The votes have been counted (which, being honest, wasn’t too difficult since we’re all doing our own lists), and it’s time for Cinema Eclectica’s Top Ten of 2018! On this minisode, the first of two parts, we discover the hidden treasures of YouTube Red, celebrate a very British Japanese cartoon, […]
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Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part I: Home Video, Discoveries and Worst of 2018
While Eclectica is on its holidays, enjoy the first of three weekly minisodes taking stock of 2018. First up, Rob, Graham and Aidan discuss their favourite home video releases and unexpected discoveries of the year, and for that extra Christmas cheer … the films that have angered them most this […]
Cinema Eclectica 188 – Christmas Special 2018
The fire is lit, the mulled wine has been dished out and the word of the week is ‘picaresque’. It’s an Eclectica Christmas party alright, with Aidan, Sarah, Rob and Graham falling hard for Boots Riley’s debut “Sorry to Bother You”. Granted that’s not very festive, but after a potted […]
Cinema Eclectica 187 – An Elvira Approved Podcast
We don’t often get a British film that we can all sink our teeth into here on Cinema Eclectica, so when one finally does appear we tend to subject it to a bit of … erm … mauling. Oh dear. The target of all this enthusiastic … nuzzling let’s say […]
Cinema Eclectica 186 – Justified Wrongness On The Internet
We’ve got everything from Jules Verne to Ava DuVernay this week, and Tim, Rob and Graham kick off an unusually packed show with a look at the Selma director’s early film “Middle of Nowhere”. After that it’s Off the Shelf, which is a veritable treasure trove of wildly diverse films, […]
Cinema Eclectica 185 – The Crumbs of Grimsby
It was a dark and stormy night, which explains why we all stayed indoors to watch “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” rather than going out to see the latest addition to the Potter-verse or whatever it’s called. Mark’s handling that one, so Rob and Graham are forced to check out […]
Cinema Eclectica 184 – Examining Neil Young’s Nostrils
A New Duo Emerges! Join Aidan and Sarah as they discuss the latest film from the critically adored Steve McQueen, and what they find is that “Widows” is strangest of all beasts – an accessible film (well, accessible for Steve McQueen anyway as that guy has some bleak chops). About […]
Cinema Eclectica 183 – Dummy Massacre!
It’s a podcast that has been forty years in the making – which makes it even stranger that we ended up recording it on Bonfire Night! This week the Eclectica gang get together for a chat about the latet Orson Welles’s extremely late-period film “The Other Side of the Wind”, […]
Cinema Eclectica 182 – Halloween 2018 Special: Party With The Supercrack
The dead have risen and they’re … well, you’ll have to wait until the end of the show to find out. Leading us up to that point are Sarah, Aidan and Graham with our Film of the Week – Sam Raimi’s horror classic “The Evil Dead”, which is followed by […]
Cinema Eclectica 181 – Drug Smuggling: Tetris Edition
This week it’s “Halloween” (the movie, not the day), and Graham, Aidan and slasher superfan Ryan are assessing the shape of things with David Gordon Green’s new reboot … sequel(?) … thing? Mark is here as well to explain what the new Halloween’s historic opening weekend means for horror movie […]