonyBourdainQuotes #art #Bourdain #BourdainDay #chef #ChefLife #chefs #ChefsOfInstagram #CulinaryArts #CulinaryInstituteOfAmerica #CulinarySchool #documentary #DomsDocs #follow #food #foodie #FoodPorn #geeksweat #gordonramsay #happy #instagram #jamieoliver #KitchenConfidential #love #NoReservations #PartsUnknown #roadrunner #style #TonyBourdain #travel #TravelQuotes #travelgram #TrueCooks #TrueCooksFam
STREAM TEAM House Geeksweat takes our new segment on a space adventure. TJ whisks us away to the far future of Dune: Part One to experience aristocratic empires, clairvoyance, Harkonnen fury and sandworms.Joining the fief reviewers is Jay who takes to the Fremen frontline and looks at the plot surrounding the invaluable spice planet and the adaptation Hollywood struggled to get right for three decades.Helping to collect the valuable substance of our thoughts and safely navigate this interstellar podcast is Liam Doerr of The Doerrcast podcast, as we get expert insight from this American digital creator.#adaptation #aquaman #arrakis #art #beach #cinema #DaveBautista #DenisVilleneuve #desert #duna #dune #dune #DuneMovie #forcefield #film #FrankHerbert #fremen #happy #JasonMomoa #JavierBardem #JoshBrolin #love #movie #movies #nature #OscarIsaac #PaulAtreides #PrideOfGypsies #RebeccaFerguson #sand #sandworm #SciFi #StellanSkarsgard #StreamTeam #TheVoice #timoth #timothee #TimotheeChalamet #travel #zendaya
HOT TOPIC Action-packed sequences in films have been going without acknowledgement from the highest ceremony, that is The Academy Awards, for over nine decades. So, TJ throws this segment in the air to reach out and grab the question: "Why Not Stunts too?"Flying through the air to land on this topic is Jay; as she recalls stunts in cinema, reflects on the online movement for change and shares her knife-sharpened opinions about this spinning target.Breaking through the podcast wall to come to our breathtaking rescue is Dr. Paula Blair of Audiovisual Cultures, sharing her wealth of academic expertise and insight in film on this age-old obstacle.#action #art #BodyDoubles #CarStunts #FightTraining #film #filmmaking #FilmStunt #FilmStunts #FireStunts #follow #happy #love #MartialArtists #MoCap #MovieStunt #MovieStunts #OscarsAddStunts #photography #ProfessionalAthletes #StandUpForStunts #stunt #StuntActor #StuntActors #StuntActress #StuntActresses #StuntChoreographer #StuntChoreography #StuntCommunity #StuntCoordinator #StuntCoordinators #StuntCrew #Stuntdouble #StuntDoubles #StuntDrivers #StuntDrivers #StuntFamily #StuntFighter #StuntFighters #StuntFighting #StuntLife #stuntman #stuntmen #StuntPerformance #StuntPerformer #StuntPerformers #StuntReel #StuntReels #StuntRiggers #stunts #StuntTeam #StuntTrainer #StuntTraining #StuntWork #style #SupportStunts #Stuntwoman #Stuntwomen #WireStunts #WomenInStunts
STREAM TEAM The latest edition of our series supplement is a film by Wes Anderson as he lifts a fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blaséon off the press to report a story in five parts, that is The French Dispatch.TJ grabs a pen and pad and King Dom follows closely behind with his microphone in pursuit of the scoop on a star-studded ensemble cast that includes Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Léa Seydoux Benicio Del Toro and more.As we try to final draft our opinions we are joined by screenwriting expert Ann Kimbrough of the iScary podcast, as we share her international view and experience of this classic-looking film.#art #BeautifulBoy #BillMurray #CallMeByYourName #chalamet #cinemA #dune #eChalamet #ensemble #FantasticMrFox #film #follow #happy #IsleOfDogs #love #MoonriseKingdom #movie #OwenWilson #PaulAtreides #photography #SaoirseRonan #style #TheFrenchDispatch #TheGrandBudapestHotel #TildaSwinton #timoth #TimotheeChalamet #WesAnderson #writer
