Fans of podcasts where two people can’t agree on a single film, your ship has come in, because this week Graham and Tim are reviewing Olivier Assayas’s divisive Netflix original Wasp Network! Which reviewer compared it to “a Communist version of The A-Team”? And, more importantly, did they mean it […]
Masters of Cinema
Kwaidan: The King of the J-Horror (Review)
Ema – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 253
This isn’t quite Cinema Eclectica’s dance special, but it gets weirdly close – with Pablo Larrain’s psychosexual reggaeton epic Ema as Film of the Week, and a Question of the Week about your favourite cinematic dance scenes. The answers take in everyone from Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers to Greta […]
Rio Grande: John Ford’s Comfortable West (Review)
Rounding off any trilogy is no easy feat for any director, producer or star. Although John Ford’s inadvertent and seemingly accidental triumph through his Cavalry trilogy isn’t connected through the storylines, the characters and expected interactions of the genre are built up in equally vivid and cold ways in previous […]
Battling Butler: A Different Kind of Buster Keaton Movie (Review)
Raining in the Mountain (1979) King Hu’s Spiritual Heist (Review)
The Son of the Sheik: The Return to Form That Proved to Be Valentino’s Swansong (Review)
A Fistful of Dynamite: You Say You Want a Revolution? (Review)
Once upon a time in Paris (on March 22nd, 1968 to be exact) a number of far-left groups comprising of students and artists gathered together to occupy the administration building of Paris Nanterre University to protest against class discrimination and political bureaucracy. The police were subsequently called and the protesters […]