Hello everyone, it is the Classic Film Kid here, and a few months ago Netflix UK released some classic Studio Ghibli films onto their streaming platform for me to binge during this time. Isn’t that nice of them? I already owned Spirited Away on Blu-Ray anyway, but I decided to […]
Year: 2020
Three Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations Starring Bela Lugosi: Classic Horror Nirvana (Review)
Shadowman – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 265
Put on your best old lady disguise and alert your ninja secretaries! Our director’s lottery came out with Georges Franju recently, which means this week Tim and Graham are watching his deliriously silly pulp oddity Nuits Rouges, aka Shadowman. Is this final film from the Eyes Without a Face director […]
Nietzsche’s Happy Days Fandom – Literary Loitering 124
Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff. Oh Twitter. How you amuse us. After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an […]
Mr. Vampire (1985) the audacity of hop (Review)
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) Satire and Chaos in Feudal Japan (Review)
For many, the samurai movie is the domain of Akira Kurosawa, with both the legendary director and chanbara (sword fighting movies) tied at the hip. Naturally, that isn’t true. That said, perception is reality by anything beyond Kurosawa being difficult to find; it’s getting better, but still – it’s not […]
The Old Guard – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 264
A tale of two action movies on this week’s Eclectica. On the one hand, you have the huge Netflix-funded star vehicle The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor. On the other, you have the smaller, foreign-language judo film Throw Down, directed by Johnnie To and released on Blu-Ray […]