REVIEW SWEAT It's that time of year again when Geeksweat honours the latest and greatest of the film & TV industry based on released during 2021. King Dom takes to the plinth to announce categories and awards.Joining him in the naming and claiming of awards is TJ as he helps to relay the nominees for each of The Geekies 2021 categories. There will be a few surprises, a few tears and of course man cheers.The categories up for grabs for this edition of our end of year awards are: Breakthrough Of The Year, Best Actress, Best Actor, TV Of The Year, Film Of The Year and Surprise Greatness Of The Year#AcademyAward #AcademyAwards #acting #actor #actress #art #awards #bafta #baftas #BradPitt #breakthrough #celebrity #cine #cinema #cinematography #critics #director #DontLookUp #drama #emmys #film #filmmaking #films #FilmCritic #follow #geeksweat #GoldenGlobes #grammys #happy #hollywood #instagram #LeonardoDiCaprio #love #LosAngeles #MargotRobbie #marvel #movie #movies #netflix #oscar #oscars #PowerOfTheDog #producer #RedCarpet #ReviewSweat #style #TheOscars #TickTickBoom
INSPIRATION INTERVIEW Our Inspiration Interview segment welcomes acclaimed Hollywood author Steven Jay Rubin, who penned meticulous tomes such as The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia and The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia and Combat Films: American Realism, 1945-2010. TJ is joined by King Dom as we delve deeper behind the scenes of some of the biggest Hollywood movie productions and some of the decisions behind the most iconic images and actors in film and T.V. Steven takes Geeksweat along the journey of his career path, explains how roles have been redefined in Hollywood across theyears and brings unique analysis to the world's most infamous spy. #007, #actor, #art, #AstonMartin, #Bond, #BondGirl, #BondJamesBond, #CasinoRoyale, #cinema, #DB, #DanielCraig, #encyclopedia, #film, #Goldfinger, #IanFleming, #JamesBond, #JamesBondStyle, #knowledge, #movie, #movies, #NoTimeToDie, #PierceBrosnan, #RogerMoore, #SeanConnery, #ShakenNotStirred, #Skyfall, #Spectre, #spy, #style, #TimothyDalton
HOT TOPIC In a special episode of Geeksweat, we look back at the work of Stephen Sondheim who sadly passed away in November 2021 and discuss perhaps one of his most seminal musicals Sweeney Todd.In tribute to the memory of Stephen Sondheim, King Dom cuts through Geeksweat to revisit the musical feature film Sweeney Todd (2007) based on a classic theatre production, ably assisted by Jay.On this episode of Hot Topic we're joined by fellow podcaster Tod Hostetler of Spies Like Us Podcast who grew up on the Len Cariou/Angela Lansbury production and is a lifelong Sondheim fan. #adaptation #AndrewLloydWebber #art #BernadettePeters #broadway #BroadwayMusicals #company #BroadwayMusical #film #follow #geeksweat #happy #HelenaBonhamCarter #HotTopic #instagram #IntoTheWoods #JohnnyDepp #love #movie #musical #musicals #MusicalTheatre #MrsLovett #NewYork #OffBroadway #playbill #RaulEsparza #SachaBaronCohen #singer #singing #sondheim #StephenSondheim #style #SweeneyTodd #theater #theatre #TimBurton #WestEnd #WestSideStory
CULT FILM Jay welcomes a wide world of intergalactic space travel and gaming as we seek out new creatures and features in the latest episode of our specialist segment Cult Film for game-to-movie adaptations.Ratchet And Clank (2015) is the tale of an unlikely lombax who must find courage and gear to help stop an evil plot that will overwhelm short-staffed protectors of the universe: The Galactic Rangers.King Dom and TJ buddy up to breakdown what is space corp and what is alien-hating about this high-energy, fast-paced, comedic space adventure featuring Sylvester Stallone, Rosario Dawson and John Goodman.#AmazonPrime #art #CaptainQwark #Clank #CrashBandicoot #CultFilm #film #follow #GalacticRangers #gamer #games #gaming #GodOfWar #insomniac #InsomniacGames #lombax #love #PaulGiamatti #PlayStation #PrimeVideo #PS #qwark #Ratchet #RatchetAndClank #RatchetAndClankPS #RatchetAndClankRiftApart #RatchetPS #RatchetTheLombax #RiftApart #rivet #RosarioDawson #StylvesterStallone #sony #style #VideoGames
INSPIRATION INTERVIEW Geeksweat speaks to creative couple Alasdair Mackay (Director/Writer) and Karenina Angelique (Producer/Actor) who have filmed Alcoholics Anonymous centred drama ANONYMOUS (2021).TJ takes his seat and gets truthful and honest with a couple who submitted to the power of film and sought enlightenment in Story during the darkest days of a national lockdown and quarantine.What did it take to go against the odds to produce a feature film in trying times and what were fateful steps and decisions that they had taken in life to fulfil their destiny of joining forces and creating?#AA, #addiction, #AlcoholicsAnonymous, #AlcoholFree, #Anonymous2021, #anonymous, #CleanAndSober, #film, #inspiration, #interview, #JustForToday, #lockdown, #movie, #OneDayAtATime, #recovery, #sober, #soberAF, #SoberIsFun, #SoberIsSexy, #SoberLife, #sobriety, #steps, #TwelveSteps, #WeDoRecover
