Movie Squad RTRFM

With Simon Miraudo away on special assignment, Movie Squad returns for another week with Breakfast host Pam Boland as Tristan Fidler and Lucy Rutherford take a look at two new dramas in cinema release.

Firstly, the Squad look at Housekeeping For Beginners, a new film from Macedonian-Australian filmmaker Goran Stolveski (Of An Age), a new drama that focuses on Dita (Anamaria Marinca) who never wanted to be a mother. But circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend's two daughters: tiny troublemaker Mia (Dzada Selim) and rebellious teen Vanesa (Mia Mustafa).

The next film is a new Japanese drama from director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Broker) called Monster, which played earlier this year at the Perth Festival. A single mother (Sakura Ando) demands answers from a school teacher when her son (Soya Kurokawa) begins acting strangely. A fight at school causes even more trouble. This film is also dedicated to musician Ryuichi Sakamoto who composed the film's score before his death in 2023.

We also mention the concert film Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus which is playing this Sunday 12 May for one session at Luna Cinemas (details [here](https://www.lunapalace.com.au/special-events+6236+ryuichi-sakamoto-opus)).

Stay tuned for an extended, pod-exclusive chat about Hirokazu Kore-eda's films and the benefits of Letterboxd.

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The Movie Squad unleashes carnage this week on the latest edition of the podcast.

The target of their ire? Anne Hathaway's new straight-to-streaming romantic drama The Idea of You. Listen in as a befuddled Pamela Boland, an irate Tristan Fidler and a maddened Simon Miraudo dissect the adaptation of a Harry Styles fanfic.

Then, some relief with a review of the indie drama Fremont, now in cinemas, about an Afghan refugee played by Anaita Wali Zada finding a community in San Francisco. It also stars Gregg Turkington and Jeremy Allen White.

Stay tuned for an extended, pod-exclusive chat about The Idea of You.

Tune into RTRFM 92.1 at 7:30am on Fridays for your regular broadcast of Movie Squad on the radio.

Class is in session for the latest instalment of the Movie Squad podcast!

This week, Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo bring Breakfast host Pamela Boland two reviews of brand new cinema releases, while still finding time to debate the heights of prospective James Bonds and rank the best Ryans.

First up, Tristan reviews Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's new action comedy The Fall Guy, based on the '80s TV show of the same name. The film features a post-Barbie Gosling as a stuntman looking for a missing movie star.

Then, Simon and Tristan both share their thoughts on the Oscar-nominated German drama The Teachers' Lounge, a nerve-jangling whodunnit set inside a pressure-cooker of a school.

Both films are now showing in Australian cinemas.

Stay tuned for an extended 'Salute to Stunts' on the podcast!

Tristan and Simon also mention the Trash Classics screening of [Clue](https://lunapalace.com.au/m/select-film+6123+trash-classics-season-6-clue-1985) this Friday 26 April and premiere of the [Moorditj Mag](https://rtrfm.com.au/podcasts/moorditj-mag-podcast/)-associated documentary [Genocide in the Wildflower State](https://genocidewildflowerstate.org.au/) on Sunday 28 April, both at Luna Cinemas Leederville.

Tune into RTRFM 92.1 at 7:30am on Fridays for your regular broadcast of Movie Squad on the radio.

The Movie Squad podcast offers your weekly volley of opinions on films ranging from the electrifying to the enigmatic.

First up, Tristan Fidler and Breakfast host Pamela Boland review Luca Guadagnino's sensual tennis drama Challengers, starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor.

Then, Simon Miraudo returns serve with a review of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's ecological tone-poem Evil Does Not Exist, in which a Japanese village contends with corporate intruders.

Stay tuned for an extended pod-exclusive conversation about Evil Does Not Exist and the continuing controversy around Alex Garland's Civil War. ([Listen to Tristan's review from last week](https://rtrfm.com.au/story/civil-war-late-night-with-the-devil-and-the-first-omen-movie-squad-podcast-161/).)

All three films are now showing in Australian cinemas.

Tune into RTRFM 92.1 at 7:30am on Fridays for your regular broadcast of Movie Squad on the radio.

It's every man, woman and child for themselves in this episode of the Movie Squad podcast!

First up, Tristan Fidler regales Simon Miraudo and Breakfast host Pamela Boland with his take on Alex Garland's contentious new thriller, Civil War.

Then, Simon leads a review of the new Aussie horror satire Late Night with the Devil, starring David Dastmalchian as a TV talk show host who attempts an on-air exorcism.

Finally, stay tuned for a pod-exclusive review of The First Omen.

All three films are now showing in Australian cinemas.

Tune into RTRFM 92.1 at 7:30am on Fridays for your regular broadcast of Movie Squad on the radio.

Tristan Fidler and Simon Miraudo reunite with Breakfast host Pamela Boland for the latest instalment of the Movie Squad podcast!

First up, Simon leads a review of Dev Patel's directorial debut Monkey Man, in which Patel plays a revenge-seeker who rises up through the ranks of Mumbai's underworld to avenge his mother's death.

Then, Tristan reviews Ava DuVernay's ambitious Origin, based on the non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and the life of its author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor).

Keep listening for a pod-exclusive review of Doug Liman and Jake Gyllenhaal's remake of the Patrick Swayze cult classic, Road House!

Tune into RTRFM 92.1 at 7:30am on Fridays for your regular broadcast of Movie Squad on the radio.