HOSTILE DIMENSIONS After Death of a Vlogger, Graham Hughes takes another stab at making a distinctly modern found-footage film, and it begins with what you might call a Blair Witch speedrun. A pair of documentarians exploring a derelict house find something uncanny and disappear without a trace. It’s then revealed […]
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Battlefield Earth – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 256
This week’s Cinema Eclectica is devoted entirely to Badaptations – those times when, in between the page and the screen, something vital goes missing. Graham’s choice is 1995’s The Scarlet Letter, in which one of the most introverted and spiritual of 19th-century novels is turned into a Demi Moore bonkbuster. […]
Anna and the Apocalypse: equal parts toe-tapping and head-smashing (Review)
For many unsuspecting viewers, the first shock in Anna and the Apocalypse will come before a single zombie has turned up: five minutes in, the characters start singing. Despite horror arguably having a stronger relationship with original music than any other genre – go ahead, imagine Halloween or Suspiria without […]
S15E18 – FunkyWolverine.com
Join us for another ride on our strange rodeo of oddities from science and technology news around the world. This time Andrew joins Producer (and kind-of-newsreader), Rob to discuss Stan Lee’s DNA signatures, “seeing” magnetic fields (but only if you’re a bird), toddlers with better smartphones than you, the Pokemon […]
Literary Loitering 82 – Peter Rabbit’s Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been […]