CULT FILM Swooping through the air with deadly intent is another episode of our game-to-film adaptation segment, as Jay flings her throwing star invitations into the open world for Geeksweat presenters to respond.DOA: Dead Or Alive is an overseas, last-man-standing contest asking hand-to-hand combatants to descend upon an island to compete for a winner takes all prize with a sinister nanobot motive.Flexing their muscles and squaring their jaws to battle it out head-on is movie mauler King Dom and film noir ninja TJ who answered the call to review this over-the-top and salacious martial arts movie.#arcade #art #beach #contest #cosplay #CultFilm #DeadOnArrival #DeadOrAlive #DevonAoki #DOA #DOATEC #FanService #FemaleFighters #FightingSeries #follow #game #gamer #geeksweat #happy #HollyValance #instagram #JaimePressly #kasumi #KillBill #love #MartialArts #movie #nanobots #ninja #nintendo #playstation #raidou #sega #SportsSeries #style #tournament #volleyball #WireWork #xbox
MKH gets his headset on prepares to listen carefully to the emergency fighting through the airwaves The Guilty (2021) documents a call dispatch shift of a demoted police officer reduced to emergency phone call duties during a forest fire that is ripping across a city until he receives a phone call from a kidnapped woman.KingDom and TJ connect with the inner-conflict of Joe Baylor's desperation to do the right thing as he comes to terms with his own demons and those of L.A. citizens.#EmergencyCallCentre, #LAPD, #ListenCarefully, #NineOneOne, #TheGuilty, #thriller
TERROR TERRA Steven takes Geeksweat by the hand through the creepy corridors of Hammer House Of Horrors to visit classic horror movie characters that have roamed our imaginations across three different centuries.By exploring two Fifties films this episode reanimates interest in The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) and the equally fang-tastic Dracula (1958) - films that were both pivotal to the birth of Hammer Horror.Jay and MKH grab their shovels to dig up yesteryear and bring gouged eyes into the laboratory of Terror Terra, so they can see the grisly goings-on featuring both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.#BelaLugosi, #blood, #BramStoker, #BrideOfFrankenstein, #BorisKarloff, #Castlevania, #ChristopherLee, #ClassicHorror, #CountDracula, #Dracula, #fangs, #Frankenstein, #FrankensteinsMonster, #goth, #gothic, #halloween, #HammerFilms, #HammerHouseOfHorror, #horror, #HorrorArt, #HorrorFan, #HorrorMovies, #MaryShelley, #monster, #monsters, #Nosferatu, #PeterCushing, #reanimated, #romania, #spooky, #TerrorTerra, #TheMummy, #Transylvania, #vampire, #vampires
DOMS DOCS King Dom phones it in for his segment that takes to the wilderness to discuss Grizzly Man (2005) a film with footage created by Timothy Treadwell and posthumously edited together by Werner Herzog.Jay and MKH camp out with Geeksweat to discuss the wildlife enthusiasts story and dispassionate director's interpretation of a life lived on the edge in a national park that was home to wild bears.Geeksweat considers the daring of a subject living without boundaries amongst the beasts of nature and the audacity of the filmmaker who built a narrative from 100 hours of found footage.#Alaska, #AmieHuguenard, #BearAttack, #bearcam, #BeautifulScenery, #BrownBear, #cinema, #documentary, #EncountersAtTheEndOfTheWorld, #explore, #filmmaker, #GorgeousView, #GrizzlyMan, #hiking, #Katmai, #KatmaiNPS, #NationalPark, #nature, #NatureTrail, #preserve, #sentimental, #TimothyTreadwell, #tundra, #waterfalls, #WernerHerzog, #WildBears, #wildlife
