In summary then, this week’s show is a land of contrasts. Off the Shelf feature Ryan facing the horror of mental illness in the Ben Wheatley-produced “The Ghoul”, Rob surviving the horror of ‘80s hair (and, to a lesser extent, nuclear war), in Arrow’s reissue of “Miracle Mile”, and Graham […]
Podcasts
S15E02 – Night of the Living Bwaaamps
It’s time for another edition of the reliable flagship! This week we’re discussing the official death of the Windows phone, the promotion of Facebook’s new Spaces application, the safety of self-driving cars and more. We also take a look at what’s been happening on the network over the past week […]
Literary Loitering 75 – Surfer Jesus and the Hang Ten Commandments
While French philosopher Vincent Cespedes claims that his statement that Tintin is a girl was nothing more than fake news, we also discover that Roald Dahl’s character Charlie Bucket was originally going to be black, and that Winnie the Pooh in A. A. Milne’s books was modelled on another teddy […]
4-Panel 112 – Being Akira Malkovich
It’s time for more comic-books with 4-Panel, and this week we’re talking about bad Marvel partnerships, Taika Waititi’s film plans for Akira, art theft and the return of a British superhero team. We also continue our new scoring system and our ongoing descent into Nightwing’s butt-gate (pun very much intended). […]
Keyframe 92 – Netflix’s Anime Big Boy Pants
As the Summer season winds down, we take a look at the good, the bad, the mediocre, the just plain wrong, the unexpected and the anger-inducing anime of the last three months. Our featured animated movie and cartoon are Michaël Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle and Netflix’s Neo Yokio. […]
4-Panel 111 – Boy Meets Venom
This week on 4-Panel we talk about the biggest Iron Man story ever … at least according to Brian Michael Bendis. There are lots of terrible movie references – including one that is incorrect and from the movie guy no less (he should be ashamed). Elsewhere we talk about The […]
S15E01 – Glam Rock and New Beginnings
We were off for a while, launching our Youtube, travelling about and doing things we utterly regret. You know? Normal Summer stuff. After a couple of months off we return with a new form. We’ve changed a lot over the years, but this is (probably) our final form – we […]
Keyframe 91 – Godzilla’s Summer Fair Bake Sale
To celebrate the release of the first in a trilogy of anime movies, Godzilla is finally getting its own festival! Aside from that we also take a look at the trailers for Aardman’s Early Man and Netflix’s Neo Yokio. Our featured anime are Belladonna of Sadness and Kiniro Mosaic (Kinmoza!). […]
4-Panel 110 – Nightwing’s Naughty Shushy Face
Syfy are making a pilot of Rick Remender’s school-based assassin story Deadly Class. Meanwhile there’s shenanigans involving Agents of Shield, ABC and Disney, and following the success of Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo line of figures based on DC’s female heroes and villains a male equivalent called Ikemen is being introduced – starting […]
Cinema Eclectica 131 – Some of My Best Friends are Baguettes!
This week we ask the question, how French can a cannibal movie be? Fortunately we have Rob’s big bag of national stereotypes to help us work this out, and it’s equally fortuitous that Graham has Indicator’s reissue of Arthur Penn’s star-studded crime thriller “The Chase”, while Aidan has Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s […]