This week we get unnecessarily vengeful about a children’s Christmas film. Off the Shelf features Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth and Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool – both from Masters of Cinema. Meanwhile, Ryan delves into the underrated Sympathy for Lady Vengeance and Graham takes on Pop Goes the Easel […]
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Cinema Eclectica 35 – Age of Lobsters
Straight Outta Compton – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 34
On this week’s show, we have a good old butcher’s at 2015’s blockbuster season. Off the Shelf features a typically diverse bunch of movies, with Rob covering Rabies – Israel’s first-ever horror film, Ryan going back to high school with Salute! Sun Yat-Sen and Graham having the unenviable double-bill with […]
The Wolfpack – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 33
This week we discover some peculiar childhood memories. Our Off the Shelf section has an eccentric bunch with Rob covering the Taiwanese film Exit and pronouncing everything wrong, and Ryan enjoying rage-house icon Bronson. Both movies were book-ended by a Graham two-fer – a collection of shorts by Richard Massingham […]
The Man from UNCLE – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 32
This week Producer Rob introduced us to the early 1980’s swashbuckling comedy Zorro: The Gay Blade starring George Hamilton. Honestly, it’s real – look it up. That opened the traps up for Off the Shelf in which we feature the legendary documentary Man With A Movie Camera, anarchic zombie-comedy Wyrmwood: […]
The Gift – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 31
Ant-Man – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 29
We destroy more childhood favourites this week – you have been warned. Our packed “Off the Shelf” section features the 2009 cult horror The Loved Ones, the Iranian new-wave classic The Apple, and Anand Patwardhan’s gripping nuclear documentary War & Peace. After that, we calm down and return to Earth […]
Dear White People – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 28
Terminator Genisys – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 27
Slow West – Cinema Eclectica 26
This week we’re neck-deep in a crazy heatwave – which makes for a much looser show because of all the melting brains. Our featured movies in our “Off The Shelf” section are Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns, Frank Borzage’s lost film-noir Moonrise and Eli Roth’s latest confusing effort Knock Knock. All […]