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 […]
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4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 41 – Spider-Man: Far From Home SPOILER-CAST
On this week’s 4-Panel it’s a festival of Spider-Man versus Mysterio as Andrew and Mick embark upon a spoiler-filled discussion about the latest addition to the MCU – Spider-Man: Far From Home. Is it as good as Homecoming? Is it the best Spider-Man movie so far? After answering those (and […]
S16E10 – The Nicholas Cage of Seagulls
Everyone’s favourite magnificently moustachioed news podcast returns with more strange tales from the realms of science, technology and entertainment, and this episode we’re starting with Huawei’s claims about their new operating system. In other news, we get our first look at the live-action version of Disney’s Mulan, legendary anime movie […]
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? […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 40 – Too Many Spider-Men: The Musical
To celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Far From Home we decided to investigate the surprisingly vast numbers of alternative Spider-folk that infest the Marvel’s multiverse, but after kicking things off in the familiar territory of Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Gwen Stacey, things start going downhill very quickly. Seriously, the […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 39 – June 2019 Comics And Manga Blowout
The Summer Solstice has passed and we’re at the end of the June, which means it’s time for another of our monthly catch-up sessions, so welcome to another episode packed full of comics and manga! So without further ado, this week we have Exiles: The Trial of the Exiles, the […]
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), […]
My Laudanum Hell – Literary Loitering 105
After a lengthy introduction about the pumping of jam and the lack of any noteworthy news relating to Game of Thrones, we kick things off with the lesser-known Tory leadership contest involving the books the contenders have written, after which we find out that people are angry at Jeremy Corbyn […]
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 […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 38 – The Batman Villain Variety Show
With the announcement that Robert Pattinson will be donning the mantle of The Dark Knight in the next movie, we take a look at the villains who are set to play a role in the story, which naturally leads us on to some of Batman villains in general. With some […]