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 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.
Mary Bronstein on If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, a black-comedy led by Rose Byrne in a career-defining performance that oozes raw, electric rage.
Actors Jason Clarke and Simone Kessell talk The Last Frontier, a gritty action thriller series in which a prison transport plane suspiciously crashes near a rugged Alaskan town
Sergei Loznitza on Two Prosecutors, which follows a young Soviet prosecutor seeking justice for a prisoner during Stalin's ongoing Great Purge.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Carey Dell
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reflects on her challenging and transformative term in office in the intimate, Sundance winning new documentary Prime Minister.
Australian director Sophie Somerville discusses Fwends - winner of the Caligari Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival - a charming tale about two old friends reconnecting over a trippy weekend in Melbourne.
Emmy award-winning artist and filmmaker Lynnette Wallworth on Edge of Life, a film following two doctors who treat terminally ill patients with psychedelic drugs to alter their relationship with death.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Carey Dell
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Trisha Morton-Thomas and Maggie Miles on their documentary Journey Home, a powerful record of grief, community, and ceremony in which the renowned Indigenous actor David Gulpilil is laid to rest.
Gabrielle Brady discusses The Wolves Always Come At Night, Australia's Oscar entry for the 2026 Academy Awards, which follows a couple living on a farm in rural Mongolia, forced to move to the city after a storm destroys their village.
As it arrives in Australian cinemas, we revisit a conversation with APSA winner Neo Sora on his film Happyend. In a near-future Tokyo, as the threat of a catastrophic earthquake looms, two friends face consequences after carrying out a terrible prank. Hear the whole interview here.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Derek Cianfrance talks Roofman, his stranger-than-fiction film about a charismatic prison escapee, played by Channing Tatum, who hides out in a Toys R Us store while evading the law.
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro unpacks his adaptation of Frankenstein, a typically gothic confection starring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth.
Australian actor Harrison Gilbertson reflects on his role in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, a biopic with The Bear's Jeremy Allen White in the lead, that captures the raw spirit of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska era.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
The winner of a trio of awards at Venice, Sarah Friedland, discusses her narrative feature Familiar Touch, a 'coming-of-old-age' story that follows the path of an octogenarian's shifting memories and desires.
Set to screen at Adelaide Film Festival, German director Julian Radlmaier on Phantoms of July, a funny and somewhat surreal metropolitan adventure that asks some serious questions about class in contemporary Germany.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
In this episode, acclaimed director Kelly Reichardt joins us to discuss The Mastermind, a heist film with Josh O'Connor in the lead as a suburban father living a double life as an art thief.
Cinematographer Maceo Bishop talks about shooting Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, a raw sports drama starring Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and how his lens helped shape the film’s emotional intensity.
Australian screen legends Bruce Beresford and Bryan Brown discuss The Travellers, a family drama set in regional W.A. that explores love, legacy, and the messiness of returning home.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
Editor Arts, Rhiannon Brown
Parks and Rec actor Nick Offerman discusses his role in Sovereign, a crime thriller inspired by real events in which he plays an anti-government extremist.
Brooklyn-based filmmaker Alex Ross Perry on Pavements, a hybrid work about one of the most influential bands of the '90s [available on DocPlay from October 6].
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
Editor Arts, Rhiannon Brown
Cult American filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directs One Battle After Another, in which Leonardo DiCaprio leads an action thriller about a washed-up radical living off-grid with his spirited young daughter, who goes missing.
Actor Julia Fox and director Justin Tipping discuss Him, a film set in the world of elite sport, about a young athlete whose dream becomes a nightmare under the shadow of a former champion.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Allyse Symons
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
The South Australian first-time filmmakers behind Lesbian Space Princess, an adult animation about an introverted lesbian space princess, which had its world premiere at the 2025 Berlinale.
Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods returns with Kangaroo, a family comedy about a D-list celebrity who teams up with an Indigenous girl to rescue and rehabilitate orphaned kangaroos in an outback community.
We pay tribute to Robert Redford, who passed away this week, with an excerpt from a 2018 interview with the director behind the last film he starred in, The Old Man and the Gun. You can hear the whole interview here.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
U.S. actor and director Michael Angelo Covino discusses Splitsville, a relationship comedy about divorce, friendship, and an open marriage, in which he stars opposite Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona.
New Zealand-born Australian director Samuel van Grinsven returns with his second feature, Went Up the Hill, a ghost story led by Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things), following two strangers possessed by grief.
