Pop Screen kicks off a special month dedicated to the films of David Bowie with perhaps his last great role, as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s equally enigmatic thriller. A story of magic, revenge and dead wives (look, we said it was a Christopher Nolan film), it […]
Scarlett Johansson
Cinema Eclectica 216 – Beheaded by Duck
Last week’s director’s lottery came out with Jonathan Glazer, so this week Rob, Aidan and Graham sit down for the British maverick’s sci-fi psych-out “Under the Skin”. Scarlett Johansson, white transit van, Glasgow – you know the drill. A special Off the Shelf, meanwhile, sees them taking selections from Indicator’s […]
Keyframe 115 – Curing The Dubstep Flu
Cinema Eclectica 157 – The Ingmar Bergman Cinematic Universe
Cinema Eclectica 154 – All Dogs Gere to Heaven
Why Modern Hollywood Hates Plot Twists
[WARNING: this article contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, all three Iron Man films, most of the Christopher Nolan Batman films, and, y’know, everything else.] Sitting down to watch Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden recently, I experienced a pleasure I’d almost forgotten about; […]
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” […]
