Kid Cudi in X – Pop Screen 79

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It’s spooky season again on Pop Screen, and this month we’re kicking off with a look at Ti West’s saucy seventies slasher X, starring Kid Cudi along with Mia Goth, Brittany Snow, Martin Henderson and Mia Goth again. And since it’s not a Halloween show without Directors Uncut host Rob, we’ve got […]

Status Quo in Bula Quo – Pop Screen 76

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This week’s film is one that Graham struggles to accept really exists – which is why it’s a good job Mark Harrison from Film Stories has rejoined the podcast to reassure him that this wasn’t a hallucination. Did we really watch a movie where Status Quo try and foil SNL veteran Jon […]

Cherie Currie in Wavelength – Pop Screen 74

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Dust off your tinfoil hats, Pop Screen is going conspiracy barmy with this week’s episode on 1983’s Wavelength. A Roger Corman-produced science fiction thriller starring The Runaways’ Cherie Currie as a psychic who guides her singer-songwriter friend towards a military base full of captured extraterrestrials, it’s notable for a great […]

ABC in Mantrap – Pop Screen 72

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This week, Pop Screen is warming up its fingers to peruse the lexicon of love with Mantrap, a short film starring ABC – but mostly their lead singer Martin Fry – and directed by Pop Screen’s patron saint Julien Temple. Once again, we’re joined by Gav Smith from the very […]

David Bowie in Labyrinth – Pop Screen 70

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Pop Screen’s Bowie month ends in the only way it was ever going to: with a lot of talk about Muppets and ‘packages’. Made during a critical and commercial low point in Bowie’s musical career, this elaborate Jim Henson-directed fantasy nevertheless gave him one of his most celebrated screen roles […]