We bring you an informed look at screen culture. In an age of 'peak TV' where the world’s best actors, producers and directors increasingly fluctuate between the small screen and the big, The Screen Show explores the best that both film and television have to offer.
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Thursday 16 May 2019
Mike Leigh's Peterloo is a drama full of depth and richness.
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Our TV critic Lauren Carroll Harris talks to Jason Di Rosso about the what the new hyperblokey mini series Catch-22 brings to today’s culture of political mania and drone invasions.
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A reboot of the epic action movie will be brought to life in South Australia later this year.
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Marcelo Martinessi discusses the themes of class, confinement and shame in The Heiresses…
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Thursday 9 May 2019
Acute Misfortune is a story about the late painter Adam Cullen, and the young journalist who attempts to write a book about him.
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the creator and star of this series, part of a wave of perverse comedies about people in their thirties whose lives are going nowhere.
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Thornton has won an Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Feature Film.
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Ága is an arctic love story set in one of the coldest places on earth, about a couple yearning for their estranged daughter.
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This film fits in with recent female-centred Hollywood titles that have been marketed as populist feminist entertainment, but it hasn't worked.
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Thursday 2 May 2019
This new Australian film has themes of identity, place and belonging at its heart.
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We look at where this major TV comedy finds itself in its seventh and final season.
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The finale of the Marvel series had made $1.7 billion worldwide as of Monday.
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Sue Maslin is one of Australia's most successful film producers, her credits include The Dressmaker, Japanese Story and Road to Nhill.
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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is currently celebrating the works of Iranian New Wave director Jafar Pahani.
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Thursday 25 Apr 2019
This is an ambitious film about family secrets, sex and mortality, and it's always good to see an Australian team reaching to make something this bold.
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Lauren Carroll Harris speaks to Baltasar Kormákur, the creator and showrunner behind a thriller from Iceland that has become a global phenomenon.
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This is a film that's both mournful and angry, with low light cinematography that seems to cloak its characters in grey shadow.
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An annual showcase of recent restorations of canonical movies called Cinema Reborn is currently providing an alternative to the Hollywood blockbuster.
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Thursday 18 Apr 2019
Academy Award winning actor Julianne Moore joins us to talk about her role in Sebastian Lelio's remake of the Chilean film Gloria.
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As the much anticipated Killing Eve returns to screens for Season 2, TV critic Lauren Carrol-Harris joins Jason to discuss where things seems to be heading, and how it's expanding on themes of female love and solidarity, trauma and dark comedy.
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More than 900,000 viewers tuned to Foxtel's linear broadcast, with another 330,000 streaming the show.
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A surprising new documentary out this week tells the incredible story of a former corporate executive who becomes a medicinal cannabis farmer, and takes on the persona of a nun.
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There's a silent, creeping desperation in the South Korean psychological thriller Burning, winner of the critics' prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival, that is initially so understated it almost lulls you into a sense of complacency.
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Thursday 11 Apr 2019
Jason Di Rosso speaks to Terry Gilliam about directing The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, one of the most disaster plagued films of all time.
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Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine speak to us about their successful teen comedy Pen15, and contemplate why it's striking such a chord with all age ranges.
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The film, titled Summer Loving, is in development by Paramount.
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We invited the star of Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries in to tell us about some films and TV shows that inspire her.
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Thursday 4 Apr 2019
We look at how the 2019 remake of Stephen King's horror Pet Sematary holds up.
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Should streaming services like Netflix be eligible to enter their films in to the Oscars race? The US Department of Justice says yes.
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On its 30th anniversary, Lauren Carroll Harris looks back at groundbreaking Australian kids TV show Round the Twist with creator Paul Jennings.
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Awavena transports you to an Amazonion village to hear the story of a woman who becomes her tribe's first female Shaman, and through immersive technology brings audiences into contact with indigenous communities.
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Filmmaker Agnes Varda died this week aged 90. Few directors were more admired by cinephiles.
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Thursday 28 Mar 2019
Get Out director Jordan Peele is back with a new film called Us starring Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke.
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Forrest Gump would have danced with Princess Diana and been in the back of OJ Simpson's Bronco in a scrapped sequel, according to its screenwriter.
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We dig deeper into some big news out of Hollywood set to completely change the landscape of mega studios and streaming giants.
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Acclaimed writer-director Gregg Araki talks about his surreal new millennial comedy Now Apocalypse.
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Thursday 21 Mar 2019
Does Ricky Gervais explore any new territory with his new Netflix series? Satirist Mark Humphries joins Lauren Carroll Harris and Jason Di Rosso to discuss.
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From the moment director Karyn Kusama debuted on the world stage at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, it was clear she had an uncommon gift for colour and light.
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Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara has stood down over sexual misconduct allegations, while Guardians of the Galaxy Director James Gunn has been re-hired, after his own public embarassment.
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Melbourne Design Week is underway and part of this year's program is the Design on Film Festival, which explores the world of design and architecture on film.
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Thursday 14 Mar 2019
It's understandable that filmmakers are drawn to real life atrocities, but dramatising evil can be a tricky endeavour if you're hoping to say something meaningful.
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American singer, songwriter and producer Solange has just released a new album called When I Get Home, and with it a 33 minute film that shows how the music industry is changing its approach to the moving image.
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The actors are amongst the dozens of people arrested over a scheme to help cheat their children's way in to elite universities.
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Actor Marcus Graham is in to talk about five films that he loves.
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There's a touch of Wes Anderson in its fetishised suburban aesthetic, but not too much - it's less crammed, more open to emotion.
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