After a week’s break the ant-icipation is growing for Graham, Mick and Andrew as they tackle Marvel’s latest superhero offering – “Ant-Man and The Wasp”. Will they make a big deal out of it and add to the positive buzz, belittle it with feeble size and insect puns (like the […]
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Cinema Eclectica 169 – Jeff Goldblum’s Massive Tricycle
So there’s this hotel over in California where you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave – largely because you’re still on the member’s list. This week Aidan, Graham and Rob are booking into Drew Pearce’s “Hotel Artemis” – which is an uncommon original screenplay […]
Cinema Eclectica 168 – Grumpy Old Dictators
It’s a three-man show disguised as a two-man show this week as Rob and Graham invite Mark on for an exciting new feature where we take a different look at two of last week’s big releases – “The Incredibles 2” and “Skyscraper”. Before all of that though, there’s a hilariously […]
Cinema Eclectica 167 – Sexy Guernica
After some technical problems the Eclectica gang manage to find the right lever switch to send 5,000 volts through their microphones while they maniacally scream “It’s alive!” as they discuss “Mary Shelley”. With Elle Fanning bringing the Frankenstein author to life and Haifaa al-Mansour supplying her “Abby Normal” brainpower in […]
Cinema Eclectica 166 – You Have the Right to Remain Embalmed?
This week Graham embarks on a rogue operation to spy on “Sicario 2: Soldado”, a mission that has been necessitated by defence cuts and CDC alerts (basically some of us were too ill or too broke to see it). After this clandestine outing Rob and Tim interrogate Graham to find […]
Cinema Eclectica 165 – Killed By W.A.S.P.
For a Fuller podcast experience, join Ryan, Graham, and Aidan for Cinema Eclectica’s Samuel Fuller special, where the second half of the show is a deep dive into Indicator’s new box set devoted to the great San Franciscan’s work. Ryan immediately clicks (buddy-cop style), with “The Crimson Kimono”, Aidan takes […]
Cinema Eclectica 164 – De-Gayed in the Final Draft
This week Ryan, Graham and Aidan must face a terrible horror that they’ve ignored for too long, and is now ready to harvest their souls … But before we talk about James Corden there’s Ari Aster’s hit debut “Hereditary” – which has been compared to The Exorcist, The Babadook and […]
Cinema Eclectica 163 – Chris Pratt’s D.I.Y. S.O.S.
You’ve seen dinosaurs in a theme park, but what happens if they get out? Well, then the film would just be called Jurassic. That quibble aside, J.A. Bayona’s “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” makes some efforts to shake up the franchise – but will it leave Ryan, Tim and Graham similarly […]
Cinema Eclectica 162 – The Revenant: The James Brown Cut
Silence! It’s a bad idea for podcasts, but as the BFI are reminding us with their re-release of G. W. Pabst’s pre-talkie classic “Pandora’s Box”, it’s a good idea for movies. So how will this icon of silent cinema (and the decades-old inspiration for the hairstyles of people going to […]
Cinema Eclectica 161 – Vera Drake in 4DX
In a week that includes a new Star Wars film then that’s what you have to do, which is why we can’t ignore the release of “Solo: A Star Wars Story”. Unfortunately Graham, Aidan and Sarah are all at very different levels of the Star Wars fandom, so what will […]