It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living

being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Genevieve Koski here with...

Keith Phipps. Scott Tobias.

Tasha Robinson.

Here on the Next Picture Show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context.

So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're looking at two laugh-out-loud mockumentaries that seek to capture the sights, the sounds, and the smells of music stardom. Scott, will you tell us about this week's pairing in Dubly, if you don't mind? Now, Genevieve, if you know very well, we don't do podcasts in Dubli.

Nonetheless, the new feature from Saturday Night Live bred musical comedians of the Lonely

Island, Pop Star Never Stop, Never Stopping, is a satirical snapshot of what pop stardom looks like in 2016.

But Popstar's most obvious cinematic influence draws in a much different earlier musical era

to make similar observations

about ego, artistic collaboration, and stardom. In 1984, Rob Reiner's This Is Spinal Tap

helped set the template for the mockumentary, a format dutifully adopted by the Lonely Island

and Popstar. Both films affectionately send up the absurd excesses and fragile egos of musicians struggling

against their own waning fame and both feature soundtracks packed with memorably silly spoof songs

nearly 30 years of musical cinematic and comedic history separate spinal tap and pop star both films

decidedly of their respective musical eras but But mocking the foibles of the rich,

famous, and oblivious never goes out of style. Yes, it's timeless, not unlike a medically

accurate green skeleton t-shirt. Since it's all but impossible to talk about what pop star achieves

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