The Screen Show

It's pressure-cooker television this week, from the final season of The Bear to the suburban crime chaos of Ms. X. Jason and Wenlei weigh in.

Jason reviews Supergirl, the new blockbuster directed by Sydney filmmaker Craig Gillespie and starring fellow Sydneysider Milly Alcock.

What happens when one of the world's bestselling thriller writers teams up with one of Australia's biggest screen stars? Harlan Coben and Sam Worthington discuss Netflix's I Will Find You, a mystery driven by family secrets with Coben's trademark twists front and centre.Acclaimed French filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović discusses The Ice Tower, her dreamlike re-imagining of a Hans Christian Andersen tale, starring Marion Cotillard.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Riley Meliss
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso consider whether Stan's The Killings at Parish Station is what TV needs right now, and a pretty fresh take on the sports drama with The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.

Jason takes a look at Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s return to his sci-fi beginnings.

Director Adrian Chiarella and actors Mia Wasikowska and Joe Bird talk about the unsettling new Australian film Leviticus.

South Korean horror master Yeon Sang‑ho is back with Colony, a zombie thriller that follows a rapidly mutating virus.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Allyse Symons
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

Jemaine Clement returns to television with Alice and Steve, a heartfelt comedy set in London about friendship, middle age and starting over. Our Couch critics found plenty to love in its warmth and offbeat charm. Also on the couch: Coldwater, a dark Scottish mystery that spotlights the crisis of masculinity. Did it live up to expectations? Not quite.

We head to the Sydney Film Festival for a candid discussion with filmmakers on the highs and lows of low-budget production. Featuring voices from across this year's program, including Hyun Lee (French Girls), Anthony Frith (Mockbuster) and Christian Byers (Death of an Undertaker).

Presented in partnership with UTS Creative Practice Research Group.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound, Carey Dell

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...Cape Fear and Not Suitable For Work.

Leo Woodall and Havana Rose Liu talk Tuner, a slick crime thriller also starring Dustin Hoffman, which follows a gifted piano tuner pulled into something darker.

Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat on No Good Men, Afghanistan’s (terrific) first rom-com, screening as part of Sydney Film Festival.

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound, Carey Dell
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

TV critic Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso press play on what's lighting up streaming this week...The Four Seasons and Spider Noir.

Twenty year old You Tube star turned A24 filmmaker Kane Parsons discusses Backrooms, his disorienting horror starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze's sublime road movie Dry Leaf is about to screen as part of this year's Sydney Film Festival. Shot on a 2010 flip phone, it follows a father searching across rural Georgia for his missing daughter. 

• Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
• Producer, Sarah Corbett
• Sound engineer, Allyse Symons
• Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown