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Nick and Fiona run through the absolute best and worst of 2018’s movies and TV.

0:43 Nick is excited about Melissa McCarthy and Richard E Grant in Can You Ever Forgive Me? 3:18 Fiona gets a few things off her chest about Mortal Engines. 10:33 Nick was disappointed by Creed II. 15:49 Producer Dan sits down with Keisha Castle-Hughes for an interview about SBS drama On The Ropes. 30:00 Fiona has been watching - and enjoying - the HBO show Succession. 31:40 Nick went back to the ‘90s to watch The Day Today.

0:51 What makes a documentary memorable? In honour of this month’s The Power of the Documentary Film Festival, Nick and Fiona discuss the feature docs that have made the most impact upon them. 9:42 Documentary filmmaker John Pilger joins us, and talks to Fiona about his body of work, curating The Power of Documentary Film Festival, American politics, and what he’s been watching (sort of). 34:55 Fiona has been watching The Coming Back Out Ball, a documentary coming to cinemas next week. 35:12...

00:39 Nick and Fiona discuss the revelations within The Facebook Dilemma, about how the social media giant’s deals with our data. 05:51 Emma Thompson is on track for awards season attention with The Children Act. Fiona talks to the great Dame about the role. 26:02 A quick update about SBS shows that are coming soon. 28:52 What we’ve been watching: Fiona didn’t love Stan & Ollie, the Laurel and Hardy biopic. But Nick is enjoying rewatching Breaking Bad.

1:03 Producer Dan joins Nick and Fiona to discuss this week’s passing of comics legend Stan Lee, and we segue into a conversation about ownership and legacy, sparked by the documentary Batman & Bill. 14:42 Nick and Fiona talk about how much they like Robert Redford’s final movie The Old Man and the Gun, and are joined by the film’s director, David Lowery. 36:27 Nick has been watching Widows and thought it was ‘okay’. He fell asleep during Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. 46:08...

0:48 Nick and Fiona discuss the new series Waco and its accompanying documentary Waco: Rules of Engagement. 6:32 Then Producer Dan joins Nick for a rousing discussion of Peter Jackson’s incredible career before Nick talks to the director himself about his new documentary They Shall Not Grow Old... 28:48 Fiona’s got mixed feelings about the “new” Orson Welles film The Other Side of the Wind... 37:20 And Nick isn’t enjoying the final season of House of Cards.

0:32 Nick and Fiona discuss Michael Moore’s renaissance as he takes on Trump with Fahrenheit 11/9. 9:43 Then they preview the very funny show You’re the Worst. 12:37 Fiona liked the new Alfonso Cuaron film Roma, which will headline the Cine Latino Film Festival in November. 16:49 Nick loved the Queen music scenes in the otherwise terrible Bohemian Rhapsody.

1:00 It's almost Halloween, and there's a new Halloween movie in cinemas. Nick and Fiona debate its merits. 10:19 The one and only Jamie Lee Curtis is unimpeachably charming, forthright and delightful as she talks about Laurie Strode's legacy, and the eerie connection with current events in the United States. 18:55 Reflections on Jamie Lee Curtis, and other movies you can watch this Halloween 22:21 The Haunting of Hill House is very good and scary, everyone agrees. 24:30 Fiona has been...

0:40 Fiona is back from the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival and talks us through the highlights. 07:40 Fiona and Nick watched The Problem with Apu on SBS Viceland / SBS On Demand and it's got them thinking about The Simpsons and its problematic Indian character. 19:19 As for what they've been watching, Fiona finds another way to mention A Star Is Born and wants everyone to watch the Barbra Streisand version on TV. Nick liked the Tamara Jenkins movie Private Life.

0:39 Nick and Fiona explore the melodramatic marvel that is A Star is Born. 14:42 Producer Dan joins Nick to venture into the great beyond, to preview the Sci-Fi Film Festival with its program director, Simon Foster. 34:59 Fiona has been rewatching Beetlejuice for its 30th anniversary and is happy to report it holds up. 36:59 Nick isn’t excited about the show Trust, is moved by How ‘Mad’ Are You? and has fun with The Wine Show.

