There are some pop movies that capture the appeal of an entire genre. Such was the case with Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come, a crime drama that was such a hit it essentially popularised reggae in the United States. Such things are possible only with a star of the […]
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Lol Creme (10cc) with the Lunatic (1991) – Episode 115
In 2024, Pop Screen is spending a month in Jamaica, hailing the island’s mighty presence in the field of music. And to kick off, we’re talking about… er, 10cc? Yes, when they said they don’t like reggae, they love it, few could have expected that love would manifest itself in […]
Revisionist Westerns 1970s (High Plains Drifter & More)
For the second of this month’s Genres Uncut episodes, never say that we don’t cover movies that aren’t my speed. While I may not be a fan of Westerns, I have been joined by people a lot more enthusiastic to talk about this Historic American Genre. We welcome back Mark, […]
The Alarm in Vinyl (2012) – Episode 114
In 2004, the veteran Welsh rock band The Alarm pulled off an audacious hoax, releasing their single ’45 RPM’ under the alias of The Poppy Fields. The Poppy Fields were supposedly a new band of teenage rock stars in skinny jeans, as was the style at the time. As the […]
S03E12 – Folk Horror 1970s (Blood on Satan’s Claw, Penda’s Fen & More)
We are back to the cycle of Genre’s Uncut and this time we are making camp in the 1970s. Rob is joined by Graham and Robyn again for organised chaos, but in a more precise way we have come together to talk about English Folk Horror from the 1970s. Specifially, […]
Cyndi Lauper in Vibes (1988) – Episode 113
Good vibes only this week, as Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult rejoins the podcast to talk about Cyndi Lauper’s lead role in the 1988 supernatural comedy Vibes. A film so inspired by Ghostbusters that Dan Aykroyd was briefly attached to star, it has an enviable cast fronted by Lauper, […]
S03E11 – Robert Mitchum (Night of the Hunter, Out of the Past & More)
And we are back after a New Year break to finish off our month of Actors Uncut with the legendary Robert Mitchum! Rob is joined by Aidan, Graham and a debuting Mark to talk about the classic film noir Out of the Past, the legendary one and done of Night […]
Mick Jagger in Performance (1970) – Episode 112
Memo to you: Pop Screen is back for 2024 and we’re covering one of the wildest, most controversial and most ambitious rock movies of the 1970s. Starring Mick Jagger among a motley cast of models, gangsters, boxers and one father of a national embarrassment, Performance saw Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell […]
Uncut Review of 2023
Mamma Mia, here we go again. 2023 is done and dusted and it’s that time of the year for all podcasts to come together and review the past 12 months. Instead of a bog standard top 10 run down we are trying something different. Once again though, collaborating with our […]
Metallica in Some Kind of Monster (2004) -Episode 111
Pop Screen finishes 2023 with a movie that could not be less stock to our ears – Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. Granted unprecedented levels of access to the world’s biggest heavy metal band, the directors of the Paradise Lost trilogy made a raw documentary […]