REVIEW SWEAT King Dom goes back to school to learn the finer points of one of the trickier subjects about growing up, as portrayed in the Netflix relationship comedy Sex Education.On hand to offer a few tips and point us in the right direction is Jay, whilst MKH is feverishly enthusiastic to demonstrate the pros and cons of this diverse, eclectic and genre-redefining series.Featuring Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson we are introduced to an independent yet brazenly honest mother and son who live in a small suburban town and are about to have a major influence on the local Moordale high school teenagers navigating adolescence.#art #AsaButterfield #BattleOfTheSexes #CoupleGoals #DirtyTalk #education #EmmaMackey #follow #FoodPornography #GillianAnderson #girl #happy #HotModel #kiss #lesbian #love #maeve #MaeveWiley #NcutiGatwa #netflix #NetflixSeries #OtisAndMaeve #OtisMilburn #photography #porn #SelfLove #sex #sexed #SexEdu #SexEducation #SexEducationNetflix #SexEducationSeason #SexEducationSeries #SexGame #SexHiKayesi #SexPositive #sexy #SexyStyle #Sexualhealth #style
CULT FILM The conveyor belt of video game-to-film adaptations keeps on turning and it's time to review how Sonic The Hedgehog (2020) turned out after it runs off the production line, as it took Sega ages.Jay shares her love and joy for the game, but will her gamer nostalgia run rings around the cinematic release of the world's most beloved hedgehog or can there be a Sonic Boom of golden praise?King Dom and MKH grasp at their consoles of truth to see how Tom (James Marsden) and Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) play with an alien that is trying to avoid earthly experiments and defeat an evil genius.#AmyRose, #animation, #cinema, #CultFilm, #JamesMarsden, #JimCarrey, #movie, #knuckles, #nintendo, #sega, #SegaGenesis, #SilverTheHedgehog, #SonAmy, #sonic, #SonicMovie, #sonicX, #SonicBoom, #SonicMania, #SonicMovie, #SonicTheHedgehog, #tails, #TailsTheFox, #VideoGames
MKH grabs his cricket bat and puts a dressing gown and slippers on to see what is going bump in the night on his streaming service to find out a resurrection is in progress.The 8th Night (2021) tells the tale of two mysterious creatures that long to reunite to bring about hell on earth and the exorcist in South Korea who must stop this event.KingDom and TJ anoint their mics and weaponize their curses for a review, not of this world that wishes to be set free and will roam free across the internet for millennia.#folklore, #horror, #NetflixKR, #여덟번째밤, #The8thNight, #이성민
TERROR TERRA We go Stateside as Steven crosses the plains of horror in The Land Of Opportunity for this segment where we look at the plant life of The Little Shop Of Horror (1960) and the plagued lands of The Masque Of The Red Death (1964).King Dom and TJ mosey on up and say howdy pardner to U.S. of A. to see what Roger Corman has to say with the original source material of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe for two distinctive feature films.From carnivorous plants to devious noblemen what madness and mystery lurks around the corner for Geeksweat and our listeners, as we descend onto another continent for another offer of horror.#carnivorous, #comedy, #EdgarAllanPoe, #FeedMeSeymour, #horror, #JackNicholson, #LittleShopOfHorrors, #musical, #TheLittleShopOfHorrors, #MasqueOfTheRedDeath, #plant, #RogerCorman, #ShopOfHorrors, #TalesOfTerror, #TerrorTerra, #TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath, #ThePitAndThePendulum, #thriller, #VincentPrice
KingDom treads into the murky territory of an international investigation of a murder which triggered global ramifications for freedom of speech, journalism surveillance methods, spyware and the world wide web. The Dissident (2020) follows the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's effort to control international dissent. The implications for activism and the influence of government intelligence are also unveiled.MKH and TJ go into detail about what they deciphered from the online streaming documentary that is now exclusively available on Amazon Prime Video.#BriarcliffEntertainment, #documentary, #JeffBezos, #JamalKhashoggi, #MohammadBinSalman, #TheDissident, #TheWashingtonPost, #What_do_you_know_about_the_bees
