Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode #14: Physical and Digital Media

The Hospital We All Need: This Season’s Grey’s Anatomy is the Perfect Prescription

“Yesterday, Seattle reported 345 more cases, 29 deaths. Test positivity rate has increased, so we should prepare for more patients… 53 of the 79 ventilators are currently in use…”  That’s not a status report from Seattle’s mayor but part of an opening sequence in last week’s Grey’s Anatomy, as doctors at the fictional Seattle Grey […]

Britflix: Don’t Look Now

Don’t Look Now is one of the most revived British films of 1973 and an essential horror-thriller. Seeing that it is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and Pop Culture Maniacs has already celebrated The Exorcist and The Wicker Man’s 50th Anniversaries it seems fair to complete the unofficial horror trilogy. John and Laura Baxter (Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) are a […]

Britflix: Ironclad

Ironclad is a rarity because it’s a British action film. It was one of many historical action films released in the early 2010s to capitalise on the success of 300. The year is 1215. King John (Paul Giamatti) has reneged on Magna Carta and hired an army of Danish pagans. William d’Aubigny (Brian Cox), an ennobled wool […]