Nobody has quite the same grasp on the enfant terrible director as Japan: the 1960s and 70s had Seijun Suzuki, Kinji Fukusaku, Terou Ishii and countless others; the modern-day has Takashi Miike and the ever-unpredictable Sion Sono, to name just two. Japanese cinema has never had to try hard to […]
Month: May 2015
Unfriended – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 18
There’s Only One Swinton On this week’s episode there are some dark, disturbing revelations. In our Off the Shelf section, we take a look at Sidney Lumet’s 1970’s classic Network, a boxset featuring the work of Chris Marker, the rather alarming soap-opera-like Be My Baby, and the silent movie icon […]
S10E17 – Happy Star Wars Day!
It’s May the 4th, and to celebrate the international geek-fest that is Star Wars Day we decided to take a casual stroll around the world of space operas – with lots of attention paid to one franchise in particular. Reviews – “The Weaponographist” (PC), “Gradius V” (PSN) and “Guns, Gore & Cannoli” […]
4-Panel 13 – Free Comic Book Day 2016
Free Comic Book Day rolls around again and as always there were quite a few interesting titles, introductions and side-stories to be had including Divergence, The Savage Dragon, Mercury Heat, Sonic the Hedgehog/Megaman, 2000 A.D., Secret Wars (which contained the Avengers/Attack on Titan crossover short), and Kodansha’s sample collection (containing […]
Keyframe Episode 12 – Pigs Are Faster Than You Think
Avengers: Age of Ultron – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 17
S10E16 – To The Death
4-Panel 12 – Ducks, Squirrels and Galactus. Oh My!
We’ve got a pile of comics this week – and quite a few titles that we’ve not read before (but now adore), including Lumberjanes, Ghosted, Giant Days, Judge Dredd Classics, Deathstroke, Edward Scissorhands, Howard the Duck, Lazarus, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and Manifest Destiny. Special thanks go to ComicDomain.co.uk Tune […]
The Salvation – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 16
Loomets Geneiswys We have all the pronunciations this week – including the good, the bad and the remarkably ugly. It’s your fault, you terrible movie-naming people. In our “Off the Shelf” section, we take a look at The Offence from Masters of Cinema, Some Beasts – the highly anticipated critical […]