Pop Screen’s Oscar month continues with one of the 21st century’s biggest collectors of little bald gold men – Rob Marshall’s Chicago. Among its twelve nominations and six wins was a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1990s hip-hop stalwart Queen Latifah, who gets a solo number crammed with innuendo, but […]
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Wes Craven – Part Two (Scream & New Nightmare)
First-ever two-parter here on Directors Uncut, so, welcome back Wes Craven! In the last episode, we looked at two outliers in Cursed & the Last House on the Left, now we get real up close and personal with two of his most well-regarded films – New Nightmare (1994) and Scream […]
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Pop Screen 56
Pop Screen’s Oscar month goes back to, er, 2021 with the film widely predicted to win Chadwick Boseman a posthumous Oscar – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Less a biopic of the titular blues singer and more a drama about temptation and (often racial) exploitation adapted from August Wilson’s play, it […]
HAIM & Licorice Pizza – Pop Screen 55
Licorice Pizza (2021) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson March is Oscar month on Pop Screen, and as luck would have it one of this year’s frontrunners is absolutely made for us. A goofy, shaggy 1970s coming-of-age comedy featuring a Tom Waits cameo, the entire band HAIM and their parents – seriously, […]
Wes Craven – Part 1 (Last House on the Left & Cursed)
This week on Director Uncut we have our first ever two-parter, the lucky filmmaker? Wes Craven! In this first part, Rob is joined by Cliff (Devil Times Five) and Kat (The Hollywood News), where we talk about 1972’s controversial classic, The Last House on the Left and 2005’s Cursed. An […]
Jim Morrison & The Doors – Pop Screen 54
What kind of film do you think the above image is from, listeners? If you answered “Why, a biopic of a 1960s rock band, of course”, congratulations – you are Oliver Stone, and this is an episode of Pop Screen about your 1991 film The Doors. Join Doors fan Aidan […]
John Waters – Multiple Maniacs & Hairspray (1988) Directors Uncut IV
Once more into the Patreon archives we go, this time we return with our wildest director to date – John Waters. The one of a kind, beautiful soul, that is, John Waters. Rob and Waters diehard Graham talk about two films. The first sees us talk about his early sleazy […]
Norah Jones + My Blueberry Nights (Pop Screen 53)
Back in 2007, Wong Kar-Wai could have done anything for his first American film. What he chose to do was cast easy-jazz chanteuse Norah Jones in a road movie where she would play alongside David Straithairn, Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Natalie Portman, and tell her not to take acting […]
Frank Sinatra + The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Pop Screen 52
The 1960s were, depending on your viewpoint, either the best or the worst time to release a film about political assassinations, and there weren’t many wilder examples than John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate. A wildly paranoid tale of a returning military veteran convinced that one of his brothers-in-arms is now […]
Vanilla Ice + Cool As Ice – Pop Screen Episode 51
Looky looky at our black booky: this week Pop Screen is looking at an artefact of the utmost early ’90sness, Vanilla Ice’s first and only starring vehicle Cool As Ice. Deeply influenced by the teen rebel films of the 1950s and shot by Spielberg’s future DoP Janusz Kaminski, these classy […]