Comparing Marguerite and Florence Foster Jenkins, the French and British films inspired by the real life, tone deaf American socialite who became an unlikely singing sensation. Plus, reflecting on growing up in the shadow of World War 2 – veteran filmmaker Margot Nash discusses her affecting new film memoir, The Silences.

Why Melisssa McCarthy’s new film is the comedy Donald Trump supporters have been waiting for, and remembering Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players ahead of an upcoming GOMA retrospective.

Exploring the toxic tug of war inside the beleaguered Busan Film Festival, discussing a creepy new gem at Hobart’s Stranger With My Face Film Festival and the verdict on Michael Moore's 'Where to Invade Next'.

A conversation with documentary director Jennifer Peedom, whose film Sherpa explores the 2014 Mt Everest avalanche which killed sixteen people, all of them Nepalese guides.

Film journalist Kevin Lincoln explains The Screening Room, a start up that's dividing Hollywood, plus the verdict on Batman v Superman and Eye in the Sky.

Award winning Australian theatre director Simon Stone talks about his debut feature film The Daughter, an adaptation of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, plus Icelandic filmmaker Grimur Hakonarson discusses his tragicomedy Rams, about two neighbouring sheep farmer brothers who haven’t spoken for 40 years.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino discusses depictions of radical politics and the migrant crisis in A Bigger Splash, and what to expect from his upcoming version of Suspiria. Plus, guest critic and Suspiria devotee Alexandra Heller-Nicholas discusses her book on the film.

Maggie Smith plays a homeless woman who lived in a van on somebody else’s driveway for 15 years in The Lady in the Van. Plus, celebrating the careers of two great American actresses: Gena Rowlands, an indie icon famous for her work with late husband John Cassavetes and recently honoured with a lifetime achievement Oscar, and Barbara Stanwyck, a golden light of Old Hollywood.

Director László Nemes discusses the ethics of film aesthetics in his Holocaust drama Son of Saul, plus the verdict on The Mermaid and Gods of Egypt and a discussion about Australia’s role as a Hollywood studio backlot.

British actress Charlotte Rampling discusses her performance in the new film 45 Years and socialist American critic David Walsh looks at depictions of Hollywood radicals in Trumbo and Hail Caesar.