We’ve had our mid-season mini-break and we return with one for all your Mads Mikkelsen superfans. On this episode, I was joined by Ariel (Ride the Omnibus) & Graham (Pop Screen) to discuss the Scandinavian absurdist, Anders Thomas Jensen. Now if that name isn’t immediately familiar, worry not, all you […]
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Sonny Bono in Escape to Athena – Pop Screen 88
Can you believe Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale, David Niven, Richard Roundtree, Sonny Bono and Mr Bronson from Grange Hill were in the same movie once? We can’t – and this is before you get to lovely old Roger Moore playing a Wehrmacht captain! It can only be Escape to Athena, […]
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson – Pop Screen 87
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 […]
Ridley Scott (Alien + Thelma & Louise)
After that distraction that was the 2022 review and the launch of a spin-off podcast, we are back to our normally scheduled episodes. Last time we looked at Gladiator & Blade Runner, two very masculine classics from Ridley Scott’s vast and important filmography. This time, we look at two films […]
Joanna Newsom in Inherent Vice – Pop Screen 86
Hey you! Pop Screen welcomes in 2023 with a dose of los paranoias as Graham and Rob tackle Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice. The only adaptation – and likely to remain that way – of a Thomas Pynchon novel, it has an all-star cast headed up by Joaquin Phoenix’s stoner […]
Directors Uncut’s Best Movies of 2022 (Part Two)
2022 is done and dusted, and with that comes the inevitable best-of-the-year show. But this time, things have taken a turn of the behemothic. This is part two, you can find part one featuring the 10-6 picks on our sister podcast, Pop Screen. On this huge lad of 2022 coverage, […]
Pop Screen’s Best of 2022 (Bonus)
This week on Pop Screen there’s a new Sherrif in town. Well, just for this one single episode, anyway. This is Rob of Directors Uncut typing right now. Pop Screen has crossed over with our sister podcast, Directors Uncut, for an epic review of 2022. You can already find part […]
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)
Merry Christmas Friends! And just to show how well I planned in advance, here’s what is totally a Christmas special. Yeah, absolutely a Christmas episode. Yeah, it’s clearly not. It is part one of a discussion of Ridley Scott, the second will drop in the new year. For now, though, […]
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 […]