What happens when a genre declines in popularity? Does it disappear, or do fragments of it appear in other story types? Come to think of it, are there any genres that are generally considered useless or defunct? These are the questions that keep us awake at night (well, aside from […]
Month: July 2015
Keyframe 19 – Some Summer Impressions
Ant-Man – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 29
We destroy more childhood favourites this week – you have been warned. Our packed “Off the Shelf” section features the 2009 cult horror The Loved Ones, the Iranian new-wave classic The Apple, and Anand Patwardhan’s gripping nuclear documentary War & Peace. After that, we calm down and return to Earth […]
Immoral Tales (1973) Art, History and Sex Cinema in the hands of Borowczyk (Review)
Since one of the stated aims of Arrow’s Walerian Borowczyk collection has been to rescue his reputation from an association with pornography, it seems strange to say that including two of the late-period erotic films is a masterstroke. And yet it is. Viewed in context, Immoral Tales and its supporting […]
The Voices (2014) Ryan Reynolds wacky Comedy-Horror prelude to Deadpool (Review)
4-Panel 21 – Would Anyone Like Seconds?
This week we discuss the news, trailers and announcments from San Diego Comic-Con – which leads to a heated debate about Joker psychology before we take a look at the all-new, all-different titles coming from Marvel after Secret Wars. Our featured comics and manga this week are giant-sized Little Marvel: […]
Bit Panel 20 – I’ll Take You All On!
War and Peace (2002) monumental War Documentary more committed to peace than bloodshed (Review)
War When Mark Cousins started his monthly column in Sight & Sound magazine in 2012, a large chunk of his inaugural piece was spent discussing the work of Anand Patwardhan. Patwardhan is one of those documentarians who the international film festival cognoscenti know and love, yet is almost completely unheard-of […]
