Simon Ramshaw
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Final form Quentin Dupieux is a GTA: San Andreas-style middle-aged grump-com where living in a simulation is more of a mild inconvenience than a cataclysmic apocalypse. My review of #LeVertige (or #Vertiginous) for @thegeekshow.bsky.social
at Fantastic Fest here: thegeekshow.co.uk/vertiginous-...
at Fantastic Fest here: thegeekshow.co.uk/vertiginous-...
September 28, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Final form Quentin Dupieux is a GTA: San Andreas-style middle-aged grump-com where living in a simulation is more of a mild inconvenience than a cataclysmic apocalypse. My review of #LeVertige (or #Vertiginous) for @thegeekshow.bsky.social
at Fantastic Fest here: thegeekshow.co.uk/vertiginous-...
at Fantastic Fest here: thegeekshow.co.uk/vertiginous-...
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The latest episode of Pop Screen is live. After 172 episodes we have finally done an episode about a Spike Lee movie, not sure how we managed to get this far without touching his filmography.
Join Graham & @simonramshaw.bsky.social in the latest episode here:
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Join Graham & @simonramshaw.bsky.social in the latest episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/49PH...
ASAP meets Akira: Highest 2 Lowest - Pop Screen Episode 172
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August 16, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The latest episode of Pop Screen is live. After 172 episodes we have finally done an episode about a Spike Lee movie, not sure how we managed to get this far without touching his filmography.
Join Graham & @simonramshaw.bsky.social in the latest episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/49PH...
Join Graham & @simonramshaw.bsky.social in the latest episode here:
open.spotify.com/episode/49PH...
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We covered Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie on its festival run, and we loved it. Now its out in the UK, what does someone familiar with the show think?
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/nirvanna-the...
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/nirvanna-the...
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Out in the UK
We covered Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie on its festival run, and we loved it. Now its out in the UK, what does someone familiar with the show think?
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July 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
We covered Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie on its festival run, and we loved it. Now its out in the UK, what does someone familiar with the show think?
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/nirvanna-the...
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/nirvanna-the...
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Just read a great review of #scarymovie6 by @simonramshaw.bsky.social very insightful and a fun read #horror 🎬💀
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June 5, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Just read a great review of #scarymovie6 by @simonramshaw.bsky.social very insightful and a fun read #horror 🎬💀
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Over at @screenanarchy.bsky.social, critic @simonramshaw.bsky.social calls REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE "a striking experiment in style and restraint"!
Read the full review here!
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Read the full review here!
screenanarchy.com/2026/04/reve...
REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE Review: Earnest, If Stagey, Tale of Unwavering Faith
Acts. Questions. Steps. Leaps. All words with which 'of faith' can be easily and appropriately clipped on, and applied especially to Caroline Golum's Revelations of Divine Love, a micro-budget marvel ...
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April 13, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Over at @screenanarchy.bsky.social, critic @simonramshaw.bsky.social calls REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE "a striking experiment in style and restraint"!
Read the full review here!
screenanarchy.com/2026/04/reve...
Read the full review here!
screenanarchy.com/2026/04/reve...
Overjoyed to hear that UK audiences will be able to see #BladesoftheGuardians (thanks to Trinity CineAsia!) in just under a month - take a look at my conversation with the multi-hypenate master of martial arts cinema Yuen Woo-ping to get you excited... screenanarchy.com/2026/02/blad...
BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS Interview: Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years
There are few filmmaking visionaries whose work has touched more than Yuen Woo-ping. A triple-threat stuntman, choreographer and director, his illustrious career began hand-in-hand with Jackie Chan...
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March 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Overjoyed to hear that UK audiences will be able to see #BladesoftheGuardians (thanks to Trinity CineAsia!) in just under a month - take a look at my conversation with the multi-hypenate master of martial arts cinema Yuen Woo-ping to get you excited... screenanarchy.com/2026/02/blad...
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Sometimes friends are the last thing you need, as shown in Jessica Barr's ambitious directorial debut - The Plan, fresh from its #Slamdance World Premiere.
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-plan-sla...
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-plan-sla...
The Plan (Slamdance Film Festival 2026)
Sometimes friends are the last thing you need, as shown in Jessica Barr's ambitious directorial debut - The Plan, fresh from its Slamdance World Premiere.
thegeekshow.co.uk
March 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Sometimes friends are the last thing you need, as shown in Jessica Barr's ambitious directorial debut - The Plan, fresh from its #Slamdance World Premiere.
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-plan-sla...
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-plan-sla...
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A very difficult movie, Max DeFalco's street grotty street level drama TEN WILL asks when is someone’s sentence truly over?
Fresh from its world premiere at #Slamdance, @simonramshaw.bsky.social looks at this feature directorial debut, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/ten-will-sla...
Fresh from its world premiere at #Slamdance, @simonramshaw.bsky.social looks at this feature directorial debut, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/ten-will-sla...
