S03E09 – Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive & The Neon Demon)

Archaeon 08/12/2023

No Christmas Special yet, that is next time out, but we do have an almighty fan favourite – or he was for a few years anyway. Join Rob, Vincent and a debuting Simon as we talk about the Danish agent provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn. Specifically, we talk about his 2011 […]

Lost in America (1985): some kind of comic masterpiece (Review)

Graham Williamson 22/03/2021

Introducing himself to various people on a road trip across America, David Howard explains his project as follows: “We’ve dropped out of society”. Yet the first stop he and his wife Linda make on their journey is Las Vegas, a town whose inhabitants live, as the Joker so sagely informs […]

Fright Fest & Pimped – Frightfest 2018

Rob Simpson 31/08/2018

For horror fans up and down the UK, the highlight of the calendar is Frightfest and since its first-ever event back in 2000, it has gone down as one of our best-known film festivals, with a reputation that extends beyond our tiny little island and deep into the American heartland. […]

The Vikings (1958) The closest the Viking genre has to a John Ford movie (Review)

Graham Williamson 19/10/2017

It’s strange, on the face of it, that there aren’t more movies about Vikings. Television has exploited this gap in the market with shows like – well, like Vikings, obviously – but there’s still a puzzling absence of Norsemen on the big screen. Puzzling because this should be obviously cinematic […]

Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor’s Leaning Tower of Rocks

Archaeon 03/02/2017

2017 is here and we are too. All hail Skeletor! As with the start of any new year we’re going on a diet and cutting down on all that excess fat, which means one simple thing – welcome to the new look Eclectica! Join us for Criterion’s “Black Orpheus”, “Valhalla […]

Cinema Eclectica 98 – Skeletor's Leaning Tower of Rocks

Archaeon 03/02/2017

2017 is here and we are too. All hail Skeletor! As with the start of any new year we’re going on a diet and cutting down on all that excess fat, which means one simple thing – welcome to the new look Eclectica! Join us for Criterion’s “Black Orpheus”, “Valhalla […]

Cinema Eclectica 76 – Neon Demon Vs. Dayglo Cenobite

Archaeon 14/08/2016

We return from the badlands of the director’s lottery to sink our teeth into something gaudy. Kicking things off is a minority report on the new “Ghostbusters” (spoiler – it’s actually good), before heading into Off The Shelf with “Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film”, Ron Howard’s “Cocoon” and “Around […]

The Wolfpack – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 33

Archaeon 29/08/2015

This week we discover some peculiar childhood memories. Our Off the Shelf section has an eccentric bunch with Rob covering the Taiwanese film Exit and pronouncing everything wrong, and Ryan enjoying rage-house icon Bronson. Both movies were book-ended by a Graham two-fer – a collection of shorts by Richard Massingham […]

Film Noir Collection Vol. 3: Calcutta, Ride the Pink Horse, Outside the Law, The Female Animal (1946-1958) (Blu-Ray Review)

Duel to the Death (1983) One of the unsung action movies of the 1980s (Review)

8 Found Dead (2022) Crime Thriller Playing ‘Guess the Sub-Genre’ (Review)

Blind Woman’s Curse (1970): Teruo Ishii’s Weird Jigsaw of Japanese Genre Cinema (Review)

This Is GWAR (2022) A Fitting Tribute (Blu-Ray Review)

Before Tonight is Over (1965) “Someone Will Die” (Review)

The Scary of Sixty-First (2021) Horror Intention Vs Horror Execution (Blu-Ray Review)

The Strangers (2008) One performance shy of the Modern Answer to Home Invasion Movies (Review)

Project A (1983) & Project A II (1987) Jackie Chan, the Cinephile (Review)

The Night of the Hunter (1955): The First Shall Be Last and the Last Shall Be First (Review)

Girl With Green Eyes (1964) One for fans of the pleasingly old-fashioned Brooklyn (Review)

The Lighthouse (2019): a 4K illumination for a modern cult classic (Review)

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