Pop Screen

This week we discover that Disney Deniers exist and are among us. In a change from the regularly scheduled programming we turn out a Disney special, with on the shelf dropped for a celebration of all things from the house of mouse. We look at the Fox and the Hound, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the lost oddity of a Disney Short, Salvadore Dali's Destino. Our Feature Presentation is the wonderful Zootopia or Zootropolis - we just can't keep up.

We collect our podcast pension this week and just to keep up will all you whippersnappers we change things up. It's a Brave New World of Extreme Violence Modern Art and European Cowboys. Off the Shelf featured Nic Roeg's Eureka, Wim Wenders the American Friend sandwiching Evil Aliens and Iranian short doc, the House is Black. This week's feature presentation is Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G Ballard's High-Rise.

This week we have a narrator, that's cinema Eclectica - forever breaking new grounds. We also see the return of Aidan making for a full-strength off the shelf. Rob got messed up with the World of Kanako, Graham got classy with Shooting Stars (not that one), Ryan got done in the kitchen with a candle holder in Five Dolls for an August Moon and Aidan closed out with Samuel Fuller's White Dog. Our film of the week was the terrifying (the) Witch.

This week we discover that the witch is actually the most serious episode of Scooby-Doo ever. In off the shelf, we look at blaxploitation icon Pam Griers in Sheeba Baby, Swedish Surrealism in Songs from the Second Floor and new horror icon Goodnight Mommy. Our film of the week was the lavish ode to Hollywood in Hail, Caesar!

This week, we look over this year's Oscar ceremony and its lame-duck cousin - the Razzies. In a classy bit of counterprogramming, off the shelf unfolds with Graham tackling Absurd Czech New Wave comedy, the amazingly titled Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, Rob waxes lyrical about Panahi's Tehran Taxi and Ryan revisits one of his favourites in Miike's Audition. Film of the Week continues the alternative theme with Sacha Baron Cohen's Grimsby.

This week we are down a Ryan but gain a surprising amount of Comic trivia along the way. In off the Shelf, we continue our look at the filmography of Vera Chytilova with Second Run's release of Something Different, Rob looked at the baffling Marxist crow of a film that is Pasolini's Hawks and Sparrows before Aidan subjected himself to the outright horror that is Bula Quo. Our film of the week was John Hillcoat's Triple 9 - a very misleading title for us Brits.

This week we have no news to contend with so instead we grapple with the BAFTAs. In off the shelf, we look at space documentary For all Mankind, British horror romance Nina Forever, Samuel Fuller war movie Fixed Bayonets before closing on the legendary 90s action picture, John Woo's Hard Boiled. Film of the Week is Deadpool.

This week on the show we learn about the birds and bees of Monster Movies. In off the Shelf, we looked at Third Window's Uzumasa Limelight, Classic Ealing comedy the Lavender Hill Mob and Godard's Band of Outsiders. We also have a ringer. Our film of the week was Jay Roach's Trumbo.

This week we create our very own religion… honest. In off the shelf, we looked at acclaimed sci-fi indie darling Coherence, the Korean Naval War with The Admiral: roaring currents, early Paweł Pawlikowski documentary Serbian Epics before climaxing on sexy times with Wild Orchid. Our film of the week is the Oscar-Nominated Spotlight.

This week we are replaced by glamorous actors having a bath. 

In off the shelf, we discussed The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Short Doc. Interview with a Cannibal, Ernst Lubitsch's Design for Living and the titular Fulci's City of Living Dead. Film of the week the Big Short and it proved to be very divisive, at least with one person.