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 […]
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The Beatles in the Yellow Submarine – Pop Screen 78
It was sixty years ago… well, not today, exactly, but soon, when the Beatles released their first single, so to celebrate Pop Screen is returning to their screen canon for the first time since our very first episode. An experimental, influential animated freak-out, Yellow Submarine was made to fill out the […]
OutKast in Idlewild – Pop Screen Episode 77
Ah-hah, hush that fuss, Pop Screen is back with Graham and Dreaming Machine‘s Joe to take a look at OutKast’s 2006 movie vehicle Idlewild. It’s not uncommon for rappers to make their big-screen debuts by playing gangsters, but as ever Andre 3000 and Big Boi found their own unique way of […]
Status Quo in Bula Quo – Pop Screen 76
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 […]
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson in Two-Lane Blacktop – Pop Screen 75
This week’s Pop Screen is for people who like their cars fast, their movies mellow and their Californian singer-songwriters practically horizontal, as Aidan returns to the podcast to look at Monte Hellman’s cult road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. A none-more-70s tale of dead-end lives on the open road, it owes something […]
Cherie Currie in Wavelength – Pop Screen 74
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 […]
Jarvis Cocker in Journeys into the Outside – Pop Screen 73
This is (for) hardcore (fans): in celebrating the work of singer, radio host, memoirist and Greatest Living Englishman Jarvis Cocker, we could have picked anything from a Wes Anderson film to a Harry Potter one. Instead, Graham and Ewan have reunited for a look at a true collectors item, his 1999 Channel […]
ABC in Mantrap – Pop Screen 72
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 […]
Kate Bush Double Bill – Pop Screen 71
It’s in the trees! It’s coming! Yes, this week Pop Screen is gleefully hopping on board the Kate Bush bandwagon – what else were we going to do, wait for a new album or tour? – with a look at the Blessed Kate’s two main acting credits. The Line, The […]
David Bowie in Labyrinth – Pop Screen 70
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 […]