0:40 Nick and Fiona review the weirdly underwhelming Venom. 11:45 Producer Dan heads to ComicCon to meet Star Trek: The Next Generation actress Gates McFadden and talk about why she left the show - and why she came back. 36:44 Nick and Fiona review the fiction/documentary hybrid American Animals. 42:13 Nick has been watching Forever. 44:00 Fiona saw Mandy, and continued her Bette Midler streak by rewatching Down and Out in Beverly Hills.

0:45 Nick and Fiona explore the 80s New York ball scene with Ryan Murphy’s Pose. 6:07 They’re joined by Producer Dan to address the many questions we all have after the Counterpart finale. 19:17 Producer Dan talks to Marc Fennell about his new special for The Feed: Sex in Japan: Dying for Company. 30:16 Then Nick and Fiona go over what movies are worth taking the kids to this school holidays. And Nick is all turned around on The Marvelous Mrs Maisel – and he was struck by Sorry for Your Loss.

Emergency Emmys pod! Sort of! 0:36 Nick and Fiona are joined by Producer Dan to talk through what was terrible and what was not so terrible about the Emmy Awards. 18:51 Then Fiona talks to Bruce Beresford about his new Australian film Ladies in Black. We return to regular Counterpart recapping next week.

0:44 John Cho calls in to talk about his new movie Searching 17:04 Producer Dan returns for a rousing discussion of episodes 7 and 8 of Counterpart 31:47 The new French series Nude, set in a world of mandated nakedness, prompts some very big questions - like what happens when it gets cold? 36:58 What they’ve been watching: Fiona digs the new Korean thriller The Witness; Nick is getting more and more into Kidding.

1:01 Nick and Fiona speak glowingly and carefully about new doc, Three Identical Strangers - without giving anything away. 4:09 Fiona talks to Lynne Ramsay, the director of You Were Never Really Here. 28:26 Producer Dan leads our in-depth analysis of Counterpart, episodes 5 and 6. 42:36 Nick talks to Ernie Dingo about the new series of his show Going Places.

0:55 Nick and Fiona discuss the Oscar-nominated Lebanese movie The Insult and Nick talks to the film’s fiery director, Ziad Doueiri. 30:50 Then Nick talks to Eddie Izzard, star of the Australian movie The Flip Side. 40:36 Producer Dan hosts the continuing exploration of Counterpart. 55:22 Nick reminisces over the classic and weirder work of the playwright Neil Simon. 57:24 And Fiona has experienced The Natural for the first time.

0:42 Crazy Rich Asians is a win for representation. But is it a good movie? Nick and Fiona fight it out. 15:17 Producer Dan leads a conversation about Counterpart, episode 2. 30:34 Fiona is not happy about The Happytime Murders. 33:29 And Nick is underwhelmed by Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation (Fiona wasn’t a huge fan either…).

0:41 We’re loving new SBS series Counterpart, so Nick and Fiona are joined by Producer Dan to talk about the first episode. 16:31 The Employables’ Creel Price joins us to talk about turning disenfranchised people into entrepreneurs. 35:50 Fiona had a lot of fun watching a new documentary about Bill Murray. 39:16 Nick is enjoying the Get Shorty show even though no one in his life supports him.

0:41 Nick and Fiona explore Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman 8:40 With Deep State premiering on SBS, Nick and Fiona talk the state of the Australian film industry with director Rob Connolly. 53:15 Nick has been watching Insatiable and pondering how offensive it is, or isn’t. 57:46 Fiona continues her Bette Midler streak with the classic ‘80s comedy Big Business. She also watched the Korean film The Villainess, for a change of pace.

0:40 In a new, yet to be named, soon to be very popular segment, Nick and Fiona revisit a classic movie that still resonates today. This week? 1988’s Shame, starring Deborra-lee Furness. 8:56 Shifting gears, they discuss the new game show 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown - and get to the bottom of Fiona’s love of game shows. 14:12 Fiona’s been sick, so she’s been watching quite a lot - Schitt’s Creek, Fog of War and, well, Beaches. 16:57 And Nick is re-swooning over The English Patient.