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The Screen Show

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The Screen Show, hosted by renowned Sydney-based film critic Jason Di Rosso, is your ultimate guide to the world of film, television, and streaming. Each episode explores the latest films, TV shows and streaming originals through reviews, analysis and exclusive conversations with directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, showrunners and production designers, from A-list Hollywood talent to Australian creatives and emerging and established talent from around the world, providing you with VIP access to the minds shaping today's entertainment landscape.

From blockbusters to award season predictions (including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AACTAs) and film festival coverage (including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and all the Australian film festivals), The Screen Show keeps you on top of cinematic trends, award nominees and winners, international favourites, indie darlings, Australian gems, cult classics, retrospectives, and box office hits.

Whether you're interested in cinema or TV streaming, The Screen Show covers it all, celebrating cinematic storytelling in all its forms.

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  • Thursday · length unknown

    Pod extra: Vale RJ Mitte

    Following the sad news of RJ Mitte's passing, we're revisiting our Top Shelf conversation with the actor best known for playing Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad, widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2019, Mitte joined us in the studio to reflect on the films and television that shaped him, sharing some of his favourite screen classics and the performances that left a lasting impression.

  • Wednesday · 40 min

    Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles on Sense & Sensibility, plus The Balkan Cowboy and La Bola Negra

    Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility returns to the screen for a new generation, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles stepping into the iconic roles of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The A-list duo discuss re-imagining one of literature's most enduring stories. In the harrowing new documentary Naza, anonymous Israeli whistleblowers describe the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza during recent military operations. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szo

  • October 7 · 41 min

    Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison on The Social Reckoning + NYFF standouts

    Two Academy Award winners, Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison, discuss The Social Reckoning, Sorkin's return to the world he helped create with The Social Network. The writer-director reflects on revisiting the rise of social media in a dramatically different political and cultural moment, while Madison talks about stepping into one of the film's central roles. Film critic and MIFF programmer Kate Jinx joins us fresh from the New York Film Festival to discuss two of the event's stand-out films, bot

  • September 30 · 41 min

    Tom Cruise stars in Digger + Jebediah: Are We Ok?

    Tom Cruise disappears beneath layers of prosthetics to play a Texas oil baron in Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious satire about climate catastrophe, power and the stories powerful men tell...Jason meets with the Oscar-winning director, which also stars John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Riz Ahmed. Plus, filmmaker Arlo Dean Cook on Jebediah: Are We OK?, an intimate documentary following the Perth alt rock band across decades of friendship, success and addiction. Plus, a look b

  • September 29 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: Jon Hamm stars in a hostage drama + Hollywood's oddest family comedy

    This week we're reviewing two star-driven dramas. In Brothers, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves whose long friendship is turned upside down by the suggestion they could actually be related. And in American Hostage, Jon Hamm stars as a radio broadcaster drawn into a real-life hostage crisis when an armed gunman demands a national audience. 

  • September 23 · 41 min

    How to Live on Earth with Benedict Cumberbatch + The Great Arch

    Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonnie Hughes discuss How to Live on Earth, a visionary feature documentary that explores our connection to nature and its role in our future. French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, a drama that tells the true story of the Danish architect behind one of Paris' most ambitious and iconic modern landmarks. Plus, Jason recommends The Weight, a new adventure film starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. We want to know what you think of The Screen Show. Help

  • September 22 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: Sharon Horgan’s Youth and the Call My Agent! universe

    A look at Irish auteur Sharon Horgan's sharp new comedy, Youth, which once again finds humour and heart in the messiness of modern life. Plus, inside the expanding Call My Agent! universe, from the French original to its new movie spin-off.

  • September 16 · 41 min

    Saving Coyote vs. Acme + Gary Oldman in Slow Horses

    Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green on a Hollywood comeback story, plus, ahead of the new season of Slow Horses, we're revisiting a conversation with Gary Oldman.  Coyote vs Acme was a film written off for dead before winning a passionate fan campaign and a second chance on the big screen for its beloved Looney Tunes characters.  Gary Oldman discusses playing the gloriously dishevelled spy chief Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses and why the series resonates with audiences. We want to know what you

  • September 15 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: Last Seen + Slow Horses

    We unpack two major dramas: the buzzy new Australian crime series Last Seen,  and the latest season of Slow Horses. In Last Seen, Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes lead a high-stakes mystery of a missing child that exposes a close-knit community; while Slow Horses presents Gary Oldman's unforgettable Jackson Lamb once again, as he heads up his band of sidelined MI5 agents.

  • September 9 · 40 min

    Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell, Chloe Jean Lourdes on Last Seen + How Victoria Landed the Production

    Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes take us behind the scenes of Apple TV+'s new crime drama Last Seen, discussing what it took to bring the high-stakes mystery to the screen. Plus, Head of Production and Investment Attraction at VicScreen, Joe Brinkmann, discusses how Victoria secured the location rights to the production, and why it was the right fit. Bonus - capsule review of Runner, a new action comedy thriller starring Owen Wilson, set in Queensland.

  • September 8 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: From Dalliance to Dark Matter

    A look at the latest season of Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, alongside the Australian drama Dalliance, featuring a who's who of Australian acting talent including Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weaving, Georgie Parker and David Wenham. One imagines the lives we might have lived in a multiverse of possibilities, while the other centres around a tight knit group of friends in their sixties whose lives are suddenly up-ended. 

  • September 2 · 40 min

    Emmy Rossum stars in serial killer thriller Furious + Time and Tide

    Emmy Rossum talks about starring in Disney's acclaimed psychological thriller Furious, playing an undercover FBI agent hunting a female serial killer. Melbourne filmmaker Vee Shi's documentary Time and Tide takes him back to the Chinese town of his childhood, where a family reunion unfolds under deeply challenging circumstances.

  • September 1 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: From Derry Girls to How To Get To Heaven From Belfast

    Before there was How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there was Derry Girls, the sharp-eyed comedy that made Lisa McGee one of the most distinctive voices in television. In this special, we trace the arc of McGee's work from the school corridors of 1990s Derry to the tangled friendships, secrets and dark humour of contemporary Belfast, and how she captures the experience of place, memory and friendship with equal measures of wit and tenderness.

  • August 26 · 1 hr 8 min

    The Dog Stars: Ridley Scott, Josh Brolin + the Future of Film at MIFF

    Hollywood heavyweights Ridley Scott and Josh Brolin discuss Scott's latest film, The Dog Stars, an epic post-apocalyptic thriller also starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Guy Pearce. Set in a world ravaged by a virus that has wiped out most of humanity, the film follows the survivors left to contend with roaming scavengers and a brutal new reality. Jason speaks with three exciting emerging directors, whose films feature in MIFF's Bright Horizons competition: Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker

  • August 25 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: What's the verdict on The Airport Chaplain and Sterling Point?

    Jason and Wenlei review new SBS drama The Airport Chaplain, and the buzzy coming-of-age series Sterling Point. The Airport Chaplain, starring Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez, is a warm, offbeat series set among the travellers, workers, and unexpected encounters at a busy airport; while Sterling Point follows 17-year-old high-achiever Annie Jacobson, who, along with her twin brother Connor, discovers they have inherited a private Canadian island.

  • August 18 · 15 min

    THE COUCH: Serial killer thriller The Shards and DC drama Lanterns

    Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma are back to tell you what to watch on streaming this week...from Netflix's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, a glossy serial killer thriller set in the eighties in LA, to the latest (very good) offering from the DC Universe, Lanterns.

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