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Interview with Lesbian Space Princess Film Makers, Sorry, Baby Review, Not Only Fred Dagg but Also John Clarke Review

Flick Ford is joined on this episode by Cerise Howard and Silvi Vann-Wall. The trio start the show off with an excellent interview with Emma Hough Hobbs & Leela Varghese, the film makers…

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Interview with Eclipse Cinema Owner and Operator Mark Walker about its opening, Caught Stealing, 4K Restoration of Burden of Dreams

Flick Ford is joined this week by Will Cox and Erin Rosenburg for this installment of Primal Screen. The trio interview Mark Walker, owner and operator of Eclispe Cinema in Collignwood on the…

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The Naked Gun, Eddington

On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined in the studio by Maudie Osborne and Alice McShane. The trio start off with a review of the absurdist cop comedy The Naked

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Radiothon 2025 Special

Flick Ford is joined on this chaotic episode of Pimal Screen by: Thomas Caldwell, Cerise Howard, Alice McShane, Maudie Osborne, Will Cox and Aiden Tee (Primal Screen's new podcast editor). The group al…

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Conversation with Zoe Pepper on Birthright, Conversation with James Litchfield and Lucinda Reynolds about Alphabet Lane

Flick Ford is joined this episode by Cerise Howard. The duo are joined in the studio by the writer and director of Birthright, Zoe Pepper, to discuss the black comedy. Later…

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Primal Screens Top 20 Films of MIFF 2025

Flick Ford is joined this week by Cerise Howard and Thomas Caldwell. In this episode, the trio discuss and delve into the curation of the Primal Screen teams Top 20 films of…

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Interview with Michael Shanks on Together, Fantastic Four: First Steps

This week on Primal Screen, host Flick Ford is joined by culture writer Will Cox and writer, audio producer, and filmmaker Silvi Van-Wall. Flick sits down with filmmaker Michael Shanks to talk…

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Friendship, Too Much, My Mum Jane

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by film critic Thomas Caldwell and film programmer Alice McShane for a lively discussion of three new releases. The trio dives into "Friendship"

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Conversation with Director Paula Whetu Jones on The Doctors Wife, Review of James Gunn's Superman, Review of A Nice Indian Boy

On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by writer and critic Vyshnavee Wijekuma and academic, writic and critic Stuart Richards. The trio are joined by Paula Whetu Jones

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Conversation with James Hewison on Paris May 68: The Struggle Continues, The Story of Souleymane

On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Alice McChain and Anthony Carew. Flick speaks with James Hewison about Remembering Paris May ’68, a three-day event exploring the cultural…

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Interview with Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night, Discussion of 28 Years Later

On this episeode, Flick is joined by Eloise Ross and Stuart Richards. Flick sits down with filmmaker Gabrielle Brady to discuss her haunting new work The Wolves Only Come at Night. They…

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Dangerous Animals with Director Sean Byrne, Celine Song's Materialists and Past Lives

Flick is joined in this episode by Alice Mcchain and Silvi Vann-Wal. They chat to special guest Sean Byrne, about his latest film Dangerous Animals, a surfer survival thriller. The trio then…

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First Glance at MIFF 2025,Ballerina, Bring Her Back

On this episode of Primal Screen, Flick is joined in the studio by Cerise Howard and Anthony Carew for a lively discussion packed with cinematic insights. They're also joined by special guest…

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Scala!!!, Melbourne's History of Arthouse and Repertory Cinema

You may have heard of these iconic cinemas in Melbourne, The Astor Theatre and The Valhalla (which later moved and became the Westgarth Cinema), but how much do you know about their history…

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, Universal Language, Hurry Up Tomorrow

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Cerise Howard and Will Cox for a jam packed episode of film nostalgia and fresh takes.

The trio dive into Mission: Impossible

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MISCELLANIA's Film Club, The Wedding Banquet Remake and The Assessment

Join Flick Ford as she teams up with Thomas Caldwell and Silvi Vann-Wall for another exciting episode of Primal Screen! This week, the trio dive into the launch of the vibrant Melbourne/Naarm…

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Cinema Reborn, The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Dying for Sex

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Vyshnavee Wijekumar for a jam-packed episode!

First up, we preview Cinema Reborn, an annual film festival dedicated to the restoration and celebration of…

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The best political satire of the century (and its stage adaptation) plus review of 'Crossing'

This week we welcome back our beloved host, Flick Ford! Joined by guests Thomas Caldwell and Cerise Howard.

We review Levan Akin’s deeply touching film Crossing, about a retired teacher searching for…

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Boy Week! Reviews of Warfare, Sinners, and The Rehearsal

It’s Boy Week on Primal Screen, as guest host Alice McShane is joined by Will Cox and Maudie Osborne to take us through discussions and reviews of the boy-heavy releases Warfare

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Merle Oberon’s lifelong secret, Michael Haneke’s deceptively humanistic cinema and a piercing Magdalene Laundries drama

Eloise Ross jumped into the host seat this week to interview Australia’s unofficial Merle Oberon expert, Rohan Spong. In light of the recent book, Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star

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Holiday makers, studio heads, and unicorns! The White Lotus, The Studio, and Death of a Unicorn in Review.

