This week we’re joined by a special guest who educates us on the correct pronunciation of Hunter x Hunter. We also discuss the latest anime bans in China, Hasbro’s new “Head of Storytelling”, the reboot of Ben 10, the “backlash” over the new voice cast for The Powerpuff Girls, Dreamworks’ remarkable […]
Month: June 2015
4-Panel 18 – Luke Cage + Cat Ears ≠ Black Panther
We kick off this week’s show with the announcment of an all-new, all-different Marvel comic universe – which means were tangenting hard right from the beginning. We also discuss the “death” of the Constantine TV series, the “Hellboy” dinosaur, and the release of the OnePunch Man manga in the U.S. […]
Story of my Death (2013) A Dracula film for the more adventurous moviegoer (Review)
Jurassic World – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 24
Princess Kaguya – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 23
Man Up – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 22
Death by Grapes Things get a bit dark this week and now we can’t watch The Family-Ness for a while. On this week’s episode we take a look at Peter Bogdanovich’s Paper Moon, eccentric French auteur-extraordinaire Jean Rollin’s Lost in New York, the underappreciated Miyizaki gem Porco Rosso and, well… […]
Walerian Borowczyk Short Films and Animation (1959 to 1984)(Review)
The story of Michael Brooke’s [EDIT – actually Daniel Bird; see comments section] restoration of the films of Walerian Borowczyk deserves to be film-restorer’s folklore by now, a Cinderella story about one of cinema’s least Disney-esque animators. After facing plenty of indifference, Brooke turned to Kickstarter to try and raise […]
4-Panel 17 – Wonderlands 2015 Special Part 2
On this week’s episode we’re continuing our coverage of Wonderlands 2015 – Sunderland’s comic-book and graphic literature convention. As a special treat all of the comics featured this week (Plagued, Laptop Guy, The Blind, Maximum Alan, The Heather Ale, and Porcelain: A Gothic Fairytale), were provided by artists and pulishers […]