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The Show is a 2020 British fantasy neo-noir film, written by Alan Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins. The film follows a detective arriving in Northampton searching for a missing artefact. It stars Tom Burke, Siobhan Hewlett, Ellie Bamber and Alan Moore.
The Show (originally titled This Is Your Death[1]) is a 2017 American satirical drama film directed by Giancarlo Esposito and written by Kenny Yakkel and Noah Pink. The film stars Josh Duhamel, Famke Janssen, Esposito, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Caitlin FitzGerald.
The Show. A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties and Voodoo gangsters. Rent The Show on Fandango...
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By Kristy Puchko
Updated: May 25, 2021 9:00 pm
Posted: Oct 8, 2020 10:00 am
IGN serves a global audience, so with The Show screening at the Sitges Film Festival, we are publishing our review from Kristy Puchko who watched the movie via a digital screener. Read more on IGN's policy on movie reviews in light of COVID-19 here. IGN strongly encourages anyone considering going to a movie theater during the COVID-19 pandemic to check their local public health and safety guidelines before buying a ticket.
English comics author Alan Moore has brought us Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, and Batman: The Killing Joke, all of which have resulted in dark film adaptations. Now, the man behind twisted tales of seething vigilantes, eccentric killers, and obsessive detectives gives us The Show, which offers such a dizzying mystery that you might feel your brain is melting. Whether that's a good thing - your mileage may vary.
Written by Moore, The Show begins by pitching us cold into the mission of a mysterious man (Tom Burke) in search of a vicious jewelry thief (Darrell D'Silva). The peculiar protagonist gives various names: Bob Mitchum, Steve Lipman, and Fletcher Dennis. He alternately claims to be an antique dealer, a concerned sibling, and a detective in search of a dangerous criminal. His identity is just the first mystery introduced here. Those that follow will include an inconvenient death, a curious coma dream, a long-dead comedy duo, and a decades-old cold case. With a razor-sharp intellect and an instinct for how to handle colorful characters, our hero -- who we'll call Dennis for ease -- makes short work of uncovering one stirring secret after another. Yet he underestimates the deeply rooted strangeness of the little English town into which he's stumbled.
The Show is an unrepentantly trippy Noir that assaults the senses, cackling all the while. Alan Moore gives his fans doses of what they crave from him. There's a mind-bending detective story in a twisted realm of violence, vigilantes, corruption, and chaos. It’s a place overcrowded with deranged denizens and sticky visual details, booming with soun...
Aug 26, 2021 · Aug 26, 2021 12:00am PT. ‘The Show’ Review: Comic Book Maestro Alan Moore’s Noirish Fantasia. This colorful labyrinth of a mystery will mostly appeal to the ‘Watchmen’ and ‘V for Vendetta’...
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The Show: Directed by Mitch Jenkins. With Kezzabelle Ambler, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sheila Atim, Ellie Bamber. A man's search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
Oct 8, 2020 · The Show is a continuation of those noir-inflected stories set in a dreamlike version of Northampton, Moore’s English hometown. The bare outline of the film version is simple: A man calling...
