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The Screen Show — 274 episodes
THE COUCH: Chris Hammer's Treasure and Dirt comes to TV + it's farewell to Colin From Accounts
The Wizard of the Kremlin/Being Bo Widerberg: From Putin’s rise to Swedish cinema’s outsider
The Couch: The Hawk + Ride or Die: Which of These New Releases Is Worth Your Time?
The Odyssey reviewed + Sam Neill on his favourite film + Dao and a MIFF preview
THE COUCH: From the Prairie to Nantucket: two TV adaptations take on beloved stories
James J. Robinson's First Light + diet horror Saccharine
THE COUCH: Did Legally Blonde need a prequel? (+ Widow's Bay)
Olivia Wilde's The Invite + Silent Friend + a VR journey
THE COUCH: The Bear and Ms X reviewed
THE COUCH: One last service for The Bear. Plus, Melissa George stars in Ms. X
Harlan Coben and Sam Worthington + a Marion Cotillard fairytale + Supergirl reviewed
THE COUCH: Do we need another Outback Noir? (+ a fresh sports drama)
Disclosure Day/Leviticus/Colony
THE COUCH: Jemaine Clement's Alice and Steve v Scottish mystery Coldwater - one hit, one miss
Sydney Film Festival: Microbudget Filmmaking: Aesthetics of the Possible
THE COUCH: Cape Fear + Not Suitable For Work reviewed
Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu on the thriller Tuner + Afghanistan's first rom-com
THE COUCH: The Four Seasons + Spider-Noir reviewed
Backrooms creator Kane Parsons + Alexandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf
THE COUCH: Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed + The Boroughs reviewed
The breakout horror hit Obsession + Zoe Pepper's Birthright
THE COUCH: Off Campus and Leonard and Hungry Paul reviewed
French screen icon Isabelle Huppert + Sally Field stars in Remarkably Bright Creatures
THE COUCH: Rivals, Citadel and Legends reviewed
Amrum and Mortal Kombat II
THE COUCH: The Other Bennet Sister, Man on Fire and Kevin reviewed
Patrick Brammall on The Devil Wears Prada 2 + Warwick Thornton and Ronny Chieng
It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley + Calle Malaga + Alphabet Lane
Deadloch Season 2 + French master François Ozon on The Stranger
Cate Blanchett stars in Jim Jarmusch's latest + All That's Left Of You + Megadoc
Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in The Drama + The President's Cake + The Magic Faraway Tree
Big pivots in Hollywood + My Father's Shadow
Pod extra: Oscars post-mortem
Oscars preview: One Battle After Another/Marty Supreme/Hamnet/The Secret Agent/If I Had Legs I'd Kick You/Sentimental Value
Simon Baker: Scarpetta + Nicole Kidman retrospective
Amanda Seyfried on The Testament of Ann Lee + Sirāt + Vale Frederick Wiseman
Sophie Hyde: Jimpa / Jordan Giusti: Floodland
Baz Luhrmann on EPIC + Mr Nobody Against Putin + Afternoons of Solitude
Laura Dern and Will Arnett on Is This Thing On? + We Bury The Dead + Mistress Dispeller
Ethan Hawke! Chris Pratt! Jafar Panahi! Teresa Palmer!
We're back for 2026 with Golden Globe winners...Marty Supreme + The Secret Agent
Chloe Zhao & Maggie O'Farrell talk Hamnet + Ed Norton on A Complete Unknown
Summer highlights! A panel from Melbourne International Film Festival
Summer highlights! Sovereign + Pavements
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson discuss Song Sung Blue + Sentimental Value + Platonic
Summer highlights! One Battle After Another + The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Paul Feig on The Housemaid + Kokuho + Aftersun
Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor on The History of Sound + My Brother's Band + The Golden Spurtle
Russell Crowe stars in Nuremberg + Alex Russell on Lurker
Wicked: For Good + Flathead screens as part of BIFF
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You/The Last Frontier/Two Prosecutors
Jacinda Ardern on Prime Minister + Fwends + Edge of Life
Journey Home + The Wolves Always Come At Night (Australia's Oscar entry) + Happyend
Roofman/Frankenstein/Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Venice winner Familiar Touch + indie comedy Phantoms of July
Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind) + Maceo Bishop (The Smashing Machine) + Bruce Beresford & Bryan Brown (The Travellers)
Nick Offerman/Sovereign + Alex Ross Perry/Pavements
Paul Thomas Anderson on One Battle After Another/ Julia Fox and Justin Tipping on Him
Lesbian Space Princess/ Kangaroo/ Vale Robert Redford
Splitsville + Went Up the Hill
Olivia Colman & Benedict Cumberbatch lead Jay Roach's The Roses + Sorry, Baby + Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Three of the most exciting filmmakers from MIFF's Bright Horizons Competition
Eddington + The Rainmaker + The Ballad of Wallis Island
Podcast Extra: Vale David Stratton
Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck/Alien: Earth/April
