Pop Screen has confronted some horrors in its recent Halloween month, but nothing like what Graham and Mark come up against this week: Noel Edmonds. The DJ-turned-mystical guru pops up in Glitter, one of two episodes of the 1970s anthology series Second City Firsts that feature pop stars, and it’s […]
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Stanley Kubrick II (2001: A Space Odyssey & The Shining)
Join us for the concluding part of our look at Stanley Kubrick, and this time out we hit two of his biggest and most influential films. Rob is joined by Gav (My Favourite Film) & Vincent (Invasion of the Pody People), and first, we look at the godfather of the […]
Weird Al Yankovich in UHF – Pop Screen 82
This week, Pop Screen is taking you to Spatula City with this episode about America’s pre-eminent polka-crazed pop parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic and his 1989 film UHF. Prior to this month’s parody biopic Weird – in which he’s played by Daniel Radcliffe, in Radcliffe’s second era-defining role after Swiss Army […]
Stanley Kubrick I (A Clockwork Orange & Barry Lyndon)
We are stuck in a loop here on Directors Uncut, double episode after double episode. This time though, we are in the territory of all-time greats – Stanley Kubrick. Joined by Cliff (Devil Times Five) Andrew (Whitlock and Pope) and Oliver (Left Lion Screen), we look at two wildly […]
Bjork in the Juniper Tree – Pop Screen 81
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 […]
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 […]