We’re doing it backwards this week (pardon the phrasing). Off The Shelf goes to the cinema as we look at 4 new releases: “Kubo and the Two Strings”, “Hell or High Water”, “Anthropoid” and “Don’t Breathe”. Our Feature Presentation is the latest outing for the Director’s Lottery with Jean Cocteau’s […]
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Cinema Eclectica 83 – Studying for my B.A. in Lettuce
We’re back to service as normal – except for one small omissions (oops). On this week’s show we look at the first part of Hiroshi Inagaki’s classic trilogy “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto”, Alex Cox’s “Sid & Nancy”, a Werner Rainer Fassbinder double bill of “Fox & His Friends” and “Chinese […]
Cinema Eclectica 82 – Things are going in a Grave Robbing Direction
Apologies for the delay! We’ve had technical difficulties and gremlins to contend with. On this extended edition we see the return of the B-sides with “Tickled”, “The Little Prince”, “Star Trek Beyond”, “Evolution”, “Childhood of a Leader” and “Everyone Wants Some” – titles that could have been our feature presentation […]
Cinema Eclectica 81 – It’s a Bus of Love, All Right?
Sam Wood won the Director’s Lottery so we decided to join the Marx Brothers for “A Night at the Opera”. Off The Shelf features the surreal Scandinavian black comedy “Men & Chicken”, lilting Japanese drama “Sweet Bean”, Fritz Lang’s wartime noir “Hangmen Also Die”, and the newest addition to the […]
Cinema Eclectica 81 – It's a Bus of Love, All Right?
Sam Wood won the Director’s Lottery so we decided to join the Marx Brothers for “A Night at the Opera”. Off The Shelf features the surreal Scandinavian black comedy “Men & Chicken”, lilting Japanese drama “Sweet Bean”, Fritz Lang’s wartime noir “Hangmen Also Die”, and the newest addition to the […]
Cinema Eclectica 80 – … and featuring – Seagulls!
We’re still in a transitionary phase so a few niggling issues remain that we’re ironing out week by week. On this episode we have the good, the very bad and the weird with the obscure giallo “The Bloodstained Butterfly”, Kubrick’s classic “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying […]
Cinema Eclectica 79 – Crude Doodles on the Virtual Whiteboard
First, we’d like to apologise as the audio quality isn’t up to our usual high standards. This is our first week using a new set-up and it’s a constant work in progress, so please bear with us. Aside from launching a new feature it’s business as usual, only with a […]
Cinema Eclectica 78 – The Mean Streets of Camelot
With Question of the Week, Trailer Watch and all the regulars – this week’s show marks the end of an era. In Off The Shelf we look at Alex Ross Perry’s acclaimed “Queen of Earth”, obscure oddity “Taking Tiger Mountain” and Turkish horror “Baskin” before capping the show off with […]
Cinema Eclectica 77 – Whats in the BAG?!
This week we play host to some of British cinema’s finest eccentrics with Julien Temple’s “Absolute Beginners” and Ken Russell’s “Crimes of Passion”. The counter programming continues with the Taviani Brothers “Kaos” and the latest entry Jackie Chan’s “Police Story” franchise with “Lockdown”. Our feature presentation is the latest addition […]
Cinema Eclectica 76 – Neon Demon Vs. Dayglo Cenobite
We return from the badlands of the director’s lottery to sink our teeth into something gaudy. Kicking things off is a minority report on the new “Ghostbusters” (spoiler – it’s actually good), before heading into Off The Shelf with “Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film”, Ron Howard’s “Cocoon” and “Around […]