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Holy Days (2026) Your Granny’s Feel-Good Movie of the Year
Vampire’s Kiss (1988) The Patient Zero of Nicolas Cage Performances
Hellcat (2025) Breathes Fresh Life into One-Location Horror
Jiří Trnka – Puppet Master: The Czech Year (1947), Old Czech Legends (1953), The Hand (1965)
Stolen Kingdom (2026) – A whole new world behind the curtain
Dead Man’s Shoes (2004) A Taut and Terrifying Tale of Abuse and Revenge
Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain (1972 & 1974) Unabashed horror that puts most feature lengths to shame
Cruel Hands (2026) A Grim and Tense Domestic Horror of Flight and Fire
Into the Forest: Folktales at DEFA (1955-77) The Film That Made Paul Whitehouse Pee His Pants (as a child)
Desperate Living (1977) The darkest, cruellest, and most shocking entry in Waters’ Trash Trilogy
The Odyssey (2026) Grounded & Terrifying, Nolan’s Boldest Adaptation to Date
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 4K (1974) – an underrated work from a legendary filmmaker

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Frightfest Special 2024 (Shelby Oaks, Strange Darling & More) Uncut Podcast

Archaeon 30/08/2024
Frightfest Special 2024 (Shelby Oaks, Strange Darling & More) Uncut Podcast

It’s that time of the year again, August bank holiday has just gone, so it can only mean one thing – Frightfest. Rob is joined by Kat (⁠Hollywood News)⁠, Mike (⁠Autistic Guide to Horror⁠), Mal and Sarah to discuss their highlights of the, now 25 year old, Horror Film Festival. […]

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Lauren Bacall (Key Largo, Written on the Wind and More) Uncut Podcast

Archaeon 16/08/2024
Lauren Bacall (Key Largo, Written on the Wind and More) Uncut Podcast

This week on the Uncut Network we have another Actors Episode on our hands, another legend too with Lauren Bacall. To discuss this star actor and legend, Rob is joined by Graham (⁠Pop Screen⁠), Vincent (⁠Invasion of the Poddy People⁠) and Jimmy (⁠Filmmaker⁠) to discuss a triple bill in the […]

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Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird, and More) Uncut Podcast

Archaeon 02/08/2024
Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird, and More) Uncut Podcast

This time on Uncut we are heading to Classic Era Hollywood with one of the great movie stars, Gregory Peck. Rob is joined by Graham (⁠Pop Screen⁠), Clotilde (⁠Twitter⁠), and Aidan (⁠LB⁠) to talk about Gregory Peck through three different eras of his illustrious career. We start off in the […]

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Mae West in Sextette – Pop Screen 125

Archaeon 24/07/2024
Mae West in Sextette – Pop Screen 125

When David and Graham are on the show together, you should be on high alert for a camp catastrophe, and lord do we get it in the form of Ken Hughes’s Sextette. An innuendo-stuffed sex farce starring Mae West, it could have been a smash hit if it was made […]

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Part 1 (Cure, Chime & More) UNCUT PODCAST

Archaeon 19/07/2024
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Part 1 (Cure, Chime & More) UNCUT PODCAST

If you ever do anything when ill, make sure you have three thoughtful and intelligent people with you to back you up. That’s what happened on this week’s episode, with Amber, Andrew & Mike doing some incredible heavy lifting. Together we look at the filmography of the other Kurosawa to […]

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Adam Faith in What a Whopper! Pop Screen 124

Archaeon 10/07/2024
Adam Faith in What a Whopper! Pop Screen 124

What was the British pop movie like before The Beatles? They were quite a lot like What a Whopper, as Graham and Mark discover this week. A featherweight farce in which a struggling writer and his bohemian friends try to fake a Loch Ness Monster sighting – just go with […]

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Rob Reiner (Misery, Princess Bride & More) UNCUT PODCAST

Archaeon 05/07/2024
Rob Reiner (Misery, Princess Bride & More) UNCUT PODCAST

We return to the Directors cycle with a director responsible for a legendary run of movies from the 1980s to mid 90s, Rob Reiner. Joined by a debuting Charlotte (⁠Twitter⁠) & Graham (⁠Pop Screen⁠), we discuss a holy trinity of classics, starting with 1984’s This is Spinal Tap, 1987’s the […]

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1990s Creature Features: Arachnophobia, Lake Placid & More (PODCAST)

Archaeon 21/06/2024
1990s Creature Features: Arachnophobia, Lake Placid & More (PODCAST)

We have yet more genre specific delights this time out on Uncut. Rob is joined by Robyn (⁠Twitter⁠), Vincent (⁠Twitter⁠) and Andy (⁠Twitter⁠) to talk about the 1990s cycle of Creature Features which included everything from Anaconda to whatever those things in Tremors are. Creature Features, Animal Attacks, Nature Strikes […]

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Dolly Parton in Nine to Five – Episode 122

Archaeon 13/06/2024
Dolly Parton in Nine to Five – Episode 122

What do you get if you combine the most divisive woman in 1970s America, the least divisive woman in modern America, and a comedy legend? You get an absolute treat, at least if it goes as well as Nine to Five did. Colin Higgins’s film brings together Jane Fonda, Dolly […]

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Nancy Sinatra in The Wild Angels – Pop Screen 122

Archaeon 12/06/2024
Nancy Sinatra in The Wild Angels – Pop Screen 122

Get your motor running, head out on the highway… wait, it’s not that Peter Fonda-starring 1960s biker movie. No, The Wild Angels came a few years before Easy Rider, and it centres around a noticeably less idealistic group of bikers. Director Roger Corman hired several real Hell’s Angels to serve […]

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