It’s the most historic movie event of the year – that’s right, we’ve got Mark back on the podcast. He and Graham talk about the small matter of, oh I don’t know, the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Ever. It’s Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite and our […]
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Cinema Eclectica 157 – The Ingmar Bergman Cinematic Universe
Cinema Eclectica 120 – Spiderman & The Spooky, Spooky House
In a change from the previously scheduled programming, we move from the landscape of a dusty post-apocalyptic horror to the skies above New York with “Spiderman: Homecoming”. Away from all of the web-swinging and wall-crawling though, Rob dives into the magical world of Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime feature-film “The Boy […]
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 […]
Cinema Eclectica 66 – The Biscuits for Movies Initiative
Everything can be justified if you’re rewarded with biscuits. Off The Shelf features the new (and classic), Takashi Miike film “Yakuza Apocalypse”, Akira Kurosawa’s Japanese Shakesperean epic “Ran”, and “Innocence of Memories” – an essay film from Grant Gee. We also have a minority report on “Captain America: Civil War” […]