This week we invent an entirely new sub-genre of superhero movie. In a typically eccentric Off the Shelf we look at Housebound – the 2014 festival hit from Australia, Korean student drama Bleak Night, the long lost BFI Flipside title Requiem for a Village, and
On this week’s show we have a good old butcher’s at 2015’s blockbuster season. Off the Shelf features a typically diverse bunch of movies, with Rob covering Rabies – Israel’s first ever horror film, Ryan going bck to high school with Salute! Sun Yat-Sen and
This week we discover some peculiar childhood memories. Our Off the Shelf section has an eccentric bunch with Rob covering the Taiwanese film Exit and pronouncing everything wrong, and Ryan enjoying rage-house icon Bronson. Both movies were book-ended by a Graham two-fer – a collection
This week Producer Rob introduced us to the early 1980’s swashbuckling comedy Zorro: The Gay Blade starring George Hamilton. Honestly, it’s real – look it up. That opened the traps up for Off the Shelf in which we feature the legendary documentary Man With A
Ahoy-hoy World, we return. Off the Shelf saw us with the ménage à trois that is Adam Sandler’s Pixels, Sion Sono’s manic epic Love Exposure, and the catastrophic ‘making of’ Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau. Our Film of
This week there’s nothing to see here. Nothing at all. In Off the Shelf we have a trifecta of messed up movies and work our way down the ladder of sleaze from the relativity presentable Aguirre, Wrath of God to Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales – with
We destroy more childhood favourites this week – you have been warned. Our packed “Off the Shelf” section features the 2009 cult horror The Loved Ones, the Iranian new-wave classic The Apple, and Anand Patwardhan’s gripping nuclear documentary War & Peace. After that we
This week we triumphantly pronounced all the words – and in the correct order too! Instead of getting lost in all of the news from San Diego’s Comic Con we decided to keep the show relatively normal … well, as normal as it gets
Half way into 2015 and Cinema Eclectica sees the return of a guest we haven’t seen since episode 1. In this week’s “Off the Shelf” we take a look United Passions – the controversial FIFA movie with the questionable existence, Magic Mike XXL, Satoshi
This week we’re neck-deep in a crazy heatwave – which makes for a much looser show because of all the melting brains. Our featured movies in our “Off The Shelf” section are Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns, Frank Borzage’s lost film-noir Moonrise and Eli Roth’s latest