Since 2021, I've been showrunner of Pop Screen, a podcast on The Geek Show about pop stars in the movies. The two intersect in more interesting ways than you might think: a good pop movie can draw from its star's established persona while also placing it in a context that pushes you into thinking about their appeal beyond just music and stage presence. A bad pop movie, well, we've covered a few of those. Here are all the episodes so far. (You can also find the show on YouTube)
'Episode 154: Inside Llewyn Davis' (7th December 2025)
'Episode 153: One Battle After Another' (23rd November 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: The Long Distance Piano Player' (22nd November 2025, paywall)
'Episode 152: Blinded by the Light' (9th November 2025)
'Episode 151: Prince of Darkness' (26th October 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Seed of Chucky' (15th October 2025, paywall)
'Episode 150: Trick or Treat' (12th October 2025)
'Episode 149: Wings of Desire' (28th September 2025)
'Episode 148: I'm a Virgo' (15th September 2025)
'Episode 147: Pavements' (31st August 2025)
'Episode 146: Eat the Rich' (17th August 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: War of the Worlds (2025)' (9th August 2025)
'Episode 145: Sly Lives!, aka The Burden of Black Genius' (3rd August 2025)
'Episode 144: The Last Dragon' (20th July 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: A Hymn from Jim' (9th July 2025)
'Episode 143: Story Without a Hero' (6th July 2025)
'Episode 142: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives' (20th June 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Hurry Up Tomorrow' (17th June 2025)
'Episode 141: Can't Stop the Music' (5th June 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Ash (2025)' (28th May 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Dingo' (4th April 2025)
'Episode 140: The Crow (2024)' (3rd April 2025)
'Episode 139: Spring Breakers' (20th March 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore' (7th March 2025)
'Episode 138: Blitz (2024)' (6th March 2025)
'Episode 137: Anatomy of a Fall' (20th February 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Masked and Anonymous' (7th February 2025)
'Episode 136: Lost Highway' (6th February 2025)
'BONUS EPISODE: Better Man' (24th January 2025)
'Episode 135: Little Shop of Horrors' (23rd January 2025)
'Episode 134: Chrome and Hot Leather' (26th December 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' (13th December 2024)
'Episode 133: Last Christmas' (11th December 2024)
'Episode 132: Tank Girl' (28th November 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: House of Gucci' (15th November 2024)
'Episode 131: Heaven's Gate' (14th November 2024)
'Episode 130: Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare' (31st October 2024)
'Episode 129: I Saw the TV Glow' (17th October 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Satan's Bed' (4th October 2024)
'Episode 128: MaXXXine' (3rd October 2024)
'Episode 127: Gridlock'd' (20th September 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Kneecap' (11th September 2024)
'Episode 126: Rock 'n' Roll High School' (5th September 2024)
'Episode 125: Sextette' (25th July 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Truck Turner' (12th July 2024)
'Episode 124: What a Whopper!' (11th July 2024)
'Episode 123: The Wild Angels' (27th June 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: The Fanatic (2019)' (14th June 2024)
'Episode 122: Nine to Five' (13th June 2024)
'Episode 121: The Idol' (30th May 2024)
'Episode 120: Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome' (16th May 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Doctor Who' (10th May 2024)
'Episode 119: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story' (2nd May 2024)
'Episode 118: Boyz n the Hood' (18th April 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: The Glass Shield' (5th April 2024)
'Episode 117: 50 Shades of Grey' (4th April 2024)
'Episode 116: The Harder They Come' (21st March 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Human Highway' (8th March 2024)
'Episode 115: The Lunatic (1991)' (7th March 2024)
'Episode 114: Vinyl (2012)' (22nd February 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Priscilla' (9th February 2024)
'Episode 113: Vibes (1988)' (7th February 2024)
'BONUS EPISODE: Ned Kelly' (26th January 2024)
