Given the current *waves hand around to indicate everything*, streaming has quickly become an even more central part of the cinema release calendar. With that in mind, Cinema Eclectica presents its first streaming special, with interweb-based reviews from Rob, Mick and – until his Virgin Media signal collapses – Graham! […]
Month: April 2020
John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Way outside the West (Review)
The Strange One: Homoeroticism, Hazing and the Hays Code (Review)
Rio Grande: John Ford’s Comfortable West (Review)
Rounding off any trilogy is no easy feat for any director, producer or star. Although John Ford’s inadvertent and seemingly accidental triumph through his Cavalry trilogy isn’t connected through the storylines, the characters and expected interactions of the genre are built up in equally vivid and cold ways in previous […]
Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain: Surrender to the Phantasmagorical Wonder (Review)
Seven Chances – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 251
We don’t review many romantic comedies on this show, but when we do… Buster Keaton’s typically eccentric take on the genre is our film of the week, with Eureka’s new Blu-Ray of Seven Chances under Graham, Sarah and Tim’s respective microscopes. In more characteristic features, Graham has The Wind from […]
Battling Butler: A Different Kind of Buster Keaton Movie (Review)
Dreamland (2019) Canadians can be rather quirky people (Review)
Rosemary’s Baby – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 250
This week, Cinema Eclectica pitches its revivalist tent in the wild world of religious cinema, with Graham looking at the three films born-again exploitation movie director Ron Ormond made with fire-and-brimstone preacher Estus W Pirkle. On the other end of every possible scale, the Devil made Rob review Rosemary’s Baby, […]