King Dom delves deeper into the dark chapters and beginnings of a medical professional character who had previously been portrayed in the world of film. Netflix presents a new and cruel series Ratched.Having looked at a prequel American T.V. series based on an iconic character (Bates Motel) we revisit the theme with a series about Mildred Ratched, set in 1947 a character written by Milos Forman for One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest (later an Oscar-winning film). Jay and Steven surgically examine the programme and its nerve endings that are connected to the thriller, suspense and drama; as well as the archaic U.S. medical system in the name of progress.#asylum, #OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest, #prequel, #Ratched, #suspense
Jay gets behind the wheel and goes into overdrive, as she races into pole position with another Cult Film classic that emerged from the arcade in the film Need For Speed.Following on our series of game-to-movie adaptations we take a look at the engine of the most petrol-headed film of the year co-starring Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots.Boy racers MKH & TJ are in hot pursuit and with an APB on Aaron Paul's feature film comeback that ignites passion, vengeance and high-speed chases across cities.#AaronPaul, #BoyRacer, #ElectronicArts, #NeedForSpeed, #rivals
MKH holds his breath and gets himself into a tight corner with Geeksweat for this edition of The MKH Cut as we come out of stasis in anticipation of his hot take on mind-bending sci-fi Oxygen.No escape, no memory, no chance of survival. It is time to navigate the cryogenic horror about a doctor suffering from memory loss and hallucinations who is now battling with what she must do to survive.Jay and Steven join this voyage into 2021's French-language science fiction, psychological, survival horror film. So, what did we need to engage with this single person nightmare scenario set-up?#Buried, #French, #horror, #Oxygen, #survival, #trapped
Terror Terra (Japan)Our new segment and old host takes Geeksweat to the Land Of The Rising Sun for this instalment and our journey into horror Steven serves a new flavour as we adjust to the tastes of House (1977) and Audition (1999).A retrospective look at the zany Seventies horror classic is where we will rest our heads for the night to discover how seven schoolgirls learn more about things that go bump in the night (and day) at a haunted house.While in the late Nineties we come to learn about the misogynistic activities of an advertising executive who is trying to find a shortcut to love, by exploiting the casting process of one of his latest projects for personal gain. Only he will find he has more than met his love match,Joining in are Jay and TJ as they travel out and check in to the latest terrifying offering that cinema screens have to show the world from the Far East.#acting #actor #actress #amazing #art #audition #auditions #blood #casting #CastingCall #ClassicFilm #cinema #explore #follow #HauntedHouse #horror #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #house #japan #JapaneseHorror #life #love #marriage #model #scary #ScaryMoive #SchoolGirls #terror #TerrorTerra #TorturePorn
KingDom goes full gamer to look at the algorithm of what it means to be dedicated to the competition of speed, muscle memory and configurations of a Rubik's Cube.The Speed Cubers (2020) explores the lives of speedcubing champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs, as directed by Sue Kim.MKH and TJ dial in on glimpses into the rivalry, friendship and what it takes to be the fastest in a journey about solving problems, relationships and a range of emotions#documentary, #FelixZemdegs, #MaxParks, #RubiksCube #TheSpeedCubers, #WorldChampions
Trevor takes a step back into the Eighties and Geeksweat takes a step up into privilege to discover a chaotic world fuelled by childhood trauma, adults behaving badly and substance abuse. Patrick Melrose is a five-part limited series telling the story of one man on a journey to his late father, into his past and across a decade-spanning crippling path of addictionKing Dom and Steven partake in the London-New York-Provence odyssey that sees Patrick the boy, the man and the father face up to demons that are coming after him and the legacy left before him.#Cumberbatch, #DrugAddict, #FatherSon, #PatrickMelrose
