Not only does British folk horror need to come back, so too does our wi-fi! We have some issues throughout the show and for that we apologise in advance. Still, we motor on like the podcast titans that we are. We kick off the show with Masaki Kobayashi (the winner […]
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Cinema Eclectica 139 – Bright Eyes, Burning like Dracula
Cinema Eclectica is a movie podcast that cares, and this week we care a lot about Christopher Lee’s eyes in “Scars of Dracula”. Do they sting? They look really sore. That’s half of Off the Shelf done, but smashing into it like a telekinetically thrown knife is Rob’s review of […]
Cinema Eclectica 138 – Brought To You By Vague Existential Despair
It might be Justice League week at the cinemas, but Off the Shelf sees us assembling an international super-team of maverick auteurs. While Rob heads to Japan for Sion Sono’s kill-crazy “Tag”, Graham pops over to Hungary for Ildiko Enyedi’s surreal love story “On Body and Soul” and Aidan takes […]
Cinema Eclectica 137 – Tinky-Winky, LaLa, Dipsy & Edgar Allan Po
An uncharacteristic happiness and contentment falls on the show this week as Aidan, Graham and Rob discuss “Paddington 2”. Before that though, there are all the regular features – including Off the Shelf where Graham tackles Second Run’s release of Otakar Vávra’s historical nightmare “Witchhammer”, Aidan flees the nudging piano […]
Cinema Eclectica 136 – Seriously, Don’t Go into the Basement
We’ve gathered the suspects (Ryan, Rob and Graham), in one room and it’s now time to review “Murder on the Orient Express”. Before that though, Ryan tackles the tangled web of intrigue that is Warner Home Archive’s triple-format release of “New Jack City”, Rob watches in horror as Arrow Academy […]
Cinema Eclectica 135 – A Tale of Two Hammers
A chill fog rises in the air, an unearthly howl is heard across the moors, and Rob’s wi-fi packs up. Yes, it’s our Halloween special, and after a brief stopover in Hammer territory with Indicator’s reissue of “Maniac” (also known as “The Maniac”), we remember some of the horror icons […]
Cinema Eclectica 134 – Life … Don’t Talk to Me About Life
A spectre is haunting the land – the spectre of major releases from earlier in the year that we didn’t cover at the time. On our latest B-sides episode Graham gives the royal treatment to Stephen Frears’s “Victoria and Abdul”, Aidan is suitably haunted by David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story” […]
Cinema Eclectica 133 – The Unveiling of Little Frank
It’s carnage this week. Complete lawless misrule. What could have caused this? Was it the orange skies? The smooth jazz playing in the background? The release of a new Michael Fassbender film? It’s the latter, obviously, as Film of the Week “The Snowman” gets Ryan, Graham, Aidan, and new recruit […]
Cinema Eclectica 132 – Summoning Keanu For The Ultimate Man Date
In summary then, this week’s show is a land of contrasts. Off the Shelf feature Ryan facing the horror of mental illness in the Ben Wheatley-produced “The Ghoul”, Rob surviving the horror of ‘80s hair (and, to a lesser extent, nuclear war), in Arrow’s reissue of “Miracle Mile”, and Graham […]
Cinema Eclectica 131 – Some of My Best Friends are Baguettes!
This week we ask the question, how French can a cannibal movie be? Fortunately we have Rob’s big bag of national stereotypes to help us work this out, and it’s equally fortuitous that Graham has Indicator’s reissue of Arthur Penn’s star-studded crime thriller “The Chase”, while Aidan has Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s […]