While French philosopher Vincent Cespedes claims that his statement that Tintin is a girl was nothing more than fake news, we also discover that Roald Dahl’s character Charlie Bucket was originally going to be black, and that Winnie the Pooh in A. A. Milne’s books was modelled on another teddy […]
Movies
Keyframe 92 – Netflix’s Anime Big Boy Pants
S15E01 – Glam Rock and New Beginnings
Cinema Eclectica 131 – Some of My Best Friends are Baguettes!
This week we ask the question, how French can a cannibal movie be? Fortunately we have Rob’s big bag of national stereotypes to help us work this out, and it’s equally fortuitous that Graham has Indicator’s reissue of Arthur Penn’s star-studded crime thriller “The Chase”, while Aidan has Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s […]
Classic Film Kid: My Life as a Courgette (Contains Spoilers)
Keyframe 90 – The Worst Kept Secret in Anime
Cinema Eclectica 130 – The Man With the Three-Bleep Name
This week our Film of the Week is Mel Brooks’s comedy classic “Young Frankenstein”, which leads Aidan and Graham into a dilemma – is it too obvious to recommend people watch James Whale’s “Frankenstein” alongside it? While we ponder that, there’s also a three-film set of Ray Harryhausen movies (20 […]