Jay steps into the haunted house of horror with teammates King Dom and MKH to discover what lies beneath in the murky and murder of House Of The Dead (2003)This Uwe Boll directed movie has bones of contention that need to be picked at and the chilling verdicts that will haunt this film late at night are nearly upon us.Dare you join us on this blood-thirsty adventure to find out whether this classic horror or a horrific time of recall to an arcade game that stalks its way into an adaptation.#action, #GameAdaptation, #horror, #HouseOfTheDead, #Sega, #UweBoll
MKH speaks truth to love as he embarks on a South Korean odyssey into the heart of gender roles in the every day and the workplace with his next film offering.Sweet & Sour (2021) is on the menu to satiate the appetite for fellow presenters King Dom and TJ as they come to understand how the other half loves abroad.What do we make of this love at first sight story facing the challenges of work, duty and the other realities of life? Listen in here to find out more....#LongDistance, #Netflix, #romance, #SouthKorea, #SweetAndSour
Our Doctor Who and Cult TV expert changes lanes again to find himself in a different post-code each month, as he takes you on a journey of horror from around the world.Steven will be exploring the darker and creepier corners of film that you may be too scared to see firsthand, so let him take you by the hand to separate good from bland.Joining him in the crypt to explore the Murnau and the Herzog versions of Nosferatu are Jay and King Dom, will they be able to hold their nerve, protect their neck and see what is at stake!?
King Dom invites MKH and TJ to step into his office and study the documentary that took community activism to innovative and new high impact levels on the high street.Bank Job (2021) is a look at the economically crippling tools of the UK financial system and how it is possible to abolish £1.2m of debt with as little as £20k hard cash.What we will soon discover behind the red debt letter curtain? What did we make of the complexity of the high-interest debt and how this film worked to explore it.#activism, #BankJob, #documentary, #FinancialSystem, #PrintingMoney
Steven referees between two top-flight football sitcoms that have been kicking around and dominating the midfield areas of streaming services over the last full season. So, it is time for the big match!In the red soccer kit is BBC iPlayer youth prospect The First Team, in the blue soccer kit is an international signing for Apple TV+ in Ted Lasso. Who will win this creative playmaking comedy contest?King Dom, MKH and TJ are our front three playing in an attacking line-up against each series, drifting into a free-roaming formation to cover every blade of grass just to see if it will be a win, lose or draw.#believe, #JasonSudekis, #TedLasso, #TheFirstTeam, #TheInbetweeners, #WillArnett
Lady Jay of the Geeksweat brings our horde to the frontline of game-to-film adaptations as we travel the vast open-world, a strategy-driven franchise that is Warcraft, as directed by Duncan Jones.Despite a slow uptake at the box office in 2016, this film grossed $439 million worldwide, surpassing "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time", as the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all timeJoining the alliance are majestic King Dom and wizened warlock TJto pick off our opponents and opposing views on the epic adventure of mesomorphic lifeforms who are at loggerheads with each other.#BlizzardEntertainment, #fantasy, #ILM, #MMORPG, #TravisFimmel, #VFX, #Warcraft
MKH takes the time to go all continental and move his cinematic tastes abroad as far as the Far East and he gets on board with the life and death road movie romance from Netflix Ride Or Die.We learn more about Rei and Nanae and get to know-know how far these two lovers will go to keep the engine turning on their supercharged passion driven by one violent episode to the next. Jay and TJ are the passengers on this thrill-ride of an episode; as we get under the bonnet of this psychological thriller drama, based on Ching Nakamura's 2007-2012 manga series Gunjō.#Japanese, #LGBT, #LesbianRomance, #manga, #noir, #ThelmaAndLouise
