With a cover date of December 12th, 1985 (40 years ago today!), issue 109 of the Heavy Metal Bible, Kerrang!, was surely the reason for the season! With Robert Sweet of Stryper as its cover star and... 1/2

It still blows my mind that it's over 26 years since The Phantom Menace was released 🤯 Did you know that 'Duel of the Fates' by John Williams had lyrics based on a fragment of an archaic Welsh poem, Cad Goddeu, and... 1/2

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! From this week in 1982, issue 510 of the weekly Spider-Man comic from Marvel UK, complete with E.T. colour feature! Phone home... and tell everyone that you still collect comics!

Published by World Distributors in time to be under many a tree at Xmas 1972, here's the very first Pink Panther, the rinky-dink panther, annual.

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on Pop Culture Schlock! A proper curio today from the hallowed pages of Photoplay: Mister Quilp (released on video in the UK in truncated form as The Old Curiosity Shop), one of several "Family Classics" made into musical films... 1/2

It's another Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Back to 1989 today via issue 129 of the legendary UK genre magazine and its fangtastic Fright Night Part 2 cover image. There are not many Starburst Sundays left before I dig out another genre classic for 2026.

It's another Soccer Saturday on PCS! Sporting a rosette of his beloved Luton Town (he was a one-time president of the club), here's Eric Morecambe on the cover of the 1972 festive issue of Sportsworld. Wahay! ⚽

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend! Today, turn up the good and turn down the suck with the 2002 shoestring budget Canadian comedy, FUBAR: The Movie, presented here on an NTSC Region 1 DVD from my eclectic movie collection. Just give'r 💿

Is Batman Returns a Christmas movie? Of course it is! Perfect for a December family argument, get competitive with the Batman Returns 3-D board game, released by Parker Brothers in 1992 🎄🦇🎄

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! From this week in 1987, here's issue 2402 of The Dandy: the 50th birthday special issue, complete with free giant souvenir poster!

"What shall we put on the cover of the 1980 Whizzer and Chips annual?" "How about a kid doing some crazy acrobatic move on a Chopper... but on a high wire?" "Love it!"

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on Pop Culture Schlock! A triple bill today: Walt Disney Productions' 1972 screwball comedy, Snowball Express, plus Saludos Amigos, the 1942 live action/animation mix featuring Goofy, Donald Duck, and José Carioca the parrot, plus... 1/2

It's another Soccer Sunday on PCS! Andy Gray is 70 years old today, and on Saint Andrew's Day too! To celebrate, pour a glass and rest it on this glorious Tennent's Lager beer mat from 1978 ⚽ #OTD

It's another Seven-Inch Single SATURDAY on Pop Culture Schlock! It only got to Number 83 on the UK Singles Chart in 1988, but Barry Crocker's Neighbours theme tune single is a bona fide pop culture platter that matters!

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend! Today, 1976's television movie event, Helter Skelter, starring Steve Railsback as Charles Manson. Unavailable in this country, this is a region-free Spanish DVD 💿

"You know why super villains are so unhappy, Arthur? They don't treasure the little things." Now 30 years old, how cool is this The Tick American football (both sides featured due to my boss level photo editing skills!) from Good Stuff? Spoon!

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! "Fail to heed my warning and Planet Earth will burn!" From this week in 1982, Doomlord (in a mushroom cloud!) charms the schoolkids with the threat of total annihilation!

Don't make me have doublers - you wouldn't like me when I have doublers! Released by F.K.S. Publishers in 1979 to tie-in with the success of the hit television series, here's an unopened packet of The Incredible Hulk picture cards.

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on Pop Culture Schlock! "It's four years later - what does she remember?" From the pages of Devil Movies, the Photoplay occult special, here's a great full-page ad for what is generally considered to be one of the worst movies, 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.

"To know death, Otto, you have to f*ck life... in the gall bladder!" Udo Kier R.I.P. 😥

It's another Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Back to 1982 today, courtesy of the 42nd issue of the UK genre magazine. Yes, the Dragonslayer cover is cool, but it was the promise of a feature on the making of John Carpenter's The Thing that got this young reader giddy in the newsagent's

It's another Soccer Saturday on PCS! Match Weekly launched in September 1979 as a rival to Shoot! Match underwent a soft reboot in 1985 (I believe) with a tweak to the logo and the promise of a "new" Match. This plastic mug appears to be from that time - still forty years old! ⚽

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend! Today, 1995's rock 'n' roll comic kidnap caper, Drop Dead Rock, featuring Adam Ant and Deborah Harry. Here I have dug out an NTSC DVD from my old RnR reviewing days 💿

Blasting off toyshop shelves and landing in kids' bedrooms in 1983 courtesy of Allan Industries, check out the lo-fi sci-fi that was Fuzzy-Felt in Space!

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! Cover-dated November 19th, 1980 (45 years ago today!), here's issue 28 of Marvel UK weekly, Forces in Combat - "Britain's brightest fantasy and adventure weekly!" ROM is dead?!