Weapons/Platonic/Naomi Watts on The Friend
Lena Dunham's Too Much with co-creator Luis Felber + Michael Shanks/Together + François Ozon/When Fall is Coming
Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love + The Stolen Painting + Holy Cow
Highlights! Babygirl + Maria
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office + My Father's Shadow
My Undesirable Friends + experimental filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn
Families Like Ours / Smoke / The Story of Souleymane
28 Years Later + Justin Kurzel's new doco Ellis Park
Materialists + The Survivors
Stick + One to One: John & Yoko + White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on The Salt Path
Wes Anderson & Benicio Del Toro on The Phoenician Scheme/The Philippou Brothers new A24 horror/Palme d'Or winner
Beating Hearts, Universal Language, The Blue Trail
Final Destination: Bloodlines/The Surfer/Shayda
Clown in a Cornfield/Monsieur Aznavour/The Wedding Banquet
A Grand Mockery + How the West Was Lost
German Film Festival 2025: Riefenstahl + Hysteria
Warfare + The Correspondent + Steve Coogan on The Penguin Lessons
Jacob Elordi and Justin Kurzel on The Narrow Road to the Deep North/The Count of Monte Cristo/Lost and Found
Oscar highlights: Anora, A Real Pain, A Complete Unknown
Head South + The Cats of Gokugo Shrine
Barry Levinson on The Alto Knights + The Rule of Jenny Pen + This Life of Mine
Mickey 17 + Severance
Mike Leigh & Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths + Oscar nominated doc Sugarcane
Oscar nominees The Seed of the Sacred Fig + I'm Still Here
Pamela Anderson/Gia Coppola on The Last Showgirl + Bird + William Tell
The cast of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy + Grand Tour
September 5 + The Last Journey
Babygirl + Maria
A Complete Unknown + The Brutalist
Summer highlights: The best docs of 2024
Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, Stanley Tucci on Conclave + Austin Butler and Olivia Colman
Summer highlights: Anatomy of a Fall and May December
Boxing Day special: A Real Pain, Nosferatu, Anora
Summer highlights: Deadpool and Wolverine/Mad Max: Furiosa/The Fall Guy
Iranian directors on trial for My Favourite Cake + Taiwanese star Eddie Peng on Cannes winner Black Dog
Cate Blanchett talks Rumours + Piece by Piece + Tsai Ming-liang
Viggo Mortensen on The Dead Don't Hurt + APSA winner Happyend
Wicked director Jon M. Chu + indie musical Your Monster
Gladiator II, Welcome to Babel, Flee
Slice of Life + film-making legend James Ivory
Saturday Night, The Moogai, Ink Wash
Dylan River on Thou Shalt Not Steal + Kate Winslet becomes Lee Miller
Memoir of a Snail + He Ain't Heavy
The Apprentice, The Franchise, Lonely Planet
The Critic, Hold Your Breath, Ghostlight
Francis Ford Coppola on his sci-fi Roman epic Megalopolis
Paola Cortellesi's There's Still Tomorrow - the highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy
James McAvoy: Speak No Evil + Hugo Weaving: Slow Horses
Josh Margolin pays homage to his Grandmother in action-comedy Thelma
Rising Australian star Charlie Vickers on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Bridesmaids and Ghostbusters director on his new film Jackpot!
Canadian director Matthew Rankin's charming Universal Language
Luna Carmoon's 4 x Venice winning debut Hoard
Legendary thriller director M. Night Shyamalan
Hugh Jackman! Ryan Reynolds! Bobby Cannavale!
Lee Isaac Chung on disaster blockbuster Twisters
Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos on Kinds of Kindness + MaXXXine
Hollywood A-lister Austin Butler on The Bikeriders
One of France’s finest...Emmanuelle Devos
Guy Pearce stars in Lee Tamahori's The Convert
Jake Gyllenhaal on the TV adaptation of Presumed Innocent
Ishana Shyamalan's debut horror features Dakota Fanning
Behind the scenes on Baby Reindeer
George Miller on his epic joyride Mad Max: Furiosa
Legendary Hollywood actor Josh Brolin
Joel Edgerton stars in new sci-fi series Dark Matter
Fremont is a delightfully downbeat indie
A 19th Century culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche
The filmmaker duo behind Hollywood rom-com The Fall Guy
Vietnamese American screen legend Kieu Chinh discusses The Sympathizer
Hollywood star Dev Patel on his thrilling directorial debut
Matteo Garrone's shocking Oscar nominated film IO Capitano
Academy Award winning actor Olivia Colman
Director Rose Glass on lesbian romantic thriller Love Lies Bleeding
Behind the scenes on Dune: Part Two
Molly Manning Walker on Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How to Have Sex
Ethan Coen on road trip comedy Drive-Away Dolls
Dominic Sessa on his breakout role in Alexander Payne's The Holdovers
20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege
Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his Oscar nominated film May December.
