It was sixty years ago… well, not today, exactly, but soon, when the Beatles released their first single, so to celebrate Pop Screen is returning to their screen canon for the first time since our very first episode. An experimental, influential animated freak-out, Yellow Submarine was made to fill out the […]
Animation
10 of the Best theme songs in animated shows!
Lots of TV shows have great theme songs and animated shows are no exception. Music taste is of course a very subjective and personal thing. So instead of attempting to present a ‘comprehensive’ list, our podcasters on the Dreaming Machine have each picked their personal “best theme songs”, no matter […]
Makoto Shinkai (Your Name & Journey to Agartha)
Rene Laloux (Fantastic Planet & Time Masters)
Daft Punk & Interstella 5555 – Pop Screen 59
Journey to the Beginning of Time: an astonishing arsenal of animator’s tricks (Review)
S16E10 – The Nicholas Cage of Seagulls
Everyone’s favourite magnificently moustachioed news podcast returns with more strange tales from the realms of science, technology and entertainment, and this episode we’re starting with Huawei’s claims about their new operating system. In other news, we get our first look at the live-action version of Disney’s Mulan, legendary anime movie […]
My Laudanum Hell – Literary Loitering 105
Missing Link – Classic Film Kid
SPOILER ALERT Ladies and gentleman, my favourite animation company has returned with a new stop-motion adventure comedy. So, you know what this means? Review time! Hello everyone, Classic Film Kid here, and today I am so excited as I’m going to be taking a quick look at American-Canadian stop motion […]
Keyframe 141 – Burly Men With Powers
The last decade has seen many changes in mainstream media, but possibly the most surprising has been the massive rise in popularity of superheroes – thanks in no small part to the MCU, the DCEU, and Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. What’s interesting though, is that superheroes have always been popular […]