Limousines! Kylie! CGI rubber dragon sex! It can only be Leos Carax’s “Holy Motors” getting the Eclectica treatment from Aidan, Sarah and Graham. Deep thoughts will be had about religion, cinema and literature. Less-deep thoughts will be had about Denis Lavant’s old chap. Elsewhere, there are new releases to be […]
Month: September 2019
Shock Corridor: Sam Fuller at his goofiest and most biting (Review)
Superman’s Bizarre Powers – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 50
Sometimes you don’t have to look far to see just how weird comics can get, and in this episode we’re looking no further than Superman, who probably has the strangest collection of powers and abilities of any character in comics. Now relatively speaking, flight, super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, X-ray vision, […]
Willy Wonka’s Golden Toilet – Literary Loitering 109
It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather odd transforming wooden statue of Donald Trump to go along with the bizarre, prehistoric-style statue of his wife Melania. In other news, a sculpture called America by Maurizio Cattelan has been installed […]
Cinema Eclectica 222 – The Method Toolbox of Dustin Hoffman
Freaks (2019): a sci-fantasy allegory of two different wholes (Review)
The Future Of The Justice League – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 49
It’s our 200th episode, but rather than celebrating this milestone of podcasting, Andrew and Rob decided to try and figure out where the DC could take their premier superhero team now that Bat-fleck and Super-Cavill have hung up their capes. Get ready for a barrage of lesser-known DC characters as […]
High Noon: A Story That Still Happens Everywhere, Every Day (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 221 – Load Bearing Clown
Is it Pensive Staring Chapter Two or Creepy Spooky Fun Time With Bill Skarsgård, Chapter Two? Whatever we think of our feature film, this week, Andrew, Prob and Aidan talk the blockbuster horror release of the summer in “It: Chapter Two”: The Revengening. After that, Aidan talks about BFI’s release […]
A Disappointing Lack Of Antlers – Literary Loitering 108
After roaming the cultural wastelands for a while, we’re back with another sack full of scavenged items to poke fun at, and this week it’s a very mixed bag indeed. So what’s on the cards? Well, there’s the rise of lesbian time-travelling books, Swiss critic Martin Ebel’s corvine-based fantasies, Desert […]