Film and Media Lecturer, Dr James Newton, shares his latest podcast episodes on Newton Talks. In his podcast, James discusses topics related to cinema, television and culture. The Cult Film Microcast series consists of very short discussions on a number of famous and sometimes obscure cult movies.
Episode 23, The Supergrass, analyses the Comic Strip Presents feature film, The Supergrass (1985), directed by Peter Richardson, and starring Ade Edmonson, Jennifer Saunders, Robbie Coltrane, Nigel Planer, Keith Allen, Alexei Sayle, Dawn French, and Richardson himself.
In epsiode 24, Italian crime films of the 70s with Austin Fisher, James Newton is joined by author, Austin Fisher, to talks about his book, Blood in the Streets, which looks at Italian crime films cycles of the 1970s, such as the police thriller, vigilante movies, mafia narratives, and the giallo, and how they responded to the violent political turmoil happening in Italian cities at the time.
You can listen to both recent episodes via Audioboom.