This week we discover that The Witch is actually the most serious episode of Scooby Doo there ever was. In “Off The Shelf” we look at Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier in “Sheba, Baby”, Swedish surrealism in “Songs from the Second Floor” and new horror icon “Goodnight Mommy”. Our Film Of […]
Cinema Eclectica
Cinema Eclectica 57 – Post-Oscar S&M Tea Party
This week we examine the Oscars for 2016 and their lame-duck cousins the Razzies. In a classy example of counterprogramming, Off The Shelf unfolds with Graham tackling the amazingly-titled absurd Czech new-wave comedy “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea”, Rob waxes lyrical about Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi Tehran” […]
Cinema Eclectica 57 – Post-Oscar S&M Tea Party
This week we examine the Oscars for 2016 and their lame-duck cousins the Razzies. In a classy example of counterprogramming, Off The Shelf unfolds with Graham tackling the amazingly-titled absurd Czech new-wave comedy “Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea”, Rob waxes lyrical about Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi Tehran” […]
Cinema Eclectica 56 – Dai Impossible: Welsh Superspy
This week we’re down a Ryan but gain a surprising amount of Comic trivia along the way. In Off The Shelf we continue our look at the filmography of Vera Chytilova with Second Run’s release of “Something Different”. Rob looks at the baffling Marxist crow of a film that is […]
Cinema Eclectica 55 – Wrong Kind Of Calendar Girls
This week we have no news to contend with so instead we grapple with the BAFTAs. In Off The Shelf we look at the space documentary “For All Mankind”, British horror romance “Nina Forever”, and Samuel Fuller’s war movie “Fixed Bayonets!” before closing with the legendary ’90s action picture – […]
Cinema Eclectica 54 – Mummies Aren't Daddies
This week we learn about the birds and bees of monster movies. In Off The Shelf we look at Third Window’s “Uzumasa Limelight”, classic Ealing comedy “The Lavender Hill Mob” and Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”. We also have a ringer in the form of our producer, and our Film Of […]
Cinema Eclectica 54 – Mummies Aren’t Daddies
This week we learn about the birds and bees of monster movies. In Off The Shelf we look at Third Window’s “Uzumasa Limelight”, classic Ealing comedy “The Lavender Hill Mob” and Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”. We also have a ringer in the form of our producer, and our Film Of […]
Cinema Eclectica 53 – The Dark Christ Rises!
This week we create our very own religion … honest. In Off the Shelf we look at acclaimed sci-fi indie darling “Coherence”, the Korean Naval War in “The Admiral: Roaring Currents”, and the early Paweł Pawlikowski documentary “Serbian Epics” before climaxing on sexy times with “Wild Orchid”. Our Film of […]
Cinema Eclectica 52 – Lucio Fulci: The Weird Jesus of Gore
This week we’re replaced by glamorous actors having a bath. In Off Tthe Shelf we discuss “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”, the short documentary “Interview with a Cannibal”, Ernst Lubitsch’s “Design for Living”, and the titular Fulci’s “City of the Living Dead”. Our Film of the Week is “The Big […]
Cinema Eclectica 51 – Great White Terry Crews of the Antarctic
We peruse the oscar nominations this week before poking the geriatric bear with a stick. Off the Shelf includes “Escape from ‘Liberty’ Cinema” and “Hiroshima Mon Amour” before a tonal 180 in which this show truly earns its name with “Cobain: Montage of Heck” and “Deathgasm” – we are […]