Director Justine Triet on Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall
Summer highlights: Past Lives + The Innocent
Summer highlights: Barbie + Oppenheimer
Summer highlights: Warwick Thornton + the team behind Mission Impossible
Summer highlights: Cousin Greg from Succession + Alena Lodkina + Lesley Manville
Summer highlights: Cate Blanchett, Angourie Rice and Toni Colette
Ferrari + Dream Scenario + All of Us Strangers
David Thewlis in The Artful Dodger + Nicolas Philibert's Golden Bear winner On the Adamant
Joel Edgerton on Master Gardener + Because We Have Each Other + Boy Swallows Universe
Cat Person director Susanna Fogel + Ken Loach on The Old Oak
The Royal Hotel + The King Said, What a Fantastic Machine
Killers of the Flower Moon + Housekeeping for Beginners
Foe + two producers behind some of the best Asian cinema of the last decade
Dumb Money + Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker + Isabelle Huppert + an avant-garde film retrospective
Sick of Myself + The Worst Person in the World
The Exorcist + Wilderness + Totally Killer
AI blockbuster The Creator + Australia's Oscar entry Shayda
Netflix pirate fantasy One Piece + The Eight Mountains
Morning Wars + Scrapper
The Nun II + 2nd Chance + Climate Changers
Biosphere + Ego: The Michael Gudinski Story
Two highly acclaimed features: Celine Song's Past Lives + Alena Lodkina's Petrol
Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason on Godland + Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian
Cannes Un Certain Regard winner How To Have Sex + Jeni Thornley + The Afterparty
MIFF special with Laura Citarella (Trenque Lauquen) + Nick Pinkerton (The Sweet East)
The Philippou Brothers on Sundance stand-out Talk To Me + Berlin best film winner Alcarràs
Greta Gerwig and critics discuss Barbie and Oppenheimer
A modern-day Carmen + Back to Back Theatre and the Dark Emu phenomenon on screen
Warwick Thornton on The New Boy + Christopher McQuarrie and cast from Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning
Sydney Sweeney stars in Tina Satter's Reality + French rom-com Other People's Children
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny + a very likeable comedy from NZ
Léa Seydoux is a stand-out in Mia Hansen-Løve's One Fine Morning + The Plains
Sydney Film Festival special!
Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher + First Nations films Audrey Napanangka and Sweet As
Melissa McCarthy stars in The Little Mermaid + new Nicolas Cage film Renfield
The Last Thing He Told Me + Simon Baker and Ivan Sen on Limbo
Lesley Manville on spy thriller Citadel + Petrol + Infinity Pool
Chris Pratt on the new Guardians of the Galaxy + November looks at the 2015 Paris attacks
Ted Lasso's Jamie Tartt + a lens on Ukraine through Swiss film Olga
The new Evil Dead movie splatters across cinemas + Circle of Silence
French heartthrob Louis Garrel on The Innocent + K-Thrillers
Nicholas Braun (Cousin Greg) from Succession + a road movie from Poland (EO)
Toni Collette on The Power + Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides
Farm slasher Pearl + overlooked Oscars film Armageddon Time
Goran Stolevski's Of an Age + the TV adaptation of Interview with the Vampire
Venice winner All the Beauty and the Bloodshed + Meet Me in the Bathroom
Emotional civil rights drama Till + the cinema of Robert Bresson
Vincent Cassel + Charlotte Wells on her stunning debut Aftersun
Ben Aldridge on Spoiler Alert and Knock at the Cabin + Cannes winner Close
Hollywood star Paul Rudd + focus on Clara Law
Oscar winner The Whale + the career of Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra
Cate Blanchett on Tár + What's Love Got To Do With It
Summer highlights - Queer for Fear + Joel Edgerton
Summer highlights - a conversation from MIFF with three of our brightest filmmakers
Summer highlights - George Miller + Charlotte Rampling
Summer highlights - Bergman Island + The Souvenir II + The Australian Wars
Summer highlights - Pedro Almodovar + Pablo Larrain + Sharon Horgan
The White Lotus + Triangle of Sadness + Avatar: The Way of Water
Alfred Molina in Three Pines + Tim Minchin on Matilda the Musical
Luca Guadagnino directs Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All + Gary Oldman + Kompromat
The Menu + Resurrection + Melissa George on The Mosquito Coast
She Said + Magrete: Queen of the North
Senses of Cinema + The Blue Caftan
James Gray's Armageddon Time + Amalia Ulman on El Planeta
Bros + Mrs Harris Goes to Paris + The Midnight Club
Seth Meyers on Documentary Now + McEnroe
A Taste of Hunger + David Easteal's The Plains
Thomas M. Wright's The Stranger + The Night of the 12th
The History of Queer Horror + Joel Edgerton stars in a new Australian thriller
Goran Stolevski's folk horror + Luca Guadagnino + Ningla A-Na
The Australian Wars + The White Lotus superstar Murray Bartlett
Pod extra: Giant of French new wave, Jean-Luc Godard, dies at 91
Franklin + The Quiet Girl + Flux Gourmet
George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing + Only Murders in the Building
Bad Sisters + Hong Sangsoo + Neptune Frost
From MIFF: Three of Australia's brightest filmmakers
Good Luck to You Leo Grande + Jordan Peele's Nope!
