Pop Culture Affidavit Episode 58: Movie Songs!
It’s time for YET ANOTHER PLAYLIST EPISODE! Inspired by Andrew Leyland’s movie scores episode of “The Palace of Glittering Delights,” I’ve compiled a playlist of songs from movie soundtracks that are...
View ArticleIn Country: Marvel Comics’“The ‘Nam”— Episode 66
This episode, I take time out from my regular coverage of The ‘Nam to continue my look at Vietnam War movies with Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. I give a full review of the movie as well as a...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Presents: 80 Years of DC Comics Part Eighteen —...
THIS IS IT! THE BIG FINALE! And oh what a good one we’ve got for you! I’m joined by The Irredeemable Shag to talk about a book that not only showcases a plethora of DC superheroes, but characters from...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Episode 69: Follow The Money
It’s Election Day and that means it’s time to talk politics … sort of! This episode, I’m joined by Rob Kelly (The Film and Water Podcast) to talk about the 1976 film All The President’s Men, which...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Episode 75: Where Do You Go When the Record is Over?
In 1977, one of the biggest phenomenons of the decade was released, a movie that so encapsulated that moment in time that it’s been preserved for being culturally relevant. That movie? Saturday Night...
View ArticleThose Lights Were Bright on Broadway
In the liner notes to his live album Songs in the Attic, Billy Joel writes that the performance of “Miami 2017 (I’ve Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway” “demands the gothic reverberation of a vast...
View ArticleIn Country: Marvel Comics’“The ‘Nam”— Episode 93
Seven episodes and a wake-up! This time around, I take a break from my regular coverage of the comic to bring you one of the landmark films about the Vietnam War, 1978’s The Deer Hunter, which stars...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Episode 131: Hail! Hail! Corporate Rock and Roll
It was generic. It was kind of lame. And it was everywhere. From the late 1970s until the late 1980s, “Corporate Rock” ruled the airwaves. But what, exactly, was “Corporate Rock”? Join me as I plumb...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Episode 144: Where Were You in ’62?
It’s the first of three episodes that look at the nostalgia subgenre of films, and I’m starting with the granddaddy of all of them, 1973’s American Graffiti. Directed by George Lucas, this is a...
View ArticlePop Culture Affidavit Episode 145: Alright, Alright, Alright
My look at nostalgia-themed movies continues! This time around, Amanda joins me to sit down and talk about a formative movie for the two of us: Dazed and Confused, the 1993 Richard Linklater film that...
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