Dr Vincent FrankenGaine
@drgaine.bsky.social
Academic, film critic, podcaster, Trekker. Live long and prosper.
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Derelict is an Anglo-Franco crime thriller that tackles the trauma of the vengeance, marking it out from the usual revenge fair. Out on @101filmsuk.bsky.social Blu-ray @aimpublicity.bsky.social
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review from #Frightfest 2024 here: thegeekshow.co.uk/derelict-fri...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review from #Frightfest 2024 here: thegeekshow.co.uk/derelict-fri...
Derelict (Frightfest 2024) Review
After all the horror, it's nice to come back down to earth. Well, not nice, the other one. Vincent looks at the impressive super low budget thriller, Derelict.
thegeekshow.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Derelict is an Anglo-Franco crime thriller that tackles the trauma of the vengeance, marking it out from the usual revenge fair. Out on @101filmsuk.bsky.social Blu-ray @aimpublicity.bsky.social
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review from #Frightfest 2024 here: thegeekshow.co.uk/derelict-fri...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review from #Frightfest 2024 here: thegeekshow.co.uk/derelict-fri...
Little to haunt you here.
Featuring as part of the First Blood Strand, we return to @frightfest.bsky.social with @drgaine.bsky.social for The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House #review
Read More Here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-haunting...
Read More Here: thegeekshow.co.uk/the-haunting...
The Haunting at Jack the Ripper's House (Frightfest 2025)
Featuring as part of the First Blood Strand, we return to Frightfest with Vincent for The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House.
thegeekshow.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Little to haunt you here.
Less than five for Five.
The Meta is alive and well in the next movie from
@frightfest.bsky.social, Dani Barker's Five.
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review for more, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/five-frightf...
@frightfest.bsky.social, Dani Barker's Five.
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review for more, here: thegeekshow.co.uk/five-frightf...
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Less than five for Five.
Harrison Ford’s finest hour?
Harrison Ford has many fine hours, but his finest is also his least seen and discussed. @drgaine.bsky.social looks at Peter Weir's 1985 classic, Witness. Out now from @arrowvideo.bsky.social #review
Read More Here: thegeekshow.co.uk/witness-1985...
Read More Here: thegeekshow.co.uk/witness-1985...
Witness (1985) out now on Arrow Video Blu-Ray
Harrison Ford has many fine hours, but his finest is also his least seen and discussed. Vincent looks at Peter Weir's 1985 classic, Witness.
thegeekshow.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Harrison Ford’s finest hour?
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…
Is the new #Superman the antidote to the very, very real superhero fatigue or is it just more of the same?
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/superman-2025/
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/superman-2025/
Superman (2025) Rebooting for a more colourful universe
Is the new Superman the antidote to the very, very real superhero fatigue or is it just more of the same? Read Vincent's review.
thegeekshow.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…
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Cobra is out on 4K! It is a film!
Sylvester Stallone's Hard Bodied loose cannon cop action movie, Cobra, is out now on 4K from Arrow Video. Read more from @drgaine.bsky.social here: thegeekshow.co.uk/cobra-1986-c...
July 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Cobra is out on 4K! It is a film!
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
Lethal Weapon still holds up!
The last movie we covered was a early 2000s crime grime classic, now we head back to the golden area of action movies about police with the iconic Lethal Weapon Warner Bros.
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this action classic here: thegeekshow.co.uk/lethal-weapo...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this action classic here: thegeekshow.co.uk/lethal-weapo...
Lethal Weapon (1987) Out now on 4K Blu-Ray - REVIEW
The last movie we covered was a early 2000s crime grime classic, now we head back to the golden area of action movies about police with the iconic Lethal Weapon
thegeekshow.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Lethal Weapon still holds up!
Challenge accepted!
**NEW BONUS EPISODE**
On this edition of QuickDraw, I was joined by the amazing @drgaine.bsky.social to talk about some of the Movie Duel's of old and get him to make his own choices for some of the topics we've discussed on the podcast.
