This week starts with a bit of déjà vu as we discover everyone’s favourite sequels in Question of the Week. After that we dive straight in and say hello to some sailors in “Letter to Brezhnev”, then Aidan reviews the Dickens out of Walter Hill’s “Hard Times” (apparently that’s a […]
Cinema Eclectica
Cinema Eclectica 110 – Herbie’s Bananarama
This week we’re a duo for only the second time ever, but one of us struggles to keep his composure in the latest and sleaziest Question Of The Week. Moving on as seamlessly as possible we look at a trio of movies including the dreamlike horror classic “Phantasm”, the holier-than-thou […]
Cinema Eclectica 109 – Moon-Faced Super Mario
We span the wheel of directors and out popped William Friedkin, so this week we take a look at the ever-growing cult of 1977’s “Sorcerer” (a.k.a. Wages of Fear). We also discuss one location movies, Fellini’s final hurrah in “The Voice of the Moon”, Elio Petri’s never-ending quest for the […]
Cinema Eclectica 108 – Extreme Wolf Dentistry with the Shaw Brothers
This week’s show is all about action! After an explosive Question of the Week we move onto Off the Shelf featuring the anarcho-feminist bomb-heaving action of Second Run’s new release “My Twentieth Century”, the retro rubbery gore of Canadian indie horror “The Void”, and, erm, a very different kind of […]
Cinema Eclectica 107 – The Luis Buñuel Drinking Game
The wanderer returns. After a month away Rob is back, and what a week to return! We kick things off with another trip to Korea with Kim Jee Woon’s spy thriller “Age of Shadows”, and then everything gets delightfully weird as it seems to be genital week for off the […]
Cinema Eclectica 106 – Oh, Oh, Dean Israelite
We’re back with a new platform and some very old features including the long-awaited return of Director’s Lottery (this times it’s Otto Preminger’s “Anatomy of a Murder”), and a new set of B-sides. Join us as we dive into Viola Davis’ Oscar-winning performance in “Fences”, Janelle Monáe’s utterly winning character […]
Cinema Eclectica 105 – Northumberland Noir (Hunting the Wild Tosserlad)
Not so much a podcast, more an epic odyssey as we head into the wilderness. After traversing the outer reaches of Producer Rob’s comic collection we hail our slime-mould overlords in the bizarre documentary “The Creeping Garden”, before embarking on a Norwegian safari with “Troll Hunter” – with time left […]
Cinema Eclectica 104 – Four Minutes in Bollywood
This week we treat ourselves to a relaxing spa weekend and say hello to Jason Isaacs with our film of the week. Before that, we check out psychedelic Czech vampire coming-of-age drama (it’s a genre), “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders”, and roll a six-sided dice for retro horror “Beyond […]
Cinema Eclectica 103 – Footloose by the Sea
There are an awful lot of people plying their trade in film land – some of whom are real, and not made up at all. This week we negotiate that minefield with film-noir classic “Mildred Pierce”, Cuban new-wavisms with “Memories of Underdevelopment”, and history picked from the life of Thomas […]
Cinema Eclectica 102 – Batsploitation
This week we’ve shrunk to a threesome and decide to offset the cream of the BAFTAs crop with some 1970s exploitation. First it’s the turn of Roger Corman and Vincent Price with “Tower of London” before we transition into a hundred super-colourful costume changes with Blaxploitation’s one and only “Willie […]