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 […]
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The Old Dark House & Bride of Frankenstein – James Whale: Series 3 Episode 1
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
Ben Wheatley (Kill List & In the Earth) – Series 2 Finale PODCAST
And with this, Series 2 is done and dusted. To close out this sophomore series, we looked at British fan favourite, Ben Wheatley, with the debuting Caitlyn and Faye, as well as the returning Kat and Mike. For this episode we get deep into the weeds of 2011’s evergreen Hitman/Gangster/Cult/Folk Horror, Kill List. And by deep I […]
Johnny Cash in a Gunfight – Pop Screen 90
Some pop stars like to take the easy route into acting by starring opposite lightweight co-stars. And then there’s Johnny Cash, whose acting debut in 1971’s A Gunfight sees him playing alongside no less than Kirk Douglas, with Karen Black, Jane Alexander and a young Keith Carradine in support. It […]
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson – Pop Screen 87
Whitney Houston in the Bodyguard – Pop Screen 84
[drum hit] AND IIIII-EEE-AAAYYY… Yes, some songs are born Christmassy, some achieve Christmasiness, and some have Christmas thrust upon them, as is the case with Whitney Houston’s cover of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You. Arguably the best-remembered Christmas number one of the nineties, it prompted us to make […]
Weird Al Yankovich in UHF – Pop Screen 82
This week, Pop Screen is taking you to Spatula City with this episode about America’s pre-eminent polka-crazed pop parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic and his 1989 film UHF. Prior to this month’s parody biopic Weird – in which he’s played by Daniel Radcliffe, in Radcliffe’s second era-defining role after Swiss Army […]
