Tupac in Gridlock’d – Pop Screen 127

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On 13th September 1996, Tupac Shakur died in a still-unexplained killing (well, unless Eminem just blew the case wide open). It left a lot of things in limbo, including Vondie Curtis-Hall’s spiky, charming directorial debut. Nobody wanted to see a crime comedy starring someone who’d just been the victim of […]

The Weeknd in The Idol – Pop Screen 121

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Ladies and gentlemen, The Weeknd. To celebrate – ‘celebrate’ – the first anniversary of one of the defining pop star ego trips of our age, Graham and Robyn have reconvened to look at all six – no, wait, all five – episodes of Sam Levinson’s disasterpiece. If you’re wondering why […]