Another Director’s Lottery week, another chance for Tim, Mick, Rob and Graham to tear the show apart over the merits (or demerits) of a classic film – this time Toshio Matsumoto’s punk-as-hell queer Oedipus Rex modernisation Funeral Parade of Roses. And if you think that sentence was a lot to […]
Podcasts
The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) – Literary Loitering 125
It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West). In the news this week are Waterstone’s “controversial” idea about displaying books, why you shouldn’t microwave books, yet another tell-all book about Donald Trump, things that make you […]
Inception – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 267
All aboard the Louise Brooks train for the silent cinema legend’s wildest, nastiest and undeniably most hobo-packed outing: 1928’s Beggars of Life. Director William Wellman was coming off the back of the first-ever Best Picture Oscar winner, Wings. Is this a worthy successor? Off the Shelf kicks off with a […]
Harleen // The Mask Of Fudo // Spider-Man // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 15
There’s gold in those piles of comics of manga, and the grizzled veterans of 4-Panel are determined to find it no matter how many Clint Eastwood musicals they have to sit through! This episode we’re kicking things off with the confusingly titled Thanos: The Infinity Ending before we joining our […]
Flash Gordon – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 266
OK, place your bets now: how long before someone does a Brian Blessed impersonation? This week’s Cinema Eclectica is headlined by Mike Hodges outrageous Flash Gordon – and if you think the director of Get Carter was an odd choice, wait until you hear who nearly directed it. In Off […]
Shadowman – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 265
Put on your best old lady disguise and alert your ninja secretaries! Our director’s lottery came out with Georges Franju recently, which means this week Tim and Graham are watching his deliriously silly pulp oddity Nuits Rouges, aka Shadowman. Is this final film from the Eyes Without a Face director […]
Nietzsche’s Happy Days Fandom – Literary Loitering 124
Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff. Oh Twitter. How you amuse us. After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an […]
The Old Guard – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 264
A tale of two action movies on this week’s Eclectica. On the one hand, you have the huge Netflix-funded star vehicle The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron and Chiwetel Ejiofor. On the other, you have the smaller, foreign-language judo film Throw Down, directed by Johnnie To and released on Blu-Ray […]
Loki // Granblue Fantasy // Jughead Versus Vamperonica // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 14
4-Panel returns from another stint panning for comics and manga gold in the riverbed of graphic literature. Tortured analogies aside, this week is our usual mixed bag of the good, the meh, and the downright bizarre – and not in a nice way. Up for scrutiny this week are GWAR: […]
The People Under the Stairs – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 263
A double-bill of genre-bending horror movies this week, which makes it all the stranger that we struggled to think of recommendations to watch with our Film of the Week. Sometimes we are very dumb. Said Film of the Week is the latest product of our Directors Lottery system, Wes Craven’s […]