The Screen Show

ABC Australia

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.

  1. 2d ago

    Pod extra: Vale RJ Mitte

    Following the sad news of RJ Mitte's passing, we're revisiting our Top Shelf conversation with the actor best known for playing Walter White Jr. in Breaking Bad, widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. In 2019, Mitte joined us in the studio to reflect on the films and television that shaped him, sharing some of his favourite screen classics and the performances that left a lasting impression.

  2. 2d ago

    Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles on Sense & Sensibility, plus The Balkan Cowboy and La Bola Negra

    Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility returns to the screen for a new generation, with Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles stepping into the iconic roles of sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The A-list duo discuss re-imagining one of literature's most enduring stories. In the harrowing new documentary Naza, anonymous Israeli whistleblowers describe the remote killing of Palestinians in Gaza during recent military operations. Directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (No Other Land), the film uses its nocturnal setting to explore surveillance, accountability and moral distance, making it one of the most powerful and unsettling films of the year. Dragana Jurišić is a photographer and filmmaker from the former Yugoslavia. Her documentary The Balkan Cowboy (screening at the Adelaide Film Festival), follows the folklore of a larger-than-life amateur filmmaker whose homemade Westerns captured her imagination as a child, and sets her on a path to shooting her own Western using locals from across the splintered Balkan divides, to create a new story that pieces together a history fractured by war crimes. La Bola Negra has emerged as one of the most talked-about films of the year. The ambitious Spanish-language drama from Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi weaves stories of love, memory and queer identity across generations, and is already being tipped as a serious Oscar contender after a celebrated festival run.

  3. 4d ago

    THE COUCH: Dustfall and War...a mystery in the cane fields and love turned toxic

    Two new television dramas reviewed: the ABC's Dustfall, which investigates a harrowing sexual assault case after a teenage girl is found with amnesia in a sugarcane field, and HBO Max's War, a series starring Sienna Miller and Dominic West that follows a bitter, high-profile divorce.

  4. Oct 7

    Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison on The Social Reckoning + NYFF standouts

    Two Academy Award winners, Aaron Sorkin and Mikey Madison, discuss The Social Reckoning, Sorkin's return to the world he helped create with The Social Network. The writer-director reflects on revisiting the rise of social media in a dramatically different political and cultural moment, while Madison talks about stepping into one of the film's central roles. Film critic and MIFF programmer Kate Jinx joins us fresh from the New York Film Festival to discuss two of the event's stand-out films, both heading to Australian screens soon: You Can See Everything and The History of Concrete. Plus, in anticipation of The History of Concrete, we revisit part of our conversation with filmmaker John Wilson about his hugely popular TV series How To with John Wilson (Listen to the whole thing here.) We want to know what you think of The Screen Show. Help us understand what's working, what's not, and how we can make our program even more useful, compelling and unmissable. Please take this quick survey.

  5. Oct 6

    THE COUCH: Florence Pugh takes on Steinbeck in East of Eden + Larraín's My Sad Dead

    John Steinbeck's East of Eden gets a lavish new Netflix adaptation led by Florence Pugh, while My Sad Dead turns Mariana Enríquez's unsettling ghost stories into a supernatural drama directed by acclaimed Chilean director Pablo Larraín. Jason and Wenlei weigh in.

  6. Sep 30

    Tom Cruise stars in Digger + Jebediah: Are We Ok?

    Tom Cruise disappears beneath layers of prosthetics to play a Texas oil baron in Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ambitious satire about climate catastrophe, power and the stories powerful men tell...Jason meets with the Oscar-winning director, which also stars John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller and Riz Ahmed. Plus, filmmaker Arlo Dean Cook on Jebediah: Are We OK?, an intimate documentary following the Perth alt rock band across decades of friendship, success and addiction. Plus, a look back at the acclaimed Rowland S. Howard documentary Autoluminescent, and why the latest Resident Evil reboot proves to be one of the year's most entertaining horrors. We want to know what you think of The Screen Show. Help us understand what's working, what's not, and how we can make our program even more useful, compelling and unmissable. Please take this quick survey.

  7. Sep 29

    THE COUCH: Jon Hamm stars in a hostage drama + Hollywood's oddest family comedy

    This week we're reviewing two star-driven dramas. In Brothers, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson play versions of themselves whose long friendship is turned upside down by the suggestion they could actually be related. And in American Hostage, Jon Hamm stars as a radio broadcaster drawn into a real-life hostage crisis when an armed gunman demands a national audience.

  8. Sep 23

    How to Live on Earth with Benedict Cumberbatch + The Great Arch

    Benedict Cumberbatch & Jonnie Hughes discuss How to Live on Earth, a visionary feature documentary that explores our connection to nature and its role in our future. French filmmaker Stéphane Demoustier on The Great Arch, a drama that tells the true story of the Danish architect behind one of Paris' most ambitious and iconic modern landmarks. Plus, Jason recommends The Weight, a new adventure film starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe. We want to know what you think of The Screen Show. Help us understand what's working, what's not, and how we can make our program even more useful, compelling and unmissable. Please take this quick survey.

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About

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.

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  • Creator
    ABC Australia
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    442
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026, Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All right reserved.
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