Bill and Ted's Freakish Flop - Pop Screen 176, Freaked
You'd think any movie with the stars of Bill and Ted that came out in 1993 would be a sure-fire hit. You'd think so - but that would reckon...
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Street Fighter (Pop Screen 175) Kylie Minogue - Is it time to reassess the '90s Street Fighter movie?
Is it time to reassess the '90s Street Fighter movie? That's right, Pop Screen is entering the arena of public opinion and fighting for the...
Forgettable title, unforgettable film: Steve (Pop Screen 174) Little Simz
You wouldn't think a film with a name like Steve would prompt such a wild variety of tangents, but it's all here, from Graham's hatred of eg...
Why is Australian Cinema so Grim? Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (Pop Screen 173) Nick Cave
In the same year, Nick Cave sang The Mercy Seat and appeared in this brutal prison drama, the first film from his regular music video collab...
ASAP meets Akira: Highest 2 Lowest - Pop Screen Episode 172
Can you believe this is the first Spike Lee movie we've covered on the podcast? Lee is a director who's always had something to say about mu...
British TV's Maddest Murder Mystery - The Good Ship (Pop Screen 171)
After the inevitable Christmas number one, the life of an X Factor winner isn't always easy. But Shayne Ward, of 'That's My Goal' fame - sto...
How Good is the New Boards of Canada album, also AGGRO DR1FT - Pop Screen Episode 170
Have you ever seen a hitman movie and thought "It's good, but it needs to be shot entirely in infra-red?" No, because no-one has - except Ha...
Roger Daltrey & Ringo Starr in Ken Russell's Lisztomania - Pop Screen 169
Has Pop Screen gone highbrow? A biopic of a classical composer isn't normally the kind of film we'd cover, but then biopics of classical com...
The Madness Movie isn't as Nutty as you think - Take it Leave it (POP SCREEN EPISODE
Madness! Madness, they call them Madness, which is fair enough, because that's their name. At a very early stage in their quest to become on...
The First Lego Brick Rock Doc - Piece by Piece (Pop Screen Episode 167)
It's playtime! Pop Screen is starting a themed month on "autobiopics" - films where pop stars play themselves, but in a different context to...
Explaining the spooky action of Mother Mary - Pop Screen Episode 166
"So we're doing this, right?" The new film from David Lowery, the director of The Green Knight, is not a love story, it's not a ghost story,...
We Love This Iggy Pop Western and So Should You - Pop Screen 165: Dead Man (1995)
It's one of the great films of the '90s, from one of the most Pop Screen-friendly directors of all time: Jim Jarmusch, a man who can't even...
Contains Cinema's Greatest Scenes of Gluttony - Roadside Prophets, Pop Screen 164
Back to the '90s, and a time when a movie could just be, y'know, anything you wanted. The co-writer of Sid & Nancy, Abbe Wool, went to test...
Did we find the worst rock biopic? Pop Screen 163
The Jimi Hendrix estate have been notably controlling of the film rights to his life story since his death at the totemic age of 27. Hollywo...
What is a Mod in the 2020s - The Pebble and the Boy - Pop Screen 162
The history of pop is as much about subcultures as it is music, and this week Pop Screen is diving into one of the most enduring (at least r...
The Blues History Behind Sinners - Pop Screen Episode 161
SAMMEH! Yes, finally we're getting round to Ryan Coogler's box-office-busting, Oscars-history-making period vampire gangster epic. Joe from...
FRANKENSTING: The Bride with Sting (1985) - Episode 160
Have you seen The Bride yet? No, not Maggie Gyllenhaal's new film - we mean the 1985 film by Frank Roddam, director of Quadrophenia. Like Gy...
"Tapping the cringe motherlode", Corey Feldman Vs the World - Pop Screen Episode 159
It's the documentary you never knew you needed, and you do need it. Marcie Hume's chronicle of life on the road with '80s child actor Corey...
Aretha Franklin & Amazing Grace - Pop Screen 158
This week, Pop Screen takes you to church. On its release, Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace became the biggest-selling gospel album of all ti...
David Bowie in the Hunger - Pop Screen 157
Can it really be ten years since David Bowie died? This week, Pop Screen dives back into the prolific screen career of the Thin White Duke w...