The Screen Show

Two new television dramas reviewed: the ABC's Dustfall, which investigates a harrowing sexual assault case after a teenage girl is found with amnesia in a sugarcane field, and HBO Max's War, a series starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West that follows a bitter, high-profile divorce.

Two Academy Award winners, Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison, discuss The Social Reckoning, Sorkin's return to the world he helped create with The Social Network. The writer-director reflects on revisiting the rise of social media in a dramatically different political and cultural moment, while Madison talks about stepping into one of the film's central roles.

Film critic and MIFF programmer Kate Jinx joins us fresh from the New York Film Festival to discuss two of the event's stand-out films, both heading to Australian screens soon: You Can See Everything and The History of Concrete.

Plus, in anticipation of The History of Concrete, we revisit part of our conversation with filmmaker John Wilson about his hugely popular TV series How To with John Wilson (Listen to the whole thing here.)

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John Steinbeck's East of Eden gets a lavish new Netflix adaptation led by Florence Pugh, while My Sad Dead turns Mariana Enríquez's unsettling ghost stories into a supernatural drama directed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Jason and Wenlei weigh in.

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.