Hollywood director Paul Feig discusses Jackpot!, his action comedy featuring Awkwafina. Set in the near future it's about the establishment of a new kind of lottery, the catch: kill the winner to legally claim the multi-billion dollar jackpot. British-Irish filmmaker Rich Peppiat on his doc Kneecap, about the Irish rap trio of the same name. An int…

Canadian director Matthew Rankin on Universal Language, his off-beat transformation film set in Canada's beigest city, steeped in the influence of Iranian Cinema. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Annie Baker’s debut Janet Planet is a sublime mother–daughter coming-of-age tale set in the nineties. Actor Julianne Nicholson discusses her role in the …

Melbourne International Film Festival is set to kick off, Australia's biggest annual showcase of cinema, and we meet the filmmakers behind two films screening as part of this year's event...British filmmaker Luna Carmoon who's 4 x Venice-winning feature debut Hoard is an off-kilter coming of age tale set in South London, about a traumatised, rubbis…

In M. Night Shyamalan's Trap, a man and his teenage daughter discover they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event while watching a pop concert. The legendary thriller director behind The Sixth Sense joins us. Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol. Catherine Den…

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchise Hollywood actor Bobby Cannavale on Ezra, where he plays a comedian who goes on life-changing road trip with his autistic son. Mexican director Lila Aviles on her moving family drama Totem, inspired by the exp…

Director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters, a disaster film starring Daisy Edgar Jones and Glen Powell, about a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives to test a radical new weather alert system. Beautifully shot on 16mm, Cannes Un Certain Regard contender Việt And Nam tells the love story of two gay mineworkers in Vietnam. Filmmaker Quý Minh Trương j…

Yorgos Lanthimos on his latest absurdist black comedy Kinds of Kindness, about a man seeking to break free from his predetermined path. Australian filmmaking duo Jim Weir and Jack Clark on Birdeater, a psychological thriller that tells the story of a bride-to-be being invited to her own fiancé's bucks party. U.S. director Ti West discusses his horr…

Hollywood star Austin Butler discusses his role in Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders, where he plays the lead opposite Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer in a tender film about the golden age of biker culture. Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima on new TV series Sunny, which follows the life of an American woman living in Kyoto whose life is up-ended when her …

One of France’s finest and most-awarded actors Emmanuelle Devos talks about her role in provocative new drama A Silence, from writer/director Joachim Lafosse, who also joins us. It's the story of a married couple who grapple with the fallout after a long-held family secret is exposed. Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet on her adaptation of bestselling…

Guy Pearce stars as a British preacher caught up in 1830s Māori wars in The Convert, a sweeping historical drama. Pioneering, legendary New Zealand director Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) joins us. In 18th-century Denmark, an impoverished war hero played by Mads Mikkelsen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land. Nikolaj Arcel, director of th…

Direct from its Best First Film win at Cannes and screening at SFF, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel discusses Armand, which stars Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) as a mother called into her six-year-old son’s school. Mayhem follows. Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal on his experience in front of and behind the camera on Apple TV's remake of lega…

Ishana Shyamalan, daughter of director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) discusses her debut feature, a horror thriller starring Dakota Fanning called The Watchers. Director Jaydon Martin on his award winning docu-fiction film Flathead which screens as part of Sydney Film Festival. Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, the couple behind cult Austra…

We go behind the scenes on smash-hit stalker drama Baby Reindeer with cinematographer Krzysztof Trojnar. Academy Award winning director Kevin Macdonald on High & Low - John Galliano, a gripping look at the rise-and-fall story of one of the most influential names in couture fashion. Cult Mexican star Eugenio Derbez talks about his role in Radical, w…

Jason is joined by Australian director George Miller and producer Doug Mitchell to talk Mad Max: Furiosa, the latest instalment in the post-apocalyptic action adventure film franchise starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy. Brazilian filmmaker Ana Vaz on It Is Night in America, a post-colonial eco-critique of modern day Brasilia which screens…

Ahead of its second season, American actor Josh Brolin chats with Jason about his role in Outer Range, the sci-fi neo-Western story of a family's encounter with a mysterious black void. British production designer Christopher Oddy on The Zone of Interest, a film which took home multiple Oscars for its portrayal of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss a…

Joel Edgerton on new sci-fi series Dark Matter, where he stars opposite Jennifer Connelly as a man abducted by an alternate version of himself. Oscar winning Japanese director Kore-eda discusses Monster, a film about a mother who demands answers from her son's teacher when he begins acting strangely. Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski t…

In Fremont, a former translator for the US military in Afghanistan works in a Chinese fortune cookie factory as she struggles to rebuild her life in San Francisco. Jason speaks to the film's Iranian-British director Babak Jalali, and cult U.S. actor Gregg Turkington. Director Tim Carlier on Adelaide set film Paco, a film about filmmaking, the impor…

Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung on The Taste of Things, a 19th Century culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche. Philip Brophy on his nineties cult classic Body Melt, which screens as part of Cinema Reborn, an annual festival bringing newly restored classics to the big screen, and The Sweet East, a picaresque journey through America by a…

We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy, a new rom-com about a stunt man set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. An interview with Oscar winning Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who’s latest film Evil Does Not Exist looks at the environmental impact of glam…

Vietnamese American veteran star Kieu Chinh on her latest role in the TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer winning novel The Sympathizer, where she stars alongside Robert Downey Jnr and Sandra Oh. Kieu also reflects on her turbulent career as an Asian superstar who became a refugee after the fall of Saigon in 1975, and rebuilt her career t…

Hollywood star Dev Patel on his directorial debut Monkey Man, a thrilling action film set in a fictional Indian city. Director Pablo Berger discusses his Oscar nominated tragi-comedy Robot Dreams, an animation that follows the adventures and misfortunes of a dog and a robot in 1980's New York, and curator Eloise Ross discusses Melbourne Cinemathequ…

Italian filmmaker Matteo Garrone on his Academy Award nominated film IO Capitano, a shocking adventure story of modern migration that follows two Senegalese teenagers on a Homeric journey from West Africa to Italy longing for a brighter future. Plus, director Mohamed Kordofani on Goodbye Julia, a Sudanese drama about two women who represent the com…

Academy Award winner Olivia Colman talks about her career and role in new film Wicked Little Letters, a poison pen mystery based on a true scandal that stunned England in the 1920's. The film's director Thea Sharrock also gives her take. Plus, as it releases on the streaming platform SBS on Demand, we re-visit some of Jason's conversation with film…

Director Rose Glass on Love Lies Bleeding, a lesbian romantic thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager whose love affair with a female bodybuilder puts her on a collision course with her violent criminal family. Plus, three films screening around the country as part of this year's French Film Festival: Ama Gloria, Along Came Love and Rosa…

Melbourne born cinematographer Greig Fraser talks about his work on the biggest film on the planet right now, Dune: Part Two. Palestinian filmmaker Lina Soualem on Bye Bye Tiberias, an intimate film about her mother Hiam Abass, a famous actress, and four generations of women and their shared legacy of separation. Plus, producer Nadim Cheikhrouha di…