The Screen Show

Ben Mendelsohn discusses playing a paedophile in the psychological thriller Una, the debut feature from Australian playwright turned director Benedict Andrews. British director Terence Davies discusses A Quiet Passion, his biopic of American poet Emily Dickinson, and the Hungarian director of the Sydney Film Festival winner On Body and Soul, Ildikó Enyedi, explains why she set a love story in an abattoir.

This week a critics round table on the Sydney Film Festival, where this year themes of race are prominent in the competition in films like Warwick Thornton’s documentary about the Southern Cross We Don’t Need a Map, and two old masters return with stories about Europe and the refugee crisis, Michael Haneke and Aki Kaurismaki.

This week Scottish actor Brian Cox on playing Britain’s wartime leader in the biopic Churchill and Notting Hill director Roger Michell discusses what drew him to his wily new thriller starring Rachel Weisz, My Cousin Rachel. Plus, the Sydney Film Festival kicks off, and Afghani director Shahrbanoo Sadat discusses her debut feature competing for the Sydney Film Prize, Wolf and Sheep.

Wonder Woman strides into cinemas this week amidst positive reviews. But guest critic Sarinah Masukor thinks there's a lot missing from the long awaited adaptation - sex for starters. Plus - Australia's torture porn obsession.

So far it’s a mesmerizing array of plot threads with only a vague promise of reconciliation between them. What could it all mean, and how does Lynch's vision hold up in the Golden Age of television?

A high profile Royal Commission with an unprecedented remit has been investigating crimes in schools, churches and youth organisations for the past several years and is approaching its conclusion in December. This week, a new film dramatises a key court case that helped inspire this current push for justice and you’ll hear from one of the cast, veteran actor Jack Thompson who plays a barrister in the film. Plus, stepping out of the cinema and into the art gallery to speak to a video artist who’s using an algorithm to tell stories with fascinating results, and a new action movie with Keanu Reeves.

The new Alien movie delves deeper into the origins of those chest bursting lizard menaces than any other movie in the franchise, but does the mystery and simple horror of the original get lost in Ridley Scott's ambitious origin story? Plus, Sydney Film Festival has launched its program and artistic director Nashen Moodley discusses the highlights.

How a twisted portrait of racism and white privilege has captured America’s imagination — plus, the Brisbane Film Festival is no more.

Writer director Mia Hansen-Løve discusses this stunning portrait of late middle age crisis and her guerrilla filmmaking on the streets of Paris.

Women on screen as predators and prey.