The Show

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	Kezzabelle Ambler	Debby Fischer
	Roger Ashton-Griffiths	First Cabby
	Sheila Atim	John Conqueror
	Ellie Bamber	Becky Cornelius
	Ian Barritt	Leonard Brock
	Sam Battersea	Mrs. Michelson
	Ross Bayliss	Wittgenstein Terrace - Dave
	Lee Blackwell	Bleeker's Goon - Dave
	Sally Blaise	Dr. Frances Pinner
	Julian Bleach	Clive
	Luli Blue	Christine Lamb
	Boykitten	Jimmy's End Violist
	Lucy Briers	Insp. Barlow
	Tom Burke	Fletcher Dennis
	Antonia Campbell-Hughes	Monica Beardsley
	Babou Ceesay	Second Cabby
	Dominic Coleman	Bobbles the Clown
	Richard Cotton	Roger Sleep
	Darrell D'Silva	James Mitchum
	Richard Dillane	Flash Avenger
	Mickey Fage	Taxi Controller
	Christopher Fairbank	Patsy Bleaker
	Pat Fish	False Awakenings - Guitarist
	Lillie Flynn	DJ Kate Moon
	Jack Gamble	Wittgenstein Terrace - Vince

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Director	Mitch Jenkins
Writer	Alan Moore
Producer	Deborah Aston, Thomas Brown, Mary Burke, Alex Dale, Michael Elliott, Paloma Fraile, Peter Hampden, Siobhan Hewlett, Norman Merry, Jim Mooney, Walli Ullah
Musician	Andrew Broder, Mara Carlyle, Adam kidd Drucker, Alan Moore
Photography	Simon Tindall

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My quick rating - 6.7/10. This one has a potential "Cult" status written all over it. Anytime I see Alan Moore for a writing credit, I know I am in for one heck of a ride. His creativity alone is always enough to keep you entertained, but when he has a story to go along with it, well, you end up with classics (Watchmen). Here we have a supernatural crime noir flick that pushes the limits of reality back and forth. The dream sequences vs the nightmares are so well done, visually. Anytime I have attempted to write up a summary of Moore's work, I end up fumbling along since it is always so complicated and confusing. This is no accident either; he makes sure you are left wondering when the curtain falls, so to speak. Each character is unique and very well cast, even if they were all unknown to me. Tom Burke, who is our head detective here, is searching for an artifact he was hired to retrieve. But the last known person wearing it was killed, and he must track down what happened to it after that. This takes him deep into strange gangsters' coves with voodoo priestesses for leaders, along with visits to places that have long since been burnt to the ground, among all kinds of other strange occurrences. Moore even decides to drop in and uses his charm to fix himself into your nightmares with a deceptively evil performance. If this review leads you anywhere, just understand it is great to see creativity like this getting a shot since there are not a lot of flix this original floating around. If you dig the film noir along with a bit of supernatural lunacy, this one is right up your alley. Not only am I keeping it, but I know I will get much more out of it during a rewatch or three.

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