So Nicholas Cage is finally going to get to play the role of Superman. The only problem is that it will be in the Teen Titans Go! Movie. In other news, we have the first teaser for the anime adaptation of ‘s high school sumo manga Hinomaru Zumou, Kenichi Sonoda’s […]
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4-Panel 133 – The Unfathomable Anatomy of 1990s Comics
You bring the ears, we’ll bring the comics. It’s been a busy week in comic-book land, so join Rob and Andrew as they find out more about Marvel and SB Projects’ acquisition of half of Aspen Comics, discuss a plethore of DC news (including the end of Dark Nights: Metal, […]
Cinema Eclectica 153 – Oprah: Floating Benevolent Space God
This week’s show tackles faith, the nature of reality and how to pronounce director’s names – all areas that we’re pretty confident we’ll have sorted out by the time we finish our review of Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time” where we find out if the “Selma” director finds a […]
Keyframe 110 – Hooray For Jim!
Animation is serious business so this week we scrutinise the trailers for Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and BallMastrz: 9009 through the lenses of our stop-motion microscopes. After that we dissect Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards for 2017 as we really want to know why …? Not why anything. Just […]
Literary Loitering 82 – Peter Rabbit’s Soul-Sucking Eldritch Abomination
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix Potter probably wouldn’t have been […]
4-Panel 132 – Everything is Game of Thrones
We may be a day late but that doesn’t mean we can’t tackle the comic book world with our usual class. That’s a perfect description of this show, isn’t it? In the news this week we discover that Ava DuVernay is being lined-up to direct DC’s New Gods movie, after […]
Cinema Eclectica 152 – Release the Bad Doggos
We like to cover the full spectrum of cinema on this show, and any episode which begins with a Palme d’Or winner and ends with an infamously campy teen incest melodrama certainly qualifies. The former is our Film of the Week – Ruben Östlund’s “The Square”, and the latter – […]
Keyframe 109 – A Game of Segues
Confusion reigns this week as the alcohol flows (for one of us anyway), wigs are glued and Reboot gets a reboot. In other news, Sega and Paramount pictures pick up the gauntlet thrown by Nintendo and announce a Sonic the Hedgehog feature film, and Kumo Kagyu’s dark fantasy light novel […]
4-Panel 131 – Venom Gives You Extreme Protection
Andrew, Mick and Rob embark on another jaunt through the oceans realms of comic-books and manga where they trawl for tasty nuggets of graphic literature goodness. Amongst the items and oddments caught in their net this week are Marvel’s plans for X23, the announcement of a new Plastic-Man mini-series by […]
Cinema Eclectica 151 – Needs More Benedict Wong
Rob, Mick and Graham travel into unknown territory this week for Alex Garland’s Netflix psych-out “Annihilation” on the day of its release. If you’ve ever wanted to listen as people grapple with a trippy, existential, hard science fiction film a couple of hours after watching it then you’ve come to […]