Verotika, 2020, USA, Dir. Glen Danzig Since its premiere at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse festival, Glenn Danzig’s directorial debut Verotika has gone down in legend. Not a good legend, but then as Countess Elizabeth Bathory would tell you not all legends are good. This week on Pop Screen, Ewan Gleadow from Cult […]
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Janelle Monae & Antebellum – Pop Screen 38
Antebellum, 2020, USA, Dir. Gerard Bush & Christopher Renz Well, we’re certainly not pro-bellum. This week Mick from Behold! pod joins us again to look at a film that seems to have everything going for it: a pair of hotly-tipped debuting directors, a provocative, mind-bending premise, and a quality cast. […]
George Clinton & Cosmic Slop – Pop Screen 37
Cosmic Slop, 1994, USA, Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin & Kevin Rodney Sullivan(George Clinton /Funkadelic) A trilogy of Black horror and science fiction tales, hosted by the disembodied floating head of funk legend George Clinton? It happened! Kicking off Pop Screen’s Halloween month, Geek Show kingpin Rob joins us once again […]
PJ Harvey & A Dog Called Money – Pop Screen 36
A dog called money, 2019, Ireland/ United Kingdom/ United States, Dir. Seamus Murphy (PJ Harvey) This week, Pop Screen has been thinking about a line drawn in the sand: specifically, a line drawn between the reasonable criticisms of PJ Harvey’s 2016 album The Hope Six Demolition Project, and the ones […]
Ill Manors & Plan B – Pop Screen 35
Ill Manors, 2012, United Kingdom, Dir. Plan B Oi! I said oi! Pop Screen has its hardest-hitting episode this week – yes, perhaps even grittier than Spice World – with Ben “Plan B” Drew’s directorial debut Ill Manors. A multi-stranded tale of drug-dealing, deprivation and all-round dodginess in Forest Gate, […]
Sting & Dune (1984) Pop Screen 34
Dune, 1984, USA/Mexico, Dir. David Lynch (Sting) Once a reviled commercial disaster, today David Lynch’s Dune is… a tolerated commercial disaster? It has its fans, it has its naysayers, so before Denis Villeneuve launches his much-anticipated adaptation of (the first half of) Frank Herbert’s novel Graham and Archaeon are convening […]
Damon Albarn & Face (1997) – Pop Screen 33
Face, 1997, United Kingdom, Dir. Antonia Bird (Damon Albarn) Best remembered for containing Damon Albarn’s one film acting performance, as wet-behind-the-ears aspiring gangster Jason, this week’s Pop Screen argues that Antonia Bird’s 1997 movie Face deserves more credit. A British gangster movie made in that brief moment before Lock, Stock & […]
Suzi Quatro & Suzi Q – Pop Screen 32
Suzi Q, 2018, Australia, Dir. Liam Firmager (Suzi Quatro) There’s always been a steady stream of British acts trying to make it in America, but the American acts trying to make it over here are a more rarefied bunch. Along with Sparks, one of the few US artists to try […]
Madonna & Desperately Seeking Susan – Pop Screen 31
We’re doing a Madonna movie! No, come back! This week, Graham and Sarah go back to the Material Girl’s breakthrough moment, when her Nile Rogers-produced sophomore album Like a Virgin proved she wasn’t a fluke, and Desperately Seeking Susan became one of the top five highest-grossing films of 1985. But […]
The Beach Boys and Love & Mercy – Pop Screen 30
A biopic of Brian Wilson had been mooted ever since the late 1980s, but it wasn’t until 2014 that Bill Pohlad’s Love & Mercy was released, with its bold time-hopping structure that allowed both Paul Dano and John Cusack to play the Beach Boys’ chief songwriter. The former played Wilson […]