This week our Film of the Week is Mel Brooks’s comedy classic “Young Frankenstein”, which leads Aidan and Graham into a dilemma – is it too obvious to recommend people watch James Whale’s “Frankenstein” alongside it? While we ponder that, there’s also a three-film set of Ray Harryhausen movies (20 […]
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Cinema Eclectica 129 – Underworld Duck and a Lizard Sandwich
Inspired by the late Harry Dean Stanton, whether it’s fearlessly wading into the debates over controversial new releases or creating singularly unappetising food metaphors, we don’t give a duck. In Off the Shelf, Rob and Graham review a double-bill of Italian horror from Arrow with Mario Bava’s “Kill Baby, Kill” […]
Cinema Eclectica 128 – TAG! Stephen King’s It!
This week Buñuel fans Aidan and Graham get drunk on the ‘re-release’ of “Belle de Jour”, while Rob and Ryan are the designated drivers. A singular Film of the Week leads us to a diverse set of recommendations for things to watch, and there’s our usual Question of the Week […]
Cinema Eclectica 127 – We Don’t Talk About the Monkey Ghosts
We wait ages for Rob to return, and when he does there are the two of them! Not only that, it’s a dramatic return as he struggles to get to grips with Seijun Suzuki’s unclassifiable “Zigeunerweisen” – and yes he did practice his pronunciation. Clever Boy. The rest of Team […]
Cinema Eclectica 126 – 999: Emergency Services Number of the Beast
It’s a photo negative show this week as we cover new releases instead of our usual Off the Shelf, and have a retro title as our Film of the Week. Adding to the sense of a world turned upside-down, one of the films manages to freak-out our resident horrorphile. What […]
Cinema Eclectica 125 – Pinocchio Must Seek Therapy
It’s a battle of the bands in Off the Shelf this week, with “The Slayer” going up against “Clash”. Will the former reign in blood, or will Mohammad Diab’s tale of young Egyptians fighting the law and the law winning do an, er … … does anyone else know any […]
Cinema Eclectica 124 – Valerian’s Geordie Space Market
We get a guest expert in on this show, which is fortunate as one of the team reveals he’s never seen a film before. Despite this handicap we press on with our review schedule with Graham unearthing the forgotten British TV movie “Miss Morison’s Ghosts”, Mick enjoying the drokk out […]
Cinema Eclectica 123 – Even David Cronenberg Has His Limits
Above all else, Cinema Eclectica wants to heal your soul. Do you have traumatic memories of Watership Down? Ryan’s review of BFI Flipside’s “The Orchard End Murder” might be able to help. Is your home life confusing? It can’t be as confusing as Vittorio De Sica’s “Marriage, Italian Style”, reviewed […]
Cinema Eclectica 122 – Cinema du Eric Cartman
You know there’s a new Tom Hardy film out when we bring out our silly voices to celebrate. That would be “Dunkirk” – our Film of the Week – and may we suggest some other movies to go with it? We may. After the recommendations, there’s Off the Shelf, with […]
Cinema Eclectica 121 – Beverley Hills Wicker Man
How scared are you of the internet? Not as scared as you will be after Off the Shelf takes a look at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s technophobic J-horror classic “Pulse”. Elsewhere, Ryan continues his quest for a good ghost story with “The Entity”, and Graham reviews four movies in one with Cult […]