Joe McKeown

Dec 19, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Joe McKeown

By 1995, Abel Ferrara was on a run of high quality work that rivals any of his New York contemporaries’ best. Starting with King of New York in 1990, Ferrara had built up a body of work that plunged into the very depths of city life, disappearing down the dark alleys and shadowy tenement corridors, to uncover a truth about the Big Apple that hadn’t been seen since the days of Taxi Driver. And with his fresh spin on the vampire horror genre, he was about to make his darkest picture to date.

Nov 12, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Joe McKeown |Vincent M. Gaine

“Ever been out west, Tommy? Ever heard a coyote? They make this sound like ‘woo, woo, woo!’ Coyote bitch gets in heat. First thing she does, she take care of the males. Then she heads toward town. All the neighborhood dogs, they smell her. They go crazy. They follow her. She lures them out on to the desert. Coyote get dog out there… alone. All the other coyote come along, they circle ’round… they kill that dog, eat it.”Sometimes, in the best films, you get a moment like that.

Nov 4, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Joe McKeown

After making quite the independent splash as screenwriter on Larry Clark’s notorious Kids in 1995, there was a small-but-devoted following keen to see what young, fresh-faced and whip-smart Harmony Korine would get up to next, but nobody could have predicted Gummo.

Jul 24, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Joe McKeown

The inherent contradiction of the most successful movies about wrestling (The Iron Claw and The Wrestler to name just two examples), is that they tend to be high-level productions that set their sights on major awards contention, which puts them somewhat at odds with the real-life sports entertainment industry they attempt to represent. If we focus solely on the WWE for a moment, there’s a hugely lucrative global business that never quite seems to dig itself entirely out of the mire.

Jul 22, 2024 | thegeekshow.co.uk | Joe McKeown |Graham Williamson

Adrianne and The Castle is a fascinating oddity of a documentary from filmmaker Shannon Welsh, a fantastical love story told from the perspective of a fairytale that is sadly over. It follows Alan St-George, an artist and entrepreneur of a world famous mascot company, responsible for numerous iconic cuddly heroes such as Tony the Tiger and Smokey Bear.