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Not saying we planned this or anything, but this week's Film of the Week will be on Mubi by the end of the month. That's handy, isn't it? Don't expect a stress-free quarantine if you watch Bacurau, though. The Brazilian genre-hopper is ferocious, full-on and - as Rob and Graham discover - fantastic.

In the second half, Rob reviews Bernard Rose's Samurai Marathon, and we ponder which sports films need more love. There's also the third part of our Bond retrospective, with Mark looking at the ups and downs of the up-and-downiest period of the franchise, the Moore years. And finally Mick adds a touch of Magic with Second Sight's reissue of the 1978 chiller.

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So, that plan to build up to No Time to Die went well, didn't it? Nevertheless, we're pressing on, with Mark reviewing George Lazenby's sole turn as Bond in the much-misunderstood On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This was worth it if only for the Dick Van Dyke anecdote.

Before that, we've got another point on the most competitive grading curve in Hollywood (well, apart from Paul Thomas Anderson) as we ask where Onward fits into Pixar's canon. Relax: this tale of two elven brothers on a quest for one more day with their dad is not Cars 2. And Mick drops by to review Eureka Video's Syncopation, a newly reissued jazz drama from Golden Age Hollywood auteur William Dieterle.

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Never one to do things the normal way, Cinema Eclectica are celebrating Valentine's Day in March with our nominations for cinema's best ever couples. It's all part of our celebration of Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, one of three new releases we review this week. Before that, it's the first part of Mark's Bond retrospective, kicking off with - what else? - the Connery era.

OK, so we don't always mix things up.

After that, Tim trips out and Cages up with Richard Stanley's comeback Colour Out of Space, Graham asks "you OK, Australia?" after seeing Justin Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang, and finally Sarah paints us a picture of the biggest foreign language film of the year that doesn't include a beef noodle recipe. Next week: Pixar!

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No, your eyes do not deceive you. This week our sister show Literary Loitering is taking over Cinema Eclectica, and to mark the occasion Rob, Graham, Andrew and Sarah are reviewing the latest smash blockbuster from the Lumiere brothers, Arrival of a Train at a Station.

Before that, they discuss some recent film news including the Hollywood Reporter's secret Oscar voter, a bizarrely (or brilliantly?) cast new version of Cinderella, and discover that Universal might just have cracked their monster universe. And by "cracked" we mean "broke".

Reviews include Netflix Tay doco Miss Americana, anime fantasy Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, Celine Sciamma's trans coming-of-age drama Tomboy, and we review Harpoon again just because we can. There's also a quiz on the many weird ways movies have been retitled overseas.

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Get ready for some hilariously uninformed conversation as video game ignoramus Graham tries to get his head round the new Sonic the Hedgehog movie, with Aidan to keep him on track. He's a hedgehog! And he's blue! Have you ever seen the like before?

Off the Shelf sees us thankfully closer to terra firma with two releases from Eureka Video. Aidan takes a look at their near-future dystopian political thriller Sons of Denmark, while Mick jumps in for their reissue of Arthur Penn's classic The Miracle Worker, starring Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. There's also some chat about what video games you'd like to see filmed, a round-up of new articles on our website and some exciting news about next week's show...

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It's the most historic movie event of the year - that's right, we've got Mark back on the podcast. He and Graham talk about the small matter of, oh I don't know, the first foreign-language film to win Best Picture at the Oscars. Ever. It's Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite and our bodies could not be more ready.

Elsewhere, Eureka video bring the druggy body horror with Bliss, and there's a double-bill of new releases with the very strange voyage of Robert Downey Jr's Dolittle and Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad spin-off that makes you stop dreading the phrase "Suicide Squad spin-off". There's also a bit of Oscars chat which is not entirely a Laura Dern appreciation fest. Just mostly.

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How many new releases is too many? We know the answer but we don't care. In this week's photo negative show Aidan spills the beans on Robert Eggers's follow-up to The VVitch, The Lighthouse. Tim, meanwhile, still can't quite believe we're getting to see Terry Gilliam's passion project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Graham sees one of his favourite subgenres expertly revived in Queen & Slim, a lovers-on-the-run movie for the Beyonce era.

Before that, there's our director's lottery to attend to, in which we vault all of Tony Richardson's hits in favour of the super-rare Laughter in the Dark, a Nabokov adaptation never released on home video, starring Nicol Williamson and the late, great Anna Karina.

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Strange, nay paranormal, events on Eclectica number 241, as our director's lottery comes out with... number 241. That's not the inexplicable bit - the inexplicable bit comes when we only realise this once the recording's stopped.

Before that, join Graham and special guest Andrew from 4Panel and Literary Loitering for a romp through Armando Iannucci's version of Victorian Britain in The Personal History of David Copperfield. Check the tags for its preposterously starry cast. In Off the Shelf, Sarah finds an Agatha Christie/folk horror crossover in Indicator Powerhouse's Blu-Ray of Endless Night, while Graham has an enjoyably unwholesome holiday with the squabbling schoolfriends of Arrow Video's new horror Harpoon.

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Last week's director's lottery came out with Kathryn Bigelow, which can only mean (checks IMDb) one of ten things. The one Graham and Tim picked was Near Dark, her vampire Western with half the cast of Aliens. Has it stood the test of time?

Question of the Week is a celebration of recent birthday boy David Lynch, leading to some predictably indulgent answers from Lynch obsessive Graham before he looks at Indicator's new Blu-Ray of the very strange all-star conspiracy thriller Winter Kills in Off the Shelf. After that, Tim checks out the Swedish sci-fi Aniara, which we find an unexpected Northern connection in.

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Tense. Disturbing. Fraught with menace. But enough about the reaction to Graham's Frozen joke, this week we review the Safdie brothers' latest New York white-knuckler Uncut Gems. It's got Adam Sandler as you've never seen him before, Idina Menzel as you've never seen her before and Julia Fox, who you've never seen before.

After that there's some discussion of the Oscar nominations and a Question of the Week - I know! It's been a while! - about holiday viewing. Off the Shelf sees Graham looking at Camilla Strøm Henriksen's heartfelt family drama Phoenix, out now on Verve Pictures, while Mick gets to grips with Indicator's restoration of Curtis Harrington's Night Tide - a review which includes some surprising occult trivia. Don't bore us, get to the Horus.

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