It was sixty years ago… well, not today, exactly, but soon, when the Beatles released their first single, so to celebrate Pop Screen is returning to their screen canon for the first time since our very first episode. An experimental, influential animated freak-out, Yellow Submarine was made to fill out the […]
Podcasts
Takeshi Kitano Part I (Hana-Bi & Kikujiro)
After visiting the more obscure side of Japanese cinema in the last episode, this time we kick off a two-parter with one of the most well-regarded names that the country produced in the modern era – Takeshi Kitano. Or Beat Takeshi as he was known when he broke through. Joined […]
OutKast in Idlewild – Pop Screen Episode 77
Ah-hah, hush that fuss, Pop Screen is back with Graham and Dreaming Machine‘s Joe to take a look at OutKast’s 2006 movie vehicle Idlewild. It’s not uncommon for rappers to make their big-screen debuts by playing gangsters, but as ever Andre 3000 and Big Boi found their own unique way of […]
Frightfest Special 2022 – Directors Uncut
In a break from the regularly scheduled programming, don’t worry, that’ll return next time, we present a mega special of last weekend’s Frightfest. Rob is joined by Kat (THR), Andrew (WHITLOCK & POPE), Vincent (Invasion of the Pody People) and Mike (Autistic Guide through Horror) to cover near enough everything […]
Status Quo in Bula Quo – Pop Screen 76
This week’s film is one that Graham struggles to accept really exists – which is why it’s a good job Mark Harrison from Film Stories has rejoined the podcast to reassure him that this wasn’t a hallucination. Did we really watch a movie where Status Quo try and foil SNL veteran Jon […]
Satoshi Miki (Turtles are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers & Adrift in Tokyo)
Just when you think Directors Uncut is becoming fairly predictable it throws the biggest surprise of its run, to date – a director I had no clue about, Satoshi Miki. Rob is joined by Ben (Cymreig Samurai) to talk about this obscure director of Japanese comedies. Word to the warning, […]
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson in Two-Lane Blacktop – Pop Screen 75
This week’s Pop Screen is for people who like their cars fast, their movies mellow and their Californian singer-songwriters practically horizontal, as Aidan returns to the podcast to look at Monte Hellman’s cult road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. A none-more-70s tale of dead-end lives on the open road, it owes something […]
Michael Moore (Canadian Bacon & Bowling for Columbine)
We’ve had our summer holiday, and now we are back for season 2 and back to episodes coming out every two weeks. None of that weekly nonsense again, and all the episodes are brand new – no more second-hand, hand-me-downs. Joined by Graham (POP SCREEN) & Andy (ROAD TO KNOWHERE). […]
Cherie Currie in Wavelength – Pop Screen 74
Dust off your tinfoil hats, Pop Screen is going conspiracy barmy with this week’s episode on 1983’s Wavelength. A Roger Corman-produced science fiction thriller starring The Runaways’ Cherie Currie as a psychic who guides her singer-songwriter friend towards a military base full of captured extraterrestrials, it’s notable for a great […]
Jarvis Cocker in Journeys into the Outside – Pop Screen 73
This is (for) hardcore (fans): in celebrating the work of singer, radio host, memoirist and Greatest Living Englishman Jarvis Cocker, we could have picked anything from a Wes Anderson film to a Harry Potter one. Instead, Graham and Ewan have reunited for a look at a true collectors item, his 1999 Channel […]