“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 […]
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PX07 – E3 Special 2016
4-Panel 53 – Androgynous Quasar
The big news this week is that Fox have pulled out of Comic-Con over fears of piracy. Meanwhile Marvel have announced that everyone’s “favourite” superhero will be returning and we take a look at the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. Our featured comics and manga are Maga-Tsuki volume 1, C3-PO, […]
PX06 – Burning Sherlock Holmes's Car
PX06 – Burning Sherlock Holmes’s Car
S12E18 – Proletariat Eyebrow
Cinema Eclectica 71 – Werner Herzog: King of the Internet
This week it’s official, Werner Herzog is the king of the internet. In Off The Shelf we look at Michael Mann’s “Thief”, 1976 horror “The Premonition”, Peter Watkins’ docu-drama “Edvard Munch” and Cristi Puiu’s debut “Stuff and Dough”. Our feature film is Shane Black’s comedy thriller “The Nice Guys”. “You […]
Keyframe 52 – Mecha Van Dyke
4-Panel 52 – Gyrating Dr. Strange
So the Doctor Strange trailer came out. Cue the internet furore. In other news, Ben Affleck will direct and star in his own Batman film, Brian Michael Bendis announces a new Jessica Jones series and Japanese readers pick Shonen Jump’s “most erotic manga”. Our featured comics and manga are Tsubasa […]