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  • 207: Cannes 2019 + Badlands + Apocalypse Now Redux - Eclectica #207
    Women Be Scaring

    After looking at the winners and one big loser from Cannes 2019, it's time for Eclectica to return to its B-sides series where we look back at recent films that we weren't able to cover at the time of their release, and this week are "Fighting With My Family", "Birds of Passage", "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and "Greta" are getting the spotlight.

    Off the Shelf has a certain Sheen to it this week, with Charlie and Emilio's dad taking the lead in Criterion's Blu-Ray of Terrence Malick's debut "Badlands", as well as "Apocalypse Now Redux", which Graham tries to suicidally argue is the better cut. Next week we do a Godzilla: take all the Film of the Week candidates and let them fight.

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    #Podcast #Movies #Films #CinemaEclectica #Cinema #Reviews #TheGeekShow #Eclectica #CriterionCollection #Criterion #Badlands #Godzilla #BirdsOfPassage #WWE #Paige #FightingWithMyFamily #Wrestling #CanYouEverForgiveMe #Greta #ApocalypseNow #Redux #CannesFilmFestival 
    1 hr 11 min
  • 206: John Wick 3 + Night of the Generals + Room at the Top - Eclectica #206
    Assiety of Sassassins

    It's time for "John Wick 3: Parabellum" or Wick in a Box or whatever it's called, and before Aidan and Graham adjudicate the ultra-violence like a glove-carrying Asia Kate Dillon, we've got a Question of the Week where we ask for your favourite threequels.

    On the other side of that, Off the Shelf sees Graham in war correspondent mode with Eureka's "The Night of the Generals", before Aidan digs up Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer's "Candy Mountain" as part of Deep Cuts. Rounding things off, Mick has the BFI's new Blu-Ray of "Room at the Top".

    If you're thinking of ordering any of the books mentioned on this show, be careful, OK?

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    #Podcast #Reviews #Movies #Films #Cinema #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #JohnWick #Parabellum #BFI #Eureka #TheNightOfTheGenerals #CandyMountain #RoomAtTheTop #KeanuReeves #TheGeekShow #Patreon // Until next time, keep things Eclectica!
    1 hr 9 min
  • 205: High Life + November + My Brilliant Career - Eclectica #205
    The Beast of Estonian Craggy Island

    Three misfits alone in the dark empty vastness of a cinema showing a Claire Denis movie, Aidan, Sarah and Graham gather to review the French maverick's latest epic voyage, "High Life". We realise it may sound tempting, but do not allow Juliette Binoche to show you her box.

    A full Off the Shelf kicks off with Sarah covering Criterion's release of "My Brilliant Career" (thank you, I've worked hard for it), followed by Graham marvelling at Montage Pictures's truly unclassifiable "November". Heading further east (and no less crazy), Aidan takes a look at Arrow Academy's "Khrustyalov, My Car!", a film from the director of "Hard to Be a God" which caused us simultaneous hooray-yikes.

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    #Podcast #Movies #Films #Cinema #CinemaEclectica # Eclectica #TheGeekShow #Estonia #SciFi# ClaireDenis #HighLife #Russia #MyBrilliantCareer #WorldCinema #November #Eureka #MontagePictures #KhrustyalovMyCar #Reviews // Until next time, keep it Eclectica!

    56 min
  • 204: Diamantino + Detour + Dracula 3D - Eclectica #204
    The ADR Doggies Bite Back

    Liberated from Hull, Graham settles in with Rob for a preview of perhaps the strangest sports movie ever made - Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt's "Diamantino", with its gene-tampering weirdness, lesbian drone pilots and floof bois. 

    It's not the last dog cameo on the show, but it's surely the best.

    Off the Shelf sees Graham arguing the defence for Criterion's reissue of Edgar G Ulmer's classic noir "Detour" against a sceptical Rob, before Rob inexplicably punishes himself with Dario Argento's late-period take on Dracula - which is honestly not his best work.

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    #Podcast #Movies #Films #Cinema #Surreal #Comedy #Reviews #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #TheGeekShow #Portugal #Diamantino #Football #DarioArgento #Dracula #Dracula3D #FilmNoir #CriterionCollection #Criterion #Detour #Dogs #Horror // until next time, keep it Eclectica!

    1 hr 3 min
  • 203: Avengers Endgame + Puppet Master the Littlest Reich - Eclectica #203
    What Fresh Hull is this!?

    Graham's stuck in the quantum realm, so it falls to Rob and Mick to travel way back in time through the many years they spent watching all of the movies leading up to "Avengers: Endgame". 

    It's already made more money than there is in the world, but did the Eclectica gang like it?

    After that, it's time for Off the Shelf where Rob tries to avoid receiving death threats from his coverage of Criterion's reissue of Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ", while Mick tries to avoid issuing any death threats as he struggles through "Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich". 

    Precisely one of these films features David Bowie as Pontius Pilate. See if you can guess which one it is.

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    Sorry, people from Hull. We mean no harm.

    #Podcast #Movies #Films #Reviews #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #Avengers #Endgame #MCU #Marvel #Adaptations #Superheroes #Comics #PuppetMaster #TheLittlestReich #CriterionCollection #MartinScorsese #Religion #Theology #TheLastTemptationOfChrist #WillemDaFoe #RobertDowneyJunior #InfinityWar #IronMan #Thor #SpiderMan #BlackPanther #BlackWidow #Hawkeye #Hulk #DoctorStrange #Thanos // www.thegeekshow.co.uk and peace out, friends.

