Boxing Day and the festive season is the biggest time of the year in cinema.

Thomas M. Wright is the director of Acute Misfortune, the upcoming film about Australian artist Adam Cullen.

Critics Philippa Hawker (The Australian) and Luke Goodsell (The Monthly) join us for a bumper end of year film panel.

A bumper end of year film special with critics Philippa Hawker and Luke Goodsell. We're looking at stories and trends from the year, as well as some big new Boxing Day and festive season releases. We'll also hear from Australian filmmakers about their cinematic picks of 2018.

A bumper end of year film special with critics Philippa Hawker and Luke Goodsell. We're looking at stories and trends from the year, as well as some big new Boxing Day and festive season releases. We'll also hear from Australian filmmakers about their cinematic picks of 2018.

Melissa McCarthy takes a career detour from her outlandish comedy roles to play a withdrawn, poverty-stricken author who discovers she has a talent for forging other people's writing in this indie drama.

Shirkers tells the story of a period in filmmaker Sandi Tan's life more than twenty years ago, when she was a film mad teenager growing up in Singapore who desperately wanted to make her own movie.

American comedian Kevin Hart will host the Academy Awards in 2019.

A bumper end of year TV panel with regular guest critics Lauren Carroll-Harris and Craig Mathieson weighing in on recent releases.

On our last TV panel of the year we're talking new releases including Homecoming and The Bisexual, plus favourite shows of 2018. An interview with Singaporean filmmaker Sandi Tan about her Netflix film Shirkers, and a review of Melissa McCarthy's new film, a biographical comedy-drama called Can You Ever Forgive Me?