TJ calls on his super presenters to form an alliance for the greater good to combat the evils of the film industry impatience for the Director's Cut of a DC universe movie.Zack Snyder's Justice League looms on the HBOmax horizon and the signs have been ominous due to its 4hr 2mins runtime and an earlier release of 2017's #JossticeLeague.MKH suits up, KingDom powers up and we will all run to the HotTopic cave to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of 2021's long-awaited release of legendary superheroes.#Aquaman #BatmanVsSuperman, #DCcomics, #DCEU, #JusticeLeague, #ManOfSteel, #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, #SnyderVerse, #TheFlash, #Wonderwoman
King Dom takes a deep dive into the oceanic world with this episode in the selection of documentary films, as the tantalising tentacles drawing Geeksweat in comes in the shape of water flowing around My Octopus Teacher.Seafaring relationships between man and beast have come a long way since the tales of Moby Dick and even Jaws, so what does this aquatic offering have to say. Jay and MKH snorkel up and go under the surface of a curious and perhaps eccentric relationship that develops out of this world and in the depths of the deep blue sea.#DomsDocs, #friendship, #MyOctopus, #underwater
Steven checks in to motel Geeksweat and books in the Review Sweat room to tread a path to the series of suspense and sorrow that is Bates Motel as we delve into the past life of an iconic character.A character created by Robert Bloch, brought to life by Alfred Hitchcock and immortalized by Anthony Perkins is reanimated after the legend of the isolated caretaker had been dead and buried.King Dom and TJ are the tourists wandering into the local history of the young man struggling with his domineering mother and the notion a boy-next-door can be an unsuspected monster, even in the gossip-ridden microcosm of small-town life.#BatesMotel, #Hitchcock, #mother, #NormanBates, #Psycho, #prequel
Jay is in a chirpy mood today because it is time to tweet about the smash-hit Finnish action-based media franchise that is now adapted to both The Angry Birds Movie and The Angry Birds Movie 2. We will look at the story of "Red" the angry bird who is outcast due to his short temper AND "Red" as the hero of Bird Island with new responsibilities, challenges and love interest to boot.King Dom and MKH nestle in and start pecking away at the seeds of each movie to see if they are ones we should flock to or fly away from. Will Geeksweat get into a tailspin over these spin-offs?#AngryBirds, #animated, #app, #game, #RovioEntertainment
MKH traces the roots of his memory and treads the path of 1988's smash hit to step forward and claim the new copyright (on his streaming service) of Eddie Murphy's sequel Coming 2 America.Arsenio Hall and Shari Headly have returned to the Kingdom of Zamunda joined by new comedic cast members Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan and the versatile Wesley Snipes in this latest outing.Jay and TJ are on hand by royal Geeksweat decree to offer their blessings and trinkets of opinion on a transatlantic romantic comedy that picks up Prince/King Akeem Joffer's story thirty years on.#AmazonPrime, #comedy, #Coming2America, #EddieMurphy, #Zamunda
TJ goes into post-match commentary mode to talk football movies, as the real-world fixture lists get punted around to accommodate the pandemic. time to kick-off for goals, glory and even Gregory's Girl.Lining up on the other side of the halfway line are football movies that are wartime, all-girl, behind bars, over the top martial arts and even loosely planned threequels. So, lace your earbuds up for this. Geeksweat rotates the squad again for MKH and Steven the wizard wingmen to provide the assists, hug their lines and spring into attacks on what's good and bad about the world of football movies.#BendItLikeBeckham, #EscapeToVictory, #football, #Messi, #Ronaldo, #soccer
King Dom introduces the next new segment of Geeksweat "Doms Docs" as he explores feature-length documentaries with curious tales and subjects of interest. Our inaugural episode is of Free Solo.A story of professional rock climber Alex Honnold and his obsession to attempt to conquer the first free solo climb of the famed El Capitan's 900-metre vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.Jay and Steven gain purchase on this subject and freestyle from each ledge and cliff face of conversation to tell us more about what to watch out for and what is jutting out of this soul-defining journey.#danger, #documentary, #ElCapitan, #freeclimbing, #rock
