The Melbourne Lockdown has inspired Sean and Erik to embark on a treacherous and audacious journey into covering one of cinema's favourite punching bags on Film Fiasco; The Twilight Saga. But they cannot do it alone and will need to bring in the experts to provide an informative and much less cynical perspective. Enter our Twi-hards, Ashley Teresa from SWITCH. and Sarah, ABMP's resident Oscars expert.

Join Sean, Erik, Ashley and Sarah as they embark into covering the entire saga, film by film during this ongoing lockdown period, beginning with the 2008 film that started it all, Twilight.

On this special episode, Sean chats to Nays Baghai, Director of the documentary feature, Descent currently screening online as part of Sydney Film Festival 2020 until June 21.

On this special episode of ABMP, Sydney filmmaker Chris Elena joins Sean over Zoom to chat about his fantastic new short film, Audio Guide screening online as part of the St Kilda Film Festival from June 12-20.

Our Film Fiasco series returns whilst under quarantine, and what better film for Sean and Erik to discuss while they slowly lose their minds in isolation than Tom Green's $14M practical joke on Hollywood, Freddy Got Fingered. It's vulgar, tasteless and utterly abhorrent and disgusting, but Sean and Erik could not help but be enthralled by this film's incessant off-putting, juvenile nonsense. It's unlike anything we've ever seen before in both the best and worst ways possible, so this is an episode that is not to be missed.

On this episode, Sydney film critic, Glen Falkenstein joins the podcast via Zoom chatting about the impact of COVID-19 on both the Film Festival circuit as well as cinema in general. We don't let Coronavirus stop us from reviewing films though, as we discuss Come to Daddy, Monos, Happy New Year Colin Burstead and It Must Be Heaven. This episode is the perfect quarantine boredom buster.

On this special episode of ABMP, Sean sits down with Melbourne cinephile and awards season tragic, Sarah (@sarahonfilm on Twitter) to breakdown the 92nd Academy Awards and predict who they think will win, as well as who they are desperately pulling for to take home the golden statue.

*Disclaimer: There was a lot of audio interference on Sarah's track due to the XLR cord moving around. I have done my best to remove it, but it was difficult to take out when Sarah was talking and is a bit intrusive at times. Please be advised.

On this episode of ABMP, Sean & Erik review a slew of new release films both streaming and in cinemas. This includes the latest Safdie Brothers thriller Uncut Gems, the revisionist history masterclass that is True History of the Kelly Gang, the zany, atmospheric monochrome horror The Lighthouse, the harrowing war documentary For Sama, the offbeat indie road trip film The Peanut Butter Falcon and the wacky, cosmic terror-inducing Color Out of Space starring the one and only Nicolas Cage.

Erik also briefly chats about two of his favourite films from 2019, Dragged Across Concrete and Vitalina Varela. It's a jam-packed episode of movie goodness for your listening pleasure!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:09 - Uncut Gems

00:15:48 - True History of the Kelly Gang

00:32:30 - The Lighthouse

00:44:21 - For Sama

00:53:04 - The Peanut Butter Falcon

00:58:20 - Color Out of Space

01:09:00 - Erik’s favs of 2019 (Dragged Across Concrete & Vitalina Varela)

After a 5 months hiatus, ABMP is back with a bang in the new decade. On this episode, Sean sits down with Hudson Sowada, the Programmer of the Inaugural Fantastic Film Festival Australia happening in Sydney and Melbourne from February 20 - March 4.

Hudson explains the process of putting together such a strange festival and then we preview a number of the weird and wonderful films screening this year, including Saint Maud, The Golden Glove, Chained for Life, Cutterhead, A Serial Killer's Guide to Life and many many more.

Listen in at the end of the episode to hear how can win two complimentary passes for this year's festival.

Sean has been out and about at the Melbourne International Film Festival for the last two and a half weeks, seeing some great films and chatting to some cool people about what they have seen at the Festival. Some of these conversations were recorded for your listening pleasure.

In this compilation episode, Sean chats all things MIFF with past guests Ashley Teresa & George Kapaklis, as well as first time guests Tobias French, George Lakos, Glen Falkenstein & Kern Wheeling.

Timecodes:

Intro: 0:00

Ashley Teresa: 3:20

George Kapaklis & Tobias French: 12:00

George Lakos & Kern Wheeling: 29:11

Glen Falkenstein: 44:53

Outro/Plugs: 1:09:30

Sean is joined by Matthew Corigliano to discuss and breakdown the two different 2019 documentaries about Indigenous AFL Footballer, Adam Goodes and his stand against racism, The Final Quarter & The Australian Dream, and how the documentaries use different approaches to tell Adam's story.