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Mamma Mia 2 + Jill Bilcock, Ozploitation director Brian Trenchard-Smith is in the studio to talk about his career and a screening of his first film, Australian James Bond parody The Man from Hong Kong. André reviews Mamma Mia 2, Here We Go Again and Jack reviews Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible. Hot week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wet Woman in the Wind + No Date No Signature, We give away tickets to The Breaker Upperers and fangirl Cate Shortland. Canberran filmmakers and film fans are celebrating hard CORE after the announcement that ACT icon Cate Shortland will be directing Marvel's Black Widow. We give away tickets to Taika Waititi produced Kiwi Comedy The Breaker Upperers and review Wet Woman in the Wind and No Date No...

Madeline's Madeline + A Simple Favour. Jack and André celebrate the life of Kirin Kiki before the release of Shoplifters, recap Sydney underground Film Festival and answer your questions on a new segment called Dear Filmlordes. We celebrate P!nk's contribution to cinema and let you know where to catch Australian cinema in theatres this week.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Ant Man and the Wasp + The Gospel According to André, Celebrating 25 years of the Indigenous Department of Screen Australia we have Laurrie Brannigan-Onato and Issy Kahn talking to us about the future of Indigenous cinema in Australia and NAIDOC week. We also talk about the revealed ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Scary Movie, Nicholas Winding Refn's new streaming service, Scarlett Johansson in R...

The Incredibles 2 + Sicario 2, It's André's birthday and there's lots of juicy film news. Azealia Banks is suing Russell Crowe, Greta Gerwig is making Little Women, Silent Cinema is the back with a vengeance and Susan Sarandon arrested! We also review two nothing, conservative sequels and talk about our ideal birthday plans, Adelaide Film Festival's #YOUMUSTSEE and the online Focus on Ability Film...

Greg Sestero, Mark from The Room, author of The Disaster Artist and screenwriter of Best F(r)iends talks about how to cast Tommy Wiseau, writing with edibles and how to make your creative dreams come true. We also talk about the horny review of The Incredibles 2 in The New Yorker, the M.I.A doco's release date, Cate Shortland in talks to direct Marvel's Black Widow, Mudbound's millions of hours of...

Ideal Home + Disobedience, we also talk to James L. Brown co-director of WATAN, a new documentary about Syrian asylum seekers in Jordan screening at the Refugee Film Festival this week. In news this week claims that Charlie Chaplin is an original meme Lorde, Sambene! Finally shown in Africa, A sleepy sequel to The Shining in the works and a Call Me By Your Name album that smells of peach and (prob...

Soda_Jerk are the duo behind Terror Nullius, screening at the SFF. As two of Australia’s leading video artists they talk about their pastiche style, queerdom in video art, their undeniable love of Australian cinema, and hauntology in movies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of DANGERFILM Jack and André are star struck by Leigh Whannell, writer and director of UPGRADE, which is playing at the SFF. Best known for creating the hugely beloved SAW franchise, Leigh talks about how stand up is in fact scarier than SAW, what it takes to make a Leigh Whannell horror film, and radical filmmaking v.s his artistic process. While Leigh has made a career of creatin...

In this episode of DANGERFILM Jack and André talk to Hunter Page Lochard - best known for being the star of Cleverman and Bangarra dance theatre. His debut short film Djali is playing at the SFF and we bring him in to talk about his favourite films, being a first time director, making work with a political message and blind casting. We didn’t know how to fit it in, but along the way we found out t...

Sari Braithwaite is with us on DANGERFILM to talk about her feature length documentary [CENSORED]. A long form video essay, this film is a collage of scenes collected from the National Film Archive that were censored from the public. Through years of research into the archive, [CENSORED] presents a nuanced and thought provoking investigation into the censored film archive. Sari talks about her exp...

Dr Karen Pearlman is a renowned filmmaker, film writer and dancer. She specialises in editing, and is a lecturer of screen production at Macquarie University. Her short film AFTER THE FACTS is a hybrid documentary about Esfir Shub, an uncredited female editor who is noted for greatly contributing to the foundation of montage editing. AFTER THE FACTS is about the unnamed, sidelined female editors w...

