It’s been 30 years since Spike Lee unleashed “Do the Right Thing” on cinemas like a bin pitched through a pizzeria window. Now, Aidan and Graham convene to give you the double truth, Ruth, about how it holds up in the modern era. Off the Shelf sees Aidan looking at […]
Cinema Eclectica
Cinema Eclectica 216 – Beheaded by Duck
Last week’s director’s lottery came out with Jonathan Glazer, so this week Rob, Aidan and Graham sit down for the British maverick’s sci-fi psych-out “Under the Skin”. Scarlett Johansson, white transit van, Glasgow – you know the drill. A special Off the Shelf, meanwhile, sees them taking selections from Indicator’s […]
Cinema Eclectica 215 – Poundland Elvis Costello’s Magic Scarf
It’s the circle of life: movie comes out, makes money, sequels die, and a remake grows. Jon Favreau’s “The Lion King” comes under the scrutiny of Graham and Aidan this week, as well as the general trend of Disney remakes. Are there reasons for this that aren’t related to the […]
Cinema Eclectica 214 – The Last Of The English Tawdries
This week Graham and Tim check out Jim Jarmusch as he pioneers un-deadpan comedy with The Dead Don’t Die. Are the jokes as dusty as Jarmusch’s strangely goreless zombies? Off the Shelf sees Graham covering Border – the Mubi release which combines the two poles of modern Scandinavian cinema (bleak […]
Cinema Eclectica 213 – Throat Singing Of Terror!
Folk horror comes to the multiplexes this week with Ari Aster’s “Midsommar”, set in a Swedish pagan commune. Aster’s own preferred human sacrifice ritual involves dividing podcasters in half as the try to figure out how well his movies work, so what did Graham and Aidan think of this one? […]
Cinema Eclectica 212 – Clovis the Action Cat
We’ve gone weird before, obviously, but we’ve never spent a whole show as far out on the fringes as we do this week. Film of the Week is Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric” – the weirdest film from the director of “The Duke of Burgundy” (yeah, have a think about THAT), […]
Cinema Eclectica 211 – Angry Mr. Plow
A universally relatable tale of the inner angst of knowing you were made from a spork, “Toy Story 4” is our Film of the Week this week. The trilogy seemed to come to a perfect end nine years ago, so is this new offering worthy of another dip in the […]
Cinema Eclectica 210 – Jules & Jim Up A Mountain
At 210 episodes old we can ask for all the things in the world, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to get anything for this “obvious” landmark. Besides, Rob and Aidan have a job to do. This week it’s another of our regular Directors Lottery episodes, and the director in […]
Cinema Eclectica 209 – Damn You 5 for £25!
The uncontainable power of our sister show 4-Panel rises up and consumes us again as Mick and Andrew join Aidan to discuss “X-Men: Dark Phoenix”. It’s the last in a franchise that’s lasted as long as two MCUs, but what’s the endgame like? Of course, before we watched films with […]
Cinema Eclectica 208 – Fritz Lang’s Mannequin
The show is turned upside down again this week, with three big new releases in the second half and an archive gem in the first – Sergio Martino’s Poe-meets-giallo cult classic “Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key”, the title of which is but the […]