A special of a very different kind this week as we celebrate the UK debut of the Criterion Collection. We have news, question of the week and a trailer of the week before Off The Shelf becomes decidedly Criterion flavoured with “Tootsie”, “The Tragedy of MacBeth”, “Speedy” and “Only Angels […]
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Literary Loitering 39 – The Noble Fort Peddlesmut
There’s weirdness afoot as the NRA add firearms to fairy tales, adult colouring books cause a global shortage of colouring pencils and Fifty Shades of Grey gets repurposed for defence. Our featured book is Dancer’s Lament: Path to Ascendancy (A Novel of the Mazalan Empire), by Ian C. Esselmont. Tune […]
Cinema Eclectica 63 – Golden Era Crazy Eyes
Keyframe 45 – Chairman Meow’s Little Red Bowl
This week we dive right in to a heap of trailers including Ice Age, April and the Extraordinary World, and Rudolf the Black Cat. In other news, Kadokawa are planning an 88-stop anime-themed “pilgrimage” for tourists and Oxford University release a Vocaloid textbook (of sorts). Our featured anime are Mobile […]
4-Panel Episode 48 – Captain America’s Chicken Noises
We’re back to once more peruse the exhibits in the hallowed halls of sequential art including the world’s “oldest” comic-book, a Nigerian start-up’s ethnic origin superheroes and the worst Captain America and Iron Man storylines. Our featured comics and manga are Identity Crisis, Inuyashiki volume 3, Dragon Age: Magekiller #4 […]
Cinema Eclectica 62 – Themes and Roundabouts
Another go on the merry-go-round of trailers and films that never fully joined Club Eclectica. Off The Shelf feature Italian neo-realism with “Rocco and his Brothers”, the forgotten David Lean film “The Sound Barrier”, and the lesser Ealing Studios release “Pink String and Sealing Wax” before closing out with the […]
Literary Loitering 38 – Inconceivable!
The rambunctious scamps return for more literary conversation including the winner of the Bookseller Diagram prize, a “magical” collaboration between Harry Houdini and H. P. Lovecraft, the “Invisible Collection” and more. Our featured books are “Bigfoot Loose and Finn Fancy Free” by Randy Henderson and “The Immorality Engine” by George […]