Teenagers have been one of cinema’s great projects: from the 1960s to the 90s, entire waves and genres rose and fell in the attempt to get their bums on seats. From the teen sex comedy, beach and party movies, and the pink eiga, sadly, they are now an audience that […]
Arrow Video
Threshold (2020) The modern hustle of regional horror (Review)
The last Arrow Video film I covered was Clapboard Jungle, an incredible resource for the would-be filmmaker. One piece of advice reiterated by many interviewees is to get out into the world and make something. The regularly regurgitated advice is to use any immediately available camera – even a smartphone […]
Clapboard Jungle (2020) Part Vlog Part Vital Tool for the aspiring filmmaker (Review)
New Arrow Video documentary, Clapboard Jungle, is a curious creation. It’s a documentary about filmmaking that covers multiple strands almost simultaneously. It’s a personal diary of director Justin McConnell as he grapples with the existential angst of being an up and coming writer-director who is seeing their peers, whether talented […]
Death Has Blue Eyes (1975) Skittish Greek Misadventures with the Lads (Review)
Greece isn’t exactly at the top of world cinema exporters – however, two names that have any cultural cache are Yorgos Lanthimos and the late Theo Angelopoulos. Even with that being the case, the country still managed to produce one of the nastier examples of 1970s horror, Nico Mastorakis’s Island […]
The Bloodhound (2020) Somewhere between David Lynch and Yorgos Lanthimos (Review)
Classic Film Kid: The Invisible Man Appears (1949)(Review)
The Phantom Carriage – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 261
Wasp Network – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 260
Fans of podcasts where two people can’t agree on a single film, your ship has come in, because this week Graham and Tim are reviewing Olivier Assayas’s divisive Netflix original Wasp Network! Which reviewer compared it to “a Communist version of The A-Team”? And, more importantly, did they mean it […]
After Midnight – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 257
Why Don’t You Just Die! – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 252
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! […]