British A-listers Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck , a fantasy drama based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King. Beloved Australian actor Essie Davis discusses her role in the upcoming Disney sci-fi series Alien: Earth . Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili speaks about her haunting abortion drama April , which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Ross Richardson Executive producer, Rhiannon Br...
Aug 13, 2025•54 min
U.S. director Zach Cregger discusses Weapons , his excellent horror about a community left questioning who or what is behind the disappearance of a classroom of children. The showrunners behind Apple TV+ series Platonic , in which Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen star as a charming duo of best friends in L.A. Naomi Watts on The Friend , an adaptation of the bestselling book about a writer who finds her cosy New York life up-ended after her closest friend bequeaths her a Great Dane. CREDITS Presenter, J...
Aug 06, 2025•54 min
British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber ( Attawalpa ) co-created the buzzy Netflix series Too Much with his wife Lena Dunham, a rom-com full of joy and complexity set in London. Luis gets beneath the surface of it all with Jason. Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks on Together , his sticky body horror that made a mark at Sundance, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. French master François Ozon on his latest When Fall is Coming , an ambiguous murder-mystery set in Burgundy. CREDITS Presenter, Jas...
Jul 30, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Screen legend Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love , where she stars opposite Pierce Brosnan in an adaptation of Niall Williams' 1997 novel about a couple pulled together by ghosts, fate and the power of love. Inspired by real events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp dramedy The Stolen Painting follows an auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged by the discovery of a long-lost masterpiece. French director Louise Courvoisier on her charming debut...
Jul 23, 2025•54 min
As two Oscar snubbed films with excellent female leads from earlier in the year become available to watch via streaming, a highlights program featuring Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn on Babygirl , a sexual thriller starring Nicole Kidman as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickenson; Plus, Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain discusses Maria , in which Angelina Jolie is stupendous as the world's greatest opera singer - Maria Calla...
Jul 16, 2025•54 min
Two stand-outs from the Melbourne International Film Festival : Filmmaker Courtney Stephens on dolphin intelligence, sensory deprivation and the psychedelic experience...her new documentary looks at the strange and often confronting work of twentieth-century utopian neuroscientist John Lilly. British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr remembers the father he barely knew in his debut feature My Father's Shadow , a Lagos-set family drama that unfolds during a tumultuous period in Nigeria's politi...
Jul 09, 2025•54 min
A first glance at the Melbourne International Film Festival...Russian American filmmaker Julia Loktev on her fascinating five and a half hour documentary about journalists in Russia, My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow . One of the luminaries of Australian avant-garde filmmaking Dirk de Bruyn talks about two of his profoundly personal films, appearing as part of a career retrospective at the Melbourne Cinematheque. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Tony Norton Sound engineer, R...
Jul 02, 2025•54 min
Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Another Round) on his new 7-part series Families Like Ours , which is set in a hypothetical near future where global warming has led to the imminent flooding of Denmark. Director Boris Lojkine and actor Abou Sangaré discuss Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Story of Souleymane , a deeply empathetic drama that follows a food delivery courier through the streets of Paris as he prepares for his asylum application interview. Black Bird writer Dennis Le...
Jun 25, 2025•54 min
Australian director Justin Kurzel on his documentary Ellis Park , which follows Bad Seed and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis as he pursues his twin passions: making music and supporting a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra. Filmmakers Danny Boyle and Alex Garland talk political allegory and post-Brexit Britain in their new zombie film 28 Years Later , a follow-up to the cult 2002 film 28 Days Later. Bonus zombie extra: an exhumed interview with the late George Romero, director of the seminal 1968 ...
Jun 18, 2025•54 min
Past Lives director Celine Song on her new rom-com Materialists , starring Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who falls into a love triangle with her broke ex and a wealthy finance guy. The Rings of Power actor Charlie Vickers and showrunner Tony Ayres discuss working on the Netflix adaptation of Jane Harper's The Survivors , a story about a small coastal town haunted by the tragedy of three deaths. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Tony Norton Sound engineer, Ross Richardson Executiv...
Jun 11, 2025•54 min
U.S. writer-director Jason Keller talks Stick , a new sports comedy starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up former golf pro and Peter Dager as his Gen Z protege. Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald on his doc One to One: John & Yoko ... set in 1972 New York, the film explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono's world amid a turbulent era. White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on his latest role in The Salt Path, where he stars opposite Gillian Anderson in a sweet adaptation of the best-selling memoir about a couple who lo...
Jun 04, 2025•55 min
Direct from Cannes, where it received a seven-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, Wes Anderson and Benicio Del Toro discuss The Phoenician Scheme . Adelaide’s Phillipou Brothers on their latest South Australian horror for A24, Bring Her Back , the follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut Talk To Me. Artistic director of Sydney Film Festival Nashen Moodley is also fresh from the Cannes Film Festival. He speaks to us about the Palme d'Or-winning film It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi, also...
May 28, 2025•54 min
French director Gilles Lellouche on Beating Hearts , a genre-spanning romantic epic starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries. Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin discusses his multi-award winning Universal Language ...in a surreal interzone between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of several characters intertwine in unexpected ways. 2025 Berlinale Grand Jury Prize winner The Blue Trail sees a remarkable woma...
