Westerns are a genre that has so far eluded me. I have virtually no experience with the genre as a whole, apart from the odd clip from Clint Eastwood films. On TV, however, I have a little more knowledge. Two examples spring to mind, the Red Dwarf episode Gunmen of the […]
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Cinema Eclectica 201 – The Cult of Kim Newman’s Left Hand
While getting the maximum possible out of the name ‘Hermann Kermit Warm’, Tim and Graham head out West for a review of Jacques Audiard’s English-language debut “The Sisters Brothers”, and revive an old Eclectica staple with Question of the Week. While they were watching Joaquin Phoenix’s ongoing battles with enunciation, […]
Cinema Eclectica 73 – Well-made but Nauseating…
“Well-made but nauseating”. Is that about Shakespeare adaptations or us? We kick off with a long-awaited minority report for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Cemetery of Splendor” before diving into business as usual – or near enough. Off The Shelf features Koreeda Hirokazu’s “Our Little Sister”, Richard Loncraine’s “Richard III” and the 1987 […]