Podcast
The Screen Show
Hosted by ABC Australia · EN
The Screen Show, hosted by renowned Sydney-based film critic Jason Di Rosso, is your ultimate guide to the world of film, television, and streaming. Each episode explores the latest films, TV shows and streaming originals through reviews, analysis and exclusive conversations with directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, showrunners and production designers, from A-list Hollywood talent to Australian creatives and emerging and established talent from around the world, providing you with VIP access to the minds shaping today's entertainment landscape.
From blockbusters to award season predictions (including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AACTAs) and film festival coverage (including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and all the Australian film festivals), The Screen Show keeps you on top of cinematic trends, award nominees and winners, international favourites, indie darlings, Australian gems, cult classics, retrospectives, and box office hits.
Whether you're interested in cinema or TV streaming, The Screen Show covers it all, celebrating cinematic storytelling in all its forms.
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THE COUCH ~ Rivals/Citadel/Legends
5d ago00:12:00Tap to summarizeTV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...Rivals Season 2 (Disney)Citadel Season 2 (Prime Video)Legends (Netflix)
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Amrum and Mortal Kombat II: Directors and Cast in Conversation
1w ago00:40:15Tap to summarizeGerman-Turkish director Fatih Akin, discusses Amrum. Playing at the German Film Festival, after first screening in Cannes’ Premiere section where it earned critical attention, the film is a quietly devastating coming-of-age drama set in the final days of WWII.We’re joined by Mortal Kombat II director Simon McQuoid and actors Karl Urban, Josh Lawson, and Jessica McNamee, to see what the martial arts fantasy sequel has in store.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonArts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Transcribe →THE COUCH ~ The Other Bennet Sister/Man on Fire/Kevin
2w ago00:12:00Tap to summarizeTV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...The Other Bennet Sister (Binge)Man on Fire (Netflix)Kevin (Prime Video)
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Patrick Brammall: The Devil Wears Prada 2/ Warwick Thornton: Wolfram/ Ronny Chieng: The Miniature Wife
2w ago00:52:47Tap to summarizeAussie actor Patrick Brammall is in the studio reflecting on his big Hollywood role as Anne Hathaway's love interest in The Devil Wears Prada 2.Warwick Thornton joins us to talk Wolfram, his haunting new work that digs deep into country, memory and resistance.And another Aussie acting expat, Ronny Chieng, drops by to unpack his latest work in the new TV series The Miniature Wife.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound, Alysse SymonsArts editor, Rhiannon Brown
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It's Never Over: Jeff Buckley + Calle Malaga + Alphabet Lane
3w ago00:52:46Tap to summarizeAmy Berg, director of It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, on her portrait of an artist who looms large, and the challenge of telling a story shaped as much by absence as by legacy.Maryam Touzani on Calle Malaga, Morocco's official entry for the Academy Awards, an intimate exploration of place and memory set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Tangier.Director James Litchfield discusses Alphabet Lane, an atmospheric new Australian film that follows the quirky journey of a couple as they build a new life in the country.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonArts editor, Rhiannon Brown
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Deadloch S2/ François Ozon on The Stranger/ My Undesirable Friends
Apr 1500:54:07Tap to summarizeKate McLennan and Kate McCartney — aka The Kates — chat about Season 2 of Deadloch, the much‑loved Australian send‑up of the murder‑mystery genre. Master French filmmaker François Ozon on his interpretation of Albert Camus’ 1942 existential classic The Stranger, and we revisit a conversation with Julia Loktev, director of the acclaimed documentary My Undesirable Friends, about chronicling dissent, friendship and resistance under Putin’s Russia (listen to the whole thing here).Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound, Ariel Gross
Transcribe →Cate Blanchett in Father Mother Sister Brother + All That's Left Of You + Megadoc
Apr 800:52:33Tap to summarizeCate Blanchett on the joy of working with Jim Jarmusch again in Father Mother Sister Brother.Palestinian-American director Cherien Dabis discusses cross generational trauma in her powerful new drama All That's Left Of You.Mike Figgis invites us behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola's 120 million dollar spectacular flop Megalopolis in his riveting documentary Megadoc.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound, Tim SymondsArts editor, Sarah L'Estrange
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Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star in The Drama + The President's Cake + The Magic Faraway Tree
Apr 100:52:37Tap to summarizeNorwegian director Kristoffer Borgli on directing Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in his excellent new black comedy, The Drama.Hasan Hadi, writer-director of The President's Cake, discusses his acclaimed feature debut, which follows a young girl’s quest to bake a cake for Saddam Hussein’s birthday in 1990s Iraq.Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning is in town to discuss her latest role in the Enid Blyton blockbuster The Magic Faraway Tree.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound, Tim SymondsArts editor, Sarah L'Estrange
Transcribe →Big pivots in Hollywood + My Father's Shadow
Mar 1800:52:46Tap to summarizeOn the back of the Oscars, Jason chats with two Hollywood experts about the facts, figures and studio chess game playing out in Hollywood boardrooms — from the state of Netflix and its failed bid to acquire Warner Bros, to WB’s big wins at this year’s ceremony with One Battle After Another and Sinners.As My Father’s Shadow launches at the Africa Film Festival, followed by screenings at ACMI and on streaming platform MUBI, we revisit a conversation with British‑Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr. He reflects on the father he barely knew in this Lagos‑set family drama, unfolding during a tumultuous period in Nigeria’s political history.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonArts editor, Sarah L'Estrange
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Pod extra: Oscars post-mortem
Mar 1600:36:30Tap to summarizeJason together with Radio National Arts colleague Sky Kirkham unpack the Oscars, taking a look at the night's biggest wins, snubs, and cultural moments, including the dominance of One Battle After Another, which took out Best Picture and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, and acting wins for Michael B. Jordan in Sinners and Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, all while asking what this year's Oscars say about the industry right now.
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