In the final days of 2022, I happened upon an intriguing sixty-minute low-budget film. Entitled Letters to the Postman, it is an adaptation by British indie filmmaker Felix Dembinski of a short story by Robert Aickman which appeared in the author’s 1980 anthology Intrusions and proved to be his final […]
Ghost Stories
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part III: Best of the Year (5 to 1)
Cinema Eclectica Christmas 2018 Part II: Best of the Year (10 to 6)
The votes have been counted (which, being honest, wasn’t too difficult since we’re all doing our own lists), and it’s time for Cinema Eclectica’s Top Ten of 2018! On this minisode, the first of two parts, we discover the hidden treasures of YouTube Red, celebrate a very British Japanese cartoon, […]
Cinema Eclectica 155 – The Hills Have Ears
This week’s Off the Shelf sees the films themselves teaching the hosts a thing or two. Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson’s paranormal horror “Ghost Stories” turns the sceptical Graham into a true believer, while Aidan finds Criterion’s reissue of “La Cage aux Folles” something of a drag. You could say […]