The Pop Cult Experience

Send us Fan Mail It's a new month and a new week and a new episode   We say goodbye to a month of things that go bump in the night and hello to a regular brand of news, previews and reviews.  In the news this week, people don't want Chris Pratt as a big fat cat, the only real guns on a Dwayne Johnson movie set will be his own, the McManus brothers are back for the third time, cult classic RAD is i...

Send us Fan Mail It's new episode time... We go reverse Three's Company this time around as we invite Chris Starr from Atoms to Ashes to come on the program and gabber with us about all of the things.   This week those things are: the return of The Expanse for a short and final season, a new show from the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie, and all the big news that came out of DC Fandome.  I...

Send us Fan Mail We get back to our regularly scheduled programming this week with some news and previews and some rants, raves and reviews.  In the news this week, we find out that one of us actually reads, or is at least looking to start.  We trade in the 70's for the 90's  and Rockstar games wants your money but don't want to give you anything new for it.   Following the news we introduce a new...

Send us Fan Mail We are back doing this thing we love to do, and we decided to get back at it today of all days, as today marks the 20 year anniversary of the premiere episode of one of our favourite shows, Scrubs, which debuted on Oct 2, 2001. There isn't much more to say,  It's a full episode of us bantering about all the fantastic stories and all the wonderful characters that lived, loved and l...

Send us Fan Mail You know what time it is.  It's new episode time.  We start our News and Preview by saying goodbye to a legend and 7-time Emmy-winner, Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista just became best friends, the Doom Patrol have found their Madame Rouge, we All Hail The King, and we swing through the first Spider-man "No Way Home" teaser.  We then take a deep dive into the Fantasia 2021 Film Festi...

Send us Fan Mail New episode time!! On this episode we wish a happy anniversary to Jay and Silent Bob, I go on a road trip with a boy and his bubble, K takes a trip back to Arthurian times, for the second week in a row we ask the question "What If...?", I go guns blazing into the wild wild west, and we say goodbye to an absolute cinematic legend. It's then time for us to enter the Oasis and celebr...

Send us Fan Mail It's new episode time.  This week Snyder is out and Rodriguez is in at HBO, Evans raids Netflix, DeVito heads back to Gotham, and The Addams Family has a new Morticia.  We then take a look at some other reboots and remakes that should or possibly shouldn't find their way on to the big and small respectively, before falling down a bit of a rabbit hole and finding ourselves in the m...

Send us Fan Mail It's a short but sweet episode this week. In our News and Previews this week the Addams have their Gomez, Vince Vaughn and Bill Lawrence are Bad Monkeys, and some folk possibly eat some other folk. We also take a moment to  say hello to new music from Prince, we say goodbye to the 99, and we ask the question "What If..."  before giving out a substantial amount of Flying F...s.  Sq...

Send us Fan Mail It's new episode time.  This week in news and previews, Amazon and Gaiman continue their love affair, Black Superman will soon be flying onto our screens, some familiar faces are returning to Vegas, everyone is suing Disney, Pink does Pink things, Deadpool could be showing up everywhere, Shark the Musical, in Taika we trust, Matt and Ben are friends again, Tom joins Wes's family,...

Send us Fan Mail It's new episode time.  On today's episode Titane takes top honours, Wright likes Knight, The Emmys are woke af, Black Widow takes a dive, Clerks of the Universe, a new show from Taika Waititi and Henry Cavill can't get enough of capes.  We also give out some Flying F....s.  With Gunpowder Milkshake, Fear Street 1666, the season finale of Loki and Scandinavian Sci-fi drama Katla g...

Send us Fan Mail New episode time.   We start things off as we usually do, by delving into our traditional News and Previews of the week. We then take a look back at Boyz in the Hood as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.  After that we dive into Shark Week, and the impact that sharks have on pop culture, before finishing things up with reviews of Loki, How I Became a Superhero, Fear Street 1978 a...

Send us Fan Mail It's new episode time. This week, we talk about a bit of news that caught our attention, including some news about Dexter, Star Wars: Detours, Good Omens 2, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and the Netflix/Spielberg deal.  Then we jump in, talk about and review the things we got around to watching this week including Episodes 3 and 4 of Loki, No Sudden Move, Amazon Original The Tomorrow W...

