As my colleague Rob Simpson keeps having to point out, a film doesn’t need likeable characters to be good. It doesn’t even need smart characters. There’s a whole subgenre of noir fiction from Jim Thompson through to the Coen brothers which takes knuckle-dragging characters doing repellent things and alchemises them into […]
Month: January 2019
Keyframe 133 – 2018 (The Bad Side)
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part III: Best of the Year (5 to 1)
Classic Film Kid: Misery (1990)
4-Panel Christmas Annual 2018: Other Comic-y Stuff
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part II: Best of the Year (10 to 6)
The votes have been counted (which, being honest, wasn’t too difficult since we’re all doing our own lists), and it’s time for Cinema Eclectica’s Top Ten of 2018! On this minisode, the first of two parts, we discover the hidden treasures of YouTube Red, celebrate a very British Japanese cartoon, […]
Keyframe 132 – Beyblade: The Japanese Conkers
Live-action/animation crossovers have been a part of film for since the advent of The Enchanted Drawing back in 1900, and with Pokémon: Detective Pikachu due for release in 2019, Tucky, Andrew and Producer Rob discuss the new addition to the franchise – which leads to a discussion about the history […]