It’s an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing thrillers, the Oxford Electronic Dictionary adds more strange words and phrases to the English language, and beer is made from the yeast found on Roald Dahl’s special writing chair … Our featured books […]
Podcasts
Cinema Eclectica 90 – A Big Bag of Halloween Camp
Keyframe 61 – Alternate World Long-Legged Mac Daddy
This week we find out what happens when you don’t ban certain plot devices from a short story competition, and a “shrine” to anime and manga is being rebuilt. Our featured anime are Durarara!!x2 Shou, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works part 2 and Anomalisa (from Curzon Artificial Eye). Tune in […]
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis' Hypnotoad
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis’ Hypnotoad
4-Panel 61 – Beware of Tactical Chaps
Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway
Cinema Eclectica 88 – Anti-Social Surrealism
This week Rob gets traded for an older production version (for purely technical reasons of course). We look at Andrzej Zulawski’s baffling final film “Cosmos”, notorious video nasty “The Burning” and F.W. Murnau’s “The Grand Duke’s Finances”. Our Feature Presentation doubled up and mutated a second Werner Herzog-shaped head in […]