'Episode 112: Performance' (25th January 2024)
'Episode 111: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster' (10th January 2024)
'Episode 110: Glitter (2001)' (13th December 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: One More Time With Feeling and This Much I Know is True' (1st December 2023)
'Episode 109: 20,000 Days on Earth' (30th November 2023)
'Episode 108: It's a Sin' (16th November 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Taylor Swift - The Eras Tour' (3rd November 2023)
'Episode 107: 'Round Midnight' (2nd November 2023)
'Episode 106: The Haunted House of Horror' (19th October 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Queen of the Damned' (6th October 2023)
'Episode 105: The Comeback' (5th October 2023)
'Episode 104: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' (21st September 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Dangerous Game' (8th September 2023)
'Episode 103: Dick Tracy' (7th September 2023)
'Episode 102: Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche' (24th August 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Barbie' (11th August 2023)
'Episode 101: Elvis (2022)' (10th August 2023)
'Episode 100: Xanadu' (27th July 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Blindspotting' (14th July 2023)
'Episode 99: Beach Ball' (13th July 2023)
'Episode 98: Rattle and Hum' (29th June 2023)
'Episode 97: Embrace of the Vampire' (15th June 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Candy Mountain' (2nd June 2023)
'Episode 96: The Dirt (2019)' (1st June 2023)
'Episode 95: Tougher Than Leather' (18th May 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: The Guvnors' (5th May 2023)
'Episode 94: Good Vibrations (2012)' (4th May 2023)
'Episode 93: World Gone Wild' (20th April 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Dot Com for Murder' (7th April 2023)
'Episode 92: Tommy' (6th April 2023)
'Episode 91: DiG!' (23rd March 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: You and I (2011)' (10th March 2023)
'Episode 90: A Gunfight' (9th March 2023)
'Episode 89: Dance Craze' (23rd February 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Crossroads (2002)' (10th February 2023)
'Episode 88: Escape to Athena' (9th February 2023)
'Episode 87: The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson' (26th January 2023)
'BONUS EPISODE: Glass Onion' (13th January 2023)
'Episode 86: Inherent Vice' (12th January 2023)
'Episode 85: The Velvet Underground (2021)' (29th December 2022)
'Episode 84: The Bodyguard' (15th December 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Squire' (2nd December 2022)
'Episode 83: Glitter (1976)' (1st December 2022)
'Episode 82: UHF' (17th November 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Sorry to Bother You' (4th November 2022)
'Episode 81: The Juniper Tree' (3rd November 2022)
'Episode 80: The Butcher Boy' (20th October 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Monster Dog' (7th October 2022)
'Episode 79: X (2022)' (6th October 2022)
'Episode 78: Yellow Submarine' (22nd September 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: the Bond franchise' (9th September 2022)
'Episode 77: Idlewild (2006)' (8th September 2022)
'Episode 76: Bula Quo!' (25th August 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Kurt & Courtney' (12th August 2022)
'Episode 75: Two-Lane Blacktop' (11th August 2022)
'Episode 74: Wavelength (1983)' (28th July 2022)
'Episode 73: Journeys into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker' (21st July 2022)
'Episode 72: Mantrap' (14th July 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Electroma' (8th July 2022)
'Episode 71: The Line, the Cross and the Curve and Les Dogs' (July 7th 2022)
'Episode 70: Labyrinth (1986)' (23rd June 2022)
'Episode 69: The Man Who Fell to Earth' (16th June 2022)
'Episode 68: Baal (1982)' (9th June 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Stardust (2020)' (5th June 2022)
'Episode 67: The Prestige' (2nd June 2022)
'Episode 66: Chappie' (26th May 2022)
'Episode 65: Gonks Go Beat' (19th May 2022)
'Episode 64: Never Rarely Sometimes Always' (12th May 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Music (2021)' (6th May 2022)
'Episode 63: The Dead Don't Die' (5th May 2022)
'Episode 62: From Justin to Kelly' (28th April 2022)
'Episode 61: The Prince of Tides' (21st April 2022)
