We all know how Robert Altman spent the 1970s, right? M*A*S*H, Nashville, The Long Goodbye, McCabe and Mrs Miller. Freewheeling satirical ensemble pieces, playing fast and loose with genre, inventing the adjective Altmanesque for their naturalistic sprawl. Except there’s another face of Altman’s ’70s work. He was so prolific that […]
Month: September 2015
S11E12 – My Home Is My Castle
What makes a house, castle, secret lair, bunker or broom closet a home? Why do superheroes and supervillains need a place to hang their capes/cowls/masks/etc? Join us as we explore the places where where characters both super and otherwise can relax, watch TV, read a book, or generally lounge around […]
Slum-Polis (2015) Intriguing Japanese Apocalypse Drama from Raindance (Review)
Keyframe 25 – We’ve Run Out Of Bleach
On this episode we take a look at Stan Lee’s Mighty 7, the Japanese-French-Korean CG cartoon Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, Leanne Pooley’s animated documentary about the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of 1915, and all sorts of other stuff. We also discuss the anime that have caught our attention […]
Keyframe 25 – We've Run Out Of Bleach
On this episode we take a look at Stan Lee’s Mighty 7, the Japanese-French-Korean CG cartoon Miraculous Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, Leanne Pooley’s animated documentary about the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of 1915, and all sorts of other stuff. We also discuss the anime that have caught our attention […]
Hard to be a God (2015) A difficult, dirty, violent epic of a swansong (Review)
The world feels like a brutal, unsentimental place after watching Aleksei German’s final film, not least when I had the following realisation: Hard to be a God’s ceaseless, grotesque phantasmagoria of cruelty makes German the only director who could possibly adapt Cormac McCarthy’s classic novel Blood Meridian. But now he’s […]
4-Panel 27 – Beat Thanos With Zappy Dubstep
4-Panel returns to deliver your weekly dose of comics, manga and graphic novels. This week’s news includes supervillains quoting politicians, more cast members for the Doctor Strange movie, NHK’s behind-the-scenes manga documentary series featuring Naoki Uresawa, and all sorts of other stuff. Our featured comics and manga are Robocop Versus […]
Cinema Eclectica 37 – The Made-Up Words Club
This week don’t need a dictionary… because we ARE the dictionary. Off the Shelf is top-filled with the usual oddities – Samuel Fuller’s noir Pick-Up on South Street, Woody Allen’s maligned Curse of the Jade Scorpion, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt to salvage his career (a.k.a. The Visit), and Second […]
Mona Lisa (1986) Heartbreaking Tragedy, Chemistry and the British Gangster Film (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 36 – The Mixing Desk is POWER!
This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children’s Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool – both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel […]