There’s a discussion to be had about how the age of streaming has either destroyed the concept of a made-for-television movie or revived it. Either way, The Initiation of Sarah shows its age as a nearly forty-five-year-old broadcast for television while being exactly the sort of film you could stumble […]
Tom Holland
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 41 – Spider-Man: Far From Home SPOILER-CAST
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 33 – Spider-Man And His Amazingly Weird Villains
Spider-Man: Far From Home is due out in cinemas very soon, and audiences will finally get to see Jake Gyllenhaal’s Mysterio in all his goldfish bowl glory, but that got Andrew, Mick and Rob thinking about the web-slinger’s vast cavalcade of criminals. So this week we’re ditching the Electros, Scorpions […]
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 Minisode: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017
Fright Night (1985) Effortlessly cool 1980s comedy-horror classic (Review)
Horror directors in the 1970s enjoyed expressing themselves through the language of exploitation, fast forward to the 1990s and beyond and a sea change was made towards a more cynical, cheap, production line designed to make as big a profit as possible. The 1980s where an anomaly, unlikely to ever […]
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” […]