Charlotte Rampling in Juniper + Amiel Courtin-Wilson's Man on Earth
Venice winner Full Time + Atlanta + Charlie Shackleton's Afterlight
Where the Crawdads Sing + Paper City
The Gray Man + Figaro + The Black Phone
NAIDOC Week + two Finnish directors + Chris Hemsworth & Taika Waititi
The cinematographer behind Elvis + the Netflix malaise + Killing It
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis + The Boys + Nude Tuesday
U.S. documentarian Frederick Wiseman + Jack Davenport + a doc about Greek exile music
Sydney Film Festival + A Hero + Benediction
Obi-Wan Kenobi + the man behind Heartstopper + Kodie Bedford
Little Tornadoes + Ablaze + a new short film by Nash Edgerton
Sophie Hyde & Chloe Rickard talk females in film + How To Please a Woman
Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife + a doc about cult band The Triffids + Barons
Hugh Bonneville on playing Roald Dahl + Cannes winner To Chiara
Meet the directors of After Yang + Petit Maman
Nicolas Cage plays Nicolas Cage + Tom Blyth is Billy the Kid
The Northman + Outer Range + Happening
Michael Bay's Ambulance + a pioneering Australian cinematographer
Oscar celebrated cinematographers Greig Fraser & Ari Wegner + Slow Horses
Mariama Diallo's campus horror + Uberto Pasolini's Nowhere Special
Courtney Barnett on 16mm + Sebastian Stan on dating horror Fresh
Mia Hansen-Løve on Bergman Island + Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir II
Miss Marx + Wash My Soul River's Flow
Sundance winner Hive + A Night of Knowing Nothing
Mike Mills on C'mon C'mon + triple Oscar nominated animation Flee
Quo Vadis, Aida + Ione Skye + The Lake of Scars
Kenneth Branagh & Ciarán Hinds on Belfast + Here Out West + Pam and Tommy
Pedro Almodóvar on Parallel Mothers + Pablo Larraín's Spencer
Summer highlights #2 - Chloé Zhao on Nomadland + Roy Andersson and Nick Pinkerton
Summer highlights #1 - Julie Delpy + Domina
American director Sean Baker and German acting legend Udo Kier
Don't Look Up, The Scary of Sixty-First + The Worst Person in the World
Denis Villeneuve + Greig Fraser on Dune, Ari Wegner on The Power of the Dog
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Stillwater, Hannah Levien
Rosamund Pike on The Wheel of Time, Last Night in Soho, Palazzo Di Cozzo
No Time To Die + Only Murders in the Building
Paul Schrader and Terence Davies
El Planeta, David Lynch's Inland Empire, Hal Cumpston
The Sopranos' creator David Chase + Cannes winner To Chiara
Hollywood's Man in the Shadows + new Japanese talent Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Nitram: a discussion with director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant
Billy Bob Thornton, Mads Mikkelsen + a lush ballet thriller
Steven Soderbergh, Mélanie Laurent + Emmy award winning director of The Crown
Meet the directors - The Voyeurs + The Killing of Two Lovers
Ride the Eagle, Under my Skin + Oscar winner Thomas Vinterberg
Under the Volcano + Coming Home in the Dark
Annette + Brand New Cherry Flavour
The White Lotus' Murray Bartlett, Rebecca Hall, Shahrbanoo Sadat
Free Guy director Shawn Levy, a MIFF update + fraud in Romania
Pod Extra: James Vaughan
Friends and Strangers + Vacant Possession