After pursuing the unexpected connection between “Doctor Dolittle” and “White Dog” (and seriously, wouldn’t any connection between those two be unexpected?) Graham and Aidan tackle Chris Morris’s long-awaited follow-up to “Four Lions”. “The Day Shall Come” has an American setting and Anna Kendrick, but does it still have what makes […]
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100% Dinge Gotham – Cinema Eclectica 225
This week Mick, Graham and Aidan take a dark voyage into the twisted mind of Batman’s greatest enemy Clownface McGinty in Todd Phillips’s “Joker”. It’s weathered all sorts of controversy – interview walk-outs, copycat violence panics, coming from the director of Due Date – but allow us the indulgence of […]
Golden Toilet 2: Electric Portaloo – Literary Loitering 110
We begin this episode with the news that someone has stolen Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace. No, seriously. Somebody stole a golden toilet. Among the other news, Angela Carter’s house finally gets a blue plaque to celebrate her life and work, a gynaecologist has been banned from Twitter […]
Comic Books As TV Shows – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 52
TV adaptations of comics are all the rage these days, and since our resident comics sage (Andrew), has gone to do Roman things (that may or may not include conquering Europe), we decided to investigate the plethora of live-action superhero shows. From the Adventures of Superman back in 1952, through […]
The Old White Stripes Manoeuvre – Cinema Eclectica 224
This week Rob and Graham seek out “Ready or Not”, the buzzy new horror-comedy from V/H/S’s Radio Silence collective. It’s been hailed by the online horror community, but Rob’s been burned that way many times before so does this hit the mark? Off the Shelf sees us return to a […]
Marvel’s War Of The Realms – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 51
The War of the Realms is the big Marvel crossover event that spun out from the pages of the Thor comics, but with so many characters involved in a fight across the nine realms from Norse mythology, where do you even start. Join Andrew, Mick and Rob as they wade […]
Denis Lavant’s Live Action CV – Cinema Eclectica 223
Limousines! Kylie! CGI rubber dragon sex! It can only be Leos Carax’s “Holy Motors” getting the Eclectica treatment from Aidan, Sarah and Graham. Deep thoughts will be had about religion, cinema and literature. Less-deep thoughts will be had about Denis Lavant’s old chap. Elsewhere, there are new releases to be […]
Superman’s Bizarre Powers – 4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 50
Sometimes you don’t have to look far to see just how weird comics can get, and in this episode we’re looking no further than Superman, who probably has the strangest collection of powers and abilities of any character in comics. Now relatively speaking, flight, super-strength, super-speed, heat vision, X-ray vision, […]
Willy Wonka’s Golden Toilet – Literary Loitering 109
It’s been a strange few weeks in the arts world, beginning with Slovenia, which now has a rather odd transforming wooden statue of Donald Trump to go along with the bizarre, prehistoric-style statue of his wife Melania. In other news, a sculpture called America by Maurizio Cattelan has been installed […]
Cinema Eclectica 222 – The Method Toolbox of Dustin Hoffman
Aidan and Mick saddle up and join the posse of the “Midnight Cowboy” to explore the seedy underbelly of late ’60s New York. Meanwhile, “The Dogs of War” offers the intriguing proposition of an action movie that isn’t an action movie, but how could such a thing be possible? We […]