Wilko Johnson, the Dr Feelgood guitarist with the eyes of a killer and the legs of a Riverdancer, died last November, which sent Aidan and Graham back to his previous obituary. Made as the pub rock pioneer fought an apparently terminal cancer, The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson is less a […]
Podcasts
Ridley Scott (Alien + Thelma & Louise)
Joanna Newsom in Inherent Vice – Pop Screen 86
Directors Uncut’s Best Movies of 2022 (Part Two)
Pop Screen’s Best of 2022 (Bonus)
Lou Reed in Velvet Underground – Pop Screen 85
The year is nearly done, but Pop Screen lingers on with an episode about Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground. Covering the turbulent career of one of the most confrontational yet influential bands of the 1960s, it’s a film that’s got everything from deep discussions of minimalist composition to amusing […]
Ridley Scott (Blade Runner & Gladiator)
Whitney Houston in the Bodyguard – Pop Screen 84
[drum hit] AND IIIII-EEE-AAAYYY… Yes, some songs are born Christmassy, some achieve Christmasiness, and some have Christmas thrust upon them, as is the case with Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You. Arguably the best-remembered Christmas number one of the nineties, it prompted us to make […]
Na Hong-Jin (the Chaser & The Wailing)
Toyah Wilcox in Second City Firsts – Pop Screen 83
Pop Screen has confronted some horrors in its recent Halloween month, but nothing like what Graham and Mark come up against this week: Noel Edmonds. The DJ-turned-mystical guru pops up in Glitter, one of two episodes of the 1970s anthology series Second City Firsts that feature pop stars, and it’s […]