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CJ Johnson, Australian Film Critic, talks movies with filmmakers, critics and others.

  1. Robert Alan Dilts on WHAT JOSIAH SAW

    01/08/2022

    Robert Alan Dilts on WHAT JOSIAH SAW

    WHAT JOSIAH SAW is a fully-committed Southern Gothic thriller dropping globally on Shudder on August 4. Robert Alan Dilts wrote it and he joins CJ to talk about it.

    37 min
  2. Benjamin Zeccola on Palace Cinemas' International Film Festival Slate.

    19/07/2022

    Benjamin Zeccola on Palace Cinemas' International Film Festival Slate.

    Benjamin Zeccola is CEO of Palace Cinemas, who run an ongoing slate of international film festivals across Australia throughout the year, including the French, Italian, Spanish, German, Scandinavian, British, Irish and Japanese Film Festivals. Benjamin talks about the humble beginnings and current strengths of his festival slate, the audience demand for such content, the challenges and rewards of sourcing and programming so much global product, and why Australia just may be the best country in the world for seeing European cinema on the big screen. This discussion will also form the basis for a future article in Metro Magazine and is posted with Metro's permission.

    31 min
  3. Compartment No. 6 and Irma Vep Ep 5

    08/07/2022

    Compartment No. 6 and Irma Vep Ep 5

    CJ and Octavia share their love for Juho Kuosmanen's COMPARTMENT NO. 6, now in cinemas in Australia; then they share what's working for them - and not - in episode 5 of HBO's IRMA VEP.

    35 min
  4. IRMA VEP with Octavia Barron Martin.

    01/07/2022

    IRMA VEP with Octavia Barron Martin.

    The HBO / Foxtel / Binge 8 episode film industry satire IRMA VEP is a funhouse of mirrors. It is a remake, by Olivier Assayas, of his own 1996 film, which was in itself a meta-take on the famous 1915 French silent film serial Les Vampires. CJ and Octavia gleefully go down the rabbit hole after viewing the first four episodes of the new show and the 1996 original film.

    48 min

  5. 25/06/2022

    Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS with Octavia Barron Martin.

    CJ and Octavia get into Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS, starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks and half the actors in Australia.

    46 min

  6. 17/06/2022

    The Many Saints of Newark with Octavia Barron Martin.

    The Many Saints of Newark was meant to be HUGE. It wasn't. Critically, commercially and culturally, it landed with an "eh." Octavia Barron Martin wasn't satisfied. She was a huge Sopranos fan and this was not the masterpiece she was hoping for. Not at all. She and CJ try to identify why the film was so disappointing to so many, before announcing a new miniseries: they'll be watching, and podcasting about, the new HBO series Irma Vep.

    26 min

  7. 11/06/2022

    Craig Boreham on LONESOME.

    Craig Boreham's second feature film, LONESOME, is a raunchy, tender, heartfelt and sexually adventurous follow-up to his debut TEENAGE KICKS, and follows that film into the Sydney Film Festival. Craig joined CJ on the eve of his State Theatre premiere and the beginning of his own, and the film's, international Festival adventure.

    29 min

  8. 07/06/2022

    Phil Tippett on MAD GOD.

    Phil Tippett's animated feature MAD GOD has been 30 years in the making. It's a magnum opus from the Oscar-winning stop-motion pioneer and CGI wizard, a hellish vision informed by the psychosis of modern America, Jung, Paul Verhoeven and Bob Dylan's electric era. Tippett joined CJ from Berkeley, California.

    20 min
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CJ Johnson, Australian Film Critic, talks movies with filmmakers, critics and others.

Information

  • Creator
    CJ Johnson
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2022
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © CJ Johnson
  • Show Website
    Movieland