REVIEW SWEAT 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 addiction King Dom and Steven partake in the London-New York-Provence odyssey that sees Patrick the boy, the man and the father fa...
Jun 30, 2021•43 min
CULT FILM 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 adap...
Jun 23, 2021•39 min
THE MKH CUT MKH speaks truth to love as he embarks on a South Korean odyssey into the heart of gender roles in the everyday 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... #ChaeSooBin, #...
Jun 16, 2021•36 min
TERROR TERRA (Germany) 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 thei...
Jun 09, 2021•24 min
DOMS DOCS 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 works to ...
May 26, 2021•39 min
REVIEW SWEAT 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 football kit is BBC iPlayer youth prospect The First Team and 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 aga...
May 19, 2021•33 min
CULT FILM 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 time Joining the alliance are majestic King Dom and wizened warlock TJ to pick off our opponents a...
May 12, 2021•34 min
THE MKH CUT 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 psycholo...
May 05, 2021•35 min
#HotTopic 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 l...
Apr 28, 2021•45 min
Doms Docs 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 ...
Apr 21, 2021•27 min
Review Sweat 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 wi...
Apr 14, 2021•35 min
Cult Film 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 ...
Apr 07, 2021•37 min
The MKH Cut 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 transatl...
Mar 31, 2021•33 min
Hot Topic 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 prov...
Mar 24, 2021•56 min
Doms Docs 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 conv...
Mar 24, 2021•35 min
Review Sweat 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 young Joining the investigating team witnessing the lifestyle and posturing of this infamous serial killer are detectives Jay and Steven , who will put this series unde...
Mar 10, 2021•39 min
Cult Film 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 sc...
Mar 03, 2021•31 min
The MKH Cut 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. This Swedish thriller was released shortly before Valentine's Day, it's a film written by Alain Darborg with Per Dickson, starring Johannes Kuhnke (...
Feb 24, 2021•35 min
Hot Topic 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 wri...
Feb 17, 2021•35 min
Doms Docs 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 and TJ are player-ups waiting in the wings as we toss barrels and climb ladders to get c...
Feb 10, 2021•42 min
"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...
Feb 03, 2021•46 min
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...
Jan 27, 2021•44 min
MKH goes two-tone to discuss the black and white Netflix feature based on Herman J. Mankiewicz and the development of the screenplay for 1941's Citizen Kane. Joining the lines of this cinematographic drama, based on Orson Welles debut feature film, are Jay and Steven who opine on whether it is the greatest film ever made. Mank features Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins as well as politics, power and propaganda washed down with a vial of alcoholism. So, how well was this film blend to digest? #biopic...
Jan 20, 2021•44 min
TJ raises his hand and comes forward with his selection of the undesired and unloved shows that shouldn't or couldn't be watched all the way through, but we still did and perhaps enjoyed it too. MKH and Steven join in the television confession booth and admit to some of the streaming and T.V. sins that they have subjected themselves to during the lockdown period. We whizz through the reasons and relaxations these guilt watches have provided and where you can watch them and perhaps why we have wa...
Jan 13, 2021•44 min
TJ talks trailers again as Hollywood attempts to tease and please its audience with the prospect of the latest films to be released, despite the obstacles of world events. Which spectacles are now on show? Top Gun returns to formula, innoculating audiences with nostalgia. The French Dispatch is the anti-viral series vignettes for the public. While News Of The World prescribes an old school Western remedy. In the hot, but not feverish, socially-distanced seats today are King Dom and MKH as they p...
Dec 30, 2020•43 min
King Dom rounds up the year that was with another annual reflection on the good, bad and the ugly of film and television that was on offer in the year that was with The Geekies 2020. Recovering and recollecting from the disruptive year that was 2020 our co-hosts are an extended team of Jay, MKH and TJ as they all offer their insights, suggestions and votes for Best categories. #2020, #awards, #AwardsUndone, #film, #Geekies #rewards, #TV...
Dec 23, 2020•50 min
Jay fly kicks across this episode for a look at the timeless video game, that has been powered up by the folklore of a quest to save earth from the dangers of a dimension destroying tournament. Mortal Kombat (1995) is a story about three unknowing martial artists who are summoned to a mysterious island; to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world; featuring Christopher Lambert (Lord Raiden) and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawam (Shang Tsung). Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)...
Dec 16, 2020•59 min
MKH stalks and talks vampires in the hood with a toothy tonal shift as horror goes urban with the dawning of Vampires Vs The Bronx Steven and TJ turn up as the assistant vampire hunters in search of what good and evil about the latest Netflix original instalment. Dare you you creep into the crypt with Geeksweat and see what is at stake in this American comedy horror that stars: Jaden Michael, Gerald W. Jones III, Gregory Diaz IV, Sarah Gadon & Method Man. #BabyBlade, #Halloween, #horror #vam...
Dec 09, 2020•46 min
King Dom , MKH and TJ form a 'Who Acts Clan' to discover who the best and worst are of the rappers turned actors in modern and popular Hollywood films. One of the key criteria in this rapper hotlist is the artist has to have had a professional release of music material BEFORE they made their professional debut as an actor. Listen in to who gets to sit at the table and who gets to rock and who gets the mic drop in the Hollywood hall of fame for acting in front of the camera. #actor, #Akwafina, #C...
Dec 02, 2020•53 min
Geeksweat looks at the world of cinema and epic space adventure, martial arts and sci-fi interpretations of what is about to be reaching us on the big screens and exclusively on small screens soon TJ takes the lead in this session to get kung fu fighting with Nicolas Cage in Jiu-Jitsu , say hello to mr. sandman in Dune and gets occupied with the non-playing character of Ryan Reynolds in Free Guy . Joining, reviewing and reacting to these hot off the press trailers are King Dom and Steven . #Cage...
Nov 25, 2020•33 min
