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 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
Aug 15, 2025 • 15min
Podcast Extra: Vale David Stratton
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.
Aug 13, 2025 • 54min
Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck/Alien: Earth/April
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 RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
Aug 6, 2025 • 54min
Weapons/Platonic/Naomi Watts on The Friend
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.CREDITSPresenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Angie GrantExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown
