A pop movie is normally a chance to consolidate, rather than destroy, an image, which is why the Monkees’ sole trip in front of the camera is such a strange affair. Produced by BBS Productions at the same time as they were making Easy Rider – and with the Dennis […]
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Toshiaki Toyoda (Blue Spring & Monsters Club)
We’ve had the fun of the annual review, it’s time to get back to business. Joining Rob are show-regular, Graham (Horrified & Pop Screen), and Robert Edwards (YouTube), to talk about cult-Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda. We talk about his 2001 anti-delinquent movie, Blue Spring. Then, we follow that up by […]
Joe Strummer, The Pogues: Straight to Hell – Pop Screen Episode 47
After making one of the definitive rock biopics with Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox was hired to document The Pogues, Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello as they toured Nicaragua. When it was decided that sending a bunch of rock stars to tour a country which had recently been at war […]
2021 in Review (top 10 of 2021)
We are a podcast, we are going to do an episode where we review the past 12 months in cinema. Those are the rules. However, it is much, much more epic than usual with us clocking in at the average length of your average action blockbuster. And, this year Rob […]
Slade in Flame (1975) – Pop Screen Episode 46
Cum on Feel the Podcazt! This week Pop Screen celebrates the festive period with a band who, without a sleigh bell in earshot, conjure up the spirit of Christmas. It can only be Slade, who got debutant director Richard Loncraine to make their one and only feature film, the oft-mistitled […]
Sparks & Annette – Pop Screen Episode 45
Pop Screen is going all topical this week, eschewing our usual cult classics and reviewing a film released this year – so be warned, there are spoilers! It’s Annette, an extraordinary, divisive musical by extraordinary, divisive director Leos Carax, with a full original score by extraord… you get the picture, […]
Jefferson Airplane & The Star Wars Holiday Special – Pop Screen Episode 44
We hope all our American listeners had a happy Life Day recently – if not, let this week’s Pop Screen put you in the party mood. In 1978, just one year after A New Hope was released, the stars of George Lucas’s original blockbuster reconvened for a bizarrely misconceived variety […]
Beats, Rhymes & Life: A Tribe Called Quest – Pop Screen 43
Shahid Mohammed, cut it with precision: this week Pop Screen is going back to the Daisy Age of hip-hop with Michael Rapaport’s documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. Somewhat incredibly the first ever documentary about a hip-hop band, this warts-and-all look at Tribe’s history […]
Bob Geldof & I’m Not There – Pop Screen Episode 42
Pop Screen is back, back, back with Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan (x2) as Cult Following‘s Ewan Gleadow rejoins Graham to talk about I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’s surreal anti-biopic with six different stars embodying different aspects of Dylan’s persona. There’s Cate Blanchett as the controversially-electrified superstar Dylan, Christian Bale […]
Pink Floyd The Wall – Pop Screen 41
Hey you! It’s time for Pop Screen to tackle one of the earliest, most expensive and most flamboyant product of the 1980s crossover between music video and cinema: Pink Floyd – The Wall. Based closely on Roger Waters’s semi-autobiographical songs, director Alan Parker and animator Gerald Scarfe produced an epic […]