This episode of Pop Screen is about the rivalry between ’90s psych-rock revivalists The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre – and if you think that’s a niche subject for a film, that’s how Ondi Timoner’s DiG! came across before its premiere in 2004. Yet it was immediately and […]
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James Wan PART ONE (Saw & Insidious) Podcast
The first pure horror podcast in a while for Directors Uncut. Join Kat, Liz, and Cliff as we talk about one of the most successful horror directors of all time, especially if you are looking at box offices. The first movie we covered was Wan’s breakout and ground zero for a long-running franchise about […]
Johnny Cash in a Gunfight – Pop Screen 90
Some pop stars like to take the easy route into acting by starring opposite lightweight co-stars. And then there’s Johnny Cash, whose acting debut in 1971’s A Gunfight sees him playing alongside no less than Kirk Douglas, with Karen Black, Jane Alexander and a young Keith Carradine in support. It […]
Juraj Herz (The Cremator & Ferat Vampire)
And so we stumble on our second unofficial Second Run episode, following Karel Zeman. Rob is joined by Graham (Pop Screen) & Aidan (Letterboxd) for a reunion of the Cinema Eclectica podcast. This time we discuss one of the big daddies of the Czech New Wave, Juraj Herz, the sort […]
Terry Hall, Madness, The Beat, and More in Dance Craze – Pop Screen 89
The shocking death of Terry Hall at the end of 2022 sent Pop Screen back to this document of him in his prime: Dance Craze, a relentlessly energetic concert film showcasing all the greats from the first wave of British ska. As well as Hall with The Specials, there are […]
Anders Thomas Jensen (The Green Butchers & Riders of Justice)
We’ve had our mid-season mini-break and we return with one for all your Mads Mikkelsen superfans. On this episode, I was joined by Ariel (Ride the Omnibus) & Graham (Pop Screen) to discuss the Scandinavian absurdist, Anders Thomas Jensen. Now if that name isn’t immediately familiar, worry not, all you […]
Sonny Bono in Escape to Athena – Pop Screen 88
Can you believe Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, David Niven, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Mr Bronson from Grange Hill were in the same movie once? We can’t – and this is before you get to lovely old Roger Moore playing a Wehrmacht captain! It can only be Escape to Athena, […]
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson – Pop Screen 87
Wilko Johnson, the Dr Feelgood guitarist with the eyes of a killer and the legs of a Riverdancer, died last November, which sent Aidan and Graham back to his previous obituary. Made as the pub rock pioneer fought an apparently terminal cancer, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson is less a […]
Ridley Scott (Alien + Thelma & Louise)
After that distraction that was the 2022 review and the launch of a spin-off podcast, we are back to our normally scheduled episodes. Last time we looked at Gladiator & Blade Runner, two very masculine classics from Ridley Scott’s vast and important filmography. This time, we look at two films […]
Joanna Newsom in Inherent Vice – Pop Screen 86
Hey you! Pop Screen welcomes in 2023 with a dose of los paranoias as Graham and Rob tackle Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. The only adaptation – and likely to remain that way – of a Thomas Pynchon novel, it has an all-star cast headed up by Joaquin Phoenix’s stoner […]