    1 hr 1 min
  • 202: Hellboy (2019) + The White Reindeer + Cujo - Eclectica #202

    Surprise Johnson Insertion

    This week Mick and Graham go to "Hellboy" and back (which is pretty easy given that the cinema is just a short walk away), to report on Neil Marshall's euphemistically-described troubled production. 

    Is it as bad as the internet's made out, or do they want to give it a big hand?

    Off the Shelf sees a very different kind of folklore film in the shape of "The White Reindeer" - a Finnish vampire-witch-were-reindeer movie (it's a genre, OK?), that has been reissued on Blu-Ray by Eureka. Then Mick cleans up after another Eureka title with Lewis Teague's "Cujo", in which Stephen King shows us a very bad doggp indeed. 

    Next week's Eclectica has been turned into dust by a snap of Thanos's fingers, but we'll be back in two week's time for Avengers: Endgame!

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    #Podcast #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #Cinema #Films #Movies #Reviews #Hellboy #DarkHorse #Comics #MikeMignola #GuillermoDelToro #NeilMarshall #Horror #Fantasy #Cujo #StephenKing #Eureka #TheWhiteReindeer #Avengers #Endgame # TGS #TheGeekShow // SUPPORT US ON PATREON

    1 hr 1 min
  • 201: Sisters Brothers + Shazam! + Ikarie XB-1 - Eclectica #201

    The Cult of Kim Newman's Left Hand

    While getting the maximum possible out of the name 'Hermann Kermit Warm', Tim and Graham head out West for a review of Jacques Audiard's English-language debut "The Sisters Brothers", and revive an old Eclectica staple with Question of the Week. While they were watching Joaquin Phoenix's ongoing battles with enunciation, 4-Panel resident Andrew was in the screen next door watching DC's latest effort to turn their fortunes around - "Shazam!"

    Does it earn its exclamation mark?

    Off the Shelf sees Mick beam in from next week's show to cover Second Run's blu-ray release of the landmark Czech sci-fi "Ikarie XB-1", while Graham puzzles over a mid-period Resnais in the form of Arrow Academy's "Mélo". 

    After that, it only remains to find out which of next week's releases reminds Producer Rob of Five Nights at Freddy's.

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    #Podcast #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #TheGeekShow #Cinema #Films #Movies #Reviews #Western #JacquesAudiard #France #TheSistersBrothers #DC #MCU #Shazam #CaptainMarvel #Big #StarTrek #IkarieXB1 #VoyageToTheEndOfTheUniverse #Czech #AlainResnais #ArrowAcademy #Mélo #ScienceFiction #SciFi // PATREON

    1 hr 12 min
  • 200: 200th Episode!

    Episode 200 - Tiny Jack Nicholson in my Pocket

    Things have been pretty harmonious in Eclecticaville for ... blimey ... 200 episodes! 

    Now that we've reached such a landmark, we thought it might be nice to risk a ruck for this special edition, and have the team cover each other's favourite movies, First up, road movie hater Rob takes a look at Aidan's beloved Hal Ashby vehicle "The Last Detail", before Aidan returns the favour by checking out Rob's pick in the form of Sam Fuller's "Shock Corridor". In the second half of the show, Producer Rob comes back on to challenge anime dunce Graham to watch Satoshi Kon's "Millennium Actress", before subjecting himself to Graham's East European obsession with Vera Chytilova's bizarre "Daisies". 

    We'll be back next week with the show as normal - assuming we all survive this one ...

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    #Podcast #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #Cinema #Films #Movies #Reviews #Czech #CzechNewWave #Europe #SecondRun #Daisies #CriterionCollection #Criterion #TheLastDetail #HalAshby #SatoshiKon #Anime #MillenniumActress #Surreal #Animation #ShockCorridor #Exploitation #Horror #Comedy #Weird #SamuelFuller #TheGeekShow // PATREON

    1 hr 10 min
  • 199: Us + Blacula + Tales from the Hood - Eclectica #199

    George Clinton's Funky Disembodied Head

    Sick of articles and YouTube nonsense that describe what movies mean? Well, you'll get none of that here as, instead of all that nonsense, we dig into what could be the highlight of 2019's horror calendar - Jordan Peele's sophomore feature, "Us".

    In the second half of the show we have our very own black horror special with a little bit of backbone provided by the excellent Shudder documentary "Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror". We cover the classics with "Blacula", funkadelic oddities with "Cosmic Slop", and there's also the ... erm ... yeah ... that with "Leprechaun In The Hood" before finishing on the recently rediscovered classic that is "Tales From The Hood". 

    Next week is the big 200. Noice. 

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    #Podcast #Movies #Films #CinemaEclectica #Eclectica #JordanPeele #Us #GetOut #Horror #BlackHorror #HorrorNoire #AHistoryOfBlackHorror #GeorgeClinton #Funkadelic #TalesFromTheHood #Blacula #Shudder #CosmicSlop #HBO #LeprechaunInTheHood #Leprechaun #Exploition #Blaxploitation // PATREON

    1 hr 23 min

About Pop Screen

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Pop Screen is The Geek Show's new podcast tackling movies starring, about or by pop stars - and that's all genres, from rock to hip-hop, jazz to disco. Each week Graham and one of his stable of trusty…