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The Popcornhead Podcast episodes
- Special: Pitching Oscar-Bait, Melodramatic Biopics, and Whitewashed General Lee!!
In our first Popcornhead Special, we each pitch our own idea for an Oscar-Bait film, a film made solely for the purpose of trying to win Academy Awards.
Expect NHS heroes, Canadian blunders, and out-of-favour Generals.We had a lot of fun doing this episode and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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1 hr 5 min - The Silence of the Lambs, Serial Killers, and Loose Canons!!
In this episode, we explore director Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
We also uncover the three terrifying real-life figures who inspired Ted Levine's infamous composite killer, Buffalo Bill.
And we discuss the really important issues like can you take psychotherapeutic advice from someone who's criminally insane? What would Sean Connery pair a census taker's liver with? And does wearing a human suit really make you more sexually attractive?Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @popcornheadpod
1 hr 39 min - The Hunt, Pizzagate, and Witch Hunts!!
This week we are looking at Thomas Vinterberg's psychological drama, The Hunt.
We also talk witch hunts, conspiracy theories, satanism, among other weird stuff!Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @popcornheadpod
1 hr 35 min - The Searchers Part 2, Villainous Wayne, Stick a Finger up My A**!!
This week continues our exploration of John Ford's The Searchers.
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1 hr 28 min - The Searchers Part 1, Wayne and Ford, The Son of God!!
Join us as we take on the gargantuan task of gulping down John Ford's classic western The Searchers.
Delving into this cinematic masterpiece, we explore the burning questions: Is it a white supremacist propaganda film? Who's really the film's antagonist? And what led John Wayne to become the cowboy Captain America?
This week we nosh down on Messrs Ford and Wayne's strange on and off-set habits, their respective legacies, and controversies, next week we move onto the film itself.Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @popcornheadpod
1 hr 20 min - Memories of Murder, The Hwaseong Murderer, Bong Joon Ho
A chilling dramatisation of the hunt for a serial killer under an incompetent military dictatorship in 1980s South Korea.
Bong Joon Ho's directorial masterclass Memories of Murder showcases the personal and societal changes that take place around the constant threat of a murderer that gripped the country, and rendered the police impotent in their efforts to apprehend him.Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @popcornheadpod
1 hr 26 min - Amadeus, Sweet Tooth Scallywags, and Dirty Lyrics!!
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
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1 hr 37 min - Jaws, Ramsay’s Amity Nightmares, and Apes in The Future?!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…
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1 hr 42 min - Sexy Beast, Brandy F*****G Brandy, Monster Movie??
Who wouldn't lap this up? It's ridiculous. Tremendous. Fantastic. Fan-dabby-dozy-tastic…
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1 hr 33 min - American Psycho, Phil Collins, and Alien Yuppies!!
In our first episode, we track one man's quest to return some videotapes, and he does some other stuff as well...
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1 hr 37 min
About The Popcornhead Podcast
From the publisher's feed
Welcome Kernels and Cornheads to The Popcornhead Podcast!
Each episode we will be analysing a different film, past or present, the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly. We’ll talk…
pre-production, filming, our own thoughts, any historical context, and the occasional wormhole, things can get a little weird around here.