Gremlin shenanigans be damned! No-one can slow the good ship Eclectica. It’s the big 4-0, and we have an Amicus/Hammer double with “The Skull” and “The Man Who Could Cheat Death”, the latest installment in our ongoing effort to cover Shinya Tsukamoto’s filmography with “Snake of June”, and the 1960’s […]
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Cinema Eclectica 39 – Evil-Penis Gun-Spew Stonehead Time
This week we were besieged by an almighty armada of gremlins which forced us to re-record for the first time ever. By way of apology we’ve beefed things up to make a bumper edition of the show with TWO Films of the Week – Justin Kurzel’s “MacBeth” and Ridley Scott’s […]
Cinema Eclectica 38 – Sid James and a Japanese Ghost Walk Into a Bar
Its that time of the year again. Welcome to the 3rd meeting of the B-sides Club! On this week’s mammoth slate of movies, Off the Shelf includes the overlooked Robert Altman feature “3 Women”, Raymond Bernard’s staggeringly authentic adaptation of “Les Miserables”, and a genre two-fer – “Maggie” starring […]
Cinema Eclectica 37 – The Made-Up Words Club
This week don’t need a dictionary… because we ARE the dictionary. Off the Shelf is top-filled with the usual oddities – Samuel Fuller’s noir Pick-Up on South Street, Woody Allen’s maligned Curse of the Jade Scorpion, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest attempt to salvage his career (a.k.a. The Visit), and Second […]
Cinema Eclectica 36 – The Mixing Desk is POWER!
This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children’s Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool – both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel […]
Cinema Eclectica 35 – Age of Lobsters
This week we invent an entirely new sub-genre of superhero movie. In a typically eccentric Off the Shelf we look at Housebound – the 2014 festival hit from Australia, Korean student drama Bleak Night, the long lost BFI Flipside title Requiem for a Village, and the British gangster thriller Age […]
Straight Outta Compton – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 34
On this week’s show, we have a good old butcher’s at 2015’s blockbuster season. Off the Shelf features a typically diverse bunch of movies, with Rob covering Rabies – Israel’s first-ever horror film, Ryan going back to high school with Salute! Sun Yat-Sen and Graham having the unenviable double-bill with […]
The Wolfpack – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 33
This week we discover some peculiar childhood memories. Our Off the Shelf section has an eccentric bunch with Rob covering the Taiwanese film Exit and pronouncing everything wrong, and Ryan enjoying rage-house icon Bronson. Both movies were book-ended by a Graham two-fer – a collection of shorts by Richard Massingham […]
The Man from UNCLE – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 32
This week Producer Rob introduced us to the early 1980’s swashbuckling comedy Zorro: The Gay Blade starring George Hamilton. Honestly, it’s real – look it up. That opened the traps up for Off the Shelf in which we feature the legendary documentary Man With A Movie Camera, anarchic zombie-comedy Wyrmwood: […]
The Gift – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 31
Ahoy-hoy World, we return. Off the Shelf saw us with the ménage à trois that is Adam Sandler’s Pixels, Sion Sono’s manic epic Love Exposure, and the catastrophic ‘making of’ Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr Moreau. Our Film of the Week is Joel Edgerton’s […]