Steven introduces GeekSweat to a second generation of the world-famous, grand-televangelist Gemstone family who achieved biblical success and are living proof that worship pays dividends great and small. MKH and TJ take a pew to hear their story in chapter and verse. Steven cast lights on the dysfunctional and hypocritical family in this comedy series led by patriarch Eli (John Goodman) supported by Jesse (creator, Danny McBride) the eldest of the three grown Gemstone siblings with Judy (Edi Pat...
Apr 15, 2020•27 min
Steven talks about BBC2's Nineties era UK double bill of The Larry Sanders Show and Seinfeld , both becoming the staple of imported comedy from the land of Uncle Sam on Sunday late night's. Our Cult TV expert breaks down what makes the good, bad-mouthed and uncompromisingly funny of these shows from subplots to sidekicks. MKH and TJ get educated about two kings of comedy. Gary Shandling and Jerry Seinfeld step into the T.V. ring to where the fictional talk show host comes up against the fictiona...
Apr 08, 2020•30 min
GeekSweat interviews action film tough guy Sean Cronin ; who operates in the industry as a triple threat of Actor, Cinematographer and Director, as he makes his way through the halls of Hollywood. Sean breaks into major hit films such as James Bond: The World Is Not Enough, The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets plus Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. KingDom and TJ team up to take down this mercurial actor on a mission with a series of questions about his rise and ...
Apr 01, 2020•1 hr 30 min
The Geeksweat presenters band together to lay down their best tips and techniques for surviving a disaster with movie and T.V. facts that have become tropes through the ages. What world weathered advice can Coady , Jay , KingDom , MKH and TJ add to your plucky resolve to survive?? Listen in to hear so much more than you bargained for. #CinemaTropes, #DisasterMovie, #earthquake, #flood, #HotTopic, #invasion, #pandemic, #volcano...
Mar 25, 2020•44 min
MKH slides into the trailers of upcoming films in 2020, taking King Dom and Jay alongside as they go on the lookout for The Invisible Man, rally around for The Hunt, take aim at Bloodshot and run circles around Sonic The Hedgehog. What can we say about our recommendations for this eclectic mix of films should you find yourself at the cinema, wait for it to go online or simply give it a miss?? Plug your earbuds in or turn up the volume, press play and find out here. #action, #cinema, #Bloodshot, ...
Mar 11, 2020•55 min
Geeksweat crosses the plains and the continent to go hunting in the dark with the magic of Netflix for monsters and demons, as it tracks down the destiny-laden series The Witcher . Jay helps GeekSweat discover how a fantasy set of novels will now play out in a broader live-action series adaptation featuring Henry Cavill (Man Of Steel, Mission: Impossible - FallOut). So, has this adaptation become a hit or miss, will it satisfy the original online gamers or the new hordes of online streamers only...
Mar 04, 2020•27 min
Steven takes the apocalyptic road of the 1975's BBC TV series about a handful of survivors who are left after a flu-like virus wipes out most of the world's population. This is Survivors . King Dom and Jay ready themselves for this adventure into the work of Terry Nation (also Writer of Doctor Who and The Avengers) and share in the rations of thought about what made this series so compelling. #BBC, #CultTV, #dystopia, #future, #pandemic, #ScienceFiction, #Survivors, #virus...
Feb 26, 2020•27 min
Geeksweat welcomes a film industry stallion who has racked up 100 credits as an Assistant Director, with 7 James Bond films on his CV and blockbuster stars on his Call Sheets. Terry Bamber has worked on 101 and 102 Dalmatians, while his career has taken him on to many film sets around the world, working with fantastic crews. King Dom and TJ in awe of his work aim to tease out his best anecdotes and experiences, so we may understand how to retain joy and longevity in the film & TV industry. #...
Feb 19, 2020•1 hr 30 min
The GeekSweat team overlook the winners and nominees in the Oscars2020 with a focus on categories such as; Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Picture and many more besides. Jay, KingDom, MKH and TJ take the hot seats as a pseudo-panel running the rule over the nominees, eventual winners and possible revisions (if it were possible) to who should win. #2020, #Oscars, #HotTopic, #nominees, #revoked, #revote, #winners...
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 2 min
The GeekSweat team overhaul the winners and nominees in the Oscars2020 with a focus on categories such as; Best Animated Short Film, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up & Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Sound Editing, Best Visual Effects and many more besides. Jay, King Dom, MKH and TJ take the hot seats as a pseudo-panel running the rule over the nominees, eventual winners and possible revisions (if it were possible) to who should win. #2020, #HotTopic, #Oscars, #nominees, #revoked, #r...
