Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #26: Simultaneous Releasing

Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod Review

Kevin MacLeod is a name most people won’t know, but his work has been wide-reaching. The documentary Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod looks at the man and his impact on the music industry. MacLeod is a composer who has an extraordinary business model: he releases his music for free in exchange for credit, or a […]

Smile Review

Smile is based on a supernatural horror film based on a short film, Laura Hasn’t Slept. Smile hopes to join the likes of The Babadook, Oculus, and Lights Out as excellent horror films based on shorts. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is a psychiatrist at an emergency mental health unit. One of her patients is Laura Weaver (Caitlin Stasey), a 26-year-old post-graduate student who claims to see an […]

The Duke Review

The Duke is a comedy-drama about how one man used the theft of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a way to enact social change in 1960s Britain. Kempton Bunton (Jim Broadbent) is a taxi driver in Newcastle and a political campaigner with a confrontational personality. Kempton’s campaigning ways lead to him getting imprisoned for not […]