Hyun Lee is the first filmmaker we’re interviewing from this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Despite only having directed a few Rainbow Chan music videos her short film ASIAN GIRLS has already travelled the world, landing a midnight screening at SXSW. We talk to her about barriers to entry in film, century eggs, Jim Jarmusch, and an Australian music video where someone poos in a man’s mouth. See omny...

Hereditary + Ocean’s 8, Cleverman star, super hero, dancer, director, slashie and lets be honest heart-throb Hunter Page-Lochard graces us to talk about his new short film Djali featuring Deborah Mailman. We mourn Anthony Bourdain, celebrate Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry and Reece Witherspoon is back for Legally Blonde III - Return of the King and we review Ocean’s 8 and Hereditary and argue. See o...

Hello World! Tom Six has a new film! We talk about Hereditary props being sold on Etsy, and what Michael Moore is working on with Donald Trump. We review My Friend Dahmer and I Kill Giants. The SFF kicks off this week so here’s a how to guide on what to see. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s Reconciliation Week! We talk to Western Sydney filmmaker Laurrie Brannigan-Onata about Screen Australia’s contribution to Indigenous filmmaking. We talk about Harvey Weinstein finally being taken in to police, Kanye west and Adam Curtis, and of course Danny Boyle directing the new James Bond. We review Deadpool 2 and Solo. Both these reviews contain a list of indigenous film screenings that p...

We talk about the awesome moments at Cannes especially Gaspar Noé’s new film. We discuss Jamie XX’s new film score, and how Nick Cave is set to score the Adnan Syed HBO show. We review 120 BPM, and Aurore. We have SFF fever in Sydney Spotlight! We promote The Goddess of 1967 screening at MCA and Dragonfly Eyes at White Rabbit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk about Margot Robbie starring in the new Quentin Tarantino movie as Sharon Tate, Greta Gerwig’s stalker, and Cannes bumpy start. We review On Body and Soul, and Midnight Oil 1984. Because this is our 18th segment we have a special Sydney Spotlight. We ask listeners to text in their favourite R rated movie to win tickets to Jane Campion’s Two Friends screening at Cinema Reborn at A.F.T.R.S....

Avengers becomes biggest box office opening ever, and Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski get ousted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We review Tully and Breath. In Sydney Spotlight we discuss the screening of Unrest, and talk ME/CFS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk about how Tom Cruise had to jump out of a plane 106 times for a stunt, and the Studio Ghibli theme park. We review Loveless and Unsane. In Sydney Spotlight we talk the hella unique festival Cinema Reborn at A.F.T.R.S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we talk about the viral trend #FILMSTRUCK4, where everyone narrows down their top 4 favourite movies. We open the text line to see who has the best #FILMSTRUCK4 for a chance to win a double pass to see Gurrummul in theatres. We talk about the filmmakers on the Time 100 list, and the awesome Cannes Jury led by Cate Blanchett. We also discuss Avicii’s contribution to film. We review Rampag...

We talk about the new trans-inclusive show POSE, the Cannes film festival lineup dropping, and Amy Poehler directing her first film. We review The Song Keepers and Isle of Dogs. In Sydney Spotlight we interview Daisy Montalvo about her upcoming web-telenovela Las Rosas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Rabbit + 6 Balloons, This week’s theme is music movie crossovers. We find out about what films are dropping at the SFF and Times Tides at the Red Rattler Theatre. We talk about High Fidelity being turned into a T.V show, the prequel to Grey Gardens being released, and Meryl Streep working on Big Little Lies. We review 6 Balloons and Peter Rabbit. In Sydney Spotlight we talk about Times Tides...

Our BFF’s at the Golden Age Cinema offers listeners a double pass to Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between, so we ask listeners to text in their favourite film where friends go travelling. We make fun of Sean Penn’s new book, and talk about the Harry Potter escape room in Melbourne. We review A Quiet Place and Marina Abramovic in Brazil: The Space in Between, screening at Golden Age Cin...

This was a dry week at the movies. We talk about a man dying in a cinema chair in Birmingham, Zac Efron starring in the new Harmony Korine movie, and Renee Zellweger starring in a new Judy Garland biopic. We review Love, Simon (and love it) and A Wrinkle in Time. In Sydney Spotlight we talk about what to see at Hayden Orpheum, Campbelltown Arts Centre screenings, and Francois Truffaut. See omnystu...