Film Series
[Mike Leigh: Selected Works] – April 1st thru 11th]
High Hopes, The Life is Sweet, Naked, Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy, All of Nothing, Vera Drake, Happy-Go-Lucky
[Neo-Noir: Rethinking the Darkness] April 15th thru 29th
The Conformist, The French Connection, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Chungking Express, Jackie Brown, Mulholland Drive, Collateral
Film Series
[Wiseman’s Eye] – March 3rd thru 14th
Titicut Follies, High School, Law and Order, Welfare, Public Housing, Juvenile Court, City Hall
[The Films of Ousmane Sembène] – March 18 thru 28th
Black Girl, Mandabi, Emitai, Xala, Camp de Thiaroye, Moolaadé
Film Series
[Movies About Movies] – Feb 1st thru 28th
All About Eve, Contempt, Day for Night, Intervista, The Player, In the Soup, Irma Vep, Millennium Actress, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Overnight, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, One Cut of the Dead
TV Reviews
Feb 4 – Rain Dogs
Feb 11 – Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom Season One
Feb 18 – The Venture Brothers Season Seven
Feb 25 – Neon Genesis Evangelion Episodes One thru Six
Feb 29 – The Venture Brothers: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Comic Book Reviews
Feb 3 – Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Volume Five ***
Feb 10 – Uncanny X-Men: Mutant Massacre
Feb 17 – Uncanny X-Men: The Fall of the Mutants
Feb 24 – The Flintstones: The Deluxe Edition
Solo Tabletop RPG Reviews & Actual Plays
Feb 4, 11 – Eldersworn: Florida Grotesque Part One, Part Two
Feb 18, 25 – Wanderhome Part One, Part Two
Feb 10, 17, 24 – Little Town: Bright Falls Episodes Four, Five, Six
Podcast Episodes
Feb 4 – Bunny Lake Is Missy/Taste of Honey
Feb 11 – Babe: Pig in the City/Happy Feet
Feb 18 – TBD
Feb 25 – TBD
Film Series
[Some French Classics] – Jan 1st thru 8th
Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game, Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon Amour, Last Year in Marienbad, The 400 Blows
[Palestinian Cinema] – Jan 10 thru 29
Chronicle of a Disappearance, Divine Intervention, Paradise Now, Salt of This Sea, The Time That Remains, Five Broken Cameras, Omar, It Must Be Heaven, Gaza Fights for Freedom
Continue reading “January 2024 Posting Schedule”
November 2023 was the busiest PopCult Reviews has ever been. We came in just six views shy of a total of 15,000. The next closest month was October 2023, with just under 13,000. The year will see astronomical growth for the blog, but I will talk more about that when we get to 2024’s State of the Blog in January. December will be a mix of what it always is: trying to cram in as many of the year’s best films to see where they end up on my list and sharing all my favorite pieces of media I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy in 2023. I suspect there will be many movies not listed here that I will be watching in the second half of December, should they become available.
Continue reading “December 2023 Posting Schedule”
October saw my highest total views by far with over 12,500 views for the month. My new posts of Insidious: The Red Door, Exorcist II: The Heretic, and The Venture Brothers Season Four dominated the month for views, each clocking over 150 each. This meant year to year growth from October 2022 to October 2023 was 105%. Another way of looking at it is in 2022, I averaged 105 views a day for that month while in 2023 my average views per day was 406. It’s always nice to know people are at least seeing your work.
Continue reading “November 2023 Posting Schedule”
Film Series
September 4 thru 29 – Noir Masterworks
Laura, Detour, The Big Sleep, The Killers, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Out of the Past, Stray Dog, The Third Man, Night and the City, The Big Heat, Kiss Me Deadly, and Touch of Evil
Comic Book Reviews
September 2 thru 30
Alan Moore’s The Saga of Swamp Thing Volumes One thru Five
Television Reviews
Sept 3 – Mrs. Davis
Sept 10 – My Brilliant Friend Season One
Sept 17 – The Venture Brothers Season Three
Sept 24 – The Bear Season Two
My Favorites Lists
Sept 9 – My Favorite Coen Brothers Supporting Performances
Sept 23 – My Favorite Films About Moving
Solo Tabletop RPG Reviews & Actual Plays
Sept 8 – Starforged: Nexus of Destiny
Sept 10, 17, 24 – Public Access Solo Playthrough
Podcast Schedule
Sept 3 – The Boogeyman/Please Baby Please
Sept 10 – One Fine Morning/Baby Mama
Sept 17 – TBD
Sept 24 – Theater Camp/Cassandro
Film Series
August 2nd thru 30th – Flashback to 1983
The Dead Zone, Sans Soleil, Terms of Endearment, A Nos Amours, The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Local Hero, Meantime, The 4th Man, El Norte, Eyes of Fire, Tender Mercies, Pauline at the Beach
Continue reading “August 2023 Posting Schedule”
Film Series
July 3rd thru 14th – The Mission Impossible Series
Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible 2, Mission Impossible III, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Mission Impossible: Fallout
July 17th thru 31st – Angry Cinema
Weekend (1967), Watermelon Man, Hi, Mom!, Walker, Lady Vengeance, Observe and Report, and Norte: The End of History
Continue reading “July 2023 Posting Schedule”
Film Series
May 1st thru 31st – The American Theater on Film, Volume One
The Little Foxes, A Streetcar Named Desire, 12 Angry Men, Picnic, A Raisin in the Sun, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, True West, The Glass Menagerie, Glengarry Glen Ross, M. Butterfly, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America
Continue reading “May 2023 Posting Schedule”
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