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Revisiting the Up series
Hugo Weaving talks The Airport Chaplain
John Cameron Mitchell on 25 years of Hedwig, plus Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
MIFF 2026 Special
Mike Leigh Retrospective
The Birthday Trip's James Robert Woods & David Quirk interviewed + 2 Odysseys
Farewell Sam Neill, plus The Good Boy, The Invite and The People Upstairs reviewed
Natalie Erika James, James J. Robinson & Vincent Ward interviewed
Supergirl & The Ice Tower
Disclosure Day & Leviticus + Adrian Chiarella interview
The Music of Doctor Who
Kane Parsons talks Backrooms
Sparks' Russell Mael + Agnieszka Holland
Asif Kapadi, Mother Mary, Obsession
Brunswick Underground Film Fest, Going Down, Cinema Yarra
Deborah Mailman talks WOLFRAM
Festivals Special with TILDE & Cinema Reborn
The Stranger, Calle Málaga, Exit 8
Melbourne Cinémathèque’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi season, plus reviews of Father Mother Sister Brother and The Deb
EPrimal Screen - THE D-D-DRAMA
Cherien Dabis on the making of All That's Left of You, plus reviews of Bait and I Swear
Kinotopia launch 'Katies', plus reviews of Project Hail Mary and The Voice of Hind Rajab
Opera on Film Special
Perfect Neighbor, Sirât, The Testament of Ann Lee
Hear My Eyes reimagines Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie & Fackham Hall
Undeniable: The Evolution of Melbourne Hip Hop, Wuthering Heights, Pillion
Interview with Lesbian Space Princess Film Makers, Sorry, Baby Review, Not Only Fred Dagg but Also John Clarke Review
Interview with Eclipse Cinema Owner and Operator Mark Walker about its opening, Caught Stealing, 4K Restoration of Burden of Dreams
The Naked Gun, Eddington
Radiothon 2025 Special
Conversation with Zoe Pepper on Birthright, Conversation with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds about Alphabet Lane
Primal Screens Top 20 Films of MIFF 2025
Interview with Michael Shanks on Together, Fantastic Four: First Steps
Friendship, Too Much, My Mum Jane
Conversation with Director Paula Whetu Jones on The Doctors Wife, Review of James Gunn's Superman, Review of A Nice Indian Boy
Conversation with James Hewison on Paris May 68: The Struggle Continues, The Story of Souleymane
Interview with Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night, Discussion of 28 Years Later
Dangerous Animals with Director Sean Byrne, Celine Song's Materialists and Past Lives
First Glance at MIFF 2025,Ballerina, Bring Her Back
Scala!!!, Melbourne's History of Arthouse and Repertory Cinema
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Universal Language, Hurry Up Tomorrow
MISCELLANIA's Film Club, The Wedding Banquet Remake and The Assessment
Cinema Reborn, The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Dying for Sex
The best political satire of the century (and its stage adaptation) plus review of 'Crossing'
Boy Week! Reviews of Warfare, Sinners, and The Rehearsal
Merle Oberon’s lifelong secret, Michael Haneke’s deceptively humanistic cinema and a piercing Magdalene Laundries drama
Holiday makers, studio heads, and unicorns! The White Lotus, The Studio, and Death of a Unicorn in Review.
Richard Gere and Paul Schrader reunite; Looney Tunes hits us with nostalgia; and an observational doco for cat lovers
Melbourne Women in Film Festival highlights & Melbourne Cinémathèque’s upcoming noir season
Oscars Fever! Plus reviews of ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, ‘I’m Still Here’ and ‘Dahomey’
Bird and the Last Showgirl
Grand Tour, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and more!
'The Brutalist', 'A Complete Unknown', and 'Babygirl'
First show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora
Melbourne Cinémathèque turns 40, Tom Zubrycki's oeuvre, and Agnieszka Holland's Green Border (2023)
Autopsy on the Musical: Wicked vs The People's Joker
Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory
Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Getting Spooky with The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Witches & Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
Memoir of a Snail and 70th Anniversary of Godzilla
Flathead, The Apprentice & Like My Brother
Ghostlight, Joker: Folie à Deux & Megalopolis
The Substance, Your Fat Friend & My Old Ass
Neo-Intimacies: A Static Vision Festival, and reviews of My Darling in Stirling (2023) & TV series The Perfect Couple
Lido's Friday the 13th: Ozploitation at the Drive-In, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Last Summer
Sci-fi horror galactic special with Alien: Romulus (2024), Afraid (2024) & I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Food on Film
RRR In Conversation: Primal Screen Live
MIFF is Upon Us, and Are You Ready for a Hear My Eyes and Surprise Chef Collaboration?
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, TOTEM and LONGLEGS with Maudie Osborne, Anthony Carew and Will Cox
SNOWPIERCER and S/HE IS NOT HER/RE with Cerise Howard and Chris Dite
Twisters, Emu Wars & Birdeater
The Bike Riders and Kinds of Kindness.
ESpotlighting Kelly Reichardt (CERTAIN WOMEN, SHOWING UP)
Reviewing THE PROMISELAND and BLACK BARBIE
Reviews of AM I OKAY? and BRIDGERTON
Interview with Molly Reynolds on A PORTRAIT OF LOVE, Timothy Despina Marshall discusses their debut feature IN THE ROOM WHERE HE WAITS and in conversation with film collective Dogmilk Films.
Reviewing Jim Jarmusch's 1999 classic GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
Interview with Goran Stolevski (HOUSEKEEPING FOR BEGINNERS)
Spotlight on Nicole Kidman's career (EYES WIDE SHUT, MOULIN ROUGE, DOGVILLE and many more)
Interview with Nick Pinkerton (THE SWEET EAST) and BABY REINDEER review.
Reviews of CHALLENGERS and EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
Reviews of LA CHIMERA, CIVIL WAR and an interview about BACK TO BLACK.
Reviews of MONKEY MAN and PERFECT DAYS
Into the Archives: Molly Manning Walker, Ivan Sen, and Simon Baker
LOVE LIES BLEEDING and interview about Melbourne Women in Film Festival
Oscars re-cap plus interviews for THE GREAT ESCAPER and TAKE THE STEPS
Interview with IMAX General Manager Jeremy Fee and a review of DUNE: PART TWO and award-winning Documentary FOUR DAUGHTERS
Reviews of THE ZONE OF INTEREST, DRIVE AWAY DOLLS and an interview about MARUNGKA TJALATUNU
In conversation with Hugo Weaving
Film review of THE HANDOVERS, and a discussion about film screenings SCREAMS ON SCREEN and SEVENTH CINEMA
MAY DECEMBER and MR AND MRS SMITH
Reviewing ANATOMY OF A FALL and taking a brief look at the Oscars and what it all means...
BEST FILMS AND TV OF 2023
SPARK-TACULAR EXTRAVAGANZA
Interview with Fred Schepisi (DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND) and Jasper Cohen Hunter reviews REBEL WITH A CAUSE and AUDREY NAPANANGKA
Interview with Kitty Green (THE ROYAL HOTEL) and NAPOLEON review
ESALTBUSH and SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF
MQFF, ALL OF US STRANGERS, MONSTER, POOR THINGS and ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS