It might be Justice League week at the cinemas, but Off the Shelf sees us assembling an international super-team of maverick auteurs. While Rob heads to Japan for Sion Sono’s kill-crazy “Tag”, Graham pops over to Hungary for Ildiko Enyedi’s surreal love story “On Body and Soul” and Aidan takes […]
Cinema Eclectica
S15E07 – Old-Fashioned Robot Dating
Cinema Eclectica 137 – Tinky-Winky, LaLa, Dipsy & Edgar Allan Po
An uncharacteristic happiness and contentment falls on the show this week as Aidan, Graham and Rob discuss “Paddington 2”. Before that though, there are all the regular features – including Off the Shelf where Graham tackles Second Run’s release of Otakar Vávra’s historical nightmare “Witchhammer”, Aidan flees the nudging piano […]
S15E06 – Anthony Hopkins’ Yoghurt Enema
Cinema Eclectica 136 – Seriously, Don’t Go into the Basement
S15E05 – Ewoks at the Earth’s Core
Cinema Eclectica 135 – A Tale of Two Hammers
S15E04 – Electric Rat Takes the White House
Cinema Eclectica 134 – Life … Don’t Talk to Me About Life
Cinema Eclectica 133 – The Unveiling of Little Frank
It’s carnage this week. Complete lawless misrule. What could have caused this? Was it the orange skies? The smooth jazz playing in the background? The release of a new Michael Fassbender film? It’s the latter, obviously, as Film of the Week “The Snowman” gets Ryan, Graham, Aidan, and new recruit […]