The Screen Show
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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.
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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Oct 22, 2025 • 54min
Roofman/Frankenstein/Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Riley MelissArts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 15, 2025 • 54min
Venice winner Familiar Touch + indie comedy Phantoms of July
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Riley MelissArts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 8, 2025 • 54min
Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind) + Maceo Bishop (The Smashing Machine) + Bruce Beresford & Bryan Brown (The Travellers)
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonEditor Arts, Rhiannon Brown
Oct 1, 2025 • 54min
Nick Offerman/Sovereign + Alex Ross Perry/Pavements
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Riley MelissEditor Arts, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 24, 2025 • 54min
Paul Thomas Anderson on One Battle After Another/ Julia Fox and Justin Tipping on Him
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Allyse SymonsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 17, 2025 • 55min
Lesbian Space Princess/ Kangaroo/ Vale Robert Redford
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 10, 2025 • 54min
Splitsville + Went Up the Hill
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.CREDITSPresenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Riley MelissExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Sep 3, 2025 • 54min
Olivia Colman & Benedict Cumberbatch lead Jay Roach's The Roses + Sorry, Baby + Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Alysse SymonsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 27, 2025 • 54min
Three of the most exciting filmmakers from MIFF's Bright Horizons Competition
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.CREDITSPresenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross Richardson and Riley MelissExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 20, 2025 • 55min
Eddington + The Rainmaker + The Ballad of Wallis Island
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Matthew SigleyExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
