The Good, The Bad & the Geordie Film Club
Movies, Pizza, beers & banter
A monthly-ish jaunt into the worlds of film, food & beers. Buckle your seatbelts for some high octane movie chat, This is The Good, The Bad and The Geordie Film Club.
Viva Riva!
- Director: Djo Munga (as Djo Tunda Wa Munga)
- Writer: Djo Munga (screenplay)
- Stars: Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Diplome Amekindra
Viva Riva!
On this episode of The Good, The Bad and The Geordie Film Club, the guys watch and discuss Viva Riva! a Congolese crime thriller written and directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga. Also up for discussion is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid seen at Film4 summer screen at Somerset House in London and buddy movies.
Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell for a huge profit. Of course they're not the only ones who want the stuff. Cesar is a ruthless, sharply dressed foreigner thriving in Kinshasa's lawless streets. A female military officer joins the fray. Even the church will betray its tenets for a piece of the action. But Riva's main nemesis is Azor, a crime boss in the classic style: big, decadent and brutal. He's not a man to mess with, but his girlfriend, Nora, may just be the most seductive woman in all of DRC. Riva catches sight of her dancing at a nightclub and it's not long before Nora matches the fuel cache as a coveted object of his lust.
Mentioned on this episode
- If a cop stops us and starts stickin' his big snout in the car, the subterfuge won't last
- Film4 Summer Screen
- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
- The Sting
- 500 days of summer
- Before Sunset
- Before Sunrise
- The Bodyguard (1992)
- Butch & Sundance - Rain Drops Keep Falling on My Head
- Please proceed, Governor
- Simon Killer
- In The Year of The Pig
- 48 Hrs.
- Trading Places
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Beverly Hills Cop III
- Rocky III
- Rocky IV - Apollo's Entrance "Living in America"
- Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
- Rush Hour
- Demolition Man
- Romancing the stone
- You Call Him Dr. Jones, Doll!
- Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls