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Occasional presenter and reporter-on-assignment Gus McGrath brings us an exclusive interview with King of Transgressive Literature-cum-filmmaker Dennis Cooper and his charming, longterm collaborator Zac Farley ahead of the Australian premiere of ROOM TEMPERATURE, their latest film about a very dysfunctional family turning their home into a haunted house, which is playing at the Central Coast Film...

Y.A.L.A! We are so excited to bring you an exclusive interview with Oscar-nominated bedroom beat maker Maya Mathangi Arulpragasam aka M.I.A ahead of her Australian tour dates. A musical artist, documentary filmmaker, and globe trotting record producer, M.I.A generously shares her wisdom. From practical bedroom producing, to data wrangling samples, to creating “with what you’ve got arou...

When culture vulture Priya Leigh knocks…Movies, Movies, Movies answers. The podcast host loudly visits the set of MMM to closely moderate a debate on Sofia Coppola’s sociopathy, Matilda’s enduring legacy, the quest for articulation, in search of justice. Priya brings unique je sais quoi (French for ‘I know that!’) because nobody understands the machinations of cinema...

Samuel Van Grinsven aka SVG joined Jen and Andj late last year in Adelaide after the world premiere of his new psychological supernatural minimalist second feature Went Up The Hill  to find out how he set himself on fire in front of Vicky Krieps. His new film has already sold out the Sydney Opera House this week, and we'd love to know your reads of this ambiguous Aotearoa based ghost story. T...

Books vs Films, Party Girls vs Kink Kings, two manic festivals go live on the same night  this Thursday and that's culture. Smut Night at the Red Rattler raises money for the important and incomparable f*ck palace Hedon House at exactly the same time Garden Reflexxx presents Party Girl at the State Library of NSW. Smut Night programmer Katie Winten and Hedon House's Gala Vanting join Andj and...

Archie Moore! Sam Van Grinsven! Emilia Perez! Brady Sorbet! Anora! Selena G! Ariana G! Ali J! and more on this very special urgent update recorded in the FBi Studios after a turbulent Adelaide Film Festival. We ask: Anora Fedora, French Tip Manicura? And find out from Sequin in a Blue Room director how setting himself on fire was a great motivator for Vicky Krieps to improvise. Can Golden Lion win...

"Dustin, what's going on in that little head of yours?" Movies, Movies, Movies is joined by artist-photographer and star of HBO's Fantasmas Martine, zooming in with performance and film artist Bhenji Ra to celebrate their openings in Vancouver and their favourite boobs. What kind of tail would you have? Is acting easy? Julio Torres or Sebastián Silva? Go Harder. Fantasmas, s1: Binge (Aus) ANTI-ICO...

"Lived it, breathed it, bled it". Ok Dr. Anna Broinowski. Filmmaker, satirist, educator, documentarian-cum-influencer and pop-truth sceptic, she's in the studio. We celebrate the release of her memoir 'Datsun Angel' by putting everyone in the hot seat. Sydney, to North Korea, to New York, to Tokyo, back to Sydney University and ultimately to Canberra - we talk subjects as vehicles, driving as site...

Ain't no valley low; here is part 2 of our interview with Stelly G featuring special guest director/writer Rachel House, talking about the sublime power of filmmaking with family both young and old. Inspiration and motivations going into the prod: we talk about the most impassioned parts of doing the job. It's about costumes and acting and ageing and knowing when the time is right. You can't see b...

"Was it a ritual, or were you just sleeping in a park in Canberra?" asks guest Stelly G (artist/director behind Mood Ring). In the lead up to The Mountain dropping in Australian cinemas (June 27th 2024) MMM's tiny desk hosts three big mouths coming down. They've just met Rachel House, the film's director/writer. The three discuss meeting Rachel on a level, then the microphone levels peak as they a...

Thank J it's Friday. Director/writer Johnathan Lo is in conversation with Jen and André in the lead up to his food-movie Bong Xi Fa Cai screening at SFF (CW: short film but it's tender). JLo's first time being MMM's 3rd inspires honesty. Is my film camp? Are comedy people sad? Did you rip off Smiley Face? Is Family Guy poetic? Did you like my movie? Johnathan defends production quality while Jen d...

Movies, Movies, Movies gets all the meat off the bone talking to Theda Hammel, director/writer/co-editor/composer and star of Stress Positions. On the occasion of its screening at SFF they discuss people having problems with each other, and "horrifying American indie comedy". Saluting first timers Jen and André pry about taking your house everywhere you go, John Early, debuts, the Eye of the Duck,...

