It's one of the great films of the '90s, from one of the most Pop Screen-friendly directors of all time: Jim Jarmusch, a man who can't even make a little family drama without sticking Tom Waits in there. Here, he's making a Western starring Johnny Depp, Robert Mitchum, a lot of people who would go on to be very famous, and the former lead singer of the Stooges. In a dress and bonnet.

It's so good that we've redone the show's theme music in its honour this week. Join Graham and Rob as they discuss the light the film sheds on the Western genre, its place as the first of Jarmusch's offbeat genre exercises, and the film's other hidden punk rock cameo that will blow you away. Plus: the pre-wearing-wacky-hats-for-Disney-money years of Depp's career, Iggy Pop's advice to young musicians and more!

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Back to the '90s, and a time when a movie could just be, y'know, anything you wanted. The co-writer of Sid & Nancy, Abbe Wool, went to test this theory with this wilfully inconsequential road movie in which a member of X (John Doe) and a member of The Beastie Boys (Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz) set off to scatter the ashes of a friend of the former musician. It's really the excuse for an eclectic set of cameos, and we mean eclectic - everyone from David Carradine to Timothy Leary, Arlo Guthrie to Flea.

But what if there was something deeply profound beneath the surface? Well, we don't quite go that far, but debuting co-host Rob Spencer from Caliber 9 From Outer Space makes a good account of this as a movie of its moment. Joining him to pick over Roadside Prophets's cameos, connections and subtexts is Graham, and their conversation is as free-ranging as the movie: Patty Hearst, cinema's greatest scenes of gluttony, the wonder of Fatma Mohamed and Neil Kinnock's election broadcasts are all under consideration.

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The Jimi Hendrix estate have been notably controlling of the film rights to his life story since his death at the totemic age of 27. Hollywood, though, cannot stand for a classic rock star to go un-biopicised (it's a word now), which is why in 2013 John Ridley got Andre Benjamin - yes, Andre 3000 from OutKast - to play the legendary guitarist in Jimi: All is By My Side, a film tackling Hendrix's rise to success that breaks off conveniently before he wrote any of the classic songs the film doesn't have the rights to.

Our 27 Club correspondent Aidan rejoins Graham to discuss Hendrix's musical and cinematic legacies, his famous covers of everything from Bob Dylan to the American national anthem, the perils of watching films from a location manager's perspective, and the complaints levelled against the film by Hendrix's ex Kathy Etchingham. We also discuss the fractious screenwriting career and awful op-ed writing career of John Ridley, and the research process that led to him apparently deciding a book where Hendrix shoots purple lasers from his eyes was a reliable source. No, really.

If you want to hear us tackle an even more baffling film about Hendrix, you're in luck, because this month's Patreon bonus episode of Pop Screen is all about Larry Buchanan's Down On Us. We're also gearing up to launch another Patreon-only podcast, They'll Love Us When We're Dead, looking at overlooked and dormant film franchises, as well as producing weekly articles on The Twilight Zone and Doctor Who. All of these are only available at Patreon - follow us on Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook to find out more.