This week there’s nothing to see here. Nothing at all. In Off the Shelf we have a trifecta of messed up movies and work our way down the ladder of sleaze from the relativity presentable Aguirre, Wrath of God to Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales – with a stop-off at Snowtown along […]
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S11E04 – Dead Genres
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 […]
Keyframe 19 – Some Summer Impressions
So we’re a few weeks into the Summer anime season and we thought it was the perfect time to discuss a few of the new shows that we’ve decided to watch. We’ve also got some news and announcements from San Diego Comic-Con, and our featured anime is Kill la Kill […]
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 […]
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!
Playing against other people has become an integral part of many video games, but what makes the multiplayer aspect enjoyable, why are so many developers determined to include it in some form, and is it really necessary to have it in order to have fun? This week’s featured game is […]
S11E03 – Creating Worlds
Every story has to happen somewhere, but that place doesn’t really have any fixed dimensions so it can often be quite a small space – life an office or a car. Welcome to the narrative universe where we find out more about worldbuilding. Reviews – Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4/PC) This […]
Dear White People – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 28
This week we triumphantly pronounced all the words – and in the correct order too! Instead of getting lost in all of the news from San Diego’s Comic-Con, we decided to keep the show relatively normal … well, as normal as it gets around here anyway. We have a fairly […]
Terminator Genisys – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 27
Halfway into 2015 and Cinema Eclectica sees the return of a guest we haven’t seen since episode 1. In this week’s “Off the Shelf” we take a look United Passions – the controversial FIFA movie with the questionable existence, Magic Mike XXL, Satoshi Kon’s anime thriller Perfect Blue, and the […]
S11E02 – Teaching and Learning
On this week’s episode we try to find out more about how things are taught and learned, and who actually bothers following tutorials anyway? Reviews – Disgaea Triple Play (3, 4 & D2 – PS3), LEGO: Jurassic World (PS4), Ronin (PC). This week’s news had to stand in the corner […]