It’s time for another spin on the news wheel of cultural anarchy so round-and-around-and-around we go, and where it stops first is … penguins visiting and art gallery. Looks like we have a winner! After that it’s more usual fare (the word usual is used very loosely), children’s books by children, children’s books […]
Podcasts
The Assistant – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 262
Cinema Eclectica is back for another round-up of the latest streaming titles, this week taking in America and Romania via Japan. First up, Rob lauds Julia Garner’s performance in #MeToo drama The Assistant, then Graham is off to Tokyo with frequent flier Werner Herzog for his haunting new film Family […]
Iron Man’s Weird Abilities – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 13
Strange powers aren’t a new thing to superhero comics (just check out our episode about Superman’s collection of odd, and for the most part thankfully forgotten abilities), and this week it’s the turn of Tony Stark’s Iron Man to go under our microscope. Get ready for a cavalcade of oddities […]
The Phantom Carriage – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 261
This week’s podcast is a slow swan-dive from arthouse bliss into a swamp of sleaze, starting – after a Question of the Week that baits the Oscars more than Stephen Daldry – with Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage. An inspiration to Ingmar Bergman and Stanley Kubrick, it still holds up […]
Wasp Network – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 260
Fans of podcasts where two people can’t agree on a single film, your ship has come in, because this week Graham and Tim are reviewing Olivier Assayas’s divisive Netflix original Wasp Network! Which reviewer compared it to “a Communist version of The A-Team”? And, more importantly, did they mean it […]
La Strada – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 259
Does anyone want a podcast about famous directors’ Instagram feeds? While we workshop that, there’s a lot to get through this week, not least a review of Federico Fellini’s landmark film La Strada. Where does it end up in our Fellini power rankings? After a Question of the Week about […]
Beta Ray Bill For Beginners – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 12
Sometimes you just have to go back to basics in comics, and like the characters out of an old-school fantasy novel, the brotherhood between Marvel’s Thor and a horse-faced alien cyborg is something that has become legend in comics. But like every good bromance, this one started with a bit […]
1917 – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 258
It’s been a while since we did a B-sides show – those intermittent collections of new cinema releases that we didn’t cover at the time of release. And that’s largely because, er, there aren’t any cinemas open – but that doesn’t stop Sarah, Rob and Graham from having some films […]
After Midnight – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 257
IRL festivals might be off this summer, but there’s still We Are One – a ten-day YouTube banquet of the best of the recent festival circuit. Before we get to that, Rob’s got a review of After Midnight, a new streaming release from Arrow Films. We don’t want to jinx […]
Drifting Dragons // Spider-Man // Guardians Of The Galaxy // Silver Surfer // … – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 11
The 4-Panel gang return with another heaping helping of comics and manga goodness, and this week there’s plenty to talk about. First up are Marvel’s newest super team and their first few outings in Strikeforce: Trust Me, Jeff Lemire’s new world-crossing barbarian in the first volume of Berserker Unbound, and […]