The Screen Show

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 Attraction at VicScreen , Joe Brinkmann, discusses how Victoria secured the location rights to the production, and why it was the right fit. Bonus - capsule review of Runner , a new action comedy thriller starring Owen Wilson, set in Queensland.

A look at the latest season of Dark Matter , starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly, alongside the Australian drama Dalliance , featuring a who's who of Australian acting talent including Heather Mitchell, Hugo Weaving, Georgie Parker and David Wenham. One imagines the lives we might have lived in a multiverse of possibilities, while the other centres around a tight knit group of friends in their sixties whose lives are suddenly up-ended.

Emmy Rossum talks about starring in Disney's acclaimed psychological thriller Furious , playing an undercover FBI agent hunting a female serial killer. Melbourne filmmaker Vee Shi's documentary Time and Tide takes him back to the Chinese town of his childhood, where a family reunion unfolds under deeply challenging circumstances.

Before there was How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, there was Derry Girls, the sharp-eyed comedy that made Lisa McGee one of the most distinctive voices in television. In this special, we trace the arc of McGee's work from the school corridors of 1990s Derry to the tangled friendships, secrets and dark humour of contemporary Belfast, and how she captures the experience of place, memory and friendship with equal measures of wit and tenderness.

Hollywood heavyweights Ridley Scott and Josh Brolin discuss Scott's latest film, The Dog Stars , an epic post-apocalyptic thriller also starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Guy Pearce. Set in a world ravaged by a virus that has wiped out most of humanity, the film follows the survivors left to contend with roaming scavengers and a brutal new reality. Jason speaks with three exciting emerging directors, whose films feature in MIFF's Bright Horizons competition: Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker Sophy Romvari, whose acclaimed debut feature is Blue Heron; New Zealand director Paloma Schneideman, whose Big Girls Don't Cry premiered in competition at Sundance; and award-winning Palestinian filmmaker Rakan Mayasi, whose debut feature Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep premiered in the Un Certan Regard section at Cannes. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound engineer, Ross Richardson Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

Will Ferrell in a new golf comedy, or Octavia Spencer/Hannah Waddingham as best friends on the run in Ride or Die...which of these new releases deserves your time? Netflix's golf comedy The Hawk brings together comedy heavyweights Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon, alongside rising star Jimmy Tatro, in a sports satire about a faded champion attempting an improbable comeback. New action-comedy Ride or Die pairs Oscar winner Octavia Spencer with Ted Lasso Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham as lifelong best friends whose relationship is thrown into chaos when one discovers the other is a secret international assassin.

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey arrives amid enormous anticipation. Jason considers whether the mythic epic can live up to the hype. A tribute to Sam Neill, who died this week, as we revisit a beautiful highlight from our archives: Neill reflecting on his favourite film - a clue, it was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. We speak with filmmaker Alain Gomis ahead of the Melbourne International Film Festival about Dao , his visually striking exploration of memory, history and identity; and MIFF Senior programmer Kate Jinx is in for a preview of this year's festival. Presenter, Jason Di Rosso Producer, Sarah Corbett Sound, Angie Grant Arts editor, Sarah L'Estrange

A beloved classic gets the makeover treatment, and a luxury getaway goes spectacularly off the rails. Jason and Wenlei review Little House on the Prairie and The Five Star Weekend.

Filipino-Australian director James J. Robinson discusses First Light, his acclaimed debut feature exploring faith, corruption and moral reckoning. Japanese-Australian filmmaker Natalie Erika James talks Saccharine, her unsettling new horror that turns diet culture into something truly nightmarish.

Nobody asked for a Legally Blonde prequel, but is Elle actually worth watching? TV critics Wenlei Ma and Jason Di Rosso weigh up Prime Video's latest reboot, then head to a cursed New England island for Apple TV+'s horror-comedy Widow's Bay. One unnecessary spin-off, one surprise hit, or something else entirely?