Fans of podcasts where two people can’t agree on a single film, your ship has come in, because this week Graham and Tim are reviewing Olivier Assayas’s divisive Netflix original Wasp Network! Which reviewer compared it to “a Communist version of The A-Team”? And, more importantly, did they mean it […]
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La Strada – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 259
Does anyone want a podcast about famous directors’ Instagram feeds? While we workshop that, there’s a lot to get through this week, not least a review of Federico Fellini’s landmark film La Strada. Where does it end up in our Fellini power rankings? After a Question of the Week about […]
Beta Ray Bill For Beginners – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 12
Sometimes you just have to go back to basics in comics, and like the characters out of an old-school fantasy novel, the brotherhood between Marvel’s Thor and a horse-faced alien cyborg is something that has become legend in comics. But like every good bromance, this one started with a bit […]
1917 – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 258
It’s been a while since we did a B-sides show – those intermittent collections of new cinema releases that we didn’t cover at the time of release. And that’s largely because, er, there aren’t any cinemas open – but that doesn’t stop Sarah, Rob and Graham from having some films […]
After Midnight – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 257
IRL festivals might be off this summer, but there’s still We Are One – a ten-day YouTube banquet of the best of the recent festival circuit. Before we get to that, Rob’s got a review of After Midnight, a new streaming release from Arrow Films. We don’t want to jinx […]
Drifting Dragons // Spider-Man // Guardians Of The Galaxy // Silver Surfer // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 11
The 4-Panel gang return with another heaping helping of comics and manga goodness, and this week there’s plenty to talk about. First up are Marvel’s newest super team and their first few outings in Strikeforce: Trust Me, Jeff Lemire’s new world-crossing barbarian in the first volume of Berserker Unbound, and […]
Battlefield Earth – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 256
This week’s Cinema Eclectica is devoted entirely to Badaptations – those times when, in between the page and the screen, something vital goes missing. Graham’s choice is 1995’s The Scarlet Letter, in which one of the most introverted and spiritual of 19th-century novels is turned into a Demi Moore bonkbuster. […]
She’s All About The Joust – Literary Loitering 121
Weird things happen when you’re locked up, and as usual it’s up to Literary Loitering to … poke gentle fun with a big stick … at the books and arts world. So what did our stay-at-home cultural anarchists discover before being bamboozled by a barrage of obsolete words? Well, aside […]
Stray Dog – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 255
We didn’t plan this as a special, but two of our three films for review this week feature Barry Foster from the original series of Van Der Valk. See if you can guess which one doesn’t as we kick off with Akira Kurosawa’s 1949 Japanese film noir Stray Dog, then […]
Bong Joon-Ho Special – Cinema Eclectica 254
Final boss of the Oscars and forever king of our hearts Bong Joon-ho gets an Eclectica special to celebrate the news that Snowpiercer is finally, finally getting a physical media release in the UK from Lionsgate. Originally shot in… what, about 1872? Shortly before the invention of cinema? It’s held […]