The Screen Show

Following the sad news of RJ Mitte's passing, we're revisiting our Top Shelf conversation with the actor best known for playing Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad, widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2019, Mitte joined us in the studio to reflect on the films and television that shaped him, sharing some of his favourite screen classics and the performances that l...

Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility returns to the screen for a new generation, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles stepping into the iconic roles of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The A-list duo discuss re-imagining one of literature's most enduring stories. In the harrowing new documentary Naza , anonymous Israeli whistleblowers describe the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza...

Two new television dramas reviewed: the ABC's Dustfall, which investigates a harrowing sexual assault case after a teenage girl is found with amnesia in a sugarcane field, and HBO Max's War, a series starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West that follows a bitter, high-profile divorce.

Two Academy Award winners, Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison, discuss The Social Reckoning, Sorkin's return to the world he helped create with The Social Network. The writer-director reflects on revisiting the rise of social media in a dramatically different political and cultural moment, while Madison talks about stepping into one of the film's central roles. Film critic and MIFF programmer Kate Jin...

John Steinbeck's East of Eden gets a lavish new Netflix adaptation led by Florence Pugh, while My Sad Dead turns Mariana Enríquez's unsettling ghost stories into a supernatural drama directed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Jason and Wenlei weigh in.

Tom Cruise disappears beneath layers of prosthetics to play a Texas oil baron in Digger , Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious satire about climate catastrophe, power and the stories powerful men tell...Jason meets with the Oscar-winning director, which also stars John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Riz Ahmed. Plus, filmmaker Arlo Dean Cook on Jebediah: Are We OK? , an intimate documentary...

This week we're reviewing two star-driven dramas. In Brothers , Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves whose long friendship is turned upside down by the suggestion they could actually be related. And in American Hostage , Jon Hamm stars as a radio broadcaster drawn into a real-life hostage crisis when an armed gunman demands a national audience. 

Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonnie Hughes discuss How to Live on Earth , a visionary feature documentary that explores our connection to nature and its role in our future. French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, a drama that tells the true story of the Danish architect behind one of Paris' most ambitious and iconic modern landmarks. Plus, Jason recommends The Weight , a new adventur...

A look at Irish auteur Sharon Horgan's sharp new comedy, Youth , which once again finds humour and heart in the messiness of modern life. Plus, inside the expanding Call My Agent! universe, from the French original to its new movie spin-off.

Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green on a Hollywood comeback story, plus, ahead of the new season of Slow Horses , we're revisiting a conversation with Gary Oldman.  Coyote vs Acme was a film written off for dead before winning a passionate fan campaign and a second chance on the big screen for its beloved Looney Tunes characters.  Gary Oldman discusses playing the gloriously dishevelled spy chief...

We unpack two major dramas: the buzzy new Australian crime series Last Seen,  and the latest season of Slow Horses. In Last Seen, Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes lead a high-stakes mystery of a missing child that exposes a close-knit community; while Slow Horses presents Gary Oldman's unforgettable Jackson Lamb once again, as he heads up his band of sidelined MI5 agents.

Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes take us behind the scenes of Apple TV+'s new crime drama Last Seen , discussing what it took to bring the high-stakes mystery to the screen. Plus, Head of Production and Investment Attraction at VicScreen , Joe Brinkmann, discusses how Victoria secured the location rights to the production, and why it was the right fit. Bonus - capsule review...

A look at the latest season of Dark Matter , starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, alongside the Australian drama Dalliance , featuring a who's who of Australian acting talent including Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weaving, Georgie Parker and David Wenham. One imagines the lives we might have lived in a multiverse of possibilities, while the other centres around a tight knit group of friends in...

Emmy Rossum talks about starring in Disney's acclaimed psychological thriller Furious , playing an undercover FBI agent hunting a female serial killer. Melbourne filmmaker Vee Shi's documentary Time and Tide takes him back to the Chinese town of his childhood, where a family reunion unfolds under deeply challenging circumstances.

Before there was How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there was Derry Girls, the sharp-eyed comedy that made Lisa McGee one of the most distinctive voices in television. In this special, we trace the arc of McGee's work from the school corridors of 1990s Derry to the tangled friendships, secrets and dark humour of contemporary Belfast, and how she captures the experience of place, memory and friends...

Hollywood heavyweights Ridley Scott and Josh Brolin discuss Scott's latest film, The Dog Stars , an epic post-apocalyptic thriller also starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Guy Pearce. Set in a world ravaged by a virus that has wiped out most of humanity, the film follows the survivors left to contend with roaming scavengers and a brutal new reality. Jason speaks with three exciting emergin...

Jason and Wenlei review new SBS drama The Airport Chaplain, and the buzzy coming-of-age series Sterling Point. The Airport Chaplain, starring Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez, is a warm, offbeat series set among the travellers, workers, and unexpected encounters at a busy airport; while Sterling Point follows 17-year-old high-achiever Annie Jacobson, who, along with her twin brother Connor, discover...

Ahead of the premiere of SBS drama The Airport Chaplain, The Pitt breakout star Shabana Azeez talks about starring alongside Hugo Weaving, while filmmaker Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36, her drama set at a pivotal historical moment.

Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma are back to tell you what to watch on streaming this week...from Netflix's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, a glossy serial killer thriller set in the eighties in LA, to the latest (very good) offering from the DC Universe, Lanterns.

A new New York set rom-com imagines a world where sex is only legal for one night of the year, and Hlynur Pálmason's acclaimed new film The Love That Remains.

Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma review two of the year's most anticipated TV releases: Netflix's adaptation of Miles Franklin's Australian classic My Brilliant Career, and the latest season of the much-loved football comedy Ted Lasso. 

From a teenage Anthony Bourdain finding his calling to Sybylla Melvyn defying expectations, we meet the stars and creators behind Tony and Netflix's My Brilliant Career.

Join Jason and Wenlei as they unpack the twists, turns and surprises in two new series, and reveal whether they're worthy additions to your watchlist.

As beloved Australian series  Colin From Accounts  prepares to say goodbye, we revisit a conversation with stars and creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer about the making of their hit cringe-com. With Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother  newly available to stream, an excerpt of our conversation with Cate Blanchett about her experience of starring in it. Director Gabriel Mascaro on hi...

Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma review Treasure and Dirt, the ABC's new outback crime drama, adapted from Chris Hammer's bestseller, where buried secrets, quirky characters and small-town intrigue drive the mystery. They also say goodbye to one of Australia's most beloved comedies, Colin From Accounts, as the series reaches its final season. Does the farewell deliver the charm that made audiences fal...