This week, Andrew, Mick and Rob witness the birth of … (hang on because we’re pretty sure we can do that trailer thing in text) … a/ HER \o with “Captain Marvel”. As far as we’re concerned Brie Larson has always been our captain, but what about the rest of […]
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Cinema Eclectica 196 – Bathtime for Udo
Last week Rob and Graham received a mystery phone call asking them to review Hideo Nakata’s “Ring”. They’re not dead yet, and although the news that this is a twentieth anniversary reissue is making them feel incredibly old they still have to find out if the film still holds up. […]
Cinema Eclectica 195 – Algebra Lessons with Foxy Brown
It’s the biggest week of the film calendar, so Aidan and Rob fulfill their obligations with a bit of an Oscars chatter before getting to the important matter of being bamboozled by the Film of the Week which, thanks to the Directors Lottery coming up with Jacques Rivette, means in […]
Cinema Eclectica 194 – Come See The Mastodon Parade!
Eclectica is back with “The Kid Who Would Be King” – the latest film from Joe Cornish, and in a strange turn of events, Graham and Tim’s review features very few references to Adam and Joe. We’re sorry. We’ll try and make up for it when we do a Jacques […]
Cinema Eclectica 193 – The John Entwistle of J-Horror
Two beams of refracted “Moonlight”: the Best Picture-winning (eventually) film’s writer Tarell Alvin McRaney has a new film on Netflix, “High Flying Bird”, which Mark takes a look at before Aidan, Tim and Graham check out director Barry Jenkins’s new work “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Meanwhile, Off the Shelf […]
Cinema Eclectica 192 – Bring Out The Two Men In The Elephant Costume!
Your “Burning” desire to hear a review of the new Lee Chang-Dong film can finally be satiated, as Rob, Graham and Tim take on the adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story is our Film Of The Week. Capital O-Opinions will be had. Tim kicks off our Off the Shelf […]
Cinema Eclectica 191 – Deep Purple’s Oscar Beef
Burnt-out, scrappy-haired and squinting through an agonising hangover – but that’s enough about Graham and Aidan as they’ve got to discuss Nicole Kidman’s transformative turn in Karyn Kusama’s grittier-than-thou cop thriller “Destroyer”. Does it pack the same tooth-loosening impact as the butt of Kidman’s gun? After some discussion of the […]
Cinema Eclectica 190 – Silent Power, Noisy Door
He’s been to Director’s Jail, served his Director’s Probation, and is now worryingly close to being a repeat offender (according to Mick, Graham and Aidan that is). It’s M. Night Shyamalan, whose trilogy-capper “Glass” is put under the magnifying lens as our Film of the Week. A packed Off the […]
Cinema Eclectica 189 – New Queen, Who Dis?
Eclectica is back in 2019 for an Oscar season like no other. There’s a film about a famous author and one about a British monarch, but this time the more literary of the two sees Keira Knightley putting the bi in biopic for our film of the week “Colette”. As […]
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part III: Best of the Year (5 to 1)
Welcome back to the only end-of-year review podcast hosted by people who haven’t seen Roma yet (we’ll get around to it). This week, enjoy the thrilling denouement to our Best of 2018 charts, with Rob, Aidan, and Graham taking you through their picks from 5 to 1. Someone chooses an […]