This week, we're diving into three titles that, in their own unique ways, critique capitalist systems and corruption through humor and satire. Join Anthony Carew, Alice McShane, and Will Cox for their reviews…

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Richard Gere and Paul Schrader reunite; Looney Tunes hits us with nostalgia; and an observational doco for cat lovers

This week we reviewed three films that all opened in Australian cinemas last week, but otherwise have little else in common.

Our guest host Thomas Caldwell was joined by Silvi Vann-Wall and Vyshnavee…

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Melbourne Women in Film Festival highlights & Melbourne Cinémathèque’s upcoming noir season

Incidentally, the theme for Primal Screen this week was volunteer-run organisations that make it possible to watch films on the big screen with an audience, that you otherwise mightn’t.

The small but mighty…

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Oscars Fever! Plus reviews of ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’, ‘I’m Still Here’ and ‘Dahomey’

It’s Oscars fever in the studio this week! Even if you don’t have a medically certifiable diagnosis of fever, perhaps you have some milder symptoms still attributable to the 97th Academy Awards –…

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Bird and the Last Showgirl

This week on Primal Screen, guest host Alice takes us through reviews of Andrea Arnold's stunning tribute to childhood in BIRD as well as THE LAST SHOWGIRL that holds what could be the…

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Grand Tour, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, and more!

This week on Primal Screen, guest host Will Cox is joined by Alex McShane to review Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and Grand Tour.

Our favourite frazzled English woman is…

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'The Brutalist', 'A Complete Unknown', and 'Babygirl'

On Primal Screen we review three films that have just hit cinemas!

THE BRUTALIST is the epic period drama following a visionary architectwho (Adrian Brody) has fled post-war Europe to America for the…

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First show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora

For the first show of Primal Screen for 2025, Flick Ford is joined in the studio by Alice McShane and Anthony Carew to review NOSFERATU and ANORA. A remake of the iconic 1922…

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Melbourne Cinémathèque turns 40, Tom Zubrycki's oeuvre, and Agnieszka Holland's Green Border (2023)

We're celebrating the Melbourne Cinémathèque's 40th anniversary this week, with two of the pre-eminent film society's co-curators in the studio. Primal Screen favourite Cerise Howard and Associate Professor Adrian Danks (making his PS…

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Autopsy on the Musical: Wicked vs The People's Joker

This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford is joined by Alice McShane and Will Cox to discuss two wildly different films. Wicked offers a polished, mainstream iteration of a beloved musical, while The…

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Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory

"This week on Primal Screen, Flick Ford discusses with guest reviewers Thomas Caldwell and Stuart Richards this week's upcoming releases. The Roman Empire is on everyon's minds as Gladiator II is released onto…

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Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival

This week’s episode dives into the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF), taking place 14–24 November 2024. We’re joined by special guest and former co-host Cerise Howard, program director at MQFF and Patrick Kelly…

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Getting Spooky with The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Witches & Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

It's spooky season this week Primal Screen gears up for a very special Halloween Edition of the show.

Former Primal Screen host Paul Anthony Nelson and Co-organiser of Melbourne Horror Film Society Melisa…

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Memoir of a Snail and 70th Anniversary of Godzilla

In this episode we discuss Adam Elliot's award winning film Memoir of a Snail (2024) which which was the opening night film of MIFF 2024. And we celebrate the 70th anniversary of Ishiro…

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Flathead, The Apprentice & Like My Brother

Flick Ford and Thomas Caldwell speak to filmmaker Jaydon Martin about his film Flathead (2024). Together they also review The Apprentice (2024), Ali Abassi's film about Donald Trump's ascent to power, and…

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Ghostlight, Joker: Folie à Deux & Megalopolis

Hosts Flick Ford and Will Cox chat with directors of Ghostlight (2024), Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson. Then they review new releases Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) and Megalopolis (2024).

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The Substance, Your Fat Friend & My Old Ass

Anthony Carew fills in for Flick, joined by guest reviewers Alice McShane and Erin Rosenberg to discuss a trio of new releases. The satirical feminist body horror The Substance (2024), the documentary Your

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Neo-Intimacies: A Static Vision Festival, and reviews of My Darling in Stirling (2023) & TV series The Perfect Couple

Eloise Ross and Emma Westwood host Primal Screen this week. They're joined by Felix Hubble and Kai Perrignon to discuss Static Visions's latest festival 'Neo-Intimacies', and also review Bill Mousoulis' Australian Musical My

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Lido's Friday the 13th: Ozploitation at the Drive-In, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Last Summer

This week Flick Ford is joined by guest reviewers, Silvi Vann Wall and Eloise Ross.

Together they tackle the question: what happens when you revive a cult classic? Tim Burton’s sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

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Sci-fi horror galactic special with Alien: Romulus (2024), Afraid (2024) & I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

With special guest reviewers Thao Phan, Andrew Lynch, our host Flick Ford takes us through the latest horror flicks with a science fiction twist.