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Send us Fan Mail Smirk into frame of overridden histories, kitty sniffers and love punches. Enter Kakihara's Labyrinth with Ichi the Killer this week. Quid Pro Mo brought to you by Private Affairs podcast. This new season of Private Affairs kicks off with an unforgettable 30th birthday trip to Thailand. The characters journey through a story touching on: work, mental health, reproductive choi...

Send us Fan Mail Assemble the milky family puzzle pieces of extensive screws, booty mics and a whole lotta oil and vinegar. Discover self-satisfaction with the mysteries of life with Visitor Q this week. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the sad cult of simps, dinosaurs and taxi doileys. Press record on the self-tape of manufactured desire with Audition this week. Every February, we kick off our Reference Degustation. A month-long celebration of the finest Takashi Miike madness for our fourth year of the For Your Reference podcast. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail  Be drawn into the orchestral stirrings of maintaining power structures, predator's new clothes and shirking accountability? Attend the deposition of Tár this week.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Enter the art installation of provocation, decolonisation and truth. Admission? Beyond the bare minimum. Abolish the date with YOU CAN GO NOW this week. Non Indigenous Australians need to do the work but also here are resources mentioned to get involved beyond tweeting and signing petitions: https://paytherent.net.au/ https://www.reconciliation.org.au/ https://supplynation.org.au/...

Send us Fan Mail Upload dance sequence to the rhythm of consumerism, cutie bosses and childhood tears. Create technology to fill the very gaps that make us human with M3GAN this week. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail  From a career spanning decades to touching down in our hearts, Zenobia Shroff brings warmth, heart and humour to all her roles in The Big Sick, Ms Marvel and many more. Representation but make it wholly dimensional. Tough love, but make it funny. The first South Asian Mama in the MCU. The For Your Reference Podcast welcomes Zenobia Shroff. Youtube interview: https://youtu.be/YpVI...

Send us Fan Mail Harness the Noor to navigate family, culture and post-colonial histories. Crush on hunky slow-mo cuties with Ms. Marvel this week. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Reference Max, where we cover new releases A Man Called Otto, The Fabelmans & Black Snow in a multi-splooshy, spoiler-free review episode! A Man Called Otto will be in Australian cinemas from New Year’s Day. The Fabelmans will be in Australian cinemas from January 5. The Stan Original Series Black Snow premieres New Year's Day, all episodes at once and only on...

Send us Fan Mail From balling on the netball court to facilitator in the development industry to placing an important lens in the modelling industry to a South Sea Islander focused show, proud Aboriginal and South Sea Islander Jemmason Power makes her debut on Black Snow. Compelling, vulnerable and enigmatic. The Stan Original Series Black Snow premieres New Year's Day, all episodes at once a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Part 2 of our mammoth Christmas special, where we rate everything we've watched this year. Check out Part 1! The video versions are available to tiers on our Patreon. Top 10 for Part 2 P-Valley S2, Rap Sh!t, Reservation Dogs, Raising Kanan, NOPE, Power & Ghost, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bullet Train, MURU & SIS. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktr...

Send us Fan Mail Festive tidings to friends and lovers, one and all! Welcome to our mammoth Christmas special, where we rate everything we've watched this year. Enjoy Part 1! The video version is available to tiers on our Patreon . Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail In our last Ref Plus for 2021, we cover Enemy, Oculus & Love Life. We also share the differences in podcasting pre-2020, 2020 and 2021.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail  Deck the halls with cake threats, one-liners and walky-talky man feelings. Set off the explosives powered by international friendship and glass shards of marriage with Die Hard this week.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Reference Max where I cover films and shorts screened as part of the 2022 Pasifika Film Festival . Links to keep up with release dates on films/shorts Huhu’a Niu (2019) Directed by: Savelina Vaka'uta Watch now Waikiki (2020) Written & Directed by: Christopher Kahunahana Website Urchin (2021) Written & Directed by: Taofia Pelesasa Trailer Untitled: A day in...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Reference Max, where we have a lot to say on new releases so fitting it all into a multi-splooshy, spoiler-free review episode! Dig through the archives of growing pains, investigative journalism and historical fanfare with Armageddon Time, She Said & The Lost King this week. 0:00 Intro 0:43 Start 1:55 Armageddon time 14:38 She Said 24:07 The Lost King Website | Rot...

Send us Fan Mail Assume formation with pocket spears, mountain books and winged ankles. Remain in the stillness of grief and feel the healing of waters of Wakanda Forever this week. Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Unsheath your silver tongue dagger and prepare to ascend the throne at all costs, with familial lovin' as the mandatory side quest. Get in loser, we're going scab-picking with House of Dragons this week.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Plug into the diversity matrix where caucasity ticks all the boxes. Join the roll call of industry babies and diversity daddies with SIS this week. Watch the full first season of SIS for free: https://vimeo.com/showcase/9902229 Sign petition: https://chng.it/BH49fgydvW Open letter to NZ Film & TV Industry: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CjzmNu2JcFP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link W...

Send us Fan Mail Clear your chanting throat, stretch your dancing muscles and oil up for a grand battle with... a formidable phantom enemy? Whisper sweet nothings through the barrier of forbidden love with The Woman King.  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Trick or treat a buffet of canned vegetables, trauma bonds and epic fake outs. Head on down to old town strode for one last ride to hell with Halloween Ends this week. Quid Pro Mo for Popcorn Podcast  Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Dive into the waters of community, legacy and peace through centuries of rich history in Aotearoa. Prepare for the Aunty ambush with MURU this week. Video interview: https://youtu.be/VQgG5TM_J28 Website | Rotten Tomatoes | Linktree | Youtube | Twitter | Instagram 

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between duty to his badge or his people, when the Government invoke antiterrorism powers to launch an armed raid on Taffy’s remote Urewera community, on a school day. MURU is now showing in Australian Cinemas Video interview: https://youtu.be/VQgG5TM_J28 Website...

Send us Fan Mail Hold onto your heart nards and resist the fornicating catfish as we roadtrip to California! Witness certified organtic Indigenous storytelling with S1 & S2 of Reservation Dogs this week. https://illuminatives.org/donate/ https://www.wernative.org/articles/native-crisis-text-line Tasty links below... Site: https://fyrpodcast.com Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-yo...

Send us Fan Mail Lean into the frivolity through fun dialogue, character backstory and getting emotional over fruits and unnamed locomotives. Hop aboard and enjoy the ride with Bullet Train this week. Tasty links below... Site: https://fyrpodcast.com Apple: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-your-reference/id1453532214 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ForYourReference Twitter: https://twitter...