The sarcasm meter is off the scale this week with arguments about violence in animation and a live-action, CG animated feature film of Woody Woodpecker … for Brazil! Our featured anime are Samurai Harem (Asu no Yoichi!), Haikyuu Season 1 Part 2 and Top we Nerae: Gunbuster (Aim for the […]
Podcasts
4-Panel Episode 62 – Boom Boom in the Fin Fang Foom
This week we dive into the trailerfest that is San Diego Comic Con. Our featured comics and manga are Next Wave: Agents of H.A.T.E., Choujin Gakuen: Konton Mouryou Seishun Jihen (Superfolk Academy: All Kinds of Disorderly Spirits and Goblins Youth Uprising), Vinland Saga and Mockingbird #5. Tune in to The […]
Literary Loitering 52 – Licence To Quill
It’s an odder than whatever passes for normal this week as Frederick Forsyth decides to stop writing thrillers, the Oxford Electronic Dictionary adds more strange words and phrases to the English language, and beer is made from the yeast found on Roald Dahl’s special writing chair … Our featured books […]
Cinema Eclectica 90 – A Big Bag of Halloween Camp
It’s our Halloween special! We do away with the conventions again to bring you something a little different, so we present to you “Screams Around the World”, and we escalate things with each film so come along as we look at Häxan and Frontier(s) before going off the deep end […]
Keyframe 61 – Alternate World Long-Legged Mac Daddy
This week we find out what happens when you don’t ban certain plot devices from a short story competition, and a “shrine” to anime and manga is being rebuilt. Our featured anime are Durarara!!x2 Shou, Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works part 2 and Anomalisa (from Curzon Artificial Eye). Tune in […]
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis' Hypnotoad
We break a few rules as this episode is named by Letterboxd user Ned Gilmore, and this week’s Feature Presentation is actually a streaming title! With the launch of a new distribution label we look at Brian De Palma’s “Body Double”, the 1924 silent documentary “The Epic of Everest” and […]
Cinema Eclectica 89 – Adam Curtis’ Hypnotoad
We break a few rules as this episode is named by Letterboxd user Ned Gilmore, and this week’s Feature Presentation is actually a streaming title! With the launch of a new distribution label we look at Brian De Palma’s “Body Double”, the 1924 silent documentary “The Epic of Everest” and […]
4-Panel 61 – Beware of Tactical Chaps
We get a bit hot under the collar this week with teasers and trailers for new Marvel TV shows, a new Justice League cartoon, and the news that long-running BDSM manga series Nana to Kaoru will end. Our featured comics are Grant Morrison’s Avatarex: Destroyer of Darkness #1, Project Autumn […]
Literary Loitering 51 – Big Papa Hemingway
Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a Hemingway lookalike contest, the big news is that Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” is being adapted for a movie! We also look at the working titles of some classic novels and […]
Cinema Eclectica 88 – Anti-Social Surrealism
This week Rob gets traded for an older production version (for purely technical reasons of course). We look at Andrzej Zulawski’s baffling final film “Cosmos”, notorious video nasty “The Burning” and F.W. Murnau’s “The Grand Duke’s Finances”. Our Feature Presentation doubled up and mutated a second Werner Herzog-shaped head in […]