On this edition of QuickDraw, I was joined by the amazing @drgaine.bsky.social to talk about some of the Movie Duel's of old and get him to make his own choices for some of the topics we've discussed on the podcast.
July 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Challenge accepted!
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Decriminalise abortion and make it a protected human right.
Women’s rights are under threat from the far right.
Nigel Farage just called our current abortion provisions “utterly ludicrous” – and others in power are paying attention.
A vote in Parliament could ...
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June 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nigel Farage says abortion laws are “utterly ludicrous.”
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
MPs are watching.
We have days to show them: the public backs abortion rights.
Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
Microsoft is fueling genocide in Gaza. End the military contracts now. #NoAzureForApartheid #MSBuild www.instagram.com/reel/DJ18fe2...
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May 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Microsoft is fueling genocide in Gaza. End the military contracts now. #NoAzureForApartheid #MSBuild www.instagram.com/reel/DJ18fe2...
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Dressed to Kill saw Brian de Palma at his most controversial, for different reasons both then and now, but what of the movie beyond the qualms people have?
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K blu-Ray here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/dressed-to-k...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K blu-Ray here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/dressed-to-k...
Dressed to Kill (1980) Out now on 4K Arrow Video Blu-Ray
Dressed to Kill saw Brian de Palma at his most controversial, for different reasons both then and now, but what of the movie beyond the qualms people have?
thegeekshow.co.uk
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Dressed to Kill saw Brian de Palma at his most controversial, for different reasons both then and now, but what of the movie beyond the qualms people have?
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K blu-Ray here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/dressed-to-k...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review of this new @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K blu-Ray here:
thegeekshow.co.uk/dressed-to-k...
Reposted by Dr Vincent FrankenGaine
Contrary to the name + legacy as a horror powerhouse, not ALL @frightfest.bsky.social movies are horror. Sometimes they are existential sci-fi like Stephon Stewart's Psyche.
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/psyche-glasg...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/psyche-glasg...
Psyche (Glasgow Frightfest 2025)
Contrary to the name + legacy as a horror powerhouse, not ALL Frightfest movies are horror. Sometimes they are existential sci-fi like Stephon Stewart's Psyche.
thegeekshow.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Contrary to the name + legacy as a horror powerhouse, not ALL @frightfest.bsky.social movies are horror. Sometimes they are existential sci-fi like Stephon Stewart's Psyche.
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/psyche-glasg...
Read @drgaine.bsky.social's #review here: thegeekshow.co.uk/psyche-glasg...
Tell Columbia University: stop the repression against students action.eko.org/a/columbia-s...
Columbia: stop the repression against students
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate from Columbia University, has vanished. ICE agents stormed his residence, ripped him from his home, and now—no one knows where he is. His crime? Demanding Columb
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March 10, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tell Columbia University: stop the repression against students action.eko.org/a/columbia-s...
The Pody People invade the Oscars to talk ceremony, awards and omissions! @roddersj04.bsky.social @russlovesmovies.bsky.social
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Invasion of the Pody People vs the Oscars 2025
The Not Just For Kids Movie Club · Episode
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March 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The Pody People invade the Oscars to talk ceremony, awards and omissions! @roddersj04.bsky.social @russlovesmovies.bsky.social
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open.spotify.com/episode/087X...
Reposted by Dr Vincent FrankenGaine
Invasion of the Pody People is back and @roddersj04.bsky.social, @drgaine.bsky.social and I discuss the Oscar noms, have a monster mash with Nosferatu and Wolf Man and look back at the life and work of David Lynch
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February 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Invasion of the Pody People is back and @roddersj04.bsky.social, @drgaine.bsky.social and I discuss the Oscar noms, have a monster mash with Nosferatu and Wolf Man and look back at the life and work of David Lynch
open.spotify.com/episode/09kE...
open.spotify.com/episode/09kE...