In a week that included the announcement of a civil war in Riverdale and Captain America saying “Hail Hydra”, the strangest thing to happen is the Gintama manga getting a live-action movie adaptation (we’re not sure how that’s going to work either). Our featured comics and manga are Dr. Strange […]
Podcasts
Cinema Eclectica 85 – Time Skips and Road Trips
On this highly mobile episode we take a look at Jacques Tourneur’s “Cat People”, Paul Newman and Orson Welles in “The Long Hot Summer”, Stanley Kramer’s “The Secret of Santa Vittoria” and cult British Horror “Psychomania”. After that we hand over to our past selves for our Feature Presentation – […]
Keyframe 58 – A Gundam By Any Other Name
4-Panel 58 – Doctor Doom’s Department Store Nightmare
4-Panel 58 – Doctor Doom's Department Store Nightmare
Cinema Eclectica 84 – The Cinema Politika Threshold
We’re doing it backwards this week (pardon the phrasing). Off The Shelf goes to the cinema as we look at 4 new releases: “Kubo and the Two Strings”, “Hell or High Water”, “Anthropoid” and “Don’t Breathe”. Our Feature Presentation is the latest outing for the Director’s Lottery with Jean Cocteau’s […]
S13E06 – You Cant Hurt Me! I Have a Forcefield!
Literary Loitering 48 – Redneck Avengers
There’s never a dull moment when you have judo books for kids by Vladimir Putin, 9-year-old journalists scooping major networks and a set of rejected Disney dwarves. Our featured books are Escapology by Ren Warom, New Pompeii by Daniel Godfrey and The Definitive Visual Guide to Musicals. Tune in to […]