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Send us Fan Mail Pablo Berger is a Spanish award-winning film director and screenwriter with 4 feature films and 25 years in cinema.  Robot Dreams has received accolades including being nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards and winning Best Animated Film & Best Adapted Screenplay at the 38th Goya Awards.   ROBOT DREAMS is in Australian cinemas April 11. Website | Rotte...

Send us Fan Mail Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with the delicious and salacious world of Monkey Man. We talk about the important of telling our own stories, the multidimensional ‘Dev Gaze’ in addressing culture (class , caste etc) women (the rights and lack of rights), ancient cultures having more than two genders as well as religious and political tensions. We talk about how this felt non...

Send us Fan Mail Get comfortable and sexy as we celebrate 5 years of the For Your Reference podcast! Love and splooshes to all of you for supporting the podcast since Feb 2019 and big ups to friends and lovers that joined us on the red carpet! Red Carpet Pod Twinnies - Sunni & Brandi ( Book of Lies ), Em ( Verbal Diorama ) Mini Splooshies Red Carpet VIP - Kolby ( Kolby Told Me ), Ben ( FilmBus...

Send us Fan Mail Through an assured lens, Cinematographer and Director   Molly Manning Walker boasts an impressive body of work centering human stories. With her Cannes-winning debut, "How to Have Sex," she's taken us on an intimate journey into teenage life and friendships. How to have Sex will be out in Australian cinemas nationally on March 7 Trigger warning for consent and sexua...

Send us Fan Mail Reach into the bag of tried and tired Hollywood to put Indigenous pain in the periphery to centre and focus on the white people. Pillage and plunder but make it cute with The Killers of the Flower Moon this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the For Your Reference podcast. TRIG...

Send us Fan Mail Enter a familiar world with even more familiar faces at pit stops, cigarette breaks and retellings. Charge with a gun, knife you run with The Irishman this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the For Your Reference podcast. Watch the video podcast on patreon. Website | Rotten To...

Send us Fan Mail Print out the transcripts, learn what pleases a beautiful woman and acquire sustenance through the boob buffet. Open your mouth and have something to say with The Aviator this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the For Your Reference podcast. Watch the video podcast on patreon....

Send us Fan Mail Narrate the inner workings of made men, schmuck on wheels, pant suits and double knits. Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut with Goodfellas this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the For Your Reference podcast. Watch the video podcast on Patreon. Website...

Send us Fan Mail Enter through the delulu foyer for an appetiser only treat and broadcasted national apology. Take the awful stuff in your life and make it funny with The King of Comedy this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the sizzling Scorsese cinema for our fifth year of the For Your Reference podcast. Watch the video podcast on Patreon. W...

Send us Fan Mail For the final interview of our three part series we chat to Jane Harper and Robert Connolly about translating from book to screen and the visual language throughout. In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, when five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents investigate. Force of Nature: The Dry 2 is in cinemas on 8th February 202...

Send us Fan Mail For our second interview of our three part series we chat to Lucy Ansell, Sisi Stringer and Robin McLeavy about their roles in a female ensemble cast and the importance of trust and safety through filming. In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, when five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents investigate. Force of Nature: The...

Send us Fan Mail We kick off our three part interview series with the legendary stars on the local and international scene: Eric Bana and Deborra-lee Furness. In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, when five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents investigate. Force of Nature: The Dry 2 is in cinemas on 8th February 2024 Watch the video interv...

Send us Fan Mail Runaway to the city for your chance to make it big! Find joy and fall in love through the very real pain in this country’s history. Harmonise with The Sapphires this week. Talk to your workplace about launching a RAP and work with Supply Nation for procurement. Links to orgs and causes you can donate to: Aboriginal Embassy Pay The Rent Dhadjowa Foundation Our Islands Our Home Firs...

Send us Fan Mail Wendy Mocke is an award winning Papua New Guinean interdisciplinary storyteller and a NIDA Acting graduate, working across live performance and film as an actor, writer and visual artist. Samoan-Maltese-Australian producer Jessica Magro founded Purple Carrot Entertainment, an independent production company committed to telling the untold stories of misrepresented Australia. Bad An...

Send us Fan Mail In this jam-packed episode, the hosts of the For Your Reference Podcast discuss several exciting topics. The show starts with a deep dive into 'Next Goal Wins', directed by Taika Waititi, critiquing some of the writing and direction choices. The conversation then moves to 'True Detective Night Country', praising its gripping storytelling and representation of I...

Send us Fan Mail Beware the cavity of social commentary staining the joy of childhood. Sugarcoat sour themes with Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Wonka this week.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail We kick off 2024 with a spicy Reference Max reviewing Saltburn, Dream Scenario, Cat Person, Platform 7 and Smothered. Check out our patreon for the video episode . Check out Oti’s Bookie quote on Stuff NZ list of shows and movies to watch. Resources: US National Sexual Assault Hotline: (800) 656-HOPE WWW.RAINN.ORG National Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 777-SAFE WWW.THeHoTline.o...

Send us Fan Mail Kristoffer Borgli is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter that centres the bizzare and delightful parts that make us human. DREAM SCENARIO follows family man and professor muddling through middle age when he suddenly finds himself at the center of a mysterious dream epidemic DREAM SCENARIO is out in Australian cinemas now. This interview is audio only. For other video interv...

Send us Fan Mail KT hits the red carpet to chat to the cast at the Sydney Premiere Screening of Next Goal Wins. A mix of OG legends and new Hollywood, David Fane, Oscar Kightley, Uli Latukefu and Chris Alosio speak on Pasifika representation, the importance of our stories and what it means to be able to work together. Next Goal Wins is out in Australian cinemas now! Check out the video interview: ...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to all our friends and lovers for joining us to reflect on the year that has been! Just like the world we have the highs of highs and some low low lows! Grab a snack and a beverage for Part 2! Full video available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95329266 Highlights include: Quantum Cowboys, Red, White & Brass, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, New Jack City,...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to all our friends and lovers for joining us to reflect on the year that has been! Just like the world we have the highs of highs and some low low lows! Grab a snack and a beverage for Part 1! Full video available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95329266 Highlights include: You can go now, Visitor Q, Till, John Wick 4, The Last of Us, Welcome to the Chippendales a...

Send us Fan Mail In our last Ref Max for 2023 we review ANGLE, Bad Behaviour, The Promise, Bookie, Uproar, The Prince of Egypt: The Musical and short film WhaleX. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Named in this year’s CGA Rising Stars, Bernie Van Tiel is a writer/songwriter, actor, beatboxer and rapper that brings a much needed energy to the so called Australian arts and creative space. Bernie has recently been seen in Class of ’07 and Erotic Stories & soon Swift Street. Stream God Bless the trap now too! Video interview out now . Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree |...

Send us Fan Mail From the biggest independent film to be produced in Newcastle to centering important conversations about mental health, Filmmaker Jye Currie brings The Promise, up for Best Documentary at the 2024 AACTA Awards. This interview is audio only. For other video interviews check out our YouTube playlist . Trigger warning: given the focus of the film there is talk on suicide but not in g...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's Reference Max we review the succinctly creepy world in Scavengers Reign, embodied yelling couple tropes in Foe, shifted the lens of Indian cinema in Brand Bollywood Downunder and got down and dirty with The Big Dog. GIVEAWAY DETAILS (AUS) ONLY - CLOSES 29 NOV Thanks to Kismet Films and NixCo, we are running our biggest giveaway yet with FIFTEEN double passes to...