First things first, apologies about the audio quality. We know what caused it, and it won’t happen again – still, we are sorry. Now that is over and done with, Join Rob and his co-host, Graham, as they look at the highest-profile director we’ve had to date. You know a […]
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Nirvana + Cobain – Montage of Heck – Pop Screen 49
Pop Screen makes another foray into the documentary realm this week, with Aidan rejoining regular host Graham to look at Brett Morgen’s Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck. An ambitious film rooted as much in its subject’s imagination as it is the facts of his life, it was highly acclaimed […]
Robert Hamer (It Always Rains on Sunday & Kind Hearts and Coronets)
This week both Rob & Graham (Horrified, Pop Screen) will be performed by Alec Guinness. Yeah, we are impressed too. The lucky director that is the subject of our attention is Robert Hamer, most famous for his work on legendary Ealing comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets. Alongside that titan of […]
Prince + Purple Rain – Pop Screen Episode 50
Pop Screen is 50 episodes old! To celebrate, we’ve got Gav Smith from the My Favourite Film podcast back in to cover one of the big names (in terms of profile, if not in height) that we haven’t covered so far – Prince, and his blockbuster first movie Purple Rain. Gav is […]
The Monkees & Head – Pop Screen 48
A pop movie is normally a chance to consolidate, rather than destroy, an image, which is why the Monkees’ sole trip in front of the camera is such a strange affair. Produced by BBS Productions at the same time as they were making Easy Rider – and with the Dennis […]
Toshiaki Toyoda (Blue Spring & Monsters Club)
We’ve had the fun of the annual review, it’s time to get back to business. Joining Rob are show-regular, Graham (Horrified & Pop Screen), and Robert Edwards (YouTube), to talk about cult-Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda. We talk about his 2001 anti-delinquent movie, Blue Spring. Then, we follow that up by […]
Joe Strummer, The Pogues: Straight to Hell – Pop Screen Episode 47
After making one of the definitive rock biopics with Sid & Nancy, Alex Cox was hired to document The Pogues, Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello as they toured Nicaragua. When it was decided that sending a bunch of rock stars to tour a country which had recently been at war […]
2021 in Review (top 10 of 2021)
We are a podcast, we are going to do an episode where we review the past 12 months in cinema. Those are the rules. However, it is much, much more epic than usual with us clocking in at the average length of your average action blockbuster. And, this year Rob […]
Slade in Flame (1975) – Pop Screen Episode 46
Cum on Feel the Podcazt! This week Pop Screen celebrates the festive period with a band who, without a sleigh bell in earshot, conjure up the spirit of Christmas. It can only be Slade, who got debutant director Richard Loncraine to make their one and only feature film, the oft-mistitled […]
Sparks & Annette – Pop Screen Episode 45
Pop Screen is going all topical this week, eschewing our usual cult classics and reviewing a film released this year – so be warned, there are spoilers! It’s Annette, an extraordinary, divisive musical by extraordinary, divisive director Leos Carax, with a full original score by extraord… you get the picture, […]