Popcorn Podcast

Director Frank E Flowers joins Popcorn Podcast to unpack The Bluff, Prime Video’s action film starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban. From immersive shooting in remote Australian locations to transporting 30 tonnes of sand for authenticity and working with the Russo brothers, Flowers reveals how he reimagined pirate mythology as a brutal home-invasion thriller grounded in Caymanian history.

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• There’s more to The Woman King than meets the eye
• Step into the Popcorn Podcast arena for Gladiator II

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Baz Luhrmann returns to Popcorn Podcast to take us behind the scenes of his "cinematic poem", EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. The Oscar-nominated director, who recently brought Presley back to the big screen with ELVIS (2022), returns with something even more intimate and unexpectedly personal. EPiC isn’t just a documentary. It’s not a traditional concert film either. Luhrmann says it’s a cinematic dreamscape pieced together from the discovery of buried footage to create something far more insightful than his ELVIS blockbuster. Take a trip down memory lane with one of Australia's most visionary filmmakers, from ballroom dancing in rural Australia to rebuilding The King in 4K.

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• Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Olivia DeJonge and Schuyler Weiss talk ELVIS
• Shake, rattle and roll with Popcorn Podcast's ELVIS film review

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Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has arrived, and it’s already one of the most divisive films of the year. Popcorn Podcast is fresh from the Australian premiere to unpack why this bold reinterpretation swaps Emily Brontë’s chaste obsession for something far more erotic, stylised and confrontational. From Margot Robbie’s magnetic Catherine to Jacob Elordi’s intense Heathcliff, the film’s love it or hate it energy, and the jaw-dropping cinematography, lavish production design and fashion-forward costumes — plus the haunting soundtrack featuring original music from Charli XCX – is this tragic romance… or red flag central? Hit play and decide.

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• Emerald Fennell's sharp and satirical Promising Young Woman
• Drink up our Babygirl review
• Revel in the romance of Cyrano

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Welcome to Popcorn Podcast's salty, snackable movie news series, where we serve up freshly popped kernels from the film world. Join us for a buttery blast through a first-look trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Steven Spielberg's EGOT status. Plus, we take a closer look at The Drama, while AppleTV makes big 2026 announcements, and we finish off with a call from Charlie himself, as he summons his arse-kicking Angels once again!

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We Bury the Dead arrives with zombie-movie marketing, but what it delivers is far more intimate: a grief story set inside an apocalypse. In this spoiler-light episode, Popcorn Podcast unpacks writer and director Zak Hilditch's standout premise (the search for closure through body retrieval), the unsettling power of sound design and the performances from Daisy Ridley, Brenton Thwaites and Mark Coles Smith that keep it grounded – even when the third act begins to shuffle to the finish line.

More Popcorn:

• James Wan horror throwback Malignant will grow on you
• Revisit our wild Primate review
• Alex Scharfman on Death of a Unicorn mayhem and magic

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Director Rebecca Snow joins Popcorn Podcast for a powerful discussion about The Boy in the Woods, her narrative adaptation of Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart’s memoir. The film is the story of a 12-year-old hiding in the forest in 1943 – where nature can be both sanctuary and threat. In this special episode, Snow takes us inside meeting Smart while researching a previous documentary and realising his story wasn’t just something to document, it was something to dramatise. We also explore documentary versus fiction, ethical storytelling, casting Jett Klyne (WandaVision), working with Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) and the unforgettable moment when the real Max watched a pivotal childhood memory recreated on set.

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• Inside Nuremberg: Michael Shannon and John Slattery on their most challenging roles
• Carlson Young directs Sophie Turner in thriller Trust

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Welcome to Popcorn Podcast's salty, snackable movie news series, where we serve up freshly popped kernels from the film world. Join us for a buttery blast through first looks at Henry Cavill in Highlander and the cast in Sam Mendes' The Beatles four-part cinematic event. Plus, we break down the new trailer for I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Naomie Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore, while Fast Forever brings the fam back together one last time, and we farewell silver screen icon Catherine O'Hara in a heartfelt tribute.

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Director Marcelle Lunam joins Popcorn Podcast to talk Addition, her bold romantic dramedy starring Teresa Palmer. From sound design that mirrors anxiety to the film’s big hearted message (“you are not your diagnosis”), this is a conversation about craft, connection and modern love.

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• Talking The Travellers with Bryan Brown and Bruce Beresford
• Joe Bell's journey of redemption with Mark Wahlberg
• Nick Offerman on humour and humanity

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Hot off its Academy Award nominations for best original screenplay (Robert Kaplow) and best actor (Ethan Hawke), Popcorn Podcast discusses Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, which tells the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart as his professional and private life unravel at the opening night party for his former creative partner’s hit show Oklahoma! From unpacking a career-best performance, to the dialogue-heavy script and some truly effective camera trickery, Blue Moon will delight musical theatre aficionados and lovers of language and art. All this and more in a brand new episode of Popcorn Podcast.

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• Ethan Hawke terrifies in Black Phone 2
• Angelina Jolie embodies the OG diva, legendary opera singer Maria Callas
• From book to movie to musical and back to movie, The Color Purple has been a cultural cornerstone for 40 years

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Welcome to Popcorn Podcast's salty, snackable movie news series, where we serve up freshly popped kernels from the film world. Join us for a buttery blast through the Oscar Nominations for 2026. We love this time of year and wanted to share our surprises and delights with you as we look at a few of the categories. From Ryan Coogler’s Sinners landing 16 nominations—the most ever for a single film – to the biggest snub? Wicked: For Good being shut out completely... All this and more as we unpack the 2026 Academy Award nominations!

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• Hamnet: immersive and transformative filmmaking
• Bugonia review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ corporate fever dream stings deep
• Brad Pitt and Formula One thrills in F1: The Movie

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