Queen Latifah & Chicago – Pop Screen 57

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Pop Screen’s Oscar month continues with one of the 21st century’s biggest collectors of little bald gold men – Rob Marshall’s Chicago. Among its twelve nominations and six wins was a Best Supporting Actress nomination for 1990s hip-hop stalwart Queen Latifah, who gets a solo number crammed with innuendo, but […]

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Pop Screen 56

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Pop Screen’s Oscar month goes back to, er, 2021 with the film widely predicted to win Chadwick Boseman a posthumous Oscar – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Less a biopic of the titular blues singer and more a drama about temptation and (often racial) exploitation adapted from August Wilson’s play, it […]

HAIM & Licorice Pizza – Pop Screen 55

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Licorice Pizza (2021) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson March is Oscar month on Pop Screen, and as luck would have it one of this year’s frontrunners is absolutely made for us. A goofy, shaggy 1970s coming-of-age comedy featuring a Tom Waits cameo, the entire band HAIM and their parents – seriously, […]