Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023): Safe but Satisfying Nostalgia (Review)

Alex Paine 29/06/2023

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has all the necessary ingredients for a sequel to completely suck. It’s years after the franchise was in the limelight, sparking talks of the film being merely a cashgrab or nostalgia project for those involved. It’s repeating the formulas and tropes that fans […]

Ridley Scott (Blade Runner & Gladiator)

Archaeon 23/12/2022

Merry Christmas Friends! And just to show how well I planned in advance, here’s what is totally a Christmas special. Yeah, absolutely a Christmas episode. Yeah, it’s clearly not. It is part one of a discussion of Ridley Scott, the second will drop in the new year. For now, though, […]

Force 10 From Navarone (1978) Star-Studded and Surprisingly Good Sequel to WWII Classic (Review)

Ewan Gleadow 30/06/2020

Was there anyone out there clamouring for a sequel to the David Niven and Gregory Peck led The Guns of Navarone? I ask this mainly because its sequel, Force 10 From Navarone, released almost twenty years after the original, and featured no cast members of the original. The Guns of Navarone hits the spot when it […]

Das Foot Asylum – Cinema Eclectica 230

Archaeon 13/11/2019

“Luce” is our academically-gifted film of the week, and true to form we’ve all been doing our homework. For Graham that means, er, watching the Film of the Week – but don’t assume Mick and Tim have been sat on their hands. A frankly gargantuan Off the Shelf sees Mick […]

Cinema Eclectica 207 – Women Be Scaring

Archaeon 29/05/2019

After looking at the winners and one big loser from Cannes 2019, it’s time for Eclectica to return to its B-sides series where we look back at recent films that we weren’t able to cover at the time of their release, and this week are “Fighting With My Family”, “Birds […]

Cinema Eclectica 132 – Summoning Keanu For The Ultimate Man Date

Archaeon 22/10/2017

In summary then, this week’s show is a land of contrasts. Off the Shelf feature Ryan facing the horror of mental illness in the Ben Wheatley-produced “The Ghoul”, Rob surviving the horror of ‘80s hair (and, to a lesser extent, nuclear war), in Arrow’s reissue of “Miracle Mile”, and Graham […]

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) A visionary homage to a Sci-Fi Classic

Luke Shepherd 19/10/2017

When sci-fi fans learned that Blade Runner was to receive the dreaded reboot treatment, the reaction was all too familiar: a cash-in rehashing of an untouchable classic best left to be ignored. With the recent cascade of failed reboots, the hope that Blade Runner could be given a fair hearing […]

Classic Film Kid: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Alex Paine 01/09/2017

Hello, yet again, from the Classic Film Kid! After my step into TV last time, we’re getting into some classic films again, and today it’s none other than Harrison Ford’s action lead, Indiana Jones, in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In this, professor and archaeologist Indiana Jones is hired by […]

Cinema Eclectica 115 – Pirates of the Carry On

Archaeon 10/06/2017

Witness us! This week our Director’s Lottery came up with Peter Weir’s 1985 thriller “Witness”, with Harrison Ford and a surprise Viggo. There’s also a question about actors who have one good performance in them – and if your first thought was Adam Sandler then you should maybe give Aidan’s […]

Classic Film Kid: Star Wars

Alex Paine 07/06/2017

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, spoilers lay ahead… Hello guys, and welcome again to my Classic Film Kid blog! Today we are summing the word classic up to a T by reviewing one of the most iconic and influential films in cinema history, Star Wars […]

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Execution in Autumn (1972) Melodrama, Sadness and the Taiwanese Experience (Blu-Ray Review)

All About Eve (1950) fasten your seatbelts, it’s a double-disc Criterion (Review)

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