Pop Screen kicks off a special month dedicated to the films of David Bowie with perhaps his last great role, as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla in Christopher Nolan’s equally enigmatic thriller. A story of magic, revenge and dead wives (look, we said it was a Christopher Nolan film), it […]
Podcasts
Karel Zeman (Invention for Destruction & Krabat, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)
Here’s the last brand new episode of season one. The rest will be Patreon migrations with extended new bits at the end, and we couldn’t have picked a better director for this – Karel Zeman. Now, I appreciate this director may not be immediately recognisable. Still, you can bet he […]
Die Antwoord in Chappie – Pop Screen 66
We normally use a still from the film for our episode image, but who could resist this photo from the premiere of Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie? It perfectly encapsulates the bizarre appeal of the film, which assembles an enviable cast of blue-chip movie stars and reliable character actors, then has them […]
Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time & The Day After)
It would’ve been very easy to use the Wrath of Khan as the episode image, but that would’ve built up false expectations from Star Trek fans and this podcast won’t be doing any of that. Star Wars neither. Instead, the image is from a 1973 film he wrote, Invasion of […]
Lulu in Gonks Go Beat – Pop Screen 65
It’s no surprise that Pop Screen keeps going back to the 1960s – in many ways, that decade saw the birth of the pop movie as a recognisable genre. That doesn’t mean that every film became a classic, although the film we’re looking at today became a cult classic of […]
Don Siegel (Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Escape from Alcatraz)
EPISODE 15 Onwards and upwards with the great Patreon Migration, this week it’s the turn of one of Clint Eastwood’s biggest directorial inspirations, Don Siegel. Rob is joined by Graham and Aidan to talk about 1956’s iconic and landmark sci-fi classic, Invasion of the Body Snatchers which isn’t quite as […]
Sharon Van Etten in Never Rarely Sometimes Always – Pop Screen 64
When Graham and Sarah decided to do an episode on Never Rarely Sometimes Always, it was not a topical film. Its storyline, about a young girl crossing state lines in order to get an abortion, now puts it at the forefront of a major American news story, but there’s much […]
Iggy Pop & Selena Gomez in the Dead Don’t Die – Pop Screen 63
Can you believe this is our first Jim Jarmusch episode? The white-haired director’s habit of casting musicians means pretty much all of his films qualify for this show, with regular collaborators including Tom Waits, Iggy Pop and RZA. All of them turn up in this, his ensemble zombie comedy from […]
Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still & Odds Against Tomorrow)
EPISODE 14 Motorboating our way through the Patreon archive, slowly but surely. This week, I am joined by Andrew (BEHOLD) and Graham (POP SCREEN) to talk about a true master of cinema who spanned all the genres and styles – Robert Wise. With a filmography that covers everything from the […]
Makoto Shinkai (Your Name & Journey to Agartha)
EPISODE 13 The Patreon migration continues, this time we have our first ever anime episode with Makoto Shinkai. A man whose career started with his bold and ambitious debut, 5 Centimeters per Second and continues to this day with his latest film, Weathering with You. Rob is joined by Graham […]