The Show

Name: The Show
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: August 26, 2021
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Alan Moore, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Babou Ceesay, Christopher Fairbank, Darrell D'Silva

2021

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Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: August 26, 2021

Starring: Alan Moore, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Babou Ceesay, Christopher Fairbank, Darrell D'Silva, Ellie Bamber, Ethan Rouse, Oaklee Pendergast, Richard Dillane, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Sheila Atim, Siobhan Hewlett, Tom Burke

Summary: A frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England's broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange & dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artifact for his insistentA frighteningly focussed man of many talents, passports and identities arrives at England's broken heart, a haunted midlands town that has collapsed to a black hole of dreams, only to find that this new territory is as at least as strange & dangerous as he is. Attempting to locate a certain person and a certain artifact for his insistent client, he finds himself sinking in a quicksand twilight world of dead Lotharios, comatose sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, unlikely 1930s private eyes, violent chiaroscuro women… and this is Northampton when it's still awake. Once the town closes its eyes there is another world entirely going on beneath the twitching lids, a world of glittering and sinister delirium much worse than any social or economic devastation. Welcome to the British nightmare, with its gorgeous flesh, its tinsel and its luminous light-entertainment monsters; its hallucinatory austerity. … Expand

Director: Mitch Jenkins

Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy

Runtime: 115 min

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Kristy Puchko

Oct 8, 2020

Even with some questions left dangling, The Show offers a supremely intoxicating adventure, ripe with imagination, rank with decadence, and rabid with more, more Moore. Read full review

The Guardian Phil Hoad

Oct 13, 2021

This dense but witty film is never caught short for a flourish. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Mar 29, 2024

Fun if perhaps a little too tongue-in-cheek for its own good, the results will no doubt appeal most to Moore fans who’ll revel in his Byzantine plotting, noirish tropes and other signature elements. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Mar 29, 2024

Exuberant as it is, The Show treats its basic premise earnestly enough not to come across as merely spoofy. And there’s some considerable wit in the script. Read full review

Polygon Jesse Hassenger

Moore and Jenkins are obviously aiming higher than a self-aware noir pastiche, or at least something off to the side of one. Yet those elements of the movie are a lot more enjoyable than sort-of-dream sequences featuring yet another guy in clown makeup. Read full review

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Aug 27, 2021

The Show has great performances, direction, and cinematography. What it boils down to is whether you'll get on with its Twin Peaks-like mystery story, which for me was so-so. Great to see Alan Moore in the film.

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