Strap in and get ready for a wild ride, because this week on Pop Screen Graham and Mark are explaining Holy Motors. No false advertising, no ironic trickery – we guarantee that a viable interpretation of Leos Carax’s infamous 2012 head-scrambler will be posited as we travel through each of […]
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Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations – Literary Loitering 129
So 2020 is over, but thanks to some cunning and stealthy arrangements our cultural anarchists hid away a couple of episodes. This time around we have tales of a secret but obvious message left by a librarian, an art dealer’s racist selfies, a scholar who lied about their race, a […]
Wild Zero: Pop Screen Episode 3
Love knows no boundaries, nor does rock, and nor does Pop Screen, which journeys outside of Britain for the first time to look at Wild Zero, a delirious horror-comedy-musical road movie starring the uncompromisingly rock-oriented band Guitar Wolf. Join Graham and Rob as they try and piece together what they’ve […]
Spice World: Pop Screen Episode #2
That’s right, it’s the Spice Girls! And they’re dressed as each other! Isn’t it a howl? If you do not, in fact, think it’s a howl, their film Spice World might be a bit of a slog – yet despite near-universal disdain from critics it remains the all-time highest-grossing movie […]
A Hard Day’s Night: Pop Screen #1
The Geek Show’s new podcast about pop stars in the movies couldn’t start with any other film. It’s 1964, the Beatles are running away from a mob of schoolgirls, and Richard Lester is about to reinvent the rock and roll movie with A Hard Day’s Night. But how did this […]
Venom For Beginners – 4-Panel Vol. 3, Issue 18
When it comes to comic-book characters there are few that are as weird as Marvel’s chompy tentacle monster known as Venom. But where does the symbiotic goop that makes up Venom come from? Why is it obsessed with Spider-Man? Why is there a bizarre ménage-a-trois between Flash Thomson, Eddie Brock […]
Sherrington’s New Steampunk Balls – Literary Loitering 128
The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find strange tidings that include tales of someone doing something nice on Twitter, Logjam Day, re-issuing books under their author’s original pen-names, stage performances on Zoom, lectures from […]
Wes Anderson’s Tommy Knockers – Literary Loitering 127
Cultural anarchy is the order of the day as the Literary Loitering gang sashay back into the foreground with a pocket full of news and other oddities. On this episode we’ve got dead language confusion involving the tag line of Sean Hannity’s new book, John Boyne’s surprising connection to The […]
The Wicker Man & The Final Episode of Cinema Eclectica (277)
It’s time for our Halloween special, and it’s a very special Halloween special this year. Not only is it our last episode, but we’re reviewing our favourite horror movies! First up, Mick nearly breaks the purpose of the show by questioning whether The Wicker Man is a horror movie or […]
Morgiana – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 276
Our last Director’s Lottery* sees us tackle one of Graham’s beloved Czechoslovak New Wave directors – Juraj Herz, the thrilling maniac behind The Cremator. We chose his 1972 Gothic fantasy Morgiana, which is less viciously political than his best-known film but equally mad, and equally replete with fish-eye lenses. In […]