Movies, Movies, Movies goes nocturnal in a deeply PM conversation for sleepwalkers. One film about the day (The Taste of Things), against a film about the night (The Strangers: Chapter 1) with eating in common. The night-talkers play 'what's the definition of mise-en-scene', discuss objects of optimism, André is afraid to bring up Sciamma, and the 2 agree on 2 films that 'nobody is craving at the...

Cannes is the sister city of Beverly Hills which makes it a moving target for MMM. Jen and André have a conversation about a film festival 16,746 km away from FBi Radio. It's an Andrea year, not a Lynne year, and all about showing up to work but not in a Reichardt way. Directors do their job, budget cuts become jump cuts, and we try to figure out what Megalopolis says about our past friendships. N...

MMM dressed as motorbikes to attend the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller, a director who at 79 years old still has it. Afterwards, the duo gather in studio to discuss the biggest talkie of the year. Jen conjures the experience of Mel Gibson eating steak on set barehanded, running in circles as feminine storytelling, Noah and the Whale, what happens when wives edit together, how...

Movies, Movies, Movies hosts a conversation with documentary filmmaker Lucie McMahon on her film Things Will Be Different - which is being released nationally in cinemas with special QandA screenings. An ode to the Walker Street Public Housing Estate in Melbourne as it heads to demolition, Things Will Be Different is a bittersweet document of Walker Street's last two residents, living with the unc...

Sydney Film Festival is a full menu; J and A wishlist their dream-directors, films, play dates, crew members, friends (aka peers), memories (real and false) and anticipated tiny meals coming ground-under for this year's friendly SFF. They discuss the lineup; looking for films that go ‘boo’, mix-bag curation, Rachel House, Theda coming over to my house, arbitrary choices, wee/poo and high/low selec...

Cream suits and clover honey: MMM is joined by filmmaker/union photographer Lily Bennett to discuss the dissociative power of guns, cameras, career insurrection, and bokeh. In an abundance of spoilers we strip La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), learn photography in Civil War (Alex Garland), and use tennis as a position through Challengers (Luca Guadagnino). The holy T take us to the court of love, dea...

Episode title: The Sound of Gus'. Gus enters the studio to unearth the Sydney Underground Film Festival, while spotlighting the unspotlightable film Sound of Freedom. Expect deep truths about propaganda, Gus' appreciation of the holy trinity (Harmony Korine, Yorgos Lanthimos, and André Shannon) and also Gus' first take on the deep fake this is Mel Gibson's movie world. See omnystudio.com/listener...

Gus and André come into the studio and have their breath stolen from them (a term coined by critic Priya Leigh) to discuss celebrity sightings including Jacob Elordi, Troye Sivan, and Jane Campion. Why are they all so...just like us? The two Buffs then enter a pitching contest between "Gangas" and "Etc Etc Etc..." - two compelling productions set deep inside the Nation's hole. Gus protects his rig...

Priya + Enoch introduce a new segment called Pitch Off where they compete for the best Sam Kerr Stan Original, do we love a blood soaked football rehearsal or are we headering in the direction of a bended love story? We wonder who will answer the call to be Lars Von Trier's new girlfriend, and who Florence Pugh gets her legal advice from before picketing.  In Spotlight Gus interviews Al Cossar, th...

Talk To Me + The Sweet East  Enoch and Priya take on two British-core indie adventure films that navigate the cultural cringe of the world's most infamous colonies. Bruce interviews Nick Pinkerton, the uncompromising writer who could have just called his film Sweet East but started it with The, and Jen and André acknowledge some of the people we've loved and lost over the past few weeks.  See omny...

Bruce Koussaba sits down with Nick Pinkerton to talk about The Sweet East, having its Australian premiere at MIFF this weekend.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gus McGrath sits down with Simon Miraudo, author of the new book about Australian censorship: Book of the Banned: devilish movies, dastardly censors and the scenes that made Australia sweat.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Priya and Enoch are in the studio, and it's "Barbenheimer Pt 2. - The Grande Finale"! You'll hear everything from  "The School of Rock" being the epicentre of movies & music, news on the newly announced "Polly Pocket Movie", and what Enoch's mum's reaction to the infamous Barbie quote, "We mothers stand still so our daughter can look back to see how far they've come" was.  PLUS, Gus shares his...