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, […]
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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 […]
S03E10 – Michael Caine (Muppets Christmas Carol, The Prestige & Get Carter)
It’s only a Christmas Special. Join Rob and his guest co-hosts, Vincent and Graham, as we talk about royalty of the British screen, Michael Caine. We look at three vastly different eras of his career. We have Get Carter, then his collaborations with Christopher Nolan with the Prestige and then […]
Mariah Carey in Glitter (2001) – Episode 110
All we want for Christmas is this: Mariah Carey’s notorious film vehicle is the subject of Pop Screen’s festive episode. Equally reviled and unfortunate, it’s the tale of a foster child who grows up into an aspiring singer, and whose rise to fame is, shall we say, subtly patterned on […]
S03E09 – Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive & The Neon Demon)
No Christmas Special yet, that is next time out, but we do have an almighty fan favourite – or he was for a few years anyway. Join Rob, Vincent and a debuting Simon as we talk about the Danish agent provocateur Nicolas Winding Refn. Specifically, we talk about his 2011 […]
Nick Cave in 20000 Days on Earth (2014) – Episode 109
Get ready for (a) love (-in): Graham is joined once again by the Uncut Network‘s Rob for a look at Iain Forsythe and Jane Pollard’s massively acclaimed sort-of documentary about Nick Cave. As well as providing an intimate look at the Australian legend’s creative process and history, it also features […]
S03E08 – The Soska Sisters (American Mary & Rabid)
We return to the lands of directors uncut for our first ever episode talking about a duo, the lucky pair are canadian fan favorites – the Soska Sisters. Joined by Kat and Kim (for the first time), we are simutaenously compelled and repelled by the body modification community in their […]