Feb 12, 2020•42 min
King Dom is at the helm of Trailer Talk where he brings together The Gentlemen (dir. Guy Ritchie), steps into The Public (dir. Emilio Estevez) and sees if it rains or shines in Weathering With You (dir. Makoto Shinkai). MKH and Coady sit in on the selection of new films that could be your new cinema favourites, something to wait for online or simply more easily avoided entirely. With several ensemble casts on show, each led by Hugh Grant, Alec Baldwin and Nana Mori respectively. #EmilioEstevez, ...
Feb 05, 2020•37 min
MKH and Dominic gather around the campfire to listen to what TJ saw down in the woods, as we peek inside the anthropomorphic world of Japanese manga series and adaptation BEASTARS . In a modern world of civilized animals where carnivores and herbivores live, work and study together 'Legoshi' (a large, grey wolf) navigates college life, drama club and an extraordinary fascination with a gardening white dwarf rabbit 'Haru'. The series begins under the cloud of a ferocious murder of an alpaca, but ...
Jan 29, 2020•37 min
Join us again for Cult TV as we look back at the late 60s American supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows. Steven emerges from the shadows to talk about Dark Shadows with KingDom and MKH We look at a programme that, despite having no budget and being filmed as 'live', introduced werewolves and vampires to daytime TV and endeared itself to a generation of unwitting Americans. #Angelique, #BarnabasCollins, #Collinswood, #CultTV, #ReverendTrask, #vampires, #WidowsPeak, #wolves...
Jan 22, 2020•27 min
King Dom brings TJ along for a job in the east end where they are going to go behind financial lines to find out what it takes to abolish and cancel long debt through activism. Artist Hilary Powell and filmmaker Daniel Edelstyn join forces to show us how to undertake the ultimate Bank Job (2021) to save communities from spiralling into poverty. Discussing art, community, education, investigation, printmaking and a massive explosion; we will find out the curious formula of the economy that treads...
Jan 15, 2020•1 hr 2 min
MKH has hot Asian men on the brain, but what is he really talking about here??....of course he wants to know whether Asian men in cinema and film are part of a new wave or just a passing phase. Bar Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Donnie Yen, the on-screen representation of east-Asian men since the beginning of cinema has been limited in western film and television productions until the last decade. Are we on the verge of a renaissance? Particularly now that east Asian men are being cast in less stere...
Jan 08, 2020•31 min
Trailer Talk returns with MKH taking the table to talk films that are on the way to our cinemas that you may want to watch in theater, online or perhaps even not at all. To help make the decision we are here to race through a series of reviews to help save you time. KingDom and TJ are the wide receivers on hand to carry these reviews over the line as we take on films such as: Sam Raimi's war movie 1917, the long-awaited action movie sequel Bad Boys For Life starring Will Smith and real-life base...
Jan 01, 2020•46 min
King Dom presides over the glorious in-house ceremony that is " The Geekies Awards " (c/o: Geeksweat ) for best performances, excellent productions and outstanding programmes and films in the year 2019. Looking at the last twelve months in film, TV and online streaming the GeekSweat team recap what was and was not the best of the best. Jay, MKH and TJ join in on the panel of decision-makers. Listen in and see if you agree with our rights and wrongs of 2019. #awards, #BestOf, #disappointments, #R...
Dec 25, 2019•31 min
CULT TV: Geeksweat reaches its Twelfth Doctor Who inspection by Steven . Arriving on the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who and leaving on the 2017 Christmas Special, as the abrupt and apathetic Twelfth Doctor. Peter Capaldi is another Scottish actor leading the BBC sci-fi series. Joined by able assistants Jay and King Dom we regenerate for the last time (for a while) to discuss what went right, what went wrong and what changed in the forty episode run of the travelling alien. #CultTV, #DoctorWh...
Dec 18, 2019•26 min
King Dom and TJ welcome back our specialist expert David Nicholas Wilkinson who is more than just a Bafta-nominated producer, documentary filmmaker and international film school lecturer. Our guest expert deep dives again into his anecdotes and expertise to let Geeksweat know more about the mechanics of the award nomination process, film distribution, production values and getting on the film industry ladder. After working as a filmmaker for over 35 years we find out more about the patterns, the...
Dec 11, 2019•57 min
Martin Scorsese explains why many women didn't go into the speaking parts of his films, so MKH speaks on "going in" on Scorsese's seemingly politically incorrect approach to storytelling. To some, Scorsese is a living legend and genius director!!! For others, he is simply a man out of time, who is right? With his recent criticisms of the "fairground attraction" films that are from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, MKH takes time to wonder what type of representation (or simulation) a Scorsese film ...
Dec 04, 2019•29 min
GeekSweat teases new trailers and rates on DC extended universe feature Birds Of Prey, big-screen musical theatre adaptation Cats and franchise bombardment sequel Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker. MKH smoothly segue ways the GeekSweat gang through the latest trailers and is joined by King Dom and Jay as they take in the sights and sounds of the latest movies for the cinema. We are watching, while you are waiting for our recommendations on another instalment of a famed intergalactic space odyssey, An...
