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Pop Screen episodes

  • Pixels + Love Exposure + Lost Souls + The Gift (2015) - Eclectica #31
    Q*bert's Sex Noises

    We return with the most suggestively titled episode yet. In off the Shelf, we saw and conquered a ménage à trois that included Adam Sandler's Pixels, Sion Sono's manic epic Love Exposure, and the catastrophic 'making of' Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr Moreau. Our Film of the Week is Joel Edgerton's feature-length debut The Gift.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Aguirre, Wrath of God + Snowtown + Immoral Tales + Inside Out - Eclectica #30
    A Spot of Lovely Sleaze, Gromit

    This week on Off the Shelf we have a trifecta of messed up movies and work our way down the ladder of sleaze from the relativity presentable Aguirre, Wrath of God to Borowczyk's Immoral Tales - with a stop-off at Snowtown along the way. The counterpoint to all of this is the absolutely lovely Film of the Week - Pixar's Inside Out.

    1 hr 8 min
  • The Loved Ones + The Apple + War & Peace + Ant-Man - Eclectica #29
    Underground, Overground, Xenomorphs Free

    We destroy more childhood favourites this week - you have been warned. Our packed "Off the Shelf" section features the 2009 cult horror The Loved Ones, the Iranian new-wave classic The Apple, and Anand Patwardhan's gripping nuclear documentary War & Peace. After that, we calm down and return to Earth with the inimitable Ginger in Beware of Mr Baker. Our Film of the Week is the climactic part of Marvel's phase 2 in Ant-Man.

    1 hr 9 min
  • Happiness of the Katakuri's + Blanche + Amy + Dear White People - Eclectica #28
    Wrong Cackles and the Python of Loneliness

    Instead of getting lost in all of the news from San Diego's Comic-Con we decided to keep the show relatively normal … well, as normal as it gets around here anyway. We have a fairly eccentric "Off the Shelf" section with reviews for Happiness of the Katakuris, Asif Kapadia's documentary about Amy Winehouse - simply titled "Amy", Walerian Borowczyk's Blanche, and Fuku-Chan of Fukufuku Flats from Third Window. Our Film of the week is Dear White People - Justin Simien's controversial satire about race relations.

    1 hr 12 min
  • Forty Guns + Moonrise + Knock Knock + Slow West - Eclectica #26
    Sexy Funny Games with Sad Keanu

    This week we're neck-deep in a crazy heatwave - which makes for a much looser show because of all the melting brains.

    Our featured movies in our "Off The Shelf" section are Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns, Frank Borzage's lost film-noir Moonrise and Eli Roth's latest confusing effort Knock Knock. All of that leads us to our fantastically fun Film of the Week - John Maclean's Slow West.

    1 hr 8 min
  • Story of My Death + Hound of the Baskervilles + Locke + Mr. Holmes - Eclectica #25
    Groucho Mutant Ninja Turtles

    Any time we get the news that can give us the inspiration for an episode where we can cite Groucho Ninja Mutant Turtles - we know it's generally going to be a good week.

    In "Off The Shelf" we take a look at Albert Serra and Second Run's Story of My Death, "Mr Hammer Horror" Terence Fisher's Hounds of the Baskervilles and Tom Hardy's solo road trip feature Locke, and our Film Of The Week is the much-maligned and misunderstood Mr Holmes.

    1 hr 9 min
  • The Look of Silence + Welcome to the Space Show + Jurassic World - Eclectica #24
    Things went a little bit Kryten

    After getting lost in the deep, dark shrubbery that is the news (and thus making this one of our longest shows so far), we dive straight into the still waters of "Off the Shelf" with an eclectic mix of silver-screen goodness.

    On this episode Ryan looks at The Legend is Born: Ip Man, P-Rob blatantly makes stuff up with the Japanese animated kid's movie Welcome To The Space Show, and Graham investigates Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence. After that, things get prehistoric with Jurassic World.

    1 hr 15 min
  • Wild Tales + A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night + The Tale of Princess Kaguya - Eclectica #23
    Grit, Filth & Ron Perlman

    This episode sees us go rogue once more. We get right into things with two trailers of the week before diving into a vast collection of titles - both old and new. In "Off the Shelf" we take a look at the Oscar-nominated Argentinian movie Wild Tales, Elia Kazan's Wild River and South Korean murder-mystery Tell Me Something. All of that forms a nice lead-in to the second meeting of the B-Sides Club - and this time we're featuring The Falling, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and Studio Ghibli's latest release - The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

    1 hr 4 min
  • Lost in New York + Porco Rosso + Kung Fury + Man Up - Eclectica #22
    Death by the Grapes

    On this week's episode we take a look at Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon, eccentric French auteur-extraordinaire Jean Rollin's Lost in New York, the underappreciated Miyazaki gem Porco Rosso and, well… dumb internet nonsense leads us to Kung Fury. Our Film of the Week is Man Up - the latest in a string of interesting romantic comedies.
    1 hr 5 min

About Pop Screen

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Pop Screen is The Geek Show's new podcast tackling movies starring, about or by pop stars - and that's all genres, from rock to hip-hop, jazz to disco. Each week Graham and one of his stable of trusty…