Cinema Eclectica 40 – Tsukamoto, The Messed Up Sweetheart

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Gremlin shenanigans be damned! No-one can slow the good ship Eclectica.

It’s the big 4-0, and we have an Amicus/Hammer double with “The Skull” and “The Man Who Could Cheat Death”, the latest installment in our ongoing effort to cover Shinya Tsukamoto’s filmography with “Snake of June”, and the 1960’s African social drama “Black Girl”. After all of that we head to Mexico in our Film of the Week, “Sicario”.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to plan the most inappropriate Tsukamoto cosplay. The mind boggles.

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