The silent era of comedy is one of the few genres that holds up rather well on the whole. Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Buster Keaton are the big names everyone associates this period with, and rightly so. The trio provided us with some of the most memorable and engaging […]
Year: 2020
Stagecoach – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 272
Meat Safes And The Dictionary Sausage – Literary Loitering 126
I’m thinking of ending things – Cinema Eclectica 271
Settle in for your next long, long car drive with Cinema Eclectica! This week, Rob and Graham are reviewing Charlie Kaufman’s Netflix original, I’m Thinking of Ending Things. Opening up questions like “What is the nature of time?”, “Are any of us truly unique?” and “What’s with the pig anyway?”, […]
The Painted Bird (2019): Arthouse or Endurance Test? (Review)
Václav Marhoul’s WWII Eastern European-set film opens with a boy’s pet ferret being set alight and burned alive by a group of bullies. The sight of the ferret, disorientated, panicked and squealing in agony as it attempts the impossible and outrun the flames that so quickly engulf its body, ought […]
Judge Dredd For Beginners – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 16
Koko-di Koko-Da – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 270
Wind up the music box and make sure you’re camping on a reputable campsite, Cinema Eclectica is reviewing Johannes Nyholm’s time-loop horror Koko-Di Koko-Da this week. A festival favourite that’s proved more divisive among – is it insulting to say normal people? Probably – normal people, what do Graham and […]
Melancholic (2018): Darkly Hilarious Romantic Dramedy with added Yakuza violence (Review)
Before launching into Third Window Films latest release – Seiji Tanaka’s Melancholic – allow me the indulgence of explaining why I adore East Asian cinema. Japanese, Chinese and Korean cinema use their time as a canvas to evolve, expand or become something else entirely. Outside of the few high profile […]
Real (2019): breezy but uneven cycle through working-class romance (Review)
There’s something about bicycles in film, isn’t there? Ever since Vittoria de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, the two-wheeled transport has been used to denote a kind of child’s-eye realism by Ridley Scott (Boy and Bicycle), the Dardenne brothers (The Kid With a Bike) and Haifaa al-Mansour (Wadjda). Even in the more […]