May 21, 2025•54 min
The newest chapter in the successful Final Destination horror franchise takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Jason meets directors Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky. Irish director Lorcan Finnegan on The Surfer, a psychological surf thriller starring Nicolas Cage which takes aim at Australian masculinity and localism on a W.A. beach. As it becomes available to stream on SBS on Demand, an excerpt from Jason's interview with Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Nia...
May 14, 2025•54 min
American film director Eli Craig discusses his horror Clown in a Cornfield ...as teenagers start to go missing one by one in a Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real. Director Mehdi Idir on Monsieur Aznavour , a biopic about an iconic singer-songwriter who beat all odds to become one of France’s best-loved entertainers. Andrew Ahn on his adaptation of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet , which re-imagines the original film's themes to explore LGBTQIA+ problems of a...
May 07, 2025•54 min
Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival , A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon. Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost , a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne ...
Apr 30, 2025•54 min
As the German Film Festival rolls out across the country, we meet two directors featured in this year's lineup... Acclaimed director Andres Veiel discusses his documentary Riefenstahl , a captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl and her complex relationship with the Nazi regime. Award-winning director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's second feature, Hysteria, comes to Australia directly from the 2025 Berlinale...a suspenseful behind-the-scenes conspiracy thriller about a real-lif...
Apr 23, 2025•54 min
British actor Will Poulter, who has starred in The Bear, Black Mirror, The Revenant and Midsommar, talks about his latest film role in the gripping war thriller Warfare. Kriv Stenders and Richard Roxburgh on The Correspondent, the story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste. Beloved actor and comedian Steve Coogan discusses The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama based on a true story that follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts ...
Apr 16, 2025•54 min
Brisbane-born Hollywood star Jacob Elordi fronts Justin Kurzel's TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North . In Lost and Found , filmmaker Raoul Peck follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa. Jason meets the directors of The Count of Monte Cristo in Paris, the new French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of romance and redemption. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbet...
Apr 09, 2025•54 min
A highlights edition looking at some films that dominated the 2025 Oscars... Jesse Eisenberg on A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), in a story that centres around a pair of mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their Jewish grandmother. American filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his film Anora, which took home five Oscars, including Best Film, for its portrayal of a feisty sex worker's unexpected Cind...
Apr 02, 2025•54 min
Director Jonathan Ogilvie discusses his nostalgic coming-of-age film Head South , where it's the late 1970's and teenager Angus is discovering the underground post-punk music scene in Christchurch. From the archives, David Nichols, historian and lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, on Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space , a story takes place during the late 70s to the early 80s in the underground music scene in Melbourne and the action that happens in and around a ...
Mar 26, 2025•54 min
Legendary Hollywood director Barry Levinson discusses working with Robert De Niro on gangster movie The Alto Knights . New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft on his nursing home set horror The Rule of Jenny Pen . Plus, This Life of Mine , a delicate chronicle of mental illness screening as part of this year's French Film Festival. Presenrer, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Riley Mellis Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown...
Mar 19, 2025•55 min
Australian actor Daniel Henshall talks about his latest role, in Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17 , where he stars alongside Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson in a black comedy about the dangers of cloning and colonisation. As the latest season of Severance rolls out, a show about a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives, another Australian actor, Dichen Lachman, joins us from London. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso ...
Mar 12, 2025•54 min
Cult British director Mike Leigh reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) in Hard Truths , a challenging yet compassionate exploration of modern family life in London. Meet the filmmakers behind Sugarcane , nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, it's a powerful portrayal of Native resilience and its exploration of the devastating legacy of Indian residential schools in Canada. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Riley Mell...
Mar 05, 2025•55 min
Oscar nominated for Best International Feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a film shot in secret that centres on paranoia and political unrest in Tehran. Jason meets director Mohammad Rasoulof. A conversation with Oscar Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres about her role in I'm Still Here , a film that follows a mother whose life is shattered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Carey Dell Executive producer, Rhiannon...
Feb 26, 2025•54 min
Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola on The Last Showgirl , a film about a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. British director Andrea Arnold on Bird , a surprising coming-of-age fable starring Nikiya Adams and Barry Keoghan. Actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell, where a once peaceful hunter leads his people in rebellion in 14th-century Switzerland. (WILLIAM TELL will be available to rent or buy on all the usual digital platforms from M...
Feb 19, 2025•54 min
Superstars Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor discuss Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy . Cannes Best Director winner Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, a dream-like road movie through Asia about romantic obsession and colonial decadence. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Carey Dell Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown...
Feb 12, 2025•54 min
The first terrorist attack to be broadcast live around the world happened in 1972, on September the 5th, at the Munich Olympics. A group of Palestinian gunmen took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage, and all of those ended up dead. In this episode, Jason speaks to Swiss-German director Tim Fehlbaum, and cast including an excellent Peter Saarsgard, about September 5, a film that takes us back to those events through the eyes of the sports journalists who brought the news to the world. Plus, a...
Feb 05, 2025•54 min
Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn discusses her film Babygirl , a sexual thriller with Nicole Kidman in the lead as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern. Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain on Maria , where Angelina Jolie stars as the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Matthew Crawford Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown...
Jan 29, 2025•54 min
Two major films this awards season focus on visionary artists... A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason interviews director James Mangold and actor Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film. The Brutalist centres on a great modernist architect trying to rebuild his life after fleeing post-war Europe. Fresh from winning several Golden Globe Awards, director Brady Corbet joins us. Presenter, Jason Di Ros...
Jan 22, 2025•55 min
