We have a couple of jazz-themed tasters from the print issue.

As most of our readers must be well aware by now given the amount of media attention it is generating, it is 40 years since May 68 and to do our bit to mark that most tumultuous of years we have turned our attention to Czech cinema and the Prague Spring.

Time to don your tin foil suit and X-Ray glasses: the Sci-Fi London Film Festival is back for its 7th edition!

This month is a girl special to coincide with International Women’s Day and the Bird’s Eye View Film Festival. While this year’s Bird’s Eye View focuses on women in comedy we thought we’d celebrate the bad girls of cinema.

It’s been one year since Electric Sheep came into this world, first as a webzine, then mutating into a print-web hybrid last September. We started off with the aim of celebrating dark, wondrous and magical cinematic worlds, and over the past year we’ve had Jean Painlevé’s erotic molluscs, Yasuzo Masumura’s convulsive heroines, René Laloux’s shape-shifting aliens, Monte Hellman’s melancholy anti-heroes and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s anarchic concoctions. Yep, mission accomplished, now let’s have some more.

In an effort to be seasonal, we’ve made excess the overriding theme of the issue. First, we gorged ourselves on RW Fassbinder’s 15-hour-plus Berlin Alexanderplatz, a fascinating chronicle of the murky, unwholesome world of 1920s Berlin: hard on the stomach and queasiness-inducing at times, but certainly worth the resultant hangover.

Our focus this month is on the wondrous world created by French animation master René Laloux. Although Fantastic Planet and Gandahar have been hugely influential they have been rarely screened in the last two decades. Eureka have now released all three of Laloux’s features in the UK, making their other-worldly visual delights and philosophical musings finally accessible to a wider audience.

Adhering to the cheap-and-fast work ethic of his producer Roger Corman, Monte Hellman made some of the most singular American films of the 60s and 70s.

This month we have a special feature on Raindance, one of the most exciting film festivals in the UK, celebrating original, unconventional and daring cinema.

This month our focus is on the delirious pop cinema of Seijun Suzuki.