Nov 27, 2019•32 min
Trevor introduces the sci-fi thriller that divides two worlds within the boundaries to the GeekSweat team, Countepart stars screen &T TV legend J.K. Simmons who takes on not one, but two roles in a complex, neo-noir thriller that is redefining the terms of a doppelganger story. KingDom and MKH take note of what works and perhaps what doesn't in this near-future world, Kafkaesque vision that explores the possibility of parallel wells not just separated by choices, but separated by government,...
Nov 20, 2019•28 min
Steven Coad talks on the weird and wonderful things of a science fiction TV series produced since 1963, BBC's Doctor Who once again and so, it’s time for the 11th Doctor played by Matt Smith. We will talk fezzes, Impossible Girls and The Death of the Doctor, plus take in the 50th anniversary as Steven Moffat takes over as showrunner and things get complicated... #BBC, #DoctorWho, #CultTV, #FishFingersAndCustard, #MattSmith, #RiverSong, #SciFi, #TheEleventhHour, #ThePandoricaOpens, #ThePonds, #Th...
Nov 13, 2019•27 min
King Dom delves into his specialist subject of documentary filmmaking by taking an opportunity to sit down and speak with an evergreen filmmaker in the British film industry. David Nicholas Wilkinson has a career that has reverberated around acting alongside Kenneth Moore, Bafta nominations, investigating the first-ever filmmaker, lecturing in film schools across the world as well as making timely, thought-provoking documentaries. TJ joins in on this illustrious Geeksweat segment to sit across t...
Nov 06, 2019•1 hr 16 min
Gary Lewis is a walk and talk expert on Alfred Hitchcock and his time in Leytonstone (east London). As part of the "Alfred Hitchcock Society of Leytonstone", Gary aims to preserve the history and origins of the world's greatest film Director. KingDom and Coady are full of questions and suspense as Gary reveals early incidents and accidents that shaped and influenced the famed Master of Suspense and his films. A great opportunity to understand what we can see and know that is connected to Sir Alf...
Oct 30, 2019•28 min
GeekSweat teases new trailers and takes ratings on Stephen King sequel DOCTOR SLEEP , a real-life rivalry in FORD V FERRARI and seasonal British romantic comedy in LAST CHRISTMAS. TJ takes the reins, in the absence Jay ; while KingDom and MKH are critiquing the up and coming cinema hits (or misses) for you to think about: watching, waiting until it comes online or simply just giving it a miss. So have a listen in on how things match up for Christian Bale & Matt Damon, Emilia Clarke & Hen...
Oct 16, 2019•37 min
Coady inherits the Review Sweat mantle to discuss Succession a satirical, black comedy produced by Jesse Armstrong for HBO. The series observes the Roy family, dysfunctional owners of a global media empire led by a patriarch who is declining in health and considering an heir. Brian Cox is the most recognizable actor ably supported by Hiam Abbass, Alan Ruck and Sarah Snook. In 2018, the compelling ensemble cast garnered attention and awards of the Golden Globes (Kieran Culkin) and Critics Choice ...
Oct 09, 2019•26 min
Steven takes GeekSweat back to school with a seminar on Community ; the Dan Harmon project that launched a thousand faces, not least Donald Glover, Ken Jeong and Alison Brie. What was so special about this series; where did it pass, where did it fail and how much revision took place in creating the formula for 6 core characters and an ever-expanding supporting cast. King Dom and TJ enrol to the round-up of one of the most ground-breaking, yet formulaic shows in recent TV history and what it mean...
Oct 02, 2019•29 min
Marlon Palmer is the special guest of this Inspiration Interview, as Director of 'Kush Film'. For over two decades Marlon has become one of the hardest working and longest-serving distributors of film in the UK. Notable Kush Film exclusive and premiere screenings include: Belly, Bullet Boy, Coach Carter, Daughters Of The Dust, Eve's Bayou, Four Brothers, The Players Club, Romeo Must Die, Ray, Rush Hour and Scary Movie. Trevor and Malachi take time to learn about Marlon's childhood dream, hustle ...
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 15 min
Jay looks at the issue of representation in big-budget productions by putting WARRIOR (Amazon Prime / Cinemax) in the spotlight and discussing it's origins (as a concept by Bruce Lee) and historical accuracies (delving into the Chinese Exclusion Act). This episode explores the authenticity of the story to recreate the era on the small screen for a wider audience; particularly in redefining a south-east Asian cast and the range of storytelling that is possible. 50 years in the making, we reveal k...
Sep 18, 2019•36 min
