Three conversations with three of Australia's most talented directors, who all made significant works in 2020 - Warwick Thornton, Shannon Murphy and Kitty Green.

In a pandemic themed summer special we feature John Cusack, Gillian Flynn, Desiree Akhavan, and the Australian filmmaker behind a Spanish set lockdown series.

An interview with Juliette Binoche, star of a Boxing Day film called How to be A Good Wife, a kitschy, satirical film about a conservative ladies prep school in the tumultuous year of 1968.

In this special Podcast Extra, A-lister Eric Bana talks about coming home to take on the lead role of Aaron Falk in the film adaptation of Jane Harper's page-turner The Dry, and his wider Hollywood career.

Sigourney Weaver talks to us about starring in the thoughtful New York-set coming of age film about ambition and talent, My Salinger Year, and rock and roll documentary maker Julien Temple has made a new film about one of the most significant figures in Irish music.

We go behind the scenes on The Crown with Jessica Hobbs, a NZ-Australian director in demand in the UK TV industry, and a preview of a retrospective coming to Australia this summer, on the lush cinematic worlds of one of Hong Kong’s and the world’s greatest filmmakers.

We meet the filmmakers behind two new releases likely to unsettle....one is a documentary about a group of Sports journalists who uncover corruption in Romania's hospitals, the other is about a lifelike robot who spends time in the company of two very different masters.

A new French film about a family tragedy on the land, Wolf of Wall Street actor Cristin Milioti talks about her latest role in time-loop rom-com Palm Springs, and some thought provoking film works that deal with some of the pressing themes of this year of great upheaval.

Two big names on the show this week, David Byrne, who has teamed up with Spike Lee to make a captivating concert film of his Broadway show American Utopia, and Werner Herzog who has made an unconventional doco about comets and meteorites for Apple TV.

A critic's chat on David Fincher's new film Mank as it gets set to release in cinemas and then on Netflix. And for NAIDOC Week we journey back to a conversation with filmmaker Warwick Thornton about his spellbinding isolation documentary.