We hope all our American listeners had a happy Life Day recently – if not, let this week’s Pop Screen put you in the party mood. In 1978, just one year after A New Hope was released, the stars of George Lucas’s original blockbuster reconvened for a bizarrely misconceived variety […]
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Beats, Rhymes & Life: A Tribe Called Quest – Pop Screen 43
Shahid Mohammed, cut it with precision: this week Pop Screen is going back to the Daisy Age of hip-hop with Michael Rapaport’s documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest. Somewhat incredibly the first ever documentary about a hip-hop band, this warts-and-all look at Tribe’s history […]
Bob Geldof & I’m Not There – Pop Screen Episode 42
Pop Screen is back, back, back with Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan (x2) as Cult Following‘s Ewan Gleadow rejoins Graham to talk about I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’s surreal anti-biopic with six different stars embodying different aspects of Dylan’s persona. There’s Cate Blanchett as the controversially-electrified superstar Dylan, Christian Bale […]
Pink Floyd The Wall – Pop Screen 41
Hey you! It’s time for Pop Screen to tackle one of the earliest, most expensive and most flamboyant product of the 1980s crossover between music video and cinema: Pink Floyd – The Wall. Based closely on Roger Waters’s semi-autobiographical songs, director Alan Parker and animator Gerald Scarfe produced an epic […]
Debbie Harry & Videodrome – Pop Screen 40
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween, obviously – and Pop Screen is convening Graham, Rob and Mick to discuss one of the all-time great horror movies featuring a pop star – David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, featuring Blondie’s Debbie Harry as a media psychotherapist who discovers a conspiracy […]
Glenn Danzig & Verotika – Pop Screen 39
Verotika, 2020, USA, Dir. Glen Danzig Since its premiere at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse festival, Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika has gone down in legend. Not a good legend, but then as Countess Elizabeth Bathory would tell you not all legends are good. This week on Pop Screen, Ewan Gleadow from Cult […]
Janelle Monae & Antebellum – Pop Screen 38
Antebellum, 2020, USA, Dir. Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz Well, we’re certainly not pro-bellum. This week Mick from Behold! pod joins us again to look at a film that seems to have everything going for it: a pair of hotly-tipped debuting directors, a provocative, mind-bending premise, and a quality cast. […]
George Clinton & Cosmic Slop – Pop Screen 37
Cosmic Slop, 1994, USA, Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin & Kevin Rodney Sullivan(George Clinton /Funkadelic) A trilogy of Black horror and science fiction tales, hosted by the disembodied floating head of funk legend George Clinton? It happened! Kicking off Pop Screen’s Halloween month, Geek Show kingpin Rob joins us once again […]
PJ Harvey & A Dog Called Money – Pop Screen 36
A dog called money, 2019, Ireland/ United Kingdom/ United States, Dir. Seamus Murphy (PJ Harvey) This week, Pop Screen has been thinking about a line drawn in the sand: specifically, a line drawn between the reasonable criticisms of PJ Harvey’s 2016 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, and the ones […]
Ill Manors & Plan B – Pop Screen 35
Ill Manors, 2012, United Kingdom, Dir. Plan B Oi! I said oi! Pop Screen has its hardest-hitting episode this week – yes, perhaps even grittier than Spice World – with Ben “Plan B” Drew’s directorial debut Ill Manors. A multi-stranded tale of drug-dealing, deprivation and all-round dodginess in Forest Gate, […]