Zero G

Our 31st look at the Melbourne International Film Festival; all the genre! (Obviously that's THIS year's festival. 'Cos it would be whimsical if we'd been looking at the 1994 festival for 31 years, y'know?)

We go Fourth with the 37th MCU movie, Director Matt Shakman's THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS and dog the first steps of Director James Gunn's new DCU SUPERMAN motion picture.

Catching up with the genre frannies: Director Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER (in cinema), BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 (NETFLIX) and STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS SEASON 3 (PARAMOUNT+)

We Wesolve to look at Mr Anderson's new movie THE PHOENECIAN SCHEME and take an armoured fly-by of Marvel's IRONHEART: SEASON ONE (DISNEY+).

Yakking about Seijun Suzuki's Yakuza films as well as some classic Japanese Horror films with guest programmers from two mini-festivals:

Guests - Adrian Danks (President and Co-Curator, Melbourne Cinematheque) Alex Williams (Film and Annotations Coordinator, Melbourne Cinematheque)

APPETITE FOR DECONSTRUCTION: SEIJUN SUZUKI (MELBOURNE CINEMATHEQUE- 16 July to 30 July, ACMI at Federation Square, Melbourne)
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Guests - Spiro Economopoulos (Guest Curator for ACMI) FOCUS ON JAPANESE HORROR (ACMI 12th July to 3rd August, ACMI at Federation Square, Melbourne)

On today's show we chat with Meena Shamaly, host of ABC Classic's Game Show, about the art of composing Video Game soundtracks and VICTORIA ORCHESTRA'S INDIE SYMPHONY II game music concert, which he's also hosting. (Thursday 3 July & Friday 4 July 2025, 8pm Hamer Hall, Melbourne)

Today we warm to Tim Winton's Australian Climate Science Fiction novel JUICE (PENGUIN- HAMISH HAMILTON hardback) and scream at Matt Palmer's new entry in the FEAR STREET movie franchise, PROM QUEEN (NETFLIX)

We hunt PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS (DISNEY +) and FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (APPLE T.V+)We hunt Daniel Trachtenberg's new animated Science Fiction/Horror movie PREDATOR: KILLER OR KILLERS (DISNEY+) and seek Guy Ritchie's new Fantasy movie FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH (APPLE TV+)

Today we're having a yarn with U.S American film, t.v and video game score composer Bear McCreary, who will be here in Australia in July in concert, touring his iconic genre music alongside his Science Fiction concept album, THE SINGULARITY.

We vworp by Ncuti Gatwa's second season in the TARDIS with DOCTOR WHO (DISNEY + STREAMING), flip a mansion in the video game BLUE PRINCE (Published by RAW FURY), and farewell U.S American "Writer Of Genre Stuff" Peter David