Pop Screen

Absolute Beginners! If you were part of the British film scene in the mid-80s, you knew it as the coolest project in development: a lavish, experimental musical from punk director Julien Temple, adapted from Colin MacInnes's cult novel, with a cast including Patsy Kensit, Sade, Edward Tudor-Pole, Bruno from Strictly and - standing atop the film as though it were a giant globe - David Bowie. Then t...

Strap in and get ready for a wild ride, because this week on Pop Screen Graham and Mark are explaining Holy Motors. No false advertising, no ironic trickery - we guarantee that a viable interpretation of Leos Carax's infamous 2012 head-scrambler will be posited as we travel through each of the bizarre tasks imposed upon M. Oscar (a truly phenomenal Denis Lavant). And where does all that leave us?...

Love knows no boundaries, nor does rock, and nor does Pop Screen, which journeys outside of Britain for the first time to look at Wild Zero, a delirious horror-comedy-musical road movie starring the uncompromisingly rock-oriented band Guitar Wolf. Join Graham and Rob as they try and piece together what they've just seen, a journey which involves tighty-whities, UFOs, gender identity and Link Wray'...

That's right, it's the Spice Girls! And they're dressed as each other! Isn't it a howl? If you do not, in fact, think it's a howl, their film Spice World might be a bit of a slog - yet despite near-universal disdain from critics it remains the all-time highest-grossing movie starring a pop band. In episode two of Pop Screen, Graham and Ewan pick their way through the film's minefield of skits, cel...

The Geek Show's new podcast about pop stars in the movies couldn't start with any other film. It's 1964, the Beatles are running away from a mob of schoolgirls, and Richard Lester is about to reinvent the rock and roll movie with A Hard Day's Night. But how did this landmark in both musical and cinematic history come to be? Join Graham and Joe for a tale involving The Goon Show, banned documentari...

Tomorrow sees the launch of The Geek Show's new podcast Pop Screen. But what is a Pop Screen, and why should I listen? Not to worry, here's Graham with a quick explainer.