
The Screen Show
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.
Latest episodes

Jul 2, 2025 • 54min
My Undesirable Friends + experimental filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn
A first glance at the Melbourne International Film Festival...Russian American filmmaker Julia Loktev on her fascinating five and a half hour documentary about journalists in Russia, My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.One of the luminaries of Australian avant-garde filmmaking Dirk de Bruyn talks about two of his profoundly personal films, appearing as part of a career retrospective at the Melbourne Cinematheque.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jun 25, 2025 • 54min
Families Like Ours / Smoke / The Story of Souleymane
Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Another Round) on his new 7-part series Families Like Ours, which is set in a hypothetical near future where global warming has led to the imminent flooding of Denmark.Director Boris Lojkine and actor Abou Sangaré discuss Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Story of Souleymane, a deeply empathetic drama that follows a food delivery courier through the streets of Paris as he prepares for his asylum application interview.Black Bird writer Dennis Lehane and actor Taron Egerton on Smoke, a new Apple TV+ series about serial arsonists.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound engineer, Riley MellisExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jun 18, 2025 • 54min
28 Years Later + Justin Kurzel's new doco Ellis Park
Australian director Justin Kurzel on his documentary Ellis Park, which follows Bad Seed and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis as he pursues his twin passions: making music and supporting a wildlife sanctuary in Sumatra.Filmmakers Danny Boyle and Alex Garland talk political allegory and post-Brexit Britain in their new zombie film 28 Years Later, a follow-up to the cult 2002 film 28 Days Later.Bonus zombie extra: an exhumed interview with the late George Romero, director of the seminal 1968 film Night Of The Living Dead.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jun 11, 2025 • 54min
Materialists + The Survivors
Past Lives director Celine Song on her new rom-com Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who falls into a love triangle with her broke ex and a wealthy finance guy.The Rings of Power actor Charlie Vickers and showrunner Tony Ayres discuss working on the Netflix adaptation of Jane Harper's The Survivors, a story about a small coastal town haunted by the tragedy of three deaths.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Tony NortonSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Jun 4, 2025 • 55min
Stick + One to One: John & Yoko + White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on The Salt Path
U.S. writer-director Jason Keller talks Stick, a new sports comedy starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up former golf pro and Peter Dager as his Gen Z protege.Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald on his doc One to One: John & Yoko... set in 1972 New York, the film explores John Lennon and Yoko Ono's world amid a turbulent era. White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on his latest role in The Salt Path, where he stars opposite Gillian Anderson in a sweet adaptation of the best-selling memoir about a couple who lose everything and start over on a 1000 km coastal trek.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

May 28, 2025 • 54min
Wes Anderson & Benicio Del Toro on The Phoenician Scheme/The Philippou Brothers new A24 horror/Palme d'Or winner
Direct from Cannes, where it received a seven-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, Wes Anderson and Benicio Del Toro discuss The Phoenician Scheme.Adelaide’s Phillipou Brothers on their latest South Australian horror for A24, Bring Her Back, the follow-up to their acclaimed feature debut Talk To Me.Artistic director of Sydney Film Festival Nashen Moodley is also fresh from the Cannes Film Festival. He speaks to us about the Palme d'Or-winning film It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi, also set to screen at SFF.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettExecutive producer, Rhiannon BrownSound engineer, Ross Richardson

May 21, 2025 • 54min
Beating Hearts, Universal Language, The Blue Trail
French director Gilles Lellouche on Beating Hearts, a genre-spanning romantic epic starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by social boundaries.Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin discusses his multi-award winning Universal Language...in a surreal interzone between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of several characters intertwine in unexpected ways.2025 Berlinale Grand Jury Prize winner The Blue Trail sees a remarkable woman try to evade a dystopian fate via a grand Amazonian quest. Ahead of Sydney Film Festival screenings, Jason sits down with Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

May 14, 2025 • 54min
Final Destination: Bloodlines/The Surfer/Shayda
The newest chapter in the successful Final Destination horror franchise takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Jason meets directors Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky.Irish director Lorcan Finnegan on The Surfer, a psychological surf thriller starring Nicolas Cage which takes aim at Australian masculinity and localism on a W.A. beach.As it becomes available to stream on SBS on Demand, an excerpt from Jason's interview with Iranian-Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari on her film Shayda, a work inspired by her childhood experiences in a women's shelter in Melbourne in the 1990s. (You can listen to the whole interview here.)Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Roi HubermanExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

May 7, 2025 • 54min
Clown in a Cornfield/Monsieur Aznavour/The Wedding Banquet
American film director Eli Craig discusses his horror Clown in a Cornfield...as teenagers start to go missing one by one in a Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too real.Director Mehdi Idir on Monsieur Aznavour, a biopic about an iconic singer-songwriter who beat all odds to become one of France’s best-loved entertainers.Andrew Ahn on his adaptation of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, which re-imagines the original film's themes to explore LGBTQIA+ problems of a new kind in the 21st century.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown

Apr 30, 2025 • 54min
A Grand Mockery + How the West Was Lost
Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity in Brisbane. Jason meets directors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon.Director David Noakes discusses How the West Was Lost, a documentary about the 1946 Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike in Western Australia's Pilbara region that has been digitally restored and is undergoing screenings in Melbourne and Sydney as part of Cinema Reborn's 2025 program.Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Ross RichardsonExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown