Pop Screen doesn’t cover much metal, and a cynical listener might counter that we’re not about to start now, as we look at the 2019 Netflix film The Dirt. A biopic of Motley Crue, it offers a visceral look at sex, drugs and rock and roll, but maybe not enough into why hair metal (the stuff Americans heretically call “glam rock”) remains so divisive.
To address this and so many other questions, Graham is joined by Kat from The Hollywood News to talk about their mutual soft spot for the much-maligned rock biopic genre, our feelings on the Crue and the grunge scene that essentially ended their career, and how well the film handles its many darker strands. We are gentler on Machine Gun Kelly than you might think, though there’s a good Eminem diss if that’s your thing.
If you want to give us a slice of your pie, you can donate to our Patreon where all sorts of things are going on – Graham is winding down his Doctor Who reviews and starting on The X-Files, Rob is championing Asian films that don’t have UK distribution, our TV and film miscellany podcast Last Night… goes from strength to strength… oh yeah, and there’s an exclusive episode of this show coming out tomorrow, about Rudy Wurlitzer and Robert Frank’s rock road trip movie Candy Mountain.
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