Joe Hisaishi's soundtracks and chill today, with presenter Andrew Pogson (co-host of The Art Of The Score Podcast) chatting about the Maestro's iconic body of work and the upcoming Melbourne Symphony Orchestra of Joe's music.

Walking with the Undead: THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON SEASON 3 (STAN), Jordana Stott's FORGIVE US ALL (NETFLIX) and Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's RICH FLU (NETFLIX).

We loop around Nicholas Clifford’s time travel comedy ONE MORE SHOT (STAN), enter the anime warzone of 86: EIGHTY SIX (CRUNCHYROLL), wonder at MARVEL'S WONDERMAN trailer, and more!

Today we pet Takashi Miike's horror/comedy anime NYAIGHT OF THE LIVING CATS (Streaming on CRUNCHYROLL) and descend into the inner circle of the much anticipated video game sequel HADES II (SUPERGIANT)

We pop over to Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans' spectacular animated mystical musical, KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (NETFLIX), and stalk Bryan Andres and Zeb Wells' re-animated horror series MARVEL ZOMBIES (DISNEY+).

This week we take pains with Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's NOVOCAINE, give a heads up on the ACMI exhibition GAMESWORLD and the t.v show IT: WELCOME TO DERRY, open the door on NEOLUDIC GAME'S TINY BOOKSHOP game, and more!

Our final 2025 Radiothon Special, plus we farewell actor Robert Redford, flyby STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 5 (Paramount +) and clap hand for WEDNESDAY SEASON 2 (NETFLIX).

Seat of the EVA suit pants space adventure with Andy Weir's PROJECT HAIL MARY novel (PENGUIN 2021) and we go down to the woods with Alex Scharfman's science fantasy movie DEATH OF A UNICORN (Streaming APPLE TV+, PRIME)

Composer and arranger Nicholas Buc picks up the conductor's baton with the infinity Gauntlet for Marvel's Infinity Saga Concert Experience with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in October at the Hamer Hall.

We cast fossil eyes over Gareth Edwards' JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH (Cinema and PRIME, for rent/buy), the seventh live action film in the JURASSIC PARK franchise, vote for Ilya Naishuller's streaming buddy adventure movie HEADS OF STATE (Prime), and welcome aboard more 2025 3RRR FM Radiothon subscriptions!

Today, we find out what's ALIEN: EARTH in Noah Hawley's sick new television entry in the longrunning ALIENS franchise (DISNEY +), and find our how many humans it takes to change a Sun in Stephen Baxter's epic Science Fiction novel, GALAXIAS (2021 GOLLANZ).

In the first of our 2025 3RRR Radiothon Specials we dig deeper to celebrate subscriber pledges with notional giveaways of genre potty plants and subteRRRanean tours.

We go MIFFing again with our second infiltration of this Year's genre goodness from the 2025 Melbourne International Film Festival, including the films: CHAIN REACTIONS, LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS, THE GOLDEN SPURTLE, WE BURY THE DEAD, and TRAINS.

Our 31st look at the Melbourne International Film Festival; all the genre! (Obviously that's THIS year's festival. 'Cos it would be whimsical if we'd been looking at the 1994 festival for 31 years, y'know?)

We go Fourth with the 37th MCU movie, Director Matt Shakman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS and dog the first steps of Director James Gunn's new DCU SUPERMAN motion picture.

Catching up with the genre frannies: Director Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER (in cinema), BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 (NETFLIX) and STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 3 (PARAMOUNT+)

We Wesolve to look at Mr Anderson's new movie THE PHOENECIAN SCHEME and take an armoured fly-by of Marvel's IRONHEART: SEASON ONE (DISNEY+).

Yakking about Seijun Suzuki's Yakuza films as well as some classic Japanese Horror films with guest programmers from two mini-festivals: Guests - Adrian Danks (President and Co-Curator, Melbourne Cinematheque) Alex Williams (Film and Annotations Coordinator, Melbourne Cinematheque) APPETITE FOR DECONSTRUCTION: SEIJUN SUZUKI (MELBOURNE CINEMATHEQUE- 16 July to 30 July, ACMI at Federation Square, Melbourne) and Guests - Spiro Economopoulos (Guest Curator for ACMI) FOCUS ON JAPANESE HORROR (ACMI 12th July to 3rd August, ACMI at Federation Square, Melbourne)

On today's show we chat with Meena Shamaly, host of ABC Classic's Game Show, about the art of composing Video Game soundtracks and VICTORIA ORCHESTRA'S INDIE SYMPHONY II game music concert, which he's also hosting. (Thursday 3 July & Friday 4 July 2025, 8pm Hamer Hall, Melbourne)

Today we warm to Tim Winton's Australian Climate Science Fiction novel JUICE (PENGUIN- HAMISH HAMILTON hardback) and scream at Matt Palmer's new entry in the FEAR STREET movie franchise, PROM QUEEN (NETFLIX)