Send us Fan Mail With the world slowly opening back up and life getting back to normal for some, it seems that all those movies that we expected to hit theatres last year or earlier this year may have finally found a home on the 2021 release calendar.  So, on todays podcast we take a look at that calendar and talk about all the flicks and film that we are looking forward to coming out in the secon...

Send us Fan Mail It's another jam-packed and fun-filled episode of the podcast. On the episode we talk about some interesting news in the worlds of music, movie and television.  We toss out a few reviews for Loki, Luca, and Canadian film, Anything For Jackson. K talks about an Indigenous animated series that we think is well worth the watch. The Barenaked Ladies have new music out and a new album...

Send us Fan Mail After a few months of interviewing a bunch of wonderful folk, this episode it seems it's just the two of us getting back to the basics, talking news and doing reviews.   We toss out reviews of the premier of Loki, the Netflix original series, Sweet Tooth and the gory and fun 2020 grindhouse flick, Spare Parts.  We get a little nostalgic with our Retro Rewind segment taking another...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we rant, rave and review about Love, Death and Robots Volume 2 and Zack Snyder's Army of the Dead, before inviting superstar singer, songwriter, teacher and streamer, Danielle Allard on to the podcast to talk about music, keeping busy during a pandemic, dinosaurs and all the other wonderful things going on in her life.

Send us Fan Mail We talk to Andrew Parmalee (who recently appeared on the podcast to talk about his band, Cevilain) about his new musical endeavour, Complicit,   How did it come to be?  Where is it going?  What does it all mean?  and Nickelback?  Andrew, and special guest and collaborator Ella Wile answer those and all of the other questions.  

Send us Fan Mail With the Apr 30 release of Dave Grohl's "What Drives Us", we start off this episode by delving into some rock doc talk and then proceeded to get into all sorts of "Late Night Trouble" as we are joined by Roxanne and Yuri of the aforementioned Montreal-based band. They stick about for awhile and pull back the curtain on their beginnings, some recent changes that brought about a new...

Send us Fan Mail We start things off by getting back to the basics with a little Rant, Rave and Review, of the action packed and stylistic Nobody,  the mostly unnecessary Mortal Kombat remake/reboot/retelling, and the uneven but ultimately enjoyable full season of Falcon and The Winter Soldier.  (SPOILERS)  Then it is back to our Merry Months of Music Spectacular as another bunch of musically incl...

Send us Fan Mail We had the pleasure of being joined on the podcast by Alex and Warren  of Taming Sari, an absolutely amazing indie rock band from the wilds of Ottawa/Gatineau.  They discussed the early days and evolution of the band, they give us an inside scoop of their song making process, and as it is 2021, we talk about the struggles of making music in the Pandemic Years. Give the episode a l...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks' episode of the podcast, we scrap most of what we had planned, as 2/4s of Ottawa rock band extraordinaire CEVILAIN decided, to our absolute joy, that they wanted to chat with us for the entire runtime of the episode.  Stories were shared and fun was had. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Chris Starr, lead singer and guitarist for Atoms to Ashes comes on to talk about the band and life in general and then sticks around to join in on the conversation as we rant, rave, and review the most recent episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a new animated superhero show from Robert Kirkman called Invincible.  We then have a little fun taking 80's classic...

Send us Fan Mail Hey there folks! We have a new episode for you! It was a special week for us as we recorded some of our ‘cast during our Purge Night livestream event last weekend. We had some fun pop culture news to share, dished on our thoughts about the Oscar noms, and K gave a couple of comic book reviews: Watch How I Soar (out of the Firefly ‘verse) and Plume by K. Lynn Smith. The special bit...

Send us Fan Mail Happy International Women’s Day!  We celebrated in one of the best ways we know how, by talking about some of the women in pop culture who have brought us something special. We even brought on a special guest, Jennifer Mulligan, a screenwriter and director herself, to share some of her favourites too. Pop culture has so often helped to move ideas forward and shape the cultural min...

Send us Fan Mail One of our favourite filmmakers, Edgar Wright, has an article (we recommend you check out) in the upcoming March issue of @empiremagazine where he and multiple other Hollywood alum talk about THOSE cinematic moments, the moments that are enhanced by watching them unfold onscreen in a movie theatre. These are the moments that amaze, the ones that shock or scare, the ones that have...