Cinema Eclectica

Not so much a podcast, more an epic odyssey, Cinema Eclectica 105 is heading to the wilderness. After traversing the outer reaches of Producer Rob's comic collection, we hail our slime mould overlords in bizarre new documentary The Creeping Garden, go on a Norwegian safari with Troll Hunter and make time for, er, Northumberland in Roman Polanski 's early classic Cul-de-Sac. After that, it's our berserk film of the week, with that old man Logan. He keeps on rolling along. www.thegeekshow.co.uk

This week we treat ourselves to a relaxing spa weekend, and say hello to Jason Isaacs with our film of the week. Before that, we check out psychedelic Czech vampire coming of age drama - it's a genre - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and roll six-sided dice for retro horror Beyond the Gates. After subjecting those to a Price Waterhouse Coopers level of scrutiny, it's time to book into Chateau Creepy for Gore Verbinski's A Cure for Wellness. www.thegeekshow.co.uk

There's an awful lot of people out there plying their trade in film land, some of them are real and not made up at all. This week we negotiate that minefield before looking film noir classic, Mildred Pierce, Cuba New Wave-isms with Memories of Underdevelopment and history picked from the life of Thomas More in A Man for all Seasons. If that and technology conspiring against us, we finish on the wonderful Oscar Nominee - Moonlight

On the week's podcast we contract to a threesome and offset the cream of the BAFTAs crop with 1970s exploitation. First it's the turn of Roger Corman & Vincent Price with the Tower of London, then we transition into a hundred super colourful costume changes with Blaxploitation's one and only Willie Dynamite. Our Feature Presentation is the much anticipated Lego Batman Movie. www.thegeekshow.co.uk

After the party of episode 100, the hangover: episode 101 sees Ryan, Tim, Aidan and Graham in Room 101, watching the worst cinema has to offer. There's misbegotten video game adaptations - are there any other kind? - with Hitman, dubious documentaries with Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, and then we're off to see the wizard, the not-so-wonderful Wizard of Gore. If you're one of those weirdos who insists on only watching films that are good, might we suggest our film of the week - Maren Ade's acclaimed German comedy Toni Erdmann?

100 episodes, it's been quite the ride. Join us for our centenary episode as we ignore convention and recommend each other in the spirit of festivities. And we take in seriously, again. Films featured are Castaway on the Moon, My Scientology Movie, Orson Welles's The Trial, Barton Fink and a controversial Question of the Week. Here's to the next 100.

Never one to be accused of being political, this week we had no choice in the matter. Join us as we talk movie presidents and Pablo Larrain's American debut, Jackie, Breaking that up we have a big old chat about Woody Allen with a specific focus on Zelig, Stardust Memories, and a Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy.

2017 is here and we are too. All hail Skeletor. As with the start of any new year, we are going on a diet and cutting down on all that excess fat - which means one simple thing, welcome to a new look Eclectica. Join us for Criterion's Black Orpheus, Valhalla Rising, Martin Scorsese's Silence and our feature presentation - La La Land.

Christmas is a-coming and here we have our annual special episode. We take this opportunity to look at films that look at the 25th December with a slight skew in their gaze. Films include Blast of Silence, Krampus, Three Wishes for Cinderella and Santa's Slay. Our final film of 2016 is Star Wars: Rogue One. See you all in 2017.

It's that time of the year again, that's right, it's time for us to consider all the films that we have seen in 2016 and pit them against one another in gladiatorial combat. Join us for the winners, losers and feasts aplenty. Or, to put it another way, join us for our review of 2016 where we look at the great films that make up our top 10's, pick out some choice cuts from the year in home video and rant about the worst of the worst.

This week's episode marks the beginning of yet another awards season. When will they ever end? Elsewhere on the show, we looked at Steve Martin's Roxanne, skateboarding doc Lords of Dogtown, Tom Hank's latest attempt at being a real human boy in Sully and the Adam West film, Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders. Our feature is Disney's second major film of the year - Moana.

We have our 2nd ever photo-negative show, featuring loads of new releases from all over the world. The choice cuts where Kurosawa's Creepy, Botswanan drama a United Kingdom, Robert Zemeckis's Allied and the hysteria-laden Korean horror, the Wailing. Sticking with South Korea, Kim Jee-Woon was the target of this week's directors lottery - and with that, we looked at his gonzo western, The Good, The Bad, The Weird.

The weather was as bad as Carlos Danger this week, as such the audio quality is fairly inconsistent. This week saw the return of the director's lottery, before that though we looked at the politically hilarious documentary Weiner, Early John Carpenter classic Assault on Precinct 13 before giving into peer pressure with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them. Kim Ki-Duk was the director of choice and for our feature presentation we looked at 3-Iron.

We have a new voice on the show this week and another ill one just to balance it out. Films featured where Voice without a Shadow, Michael Madsen double bill (not that one)Into Eternity and the Visit, Twilight's Last Gleaming and surreal anime Saint Young Men. We should do more anime. Our feature presentation is Denis Villeneuve's thoughtful science fiction - Arrival.

All hail our new Lizard overlord. On this week's episode, we have a rather eventful trailer watch and Question of the week section. Off the shelf featured the Sophia Loren starring Two Women, Werner Herzog's volcano doc Into the Inferno and Euro depress 'em up Aloys. This week's feature presentation is Nocturnal Animals.

It's our Halloween special! As ever we do away with conventions to bring you something a little different, so we present to you "Screams around the World". Films included this week escalate a little, we have Haxan and Frontier(s) before going off the deep end with Dracula in Pakistan and the legendarily weird J-Horror, Hausu. Our Feature Presentation is the highly acclaimed Zombie Film - Train to Busan.

This week's title was brought to you by Letterboxd user Ned Gilmore and this week's featured film is a streaming title - all the rules are being broken today. We look at De Palma's Body Double as a new Label is launched, silent cold doc The Epic of Everest and Frankenheimer oddity 52 Pickup. Our feature presentation was Adam Curtis' new film Hypernormalisation.

This week on the show we trade Rob's, for technical reasons, of course. We look at Zulawski's baffling final film Cosmos, notorious video nasty The Burning and Murnau's The Grand Duke's Finances. Our Feature Presentation doubled up and mutated a second Werner Herzog-shaped head as we looked at the German eccentrics new documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, and John Michael McDonagh's latest War on Everyone.

Between the madness of being a bit ill and accidental necrophilia, it's something of an eventful show. This week we look at Billy Wilder's Fedora, art-house oddity Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, 80s High Camp Horror in Vamp and the doubly divisive Love & Friendship. Our film of the week is Sundance favourite, Swiss Army Man.

As we travel the country this week, we learn that the big news has been following us. Conspiracy! Also, we look at Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix, Kubrick's Paths of Glory, and the accidental creation of the oddest of double bill's in Second Run's Electra, My Love and Otto Preminger's musical Carmen Jones. Our feature presentation was the surprise package that was The Girl with all the Gifts.