Weekender: Running Man and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You take on the perils of parenthood and Rosalia makes a play for album of the year
Rose Byrne puts in an award-winning performance as a woman under pressure in the excellent If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Glen Powell takes on an all-powerful media company in a dystopian future for the sake of his sick daughter in The Running Man. And Sergei Loznitsa returns to tragic flaws of the Stalin-era legal system in Two Prosecutors. Jason di Rosso from The Screen Show joins the team to talk through a film heavy week. In music, Ce gives a full-throated endorsement for Rosalia's Lux, which features collaborations with everyone from Björk and Yves Tumor to Caroline Shaw and the London Symphony Orchestra. And Sky is excited for both the new Mountain Goats album, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, and the release of one of the band's rarities, Moon Colony Bloodbath.Plus the Australian Chamber Orchestra takes on Cocteau's Circle and Loznitsa's earlier documentary State Funeral on Mubi.
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Local content quotas announced for streaming platforms and David Szalay wins the Booker
The Federal Government has announced plans for a local content quota for streaming video services in Australia. Any service with more than one million subscribers will be required to spend a percentage of their revenue on Australian content. Julianne Schultz and Guy Morrow take us through the details and consider whether the policy goes far enough.And Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his latest novel, Flesh. We speak with The Book Show's Sarah L’Estrange about the novel and hear some of her conversation with Szalay.Our track of the week is Drawbacks by Dust
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Weekender: The Diplomat gets chaotic, Dangerously Modern provides a showcase of Australian art, and Die, My Love is a showcase for Jennifer Lawrence
There’s a simple pleasure in seeing competent people doing their job well, which is one of the draws of The Diplomat, a show that follows in the tradition of the West Wing in balancing high stakes political drama with chaotic personal drama to great affect. As it enters season 3, and the chaos begins to overwhelm the competence, the team discuss whether it manages to keep meeting audience expectations.Ce and Hannah Story head to Dangerously Modern at the Art Gallery of NSW and are thrilled at this exploration of Australian women artists who went to Europe to find their acclaim and brought modernism, surrealism, and cubism back home with them. (For more, check out the Dangerously Modern podcast by Radio National's Rosa Ellen)Sky's enthusiastic about Jennifer Lawrence's performance in Die, My Love, but a little more muted about the film itself, and suggests that Predator: Badlands will appeal to action fans, even if some purists may take exception with the direction of the franchise.And in music, Ce shares Feel It Change by Stella Donelly, and Sky pitches The Ladder by The Veils.
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Australia Design Centre set to shut down after six decades and accessibility in the arts
The board of the Australian Design Centre has announced that the centre will close on June 30, 2026, unless additional funding can be secured. The call comes after the centre lost out on significant ongoing funding from both Federal and State governments. CEO Lisa Cahill discusses the ADC’s options going forward.Ahead of International Day for People With A Disability, we’re looking at accessibility in the arts - not just for audiences, but for performers and crew. How have things changed, what’s working, what isn’t, why oes it matter, and what exciting projects are on the horizon? Chaos Fae and Frankie Dyson Reilly from Vulcana Circus and Genevieve Clay-Smith from Bus Stop Films share their experience.Our track of the week is Rocking Horse by Lauren Tsamouras and Tom Avgenicos.
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Weekender: Horror picks for the spooky season, alien conspiracies and kidnapping in Bugonia, and Twinless gets two thumbs up
It's Halloween, so Ce and Sky are diving into horror films and exploring what they love about the genre alongside a few picks - some famous and some a little more niche.One horror film that's out this week is Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos. It's a remake of the South Korean film Save The Green Planet, which is, if anything, better than the original and marks another chapter in the Lanthimos-Emma Stone-Jesse Plemons era. It's not for everyone, but Sky gives it his full-throated endorsement.Twinless, a comedy that traces the friendship between two men who meet in a support group for people whose twin has died gets two thumbs. And Sky rates Happyend, a new Japanese film by Neo Sora, as one of his favourites of the year so far.In music recommendations, Ce thinks West End Girl by Lily Allen is the perfect Halloween trick - at least for David Harbour, and Sky picks the remix version of A Fragile Geography by Rafael Anton Irisarri.And in quick notes, the team are looking forward to a condensed Melbourne season by Opera Australia, and the ACO's Cocteau’s Circle.
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