Jason and Wenlei review new SBS drama The Airport Chaplain, and the buzzy coming-of-age series Sterling Point. The Airport Chaplain, starring Hugo Weaving and Shabana Azeez, is a warm, offbeat series set among the travellers, workers, and unexpected encounters at a busy airport; while Sterling Point follows 17-year-old high-achiever Annie Jacobson, who, along with her twin brother Connor, discovers they have inherited a private Canadian island.
Aug 25
15 min
Ahead of the premiere of SBS drama The Airport Chaplain, The Pitt breakout star Shabana Azeez talks about starring alongside Hugo Weaving, while filmmaker Annemarie Jacir on Palestine 36, her drama set at a pivotal historical moment.
Aug 19
40 min
Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma are back to tell you what to watch on streaming this week...from Netflix's adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' The Shards, a glossy serial killer thriller set in the eighties in LA, to the latest (very good) offering from the DC Universe, Lanterns.
Aug 18
15 min
A new New York set rom-com imagines a world where sex is only legal for one night of the year, and Hlynur Pálmason's acclaimed new film The Love That Remains.
Aug 12
40 min
Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma review two of the year's most anticipated TV releases: Netflix's adaptation of Miles Franklin's Australian classic My Brilliant Career, and the latest season of the much-loved football comedy Ted Lasso.
Aug 11
15 min
From a teenage Anthony Bourdain finding his calling to Sybylla Melvyn defying expectations, we meet the stars and creators behind Tony and Netflix's My Brilliant Career.
Aug 5
40 min
Join Jason and Wenlei as they unpack the twists, turns and surprises in two new series, and reveal whether they're worthy additions to your watchlist.
Aug 4
15 min
As beloved Australian series Colin From Accounts prepares to say goodbye, we revisit a conversation with stars and creators Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer about the making of their hit cringe-com.
With Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother newly available to stream, an excerpt of our conversation with Cate Blanchett about her experience of starring in it.
Director Gabriel Mascaro on his acclaimed new film The Blue Trail, a striking work of speculative cinema that imagines a near-future Brazil.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound, Brendan O'Neill
Arts editor, Rhianno Brown
Jul 29
40 min
Jason Di Rosso and Wenlei Ma review Treasure and Dirt, the ABC's new outback crime drama, adapted from Chris Hammer's bestseller, where buried secrets, quirky characters and small-town intrigue drive the mystery. They also say goodbye to one of Australia's most beloved comedies, Colin From Accounts, as the series reaches its final season. Does the farewell deliver the charm that made audiences fall in love with it?
Jul 28
15 min
From Putin’s rise to Swedish cinema’s great rebel: Olivier Assayas and Mattias Nohrborg on two towering figures who shaped politics and culture...
Olivier Assayas, one of France’s most acclaimed filmmakers, joins us to discuss The Wizard of the Kremlin, a political thriller charting Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, with stand-out performances from Jude Law and Paul Dano.
Plus, Mattias Nohrborg, co-director of Being Bo Widerberg (screening at this year's Nordic FF), reflects on the celebrated and eccentric Swedish director who emerged from Ingmar Bergman’s shadow to become one of his country’s most influential filmmakers.
Presenter, Jason Di Rosso
Producer, Sarah Corbett
Sound engineer, Allyse Symons
Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Jul 22
40 min
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