The Screen Show

Filipino-Australian director James J. Robinson discusses First Light, his acclaimed debut feature exploring faith, corruption and moral reckoning. Japanese-Australian filmmaker Natalie Erika James talks Saccharine, her unsettling new horror that turns diet culture into something truly nightmarish.

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...Elle and Widow's Bay.

Jason reviews The Invite , directed by Olivia Wilde, who also stars alongside Penélope Cruz, Seth Rogen and Edward Norton. The film follows a couple whose dinner invitation to their neighbours takes a wildly unexpected and life-changing turn. Léa Seydoux and Tony Leung Chiu-wai lead Silent Friend , the latest feature from On Body and Soul director Ildikó Enyedi. Spanning three eras, the film weave...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...the final season of The Bear and Ms X.

Jason reviews Supergirl , the new blockbuster directed by Sydney filmmaker Craig Gillespie and starring fellow Sydneysider Milly Alcock. What happens when one of the world's bestselling thriller writers teams up with one of Australia's biggest screen stars? Harlan Coben and Sam Worthington discuss Netflix's I Will Find You , a mystery driven by family secrets with Coben's trademark twists front an...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...The Killings at Parish Station and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.

Jason takes a look at Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s return to his sci-fi beginnings. Director Adrian Chiarella and actors Mia Wasikowska and Joe Bird talk about the unsettling new Australian film Leviticus . South Korean horror master Yeon Sang‑ho is back with Colony , a zombie thriller that follows a rapidly mutating virus. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Al...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...Alice and Steve and Coldwater.

We head to the Sydney Film Festival for a candid discussion with filmmakers on the highs and lows of low-budget production. Featuring voices from across this year's program, including Hyun Lee (French Girls), Anthony Frith (Mockbuster) and Christian Byers (Death of an Undertaker). Presented in partnership with UTS Creative Practice Research Group. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...Cape Fear and Not Suitable For Work.

Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu talk Tuner , a slick crime thriller also starring Dustin Hoffman, which follows a gifted piano tuner pulled into something darker. Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat on No Good Men , Afghanistan’s (terrific) first rom-com, screening as part of Sydney Film Festival. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound, Carey Dell Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...The Four Seasons and Spider Noir.

Twenty year old You Tube star turned A24 filmmaker Kane Parsons discusses Backrooms , his disorienting horror starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve. Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze's sublime road movie Dry Leaf is about to screen as part of this year's Sydney Film Festival . Shot on a 2010 flip phone, it follows a father searching across rural Georgia for his missing daughter.  Prese...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week... Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed and The Boroughs .

Rising horror auteur Curry Barker on his impressive twisted love-story Obsession , alongside actor Inde Navarrette. Australian director Zoe Pepper on Birthright, her biting take on the housing crisis and generational resentment. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Allyse Symons Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week... Off Campus (Prime Video) Leonard and Hungry Paul (ABC iview)

French screen icon Isabelle Huppert unpacks obsession, money and power in her latest film  The Richest Woman in the World . Remarkably Bright Creatures makes its way to Netflix as a film starring Sally Field. Shelby Van Pelt, author of the bestselling novel behind the film, and director Olivia Newman (Where the Crawdads Sing) discuss. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound enginee...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week... Rivals Season 2 (Disney) Citadel Season 2 (Prime Video) Legends (Netflix)

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, discusses  Amrum . Playing at the German Film Festival,  after first screening in Cannes’ Premiere section where it earned critical attention, the film is a quietly devastating coming-of-age drama set in the final days of WWII. We’re joined by Mortal Kombat II director Simon McQuoid and actors Karl Urban, Josh Lawson, and Jessica McNamee, to see what the martial...

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week... The Other Bennet Sister (Binge) Man on Fire (Netflix) Kevin (Prime Video)

Aussie actor Patrick Brammall is in the studio reflecting on his big Hollywood role as Anne Hathaway's love interest in The Devil Wears Prada 2 . Warwick Thornton joins us to talk Wolfram , his haunting new work that digs deep into country, memory and resistance. And another Aussie acting expat, Ronny Chieng, drops by to unpack his latest work in the new TV series The Miniature Wife . Presenter, J...

Amy Berg, director of It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley , on her portrait of an artist who looms large, and the challenge of telling a story shaped as much by absence as by legacy. Maryam Touzani on Calle Malaga , Morocco's official entry for the Academy Awards, an intimate exploration of place and memory set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Tangier. Director James Litchfield discusses  Alphabet L...

Kate McLennan and Kate McCartney — aka The Kates — chat about Season 2 of Deadloch , the much‑loved Australian send‑up of the murder‑mystery genre. Master French filmmaker François Ozon on his interpretation of Albert Camus’ 1942 existential classic The Stranger , and we revisit a conversation with Julia Loktev, director of the acclaimed documentary My Undesirable Friends , about chronicling disse...

Cate Blanchett on the joy of working with Jim Jarmusch again in Father Mother Sister Brother . Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis discusses cross generational trauma in her powerful new drama All That's Left Of You . Mike Figgis invites us behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola's 120 million dollar spectacular flop Megalopolis in his riveting documentary Megadoc . Presenter, Jason Di R...

Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli on directing Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in his excellent new black comedy, The Drama . Hasan Hadi, writer-director of The President's Cake , discusses his acclaimed feature debut, which follows a young girl’s quest to bake a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday in 1990s Iraq. Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning is in town to discuss her latest role in the Enid Blyt...