Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with Marianne Cassidy and Grace Duffy, The Bottom 100 is a subset of the weekly The 250 podcast, a trip through some of the worst movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Bob Spiers’ Spice World.
Notes:
- Recorded 4th November 2018.
- Spice World at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Bottom 100 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Read Grace’s reviews at The Mary Sue.
- Anne T. Donahue argues that Spice World is better than A Hard Day’s Night, June 2017.
- Rebecca Macatee at Entertainment Tonight on the lasting legacy of Spice World, January 2018.
- Sirin Kale at Vice discusses the critical and cultural reappraisal of Spice World, January 2018.
- Matt Latham at Set the Tape looks back on Spice World, December 2017.
- Matt Stopera at Buzzfeed argues that Spice World is a cinematic masterpiece, March 2013.
- Geri Halliwell looks back on the founding of the Spice Girls at Marie Claire, July 2016.
- Chris Heath interviews the Spice Girls for Rolling Stone, July 1997.
- John Freeman discusses The Bunty at Memorabilia Magazine, 2004.
- J.C. Herz at The New York Times on Spice World: The Game, July 1998.
- Frances Taylor on Digital Spy on Geir Halliwell as a “Page 3” girl, January 2015.
- Steve Boggan reports at The Independent on the Spice Girls’ decision to elect Margaret Thatcher the first leader of the band, December 1996.
- Sam Jones at The Guardian on Geri Halliwell’s controversial acknowledgement of Margaret Thatcher’s influence on the band, April 2013.
- Rhian E. Jones at The Guardian discusses whether Margaret Thatcher was, in fact, the first Spice Girl, April 2013.
- Jennifer Keishin Armstrong at Billboard on how the Spice Girls reinvigourated mainstream feminism during the nineties, July 2016.
- Erica Hawkins at Hello Giggles on the legacy of the Spice Girls’ unique brand of feminism, March 2018.
- Amy Zimmerman at The Daily Beast on the Spice Girls’ rebranding of “girl power” as “people power”, November 2018.
- Louis Staples at The Spectator on the political legacy of the Spice Girls, November 2018.
- Tom Griffiths at Sabotage Times on how Britpop reappropriated the Union Flag, April 2014.
- Michael Hann at The Guardian on the complicated legacy of Britpop, April 2014.
- Obituary of Bob Spiers at The Independent, December 2008.
- Obituary of Bob Spiers at The Guardian, December 2008.
- Sophie Atkinson at Bustle on the modern wave of nineties nostalgia, April 2018.
- James Wolcott at Vanity Fair on the peculiarity of nineties nostalgia, July 2014.
- How Did This Get Made on Spice World, April 2013.
- Rachel Hodin at Interview talks to cast and crew about the enduring weirdness of Spice World, January 2018.
- Alan Cumming discusses his time making Spice World with Standard Hotels, January 2017.
- Afua Hirsch at The Guardian on the nineties as ground zero for third wave feminism, January 2018.
- Sylvia Patterson at The Guardian on the Spice Girls as a triumph of meaninglessness, July 2016.
- Lucas Mann at The Atlantic on Donald Trump as the first reality television president, April 2018.
- Hello Magazine charts the history of Victoria and David Beckham’s relationship, June 2018.
- Natalie Zarrelli at Atlas Obscura on the violent ice cream wars that waged in Scotland during the eighties, May 2016.
- The Guardian reports on the controversial teenage pregnancy plot involving Sarah Platt on Coronation Street, February 2000.
- Victoria Beckham on “a decade of elegance” in Vogue, September 2018.
- Tara Joshi at Vice on how the Spice Girls saved nineties pop music from macho domination, June 2016.
- Rob Harvilla at The Ringer on “poptimism”, November 2017.
- Constance Grady at Vox on how A Star Is Born wrestles with “poptimism”, October 2018.
- Mark Harrison at Den of Geek on Sam Rockwell’s unique talent for dancing badly, March 2016.
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