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 […]
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Olly Alexander in It’s a Sin! (2021) – Pop Screen 108
On this week’s Pop Screen, Graham has a very important and special guest: Mark’s dog! And, fine, yes, also Mark, with our favourite quizmaster and Film Stories writer coming back to talk about Russell T Davies’s most personal drama. Set across the early years of the AIDS crisis, It’s a […]
Dexter Gordon in ‘Round Midnight (1986) – Pop Screen 107
Our Halloween special is over and done with, but this week Graham faces his most terrifying challenge yet – enjoying a film about jazz. If you’re going to watch one film about jazz, though, Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight is the one to watch. Its bona fides are impeccable: named after […]
Frankie Avalon & The Haunted House of Horror – Pop Screen 106
Oh god, Graham’s shining the spooky light under his face again – sounds like time for a Halloween special. And it is, with Mark Cunliffe of We Are Cult joining the show once again to talk about The Haunted House of Horror, a 1960s British horror movie with an all-bases-covered […]
Jack Jones in the Comeback – Pop Screen 105
Don’t call it a comeback! Literally, given the number of alternative titles Pete Walker’s 1978 chiller goes under. Best-known as The Comeback, stars crooner Jack Jones as crooner Nick Cooper – a stretch, then – who is all fresh from a stay in rehab and ready to record his comeback […]
Weird: The Al Yankovich Story – Pop Screen 104
When we announced a month of Madonna-themed movies, we could have just looked at her acting performances, maybe a documentary or two. Instead, we felt like it was our journalistic duty to blow the lid off her steamy affair with ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic. That’s just one of the extremely accurate […]
Madonna in Dick Tracy – Pop Screen 103
This week, Pop Screen is showing you Dick. As part of our ce-e-le-bration of the fortieth anniversary of Madonna’s breakthrough single Holiday, we’re taking you back to 1990, when Warren Beatty became one of the few men to ever tell her what to do as he directed his then-partner in […]
X Ray Spex in I am a Cliche – Pop Screen 102
Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard, but Pop Screen says: welcome to our episode on Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche! Co-directed by Celeste Bell in collaboration with Paul Sng, it follows Bell’s journey to explore her late mother’s iconic time with the punk band […]
Austin Butler in Elvis – Pop Screen 101
This week, Mark Harrison from Film Stories rejoins Pop Screen to taunt Graham about one of his most extravagantly failed predictions. Remember our The Dead Don’t Die episode? Where we looked at that film’s star Austin Butler’s upcoming movies and decided there was no way an Elvis biopic was going to make bank in […]
Olivia Newton John in Xanadu – Pop Screen 100
It’s our 100th episode! And what better way to celebrate than to look back at one of the great musical flops of all time, 1980’s Xanadu. Starring Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly and a guy from The Warriors, it’s the story of a Greek Muse sent to Earth on a mission […]