OK, place your bets now: how long before someone does a Brian Blessed impersonation? This week’s Cinema Eclectica is headlined by Mike Hodges outrageous Flash Gordon – and if you think the director of Get Carter was an odd choice, wait until you hear who nearly directed it. In Off […]
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Shadowman – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 265
Put on your best old lady disguise and alert your ninja secretaries! Our director’s lottery came out with Georges Franju recently, which means this week Tim and Graham are watching his deliriously silly pulp oddity Nuits Rouges, aka Shadowman. Is this final film from the Eyes Without a Face director […]
Nietzsche’s Happy Days Fandom – Literary Loitering 124
Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff. Oh Twitter. How you amuse us. After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an […]
The Old Guard – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 264
A tale of two action movies on this week’s Eclectica. On the one hand, you have the huge Netflix-funded star vehicle The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor. On the other, you have the smaller, foreign-language judo film Throw Down, directed by Johnnie To and released on Blu-Ray […]
Loki // Granblue Fantasy // Jughead Versus Vamperonica // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 14
4-Panel returns from another stint panning for comics and manga gold in the riverbed of graphic literature. Tortured analogies aside, this week is our usual mixed bag of the good, the meh, and the downright bizarre – and not in a nice way. Up for scrutiny this week are GWAR: […]
The People Under the Stairs – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 263
A double-bill of genre-bending horror movies this week, which makes it all the stranger that we struggled to think of recommendations to watch with our Film of the Week. Sometimes we are very dumb. Said Film of the Week is the latest product of our Directors Lottery system, Wes Craven’s […]
Tasty Steampunk Beef – Literary Loitering 123
It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is … penguins visiting and art gallery. Looks like we have a winner! After that it’s more usual fare (the word usual is used very loosely), children’s books by children, children’s books […]
The Assistant – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 262
Cinema Eclectica is back for another round-up of the latest streaming titles, this week taking in America and Romania via Japan. First up, Rob lauds Julia Garner’s performance in #MeToo drama The Assistant, then Graham is off to Tokyo with frequent flier Werner Herzog for his haunting new film Family […]
Iron Man’s Weird Abilities – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 13
Strange powers aren’t a new thing to superhero comics (just check out our episode about Superman’s collection of odd, and for the most part thankfully forgotten abilities), and this week it’s the turn of Tony Stark’s Iron Man to go under our microscope. Get ready for a cavalcade of oddities […]
The Phantom Carriage – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 261
This week’s podcast is a slow swan-dive from arthouse bliss into a swamp of sleaze, starting – after a Question of the Week that baits the Oscars more than Stephen Daldry – with Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage. An inspiration to Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, it still holds up […]