The Screen Show

Tom Cruise disappears beneath layers of prosthetics to play a Texas oil baron in Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious satire about climate catastrophe, power and the stories powerful men tell...Jason meets with the Oscar-winning director, which also stars John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Riz Ahmed. Plus, filmmaker Arlo Dean Cook on Jebediah: Are We OK?, an intimate documentary following the Perth alt rock band across decades of friendship, success and addiction. Plus, a look back at the acclaimed Rowland S. Howard documentary Autoluminescent, and why the latest Resident Evil reboot proves to be one of the year's most entertaining horrors.

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This week we're reviewing two star-driven dramas. In Brothers, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves whose long friendship is turned upside down by the suggestion they could actually be related. And in American Hostage, Jon Hamm stars as a radio broadcaster drawn into a real-life hostage crisis when an armed gunman demands a national audience. 

Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonnie Hughes discuss How to Live on Earth, a visionary feature documentary that explores our connection to nature and its role in our future.

French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, a drama that tells the true story of the Danish architect behind one of Paris' most ambitious and iconic modern landmarks.

Plus, Jason recommends The Weight, a new adventure film starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe.

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A look at Irish auteur Sharon Horgan's sharp new comedy, Youth, which once again finds humour and heart in the messiness of modern life. Plus, inside the expanding Call My Agent! universe, from the French original to its new movie spin-off.

Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green on a Hollywood comeback story, plus, ahead of the new season of Slow Horses, we're revisiting a conversation with Gary Oldman. 

Coyote vs Acme was a film written off for dead before winning a passionate fan campaign and a second chance on the big screen for its beloved Looney Tunes characters. 

Gary Oldman discusses playing the gloriously dishevelled spy chief Jackson Lamb in Slow Horses and why the series resonates with audiences.

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We unpack two major dramas: the buzzy new Australian crime series Last Seen,  and the latest season of Slow Horses. In Last Seen, Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes lead a high-stakes mystery of a missing child that exposes a close-knit community; while Slow Horses presents Gary Oldman's unforgettable Jackson Lamb once again, as he heads up his band of sidelined MI5 agents.

Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes take us behind the scenes of Apple TV+'s new crime drama Last Seen, discussing what it took to bring the high-stakes mystery to the screen. Plus, Head of Production and Investment Attraction at VicScreen, Joe Brinkmann, discusses how Victoria secured the location rights to the production, and why it was the right fit.

Bonus - capsule review of Runner, a new action comedy thriller starring Owen Wilson, set in Queensland.

A look at the latest season of Dark Matter, starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, alongside the Australian drama Dalliance, featuring a who's who of Australian acting talent including Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weaving, Georgie Parker and David Wenham. One imagines the lives we might have lived in a multiverse of possibilities, while the other centres around a tight knit group of friends in their sixties whose lives are suddenly up-ended. 

Emmy Rossum talks about starring in Disney's acclaimed psychological thriller Furious, playing an undercover FBI agent hunting a female serial killer.

Melbourne filmmaker Vee Shi's documentary Time and Tide takes him back to the Chinese town of his childhood, where a family reunion unfolds under deeply challenging circumstances.

Before there was How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there was Derry Girls, the sharp-eyed comedy that made Lisa McGee one of the most distinctive voices in television. In this special, we trace the arc of McGee's work from the school corridors of 1990s Derry to the tangled friendships, secrets and dark humour of contemporary Belfast, and how she captures the experience of place, memory and friendship with equal measures of wit and tenderness.