Plus, as it releases exclusively on DocPlay, an excerpt from Jason's interview with Justin Kurzel about Ellis Park, his documentary feature about musician Warren Ellis. You can hear the whole interview here.
CREDITS
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, The Roses re-imagines the 1980s classic The War of the Roses. Jason speaks to director Jay Roach.
Eva Victor on her indie Sorry, Baby, which highlights Agnes' journey after a traumatic experience in her life.
Jason meets Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who is in Australia to premiere his work A Conversation with the Sun.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Alysse Symons
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
A panel discussion of talented international directors with films in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival discuss their journeys with Jason, including American filmmaker Andrew Patterson (The Vast of Night), whose second feature The Rivals of Amziah King, starring Matthew McConaughey, premiered at SXSW this year; Chie Hayakawa (Plan 75) from Japan, whose second feature, Renoir, premiered in Competition at Cannes; and James J. Robinson, a Filipino/Australian artist based in Los Angeles whose feature debut, First Light, had its World Premiere at MIFF.
CREDITS
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Ross Richardson and Riley Meliss
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Ari Aster on Eddington, a satirical neo-Western set during the pandemic, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in the lead roles.
Michael Seitzman, showrunner of The Rainmaker, talks about adapting the classic John Grisham legal thriller for television.
Carey Mulligan stars in The Ballad of Wallis Island, a comedy about a lottery winner whose dream of reuniting his favourite musicians unexpectedly comes true. Director James Griffiths shares insights.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Matthew Sigley
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Legendary Australian film critic, cinephile, film scholar, programmer, and author, David Stratton, sadly passed away this week, aged 85. In 2017, he joined Jason Di Rosso in the studio to discuss David Stratton: A Cinematic Life, Sally Aitken's documentary about his lifelong love of movies.
British A-listers Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck, a fantasy drama based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King.
Beloved Australian actor Essie Davis discusses her role in the upcoming Disney sci-fi series Alien: Earth.
Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili speaks about her haunting abortion drama April, which won the Special Jury Prize at Venice.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
U.S. director Zach Cregger discusses Weapons, his excellent horror about a community left questioning who or what is behind the disappearance of a classroom of children.
The showrunners behind Apple TV+ series Platonic, in which Rose Byrne and Seth Rogen star as a charming duo of best friends in L.A.
Naomi Watts on The Friend, an adaptation of the bestselling book about a writer who finds her cosy New York life up-ended after her closest friend bequeaths her a Great Dane.
CREDITS
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Angie Grant
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber (Attawalpa) co-created the buzzy Netflix series Too Much with his wife Lena Dunham, a rom-com full of joy and complexity set in London. Luis gets beneath the surface of it all with Jason.
Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks on Together, his sticky body horror that made a mark at Sundance, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie.
French master François Ozon on his latest When Fall is Coming, an ambiguous murder-mystery set in Burgundy.
CREDITS
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Angie Grant
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Screen legend Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love, where she stars opposite Pierce Brosnan in an adaptation of Niall Williams' 1997 novel about a couple pulled together by ghosts, fate and the power of love.
Inspired by real events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp dramedy The Stolen Painting follows an auctioneer whose professional and personal integrity is challenged by the discovery of a long-lost masterpiece.
French director Louise Courvoisier on her charming debut Holy Cow, in which teenager Totone's carefree life in the countryside takes a turn when he's suddenly left to provide for his young sister.
CREDITS
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Brendan O'Neill
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
As two Oscar snubbed films with excellent female leads from earlier in the year become available to watch via streaming, a highlights program featuring Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn on Babygirl, a sexual thriller starring Nicole Kidman as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickenson; Plus, Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain discusses Maria, in which Angelina Jolie is stupendous as the world's greatest opera singer - Maria Callas.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Ross Richardson
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Two stand-outs from the Melbourne International Film Festival:
Filmmaker Courtney Stephens on dolphin intelligence, sensory deprivation and the psychedelic experience...her new documentary looks at the strange and often confronting work of twentieth-century utopian neuroscientist John Lilly.
British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr remembers the father he barely knew in his debut feature My Father's Shadow, a Lagos-set family drama that unfolds during a tumultuous period in Nigeria's political history.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Tony Norton
Sound engineer, Matthew Sigley
Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Music from My Father's Shadow score by CJ Mirra & Duval Timothy
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.
