Listeners, are you in the mood for some folk horror? Some folk horror with Bjork? Some, if you will, fjork horror? If so, do we have the podcast for you, as Aidan F rejoins the podcast to discuss this early entry in the Icelandic maverick’s small but impeccably on-brand screen […]
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Alfonso Cuaron II (Y Tu Mama Tambien & Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
What an episode we have this week. Rob is joined by Ariel & Rabia (Ride the Omnibus) to conclude our two-parter on Alfonso Cuaron, and what we have is probably our biggest left turn in the podcast’s run. To kick things off we talk about Diego Luna and Gael Garcia […]
Sinead O’Connor in the Butcher Boy – Pop Screen 80
Listeners, are you aware that Shuhada Sadaqat – or Sinead O’Connor, as she was – once played the Virgin Mary? If that sounds like a provocative idea, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Neil Jordan’s The Butcher Boy is one of the darkest and most mordantly funny entries in a directorial […]
Alfonso Cuaron I (Children of Men & Roma)
Rob is joined by Graham (POP SCREEN), Mike (AUTISTIC GUIDE THROUGH HORROR) and Andy (ROAD TO KNOWHERE) to talk about one of Mexico’s finest-ever filmmakers. First up we talked about his ode to his home nation and the litany of difficulties its people suffer through, Roma. Also, it’s the first […]
Kid Cudi in X – Pop Screen 79
It’s spooky season again on Pop Screen, and this month we’re kicking off with a look at Ti West’s saucy seventies slasher X, starring Kid Cudi along with Mia Goth, Brittany Snow, Martin Henderson and Mia Goth again. And since it’s not a Halloween show without Directors Uncut host Rob, we’ve got […]
Takeshi Kitano II (Violent Cop & Zatoichi) Beat Takeshi
In the last episode, we looked at Hana-Bi and Kikujiro, besides being features from our most recently selected director, are two of the best Japanese films of the past 30 years. Picking up the baton, in this second part of Directors Uncut, Rob, along with Clinton (Twitter), dipped into the […]
The Beatles in the Yellow Submarine – Pop Screen 78
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 […]
Takeshi Kitano Part I (Hana-Bi & Kikujiro)
After visiting the more obscure side of Japanese cinema in the last episode, this time we kick off a two-parter with one of the most well-regarded names that the country produced in the modern era – Takeshi Kitano. Or Beat Takeshi as he was known when he broke through. Joined […]
OutKast in Idlewild – Pop Screen Episode 77
Ah-hah, hush that fuss, Pop Screen is back with Graham and Dreaming Machine‘s Joe to take a look at OutKast’s 2006 movie vehicle Idlewild. It’s not uncommon for rappers to make their big-screen debuts by playing gangsters, but as ever Andre 3000 and Big Boi found their own unique way of […]
Frightfest Special 2022 – Directors Uncut
In a break from the regularly scheduled programming, don’t worry, that’ll return next time, we present a mega special of last weekend’s Frightfest. Rob is joined by Kat (THR), Andrew (WHITLOCK & POPE), Vincent (Invasion of the Pody People) and Mike (Autistic Guide through Horror) to cover near enough everything […]