With Question of the Week, Trailer Watch and all the regulars – this week’s show marks the end of an era. In Off The Shelf we look at Alex Ross Perry’s acclaimed “Queen of Earth”, obscure oddity “Taking Tiger Mountain” and Turkish horror “Baskin” before capping the show off with […]
Month: August 2016
Men & Chicken (2016) Alienating and repugnant but ever so funny with it (Review)
Scandinavian comedies are perhaps some of the strangest films you’ll ever see, but also magnetic in their charm and quick wit. Whether that would be Stellan Skarsgård as a snow-plough driver going on a killing spree, or a 100-year-old explosive expert escaping from a retirement home for his own adventures […]
4-Panel 55 – Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Part 1)
Stalker (1979) Tarkovsky’s Infamous & Unfettered Artistic Vision (Review)
Solaris got the remake, Andrei Rublev got the Vatican’s thumbs-up, and Mirror famously caused Lars von Trier to declare Andrei Tarkovsky was God. But the biggest cultural footprint of all the Russian director’s seven feature films undoubtedly belongs to Stalker. His adaptation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s novel Roadside Picnic has inspired a […]
S13E02 – Glam Max Vs. Brum Corleone
This week we launch a brand new structure (you’ll hear more about that on the show). It’s time to get into another episode of Defend your Choice, and this time it’s fictional vehicles. Things get surreal, childhood favourites are destroyed and confusion reigns over one of the more unexpected choices. […]
Sweet Bean (2015) Naomi Kawase as bolstered by infusions of documentary realism (Review)
The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971) Part Giallo Part Murder Mystery and one for the collectors (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 77 – Whats in the BAG?!
This week we play host to some of British cinema’s finest eccentrics with Julien Temple’s “Absolute Beginners” and Ken Russell’s “Crimes of Passion”. The counter programming continues with the Taviani Brothers “Kaos” and the latest entry Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” franchise with “Lockdown”. Our feature presentation is the latest addition […]
The Shop on the High Street (1965) a perfume to mask the smell of death (Review)
Viewers for whom the former Czechoslovakia is, in the notorious words of Neville Chamberlain, “a faraway country of which we know little”, might be puzzled by one repeated image in Ján Kádar and Elmar Klos’s 1965 Oscar-winner The Shop on the High Street. It’s a huge pyramid erected by Nazi collaborators, […]
The In-Laws (1979) a pure-bred comedy unicorn (Review)
For all the wonders of the 1970s New Hollywood, it’s not rich in classic comedies. Newly reissued by the Criterion Collection, 1979’s The In-Laws remedies that, while also standing up well against the comedy subgenres and styles of the decades before and after. Its premise – a straight-laced dentist is dragged into […]