Tense. Disturbing. Fraught with menace. But enough about the reaction to Graham’s Frozen joke, this week we review the Safdie brothers’ latest New York white-knuckler Uncut Gems. It’s got Adam Sandler as you’ve never seen him before, Idina Menzel as you’ve never seen her before and Julia Fox, who you’ve […]
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Jennifer Hudson’s Floating Face – Eclectica 238
Cinema Eclectica is back and refreshed for 2020, and we have such sights to show you. That Hellraiser quite isn’t accidental by the way, because one of “sights” is the movie adaptation of a certain feline-based musical. Before that though, there are two major new releases to attend to. One […]
4-Panel’s Christmas Annual 2019
Here we are again with our final offering of 2019 – our Christmas Annual! Andrew, Mick and Rob strengthen their resolve with a bit more Christmas cheer before diving back into the murky depths of the big pile of comics and manga for their favourite discoveries of the year. From […]
Best Of 2019 (5-1) – Eclectica Christmas Minisode 3
Our final mini episode of 2019 is actually longer than many of our normal-length efforts, and we make no apology for that because it’s time for our top 5 films of 2019! Will any of our selections match up? Who will have had time to sit through all of The […]
December 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 60
It’s December, and what better way to celebrate Christmas and the New Year than with a big pile of comics and manga … so that’s exactly what we did! For this, our penultimate episode of 2019 we’ve got a veritable Turducken of graphic literature goodness and badness including Blossom 666 […]
Support Your Local Mobster – Eclectica Christmas Minisode 2
After the giddy daftness of last week’s alternative Christmas movies, Rob, Aidan, Sarah and Graham convene for the extremely serious business of their Best of the Year lists. Counting down from 10 to 6, we find out the answer to so many burning questions. Who will have the most depressing […]
Sexy Christmas Preambles And Footnotes – Literary Loitering 115
Not only is it the most wonderful time of the year, it’s also our last episode of 2019, and what better way to sign off for the year than our annual look at the Literary Review’s Bad Sex In Fiction Awards! As it traditional for us now, we hand over […]
The Judgment of Mr Anderson – Eclectica Christmas Minisode 1
The first of our seasonal mini-episodes has Aidan, Rob and Graham raising a glass of various nog-based beverages to unconventional Christmas movies. Rob has the recently rediscovered French cult classic “Dial Code: Santa Claus” (or whichever one of its many titles it’s going by), Graham has the pleasingly sacrilegious “The […]
November 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 59
As we head into the end of 2019 we’ve got just enough time to cram in a few more comics, so this week it’s time for another of our semi-regular dives into the big pile of comics. So what did we fish up this week? There’s the first volume of […]
Attack Of The Phallocratic Entryists – Literary Loitering 114
Donald Trump Jr. has apparently been upholding the family’s traditional methods of inflating book sales figures, which we really should have expected so I’m not sure why anyone’s surprised anymore. On the other hand, somebody hiding LGBTQ, gun control, “women’s fiction”, and anti-trump books in a public library in Idaho […]