From this coming week in 1984, check out The Lords of the New Church on the cover of legendary music paper, Sounds.

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on Pop Culture Schlock! From the pages of another classic Seventies issue of Photoplay, here's a half-page ad for The Amsterdam Kill (the 1977 Golden Harvest flick starring Robert Mitchum) on a... 1/2

It's another Seven-Inch Single Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Back to 1984 today courtesy of Limahl and the theme tune to The NeverEnding Story. Produced and composed by Giorgio Moroder, the single peaked at Number 4 in the UK Singles Chart.

It's another Soccer Saturday on PCS! Bryan Small was born #OTD in 1971. He started his career at Aston Villa, playing for them between 1991 and 1995. Here's a signed photo of him from my collection, wearing that glorious Asics Villa home kit at Villa Park. Happy Birthday! ⚽

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend! Director Ken Wiederhorn called King Frat a terrible Animal House knock-off but, c'mon, if you were of a certain age during the video shop years this was a classic! "Gumbroski draws mud!"

Published in paperback by Corgi Carousel in 1977, here's Operation Sky-Drop, the fourth book in the Action Man series by Mike Brogan. Check out that 10p price sticker from ye olde jumble sale.

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! From 1987, here's issue 156 of Kerrang! - the issue that the "Heavy Metal Bible" became a weekly magazine. A classic British band had to grace the cover of such a monumental issue, of course: Bad News!

From 1974, here's the 2nd issue of the (then) brand new poster magazine, Kung-Fu Monthly, offering hard facts, hot pictures, and high action! This will come as a disappointment to some given my reputation, but I do not have the first issue! I did meet David Carradine, though...

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on Pop Culture Schlock! From the pages of a 50-year-old copy of Photoplay, here's a glorious half-page ad for the bawdy classic, Confessions of a Pop Performer, on a curious double bill with Police Story which, I'm assuming... 1/2

Yabba-dabba-doo - it's another Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! From 1994, here's issue 191 of the legendary UK genre magazine, featuring a true prehistorical figure as its cover star: John Goodman as Fred Flintstone!

It's another Soccer Saturday on PCS! Micky Adams was born #OTD in 1961. The former Leicester, Brighton, and Coventry boss played for Southampton for five years and got his own Pro-Set trading card during the 1990/91 season. Here's a signed one from my collection. Happy Birthday! ⚽

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend! Made as a Status Quo tax deductible write-off, wince at Bula Quo!, the 2013 Fiji-set crime drama starring Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Jon Lovitz, Craig Fairbrass, and Laura Aikman 1/2

Believe it or not, this postermag (from Phoebus Publishing) is now 50 years old! And the subject matter - who wouldn't want a massive poster of Nessie on their bedroom wall in the Seventies?! 🦕 #lochnessmonster #cryptozoology #nessie #vintagemagazine

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock! What could have been cooler in 1980 than the centrespread pin-up of Beau Bridges as Bruce McBride from Silver Dream Racer in issue 849 of Jackie? Not much!

"When in doubt, stick your left out." Seconds out for a fifty-year-old classic: Henry Cooper's Sports Spectacular Annual published by Brown Watson.

It's the return of Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday to Pop Culture Schlock! From the pages of Films and Filming magazine, here's an original full-page ad for the UK theatrical release of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Classic!

Seven-Inch Single Sunday is back on Pop Culture Schlock! Peaking at Number 46 in the UK Singles Chart in 1981, here's The Krankies with the legendary 'Fan-Dabi-Dozi' on a seven-inch platter that matters from the Monarch label.

It's another Soccer Saturday on PCS! Mark Hughes was born #OTD in 1963. To celebrate, here's a signed copy of his 1989 autobiography, 'Sparky: Barcelona, Bayern and Back' ⚽

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend... and a klassik heavy metal horror to complete my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! On special edition Region 1 DVD from Synapse Films, here's 1987's Canadian schlock rock epic, Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare... 1/2

A return visit to the PCS365 (bathroom) cabinet of curiosities for Day 30 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From the spooky Seventies House of Horrors soap line produced by Grosvenor of London, get in a lather over this vintage soapy Skull! 💀

Old VHS ads from the inside cover of vintage Kerrang! magazines just hit differently!

"Don't count me out yet, Fangs - Blade the Vampire Slayer doesn't die easily!" Yes, it's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock, and Day 29 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! 50 years old this week, here's issue 54 of Marvel UK's Dracula Lives 🦇

A sojourn to the PCS365 library for Day 28 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown digs this up: the epic Paperbacks From Hell book, signed to my good self by Grady Hendrix

It's another Vintage Monster Mag Monday on PCS as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From 1982, here's issue 6 of Monster Monthly. Lasting just 8 issues, Monster Monthly was a Marvel UK magazine that featured a mixture of reprinted American Marvel horror strips and features on horror movies

Beware the moon, lads - it's another 31 Days of Halloween Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Back to 1981 today via issue 40 of the iconic UK genre magazine. Great cover dedicated to the (then) upcoming release of An American Werewolf in London 🌕