We return once more to the animated world with trailers for Klaus and Kuma Miko: Girl Meets Bear before heading off into the wild blue yonder aboard Mecha Gromit while OreImo’s Kousaka Kirino tries to encourage young people to vote. True story. Our featured anime are OreImo (Ore no Imouto […]
Month: March 2016
4-Panel Episode 45 – The Faeces Sandwich Of Comics
Ken Russell: The Great Passions (1965-7)(Review)
How many BBC arts documentaries of the 1960s do you think begin with the exhumation of a mummified corpse, lit by flickering torches and soundtracked by booming horror-movie music? Not many, I’ll wager, but then there weren’t many directors walking the corridors of Broadcasting House who resembled Ken Russell. For […]
Cinema Eclectica 58 – Pre-School Audition
World Wide Weeab Pilot
Literary Loitering 37 – The Erms and Whys of Entropy Nerds
Sheba, Baby (1975) Blaxploitation, PG style (Review)
On the face of it, we shouldn’t need to watch blaxploitation any more. As soon as Will Smith and Denzel Washington became viable Hollywood action movie stars, its USP of showing black actors in empowered, heroic roles was co-opted. This, though, ignores the pleasures of blaxploitation as a movie-making style; […]
Shooting Stars (1928) Unapologetically British Silent Film Glamour (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 57 – Post-Oscar S&M Tea Party
This week we examine the Oscars for 2016 and their lame-duck cousins the Razzies. In a classy example of counterprogramming, Off The Shelf unfolds with Graham tackling the amazingly-titled absurd Czech new-wave comedy “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea”, Rob waxes lyrical about Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi Tehran” […]
Cinema Eclectica 57 – Post-Oscar S&M Tea Party
This week we examine the Oscars for 2016 and their lame-duck cousins the Razzies. In a classy example of counterprogramming, Off The Shelf unfolds with Graham tackling the amazingly-titled absurd Czech new-wave comedy “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea”, Rob waxes lyrical about Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi Tehran” […]