King Dom goes exotic to trail a sub-continental serial killer, thief and fraudster who drugged and robbed Western tourists to travel the world and sell stolen gems.The Serpent (2021) features Tahir Rahim (Charles) and Jenna Coleman (Marie-Andrée) who portray the boyfriend and girlfriend criminal couple who preyed on youngJoining the investigating team witnessing the lifestyle and posturing of this infamous serial killer are detectives Jay and Steven, who will put this series under the spotlight.#hippie, #SerialKiller, #Seventies, #TahirRahim, #travellers
Jay takes another stab at the video game-to-film adaptation with the next instalment of Cult Film, as she sets her sights on another film in the form of Hitman.The 2007 thriller starring Timothy Olyphant is in the sights of King Dom, whilst MKH has his finger on the trigger to fire off their thoughts and opinions on the bald antihero.Our specialist unit takes down what goes on and goes off in the life of a genetically engineered contract killer who takes his action from computer screen to the big screen.#Agent47, #bald, #barcode, #CultFilm, #EidosInteractive, #Hitman
MKH switches his laser sights on and pulls another online streaming film into his crosshairs for a killshot on Scandi thriller drama RED DOT (2021) directed by Alain Darborg.Feeding ammunition to the episode is King Dom and Steven who are coldly staring at the film that has got people having second thoughts about camping in open spaces.RED DOT, released shortly before Valentine's Day, is a film written by Alain Darborg with Per Dickson, starring Johannes Kuhnke (Einar) and Nanna Blondell (Nadja).#camping, #LaserSight, #RedDot, #Swedish, #Thriller
Steven adopts the adaptation principle for this Hot Topic episode, as he discusses (or vents) what responsibilities an artist has to the source material, successful and unsuccessful adaptations and more.ADAPTATION (2002) comes under scrutiny as well as other feature films that have come from the written page to the film screen. MKH and TJ weigh in on what should stick or twist in adaptation transfers.William Goldman, Stephen King and Michael Crichton get a special mention as book writers who have managed to write scripts for features. What has become of the soul and sole objectives of films?#adaptation, #ArtisticLicence, #BookToScreen, #Kauffman, #Kubrick
[move to 10th February 2021 and delete this text]King Dom goes King Kong and racks up the high scores to run and jump the rules over the American gaming documentary The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters (2007).Geeksweat goes retro to rediscover 1999's "Video Game Player of the Century" Billy Mitchell, who claimed to have set a record score in "Donkey Kong", and the challenger Steve Wiebe who arises to compete with him for the title.Steven & TJ are player-ups waiting in the wings as we toss barrels and climb ladders to get closer to the truths of this documentary and what levels it can get up to.#ArcadeGame, #DonkeyKong, #HighScores, #TheKingOfKong, #RecordHolder
"Small axe fall big tree" or "If you are the big tree, we are the small axe" – a proverb popularized by Bob Marley, is now a British anthology film series created & directed by Steve McQueen.Steven and TJ discuss the distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.In a Geeksweat first their Mum's are invited on to the episode too, to add context from a different generation, whilst also exploring the era and impact of Small Axe.#AlexWheatle, #BritishHistory, #CannesFilmFestival, #Education, #LoversRock, #Mangrove, #RedWhiteAndBlue, #SmallAxe
Jay perches atop this segment as another film glides into her open world for the takedown, she conjures up all of her memories and experiences to assess the millenia-old myth of Assassins Creed.Under the hood are her Geeksweat cohorts King Dom and TJ, who are stalking the corridors of the internet to corner a film that has branched from game, to books to films and across eras in time.If you are ready to be initiated and prepared to swear an oath to this podcast, it is time for you to witness how the battle between free will versus order and control plays out on the big-screen adaptation.#Aguilar, #AssassinsCreed, #FreeWill, #OrderAndControl #MasterAssassin, #Ubisoft