So DC may be jumping on the slightly violent TV bandwagon with a possible Deathstroke series and Wizardworld announce their first inductee into their comic-book Hall of Legends. To say we disagree with their choice is kind of an understatement. Our featured comics are Valerian: The Complete Collection volume 1, […]
Month: July 2017
Stormy Monday (1988) Mike Figgis’s Anti-American moody noir (Review)
Keyframe 80 – Groundhog Day Fanfiction
Things get a little ranty this week as we try to work out if long-running shounen are still relevant, or if the desire to produce the next One Piece/Dragon Ball/Bleach/Naruto is nothing more than a false hope. Our featured anime are Little Busters! Refrain, Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions […]
Cinema Eclectica Minisode: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017
PX20 – E3 2017 Special
Doberman Cop (1977) A peculiar Sonny Chiba character in an endlessly odd police thriller (Review)
Once upon a time, it was instantly apparent when a film was based on a comic or graphic novel as those films concerned themselves with the super-powered and the otherworldly, then around the mid-1990s there was a paradigm shift and the nature of these titles became indistinguishable from the more […]
Cinema Eclectica 118 – Beachy Beachy Fun Times With The Rock
Rob and Graham go head to head after accidentally super-gluing their foreheads together. It’s a two-man show this week that starts with an uncharacteristically adorable preview before normal service resumes in Off the Shelf with the Western “One Eyed Jack’s” from Arrow Academy, the Eastern “Harmonium” from Eureka/Masters of Cinema, […]
4-Panel 93 – The Teleporter Made Me Do It
S14E18 – Rise of the Cyber Goths
Literary Loitering 68 – Dude, Wherefore Art Mine Chariot?
We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history students, Shakesperian Ghostbusters, Pissing Pugs and “the ultimate therapeutic experience” (according to the guy who took the photos). Our featured book is Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G. S. Denning. […]