The Screen 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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 259
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Olivia Colman & Benedict Cumberbatch lead Jay Roach's The Roses + Sorry, Baby + A Conversation with the Sun
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, The Roses re-imagines the 1980s classic The War of the Roses. Jason speaks to director Jay Roach.
Eva Victor on her indie Sorry, Baby, which highligh…
00:54:07 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
Three of the most exciting filmmakers from MIFF's Bright Horizons Competition
A panel discussion of talented international directors with films in competition at the Melbourne International Film Festival discuss their journeys with Jason, including American filmmaker Andrew Pa…
00:54:03 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
Eddington + The Rainmaker + The Ballad of Wallis Island
Ari Aster on Eddington, a satirical neo-Western set during the pandemic, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in the lead roles.
Michael Seitzman, showrunner of The Rainmaker, talks about ada…
00:54:35 |
Wed 20 Aug 2025
Podcast Extra: Vale David Stratton
Legendary Australian film critic, cinephile, film scholar, programmer, and author, David Stratton, sadly passed away this week, aged 85. In 2017, he joined Jason Di Rosso in the studio to discuss Dav…
00:15:10 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Tom Hiddleston & Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck/Alien: Earth/April
British A-listers Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor on The Life of Chuck, a fantasy drama based on the novella of the same name by Stephen King.
Beloved Australian actor Essie Davis discusses her…
00:54:05 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Weapons/Platonic/Naomi Watts on The Friend
U.S. director Zach Cregger discusses Weapons, his excellent horror about a community left questioning who or what is behind the disappearance of a classroom of children.
The showrunners behind Apple…
00:54:06 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Lena Dunham's Too Much with co-creator Luis Felber + Michael Shanks/Together + François Ozon/When Fall is Coming
British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber (Attawalpa) co-created the buzzy Netflix series Too Much with his wife Lena Dunham, a rom-com full of joy and complexity set in London. Luis gets beneath the sur…
01:03:21 |
Wed 30 Jul 2025
Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love + The Stolen Painting + Holy Cow
Screen legend Helena Bonham Carter on Four Letters of Love, where she stars opposite Pierce Brosnan in an adaptation of Niall Williams' 1997 novel about a couple pulled together by ghosts, fate and …
00:53:33 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Highlights! Babygirl + Maria
As two Oscar snubbed films with excellent female leads from earlier in the year become available to watch via streaming, a highlights program featuring Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn on Babygirl,…
00:54:05 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office + My Father's Shadow
Two stand-outs from the Melbourne International Film Festival:
Filmmaker Courtney Stephens on dolphin intelligence, sensory deprivation and the psychedelic experience...her new documentary looks at …
00:54:07 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
My Undesirable Friends + experimental filmmaker Dirk de Bruyn
A first glance at the Melbourne International Film Festival...Russian American filmmaker Julia Loktev on her fascinating five and a half hour documentary about journalists in Russia, My Undesirable F…
00:54:05 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Families Like Ours / Smoke / The Story of Souleymane
Acclaimed director Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, Another Round) on his new 7-part series Families Like Ours, which is set in a hypothetical near future where global warming has led to the imminent flood…
00:54:05 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
28 Years Later + Justin Kurzel's new doco Ellis Park
Australian director Justin Kurzel on his documentary Ellis Park, which follows Bad Seed and Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis as he pursues his twin passions: making music and supporting a wildlife …
00:54:05 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
Materialists + The Survivors
Past Lives director Celine Song on her new rom-com Materialists, starring Dakota Johnson as a professional matchmaker who falls into a love triangle with her broke ex and a wealthy finance guy.
The …
00:54:05 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
Stick + One to One: John & Yoko + White Lotus star Jason Isaacs on The Salt Path
U.S. writer-director Jason Keller talks Stick, a new sports comedy starring Owen Wilson as a washed-up former golf pro and Peter Dager as his Gen Z protege.
Filmmaker Kevin Macdonald on his doc One …
00:55:00 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Wes Anderson & Benicio Del Toro on The Phoenician Scheme/The Philippou Brothers new A24 horror/Palme d'Or winner
Direct from Cannes, where it received a seven-and-a-half-minute standing ovation, Wes Anderson and Benicio Del Toro discuss The Phoenician Scheme.
Adelaide’s Phillipou Brothers on their latest South…
00:54:04 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Beating Hearts, Universal Language, The Blue Trail
French director Gilles Lellouche on Beating Hearts, a genre-spanning romantic epic starring Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) that follows a written-in-the-stars infatuation tested by …
00:54:05 |
Wed 21 May 2025
Final Destination: Bloodlines/The Surfer/Shayda
The newest chapter in the successful Final Destination horror franchise takes audiences back to the beginning of Death’s twisted sense of justice. Jason meets directors Adam Stein & Zach Lipovsky.
I…
00:54:05 |
Wed 14 May 2025
Clown in a Cornfield/Monsieur Aznavour/The Wedding Banquet
American film director Eli Craig discusses his horror Clown in a Cornfield...as teenagers start to go missing one by one in a Midwestern town, the local legend of Frendo the clown becomes all too rea…
00:54:07 |
Wed 07 May 2025
A Grand Mockery + How the West Was Lost
Screening at the Fantastic Film Festival, A Grand Mockery is an exciting example of independent filmmaking. Shot on luminous Super 8, it follows Josie, a young man leading a life of passive mundanity…
00:54:01 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
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