2022 is done and dusted, and with that comes the inevitable best-of-the-year show. But this time, things have taken a turn of the behemothic. This is part two, you can find part one featuring the 10-6 picks on our sister podcast, Pop Screen. On this huge lad of 2022 coverage, […]
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Pop Screen’s Best of 2022 (Bonus)
This week on Pop Screen there’s a new Sherrif in town. Well, just for this one single episode, anyway. This is Rob of Directors Uncut typing right now. Pop Screen has crossed over with our sister podcast, Directors Uncut, for an epic review of 2022. You can already find part […]
Lou Reed in Velvet Underground – Pop Screen 85
The year is nearly done, but Pop Screen lingers on with an episode about Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground. Covering the turbulent career of one of the most confrontational yet influential bands of the 1960s, it’s a film that’s got everything from deep discussions of minimalist composition to amusing […]
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner & Gladiator)
Merry Christmas Friends! And just to show how well I planned in advance, here’s what is totally a Christmas special. Yeah, absolutely a Christmas episode. Yeah, it’s clearly not. It is part one of a discussion of Ridley Scott, the second will drop in the new year. For now, though, […]
Whitney Houston in the Bodyguard – Pop Screen 84
[drum hit] AND IIIII-EEE-AAAYYY… Yes, some songs are born Christmassy, some achieve Christmasiness, and some have Christmas thrust upon them, as is the case with Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You. Arguably the best-remembered Christmas number one of the nineties, it prompted us to make […]
Na Hong-Jin (the Chaser & The Wailing)
We have escaped from the seemingly never-ending run of two partners and where should we find ourselves but Korea? Rob is joined by Ygraine (What a Scream) and Graham (Pop Screen) to discuss the work of Na Hong-Jin, who may not have a big body of work but he does […]
Toyah Wilcox in Second City Firsts – Pop Screen 83
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 […]
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 […]