TEN WILL (Slamdance 2026) World Premiere Review
A very difficult movie, Max DeFalco's street grotty street level drama TEN WILL asks when is someone’s sentence truly over?
thegeekshow.co.uk
March 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
A very difficult movie, Max DeFalco's street grotty street level drama TEN WILL asks when is someone’s sentence truly over?
Fresh from its world premiere at #Slamdance, @simonramshaw.bsky.social looks at this feature directorial debut, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/ten-will-sla...
Fresh from its world premiere at #Slamdance, @simonramshaw.bsky.social looks at this feature directorial debut, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/ten-will-sla...
Last week I was lucky enough to talk to master stuntman/choreographer/director/visionary Yuen Woo-ping! His new film BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS is showing in US/Canadian theatres (thanks @wellgousa.bsky.social) so please let our conversation to get you excited about it screenanarchy.com/2026/02/blad...
February 23, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Last week I was lucky enough to talk to master stuntman/choreographer/director/visionary Yuen Woo-ping! His new film BLADES OF THE GUARDIANS is showing in US/Canadian theatres (thanks @wellgousa.bsky.social) so please let our conversation to get you excited about it screenanarchy.com/2026/02/blad...
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A decade since David Bowie passed away, superfan Graham is joined by Mick to talk about the 1983 vampire movie, The Hunger #PodernFamily
Listen here or wherever podcasts find you: open.spotify.com/episode/00QQ...
Listen here or wherever podcasts find you: open.spotify.com/episode/00QQ...
David Bowie in the Hunger - Pop Screen 157
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January 21, 2026 at 6:39 PM
A decade since David Bowie passed away, superfan Graham is joined by Mick to talk about the 1983 vampire movie, The Hunger #PodernFamily
Listen here or wherever podcasts find you: open.spotify.com/episode/00QQ...
Listen here or wherever podcasts find you: open.spotify.com/episode/00QQ...
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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.
Listen and Subscribe here: open.spotify.com/episode/5DXq...
Involved people in next post...
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.
Listen and Subscribe here: open.spotify.com/episode/5DXq...
Involved people in next post...
January 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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.
Listen and Subscribe here: open.spotify.com/episode/5DXq...
Involved people in next post...
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.
Listen and Subscribe here: open.spotify.com/episode/5DXq...
Involved people in next post...
Part One of takes both celebratory and scabrous as I round up the wild cinematic year that was 2025.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/dracula-a-lo...
Dracula: A Love Tale (2025) Soho Horror Film Festival
Playing recently at Soho Horror and coming out on Signature Blu Ray very soon, Luc Besson returns to the English language with the lavish, Dracula: A Love Tale
thegeekshow.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/dracula-a-lo...
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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-...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/kontinental-...
Kontinental '25 (2025) Hard-to-swallow satire from Romania's smartest joker - The Geek Show
Romanian satirist and experimental filmmaking punk rocker Radu Jude returns to his usual feel-good(!) terrain with his latest movie, Kontinental '25.
thegeekshow.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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-...
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
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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
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Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/narc-2002-re...
NARC (2002) Out now on Arrow Video Blu-Ray
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.
thegeekshow.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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...
Read More from @simonramshaw.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/narc-2002-re...
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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:
thegeekshow.co.uk/the-invisibl...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social release here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/the-invisibl...
The Invisible Swordsman (1970) Out now on Arrow Video Blu
We wrap up today with a very different spin on the Invisible Man formula with Yoshiyuki Kuroda's family friendly The Invisible Swordsman.
thegeekshow.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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:
thegeekshow.co.uk/the-invisibl...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social release here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/the-invisibl...
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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
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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
June 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
#28YEARSLATER spoilers
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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
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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
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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...
That tickles your fancy, listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/75XN...
Marlene Dietrich - they don't make Hollywood Stars like that any more
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June 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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...
That tickles your fancy, listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/75XN...
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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-...
Read @simonramshaw.bsky.social's #review of this new @studiocanal.com release here: thegeekshow.co.uk/in-the-lost-...
In the Lost Lands (2025) Out now on 4K, Blu-ray, & Digital
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.
thegeekshow.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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-...
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
June 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Friendship first half vs Friendship second half
New crittering over at @moviemarker.bsky.social
🔥 The rage that is Nicolas Cage heads to Australia for a spot of sun-kissed, sweaty revenge, in Lorcan Finnegan's #TheSurfer which is in UK cinemas this Friday
💫 An MM debut for @simonramshaw.bsky.social. Check out his ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review HERE:
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@vertigorel.bsky.social
💫 An MM debut for @simonramshaw.bsky.social. Check out his ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ review HERE:
moviemarker.co.uk/the-surfer-
@vertigorel.bsky.social
The Surfer ★★★★
Released: 9th May 2025 Director: Lorcan Finnegan Starring: Nicolas Cage Sun, sweat and salty revenge are baked into Lorcan Finnegan’s fourth feature, The Surfer, a dehydrated Ozploitation daydream hea...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New crittering over at @moviemarker.bsky.social
The Irishman has been officially renamed ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’.
May 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Irishman has been officially renamed ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’.