'Episode 60: Privilege' (14th April 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Belly' (8th April 2022)
'Episode 59: Interstella 5555 - The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem' (7th April 2022)
'Episode 58: Moonstruck' (31st March 2022)
'Episode 57: Chicago' (24th March 2022)
'Episode 56: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (17th March 2022)
'Episode 55: Licorice Pizza' (10th March 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: The Oscar' (4th March 2022)
'Episode 54: The Doors' (24th February 2022)
'Episode 53: My Blueberry Nights' (17th February 2022)
'Episode 52: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)' (10th February 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Shoplifters of the World' (4th February 2022)
'Episode 51: Cool as Ice' (3rd February 2022)
'Episode 50: Purple Rain' (27th January 2022)
'Episode 49: Cobain - Montage of Heck' (20th January 2022)
'Episode 48: Head' (13th January 2022)
'BONUS EPISODE: Crock of Gold - A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan' (7th January 2022)
'Episode 47: Straight to Hell' (6th January 2022)
'Episode 46: Slade in Flame' (23rd December 2021)
'Episode 45: Annette' (16th December 2021)
'Episode 44: The Star Wars Holiday Special' (9th December 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Cats (2019)' (3rd December 2021)
'Episode 43: Beats Rhymes and Life - The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest' (2nd December 2021)
'Episode 42: I'm Not There' (25th November 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Nostalgia Critic's The Wall' (5th November 2021)
'Episode 41: Pink Floyd - The Wall' (4th November 2021)
'Episode 40: Videodrome' (28th October 2021)
'Episode 39: Verotika' (21st October 2021)
'Episode 38: Antebellum' (14th October 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Bubba Ho-Tep' (8th October 2021)
'Episode 37: Cosmic Slop' (7th October 2021)
'Episode 36: A Dog Called Money' (30th September 2021)
'Episode 35: Ill Manors' (23rd September 2021)
'Episode 34: Dune (1984)' (16th September 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Starshaped' (3rd September 2021)
'Episode 33: Face (1997)' (2nd September 2021)
'Episode 32: Suzi Q' (26th August 2021)
'Episode 31: Desperately Seeking Susan' (19th August 2021)
'Episode 30: Love and Mercy' (12th August 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Louis, Martin and Michael' (6th August 2021)
'Episode 29: Moonwalker' (5th August 2021)
'Episode 28: Catch Us if You Can' (29th July 2021)
'Episode 27: Amy (2015)' (22nd July 2021)
'Episode 26: Rocketman' (15th July 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Stop Making Sense' (2nd July 2021)
'Episode 25: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' (1st July 2021)
'Episode 24: True Stories (1986)' (24th June 2021)
'Episode 23: Burlesque' (17th June 2021)
'Episode 22: Light of Day' (10th June 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: King Rocker and Fliss Kitson interview' (4th June 2021)
'Episode 21: Tokyo Tribe' (3rd June 2021)
'Episode 20: 200 Motels' (27th May 2021)
'Episode 19: England is Mine' (20th May 2021)
'Episode 18: Jubilee' (13th May 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Geri' (7th May 2021)
'Episode 17: Battleship' (6th May 2021)
'Episode 16: Phantom of the Paradise' (29th April 2021)
'Episode 15: Get On Up' (22nd April 2021)
'Episode 14: Quadrophenia' (15th April 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: JerUSAlem' (2nd April 2021)
'Episode 13: Popstar - Never Stop Never Stopping' (1st April 2021)
'Episode 12: It Couldn't Happen Here' (25th March 2021)
'Episode 11: Billie Eilish - The World's a Little Blurry' (18th March 2021)
'Episode 10: Josie and the Pussycats' (11th March 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Stardust (1974)' (5th March 2021)
'Episode 9: Freejack' (4th March 2021)
'Episode 8: That'll Be the Day' (25th February 2021)
'Episode 7: Hustlers' (18th February 2021)
'Episode 6: The Great Hip Hop Hoax' (11th February 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: The White Room' (5th February 2021)
'Episode 5: Absolute Beginners' (4th February 2021)
'Episode 4: Holy Motors' (28th January 2021)
'Episode 3: Wild Zero' (21st January 2021)
'Episode 2: Spice World' (14th January 2021)
'BONUS EPISODE: Yesterday (2019)' (7th January 2021)
'Episode 1: A Hard Day's Night' (7th January 2021)