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The Screen Show

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About the show

The Screen Show, hosted by renowned Sydney-based film critic Jason Di Rosso, is your ultimate guide to the world of film, television, and streaming. Each episode explores the latest films, TV shows and streaming originals through reviews, analysis and exclusive conversations with directors, actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, showrunners and production designers, from A-list Hollywood talent to Australian creatives and emerging and established talent from around the world, providing you with VIP access to the minds shaping today's entertainment landscape. From blockbusters to award season predictions (including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Emmys, BAFTAs and AACTAs) and film festival coverage (including Cannes, Venice, Berlinale, and all the Australian film festivals), The Screen Show keeps you on top of cinematic trends, award nominees and winners, international favourites, indie darlings, Australian gems, cult classics, retrospectives, and box office hits. Whether you're interested in cinema or TV streaming, The Screen Show covers it all, celebrating cinematic storytelling in all its forms.

Latest episodes

  • THE COUCH: Florence Pugh takes on Steinbeck in East of Eden + Larraín's My Sad Dead

    October 6, 2026 · 15 min

    John Steinbeck's East of Eden gets a lavish new Netflix adaptation led by Florence Pugh, while My Sad Dead turns Mariana Enríquez's unsettling ghost stories into a supernatural drama directed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín…

  • Tom Cruise stars in Digger + Jebediah: Are We Ok?

    September 30, 2026 · 41 min

    Tom Cruise disappears beneath layers of prosthetics to play a Texas oil baron in Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious satire about climate catastrophe, power and the stories powerful men tell...Jason meets with the Oscar-winning…

  • THE COUCH: Jon Hamm stars in a hostage drama + Hollywood's oddest family comedy

    September 29, 2026 · 15 min

    This week we're reviewing two star-driven dramas. In Brothers, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves whose long friendship is turned upside down by the suggestion they could actually be related. And in…

  • How to Live on Earth with Benedict Cumberbatch + The Great Arch

    September 23, 2026 · 41 min

    Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonnie Hughes discuss How to Live on Earth, a visionary feature documentary that explores our connection to nature and its role in our future. French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, a drama that…

  • THE COUCH: Sharon Horgan’s Youth and the Call My Agent! universe

    September 22, 2026 · 15 min

    A look at Irish auteur Sharon Horgan's sharp new comedy, Youth, which once again finds humour and heart in the messiness of modern life. Plus, inside the expanding Call My Agent! universe, from the French original to its new movie spin-off.

  • Saving Coyote vs. Acme + Gary Oldman in Slow Horses

    September 16, 2026 · 41 min

    Coyote vs. Acme director Dave Green on a Hollywood comeback story, plus, ahead of the new season of Slow Horses, we're revisiting a conversation with Gary Oldman.  Coyote vs Acme was a film written off for dead before winning a passionate…

  • THE COUCH: Last Seen + Slow Horses

    September 15, 2026 · 15 min

    We unpack two major dramas: the buzzy new Australian crime series Last Seen,  and the latest season of Slow Horses. In Last Seen, Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes lead a high-stakes mystery of a missing child that…

  • Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell, Chloe Jean Lourdes on Last Seen + How Victoria Landed the Production

    September 9, 2026 · 40 min

    Patrick Brammall, Brendan Cowell and Chloe Jean Lourdes take us behind the scenes of Apple TV+'s new crime drama Last Seen, discussing what it took to bring the high-stakes mystery to the screen. Plus, Head of Production and Investment…