Revisionist Westerns 1970s (High Plains Drifter & More)

Archaeon 01/03/2024

For the second of this month’s Genres Uncut episodes, never say that we don’t cover movies that aren’t my speed. While I may not be a fan of Westerns, I have been joined by people a lot more enthusiastic to talk about this Historic American Genre. We welcome back Mark, […]

The Alarm in Vinyl (2012) – Episode 114

Archaeon 22/02/2024

In 2004, the veteran Welsh rock band The Alarm pulled off an audacious hoax, releasing their single ’45 RPM’ under the alias of The Poppy Fields. The Poppy Fields were supposedly a new band of teenage rock stars in skinny jeans, as was the style at the time. As the […]

S03E12 – Folk Horror 1970s (Blood on Satan’s Claw, Penda’s Fen & More)

Archaeon 16/02/2024

We are back to the cycle of Genre’s Uncut and this time we are making camp in the 1970s. Rob is joined by Graham and Robyn again for organised chaos, but in a more precise way we have come together to talk about English Folk Horror from the 1970s. Specifially, […]

Cyndi Lauper in Vibes (1988) – Episode 113

Archaeon 08/02/2024

Good vibes only this week, as Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult rejoins the podcast to talk about Cyndi Lauper’s lead role in the 1988 supernatural comedy Vibes. A film so inspired by Ghostbusters that Dan Aykroyd was briefly attached to star, it has an enviable cast fronted by Lauper, […]

Mick Jagger in Performance (1970) – Episode 112

Archaeon 25/01/2024

Memo to you: Pop Screen is back for 2024 and we’re covering one of the wildest, most controversial and most ambitious rock movies of the 1970s. Starring Mick Jagger among a motley cast of models, gangsters, boxers and one father of a national embarrassment, Performance saw Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell […]

Uncut Review of 2023

Archaeon 11/01/2024

Mamma Mia, here we go again. 2023 is done and dusted and it’s that time of the year for all podcasts to come together and review the past 12 months. Instead of a bog standard top 10 run down we are trying something different. Once again though, collaborating with our […]

Metallica in Some Kind of Monster (2004) -Episode 111

Archaeon 10/01/2024

Pop Screen finishes 2023 with a movie that could not be less stock to our ears – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Granted unprecedented levels of access to the world’s biggest heavy metal band, the directors of the Paradise Lost trilogy made a raw documentary […]

S03E10 – Michael Caine (Muppets Christmas Carol, The Prestige & Get Carter)

Archaeon 22/12/2023

It’s only a Christmas Special. Join Rob and his guest co-hosts, Vincent and Graham, as we talk about royalty of the British screen, Michael Caine. We look at three vastly different eras of his career. We have Get Carter, then his collaborations with Christopher Nolan with the Prestige and then […]

Mariah Carey in Glitter (2001) – Episode 110

Archaeon 13/12/2023

All we want for Christmas is this: Mariah Carey’s notorious film vehicle is the subject of Pop Screen’s festive episode. Equally reviled and unfortunate, it’s the tale of a foster child who grows up into an aspiring singer, and whose rise to fame is, shall we say, subtly patterned on […]

S03E09 – Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive & The Neon Demon)

Archaeon 08/12/2023

No Christmas Special yet, that is next time out, but we do have an almighty fan favourite – or he was for a few years anyway. Join Rob, Vincent and a debuting Simon as we talk about the Danish agent provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn. Specifically, we talk about his 2011 […]

Climax (2018) Gasper Noe: The Dark Lord of Dance (Review)

Metropolitan (1990) Whit Stillman’s Comedy of High Society Manners (Review)

Current (1964): a calm surface with a darker undertow (Review)

Le Corbeau (1943) All too relevant given the current state of global politics (Review)

Europa (2022): gripping outsider’s view of Fortress Europe (Review)

Topsy-Turvy (1999) Mike Leigh’s chaotic ode to the theatre (Review)

Space Battleship Yamato (2010): Sci-Fi Throwback that rarely steps out of the shadow of fandom

Distant Journey (1949) a nihilistic vision of Nazi persecution (Review)

The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021) Teenage Kicks Get Puritanical (DVD Review)

The Whisper of Silence (2020) Fascinatingly Meditative Yet Risks Aimlessness at Times (Review)

Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2015) Sobering portrait of Japanese loneliness (Review)

Film / NotFilm (1965/2015) Samuel Beckett only foray and Buster Keaton’s final one (Review)

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