Primal Screen

Talk Show Replays

Primal Screen is a show about movies, from the ones on the big screen to the ones you stream. A mix of new release and retrospective film and television reviews and interviews with film and television practitioners on 3RRR 102.7FM in Melbourne...

Episodes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bird and the Last Showgirl

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

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

FIrst show of 2025! Reviewing Nosferatu and Anora

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

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

Are you not entertained? Discussions of Gladiator II and Memory

Top picks of the program for Melbourne Queer Film Festival

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

Memoir of a Snail and 70th Anniversary of Godzilla

Flathead, The Apprentice & Like my Brother

Ghostlight, Joker: Folie à Deux & Megalopolis