Occasional presenter and reporter-on-assignment Gus McGrath brings us an exclusive interview with King of Transgressive Literature-cum-filmmaker Dennis Cooper and his charming, longterm collaborator Zac Farley ahead of the Australian premiere of ROOM TEMPERATURE, their latest film about a very dysfunctional family turning their home into a haunted house, which is playing at the Central Coast Film Festival on November 7. Hear the kindly moviemaking duo talk about their love of Halloween, disregard for genre, and how Puce Mary made a score for this film without a score, as Gus tries to contain his excitement. VIVE LA INDEPENDENT CINEMA

Y.A.L.A! We are so excited to bring you an exclusive interview with Oscar-nominated bedroom beat maker Maya Mathangi Arulpragasam aka M.I.A ahead of her Australian tour dates. A musical artist, documentary filmmaker, and globe trotting record producer, M.I.A generously shares her wisdom. From practical bedroom producing, to data wrangling samples, to creating “with what you’ve got around you…you might not have a house but you got a pot and a can of beans…” 

When culture vulture Priya Leigh knocks…Movies, Movies, Movies answers. The podcast host loudly visits the set of MMM to closely moderate a debate on Sofia Coppola’s sociopathy, Matilda’s enduring legacy, the quest for articulation, in search of justice. Priya brings unique je sais quoi (French for ‘I know that!’) because nobody understands the machinations of cinema - an art born in machines - better than her. An actress, a director, and an assistant sit before mics while a storm’s coming. Am I the drama?

Samuel Van Grinsven aka SVG joined Jen and Andj late last year in Adelaide after the world premiere of his new psychological supernatural minimalist second feature Went Up The Hill to find out how he set himself on fire in front of Vicky Krieps. His new film has already sold out the Sydney Opera House this week, and we'd love to know your reads of this ambiguous Aotearoa based ghost story. The FilmLordes try to guess his influences, techniques and plot points and are wrong about every single one of them. 

Books vs Films, Party Girls vs Kink Kings, two manic festivals go live on the same night  this Thursday and that's culture. Smut Night at the Red Rattler raises money for the important and incomparable f*ck palace Hedon House at exactly the same time Garden Reflexxx presents Party Girl at the State Library of NSW. Smut Night programmer Katie Winten and Hedon House's Gala Vanting join Andj and Jen for a very special self-serving episode of Movies Movies Movies to discuss porn, Anora, invincible grapevines and show off a douche that Apichatpong signed in Bangkok. Sit back, strap on and join us IRL this Thursday at two of the most improbably locations for film screenings available in this city. Peace!

Archie Moore! Sam Van Grinsven! Emilia Perez! Brady Sorbet! Anora! Selena G! Ariana G! Ali J! and more on this very special urgent update recorded in the FBi Studios after a turbulent Adelaide Film Festival. We ask: Anora Fedora, French Tip Manicura? And find out from Sequin in a Blue Room director how setting himself on fire was a great motivator for Vicky Krieps to improvise. Can Golden Lion winner Archie Moore name a single Pasolini film? Can Andj ever recover from sleeping through the entirety of Maria and is the journey of The Brutalist worth the destination? Where's the Daddy? All this and more on the sky of bright scars: Movies Movies Movies (full length interviews to come).

"Dustin, what's going on in that little head of yours?" Movies, Movies, Movies is joined by artist-photographer and star of HBO's Fantasmas Martine, zooming in with performance and film artist Bhenji Ra to celebrate their openings in Vancouver and their favourite boobs. What kind of tail would you have? Is acting easy? Julio Torres or Sebastián Silva? Go Harder. Fantasmas, s1: Binge (Aus) ANTI-ICON: APOKALYPSIS: till September 29 (2024) at The Polygon, (VAN) Biraddali Dancing on the Horizon: till Aug 10 at Western Front (VAN)

"Lived it, breathed it, bled it". Ok Dr. Anna Broinowski. Filmmaker, satirist, educator, documentarian-cum-influencer and pop-truth sceptic, she's in the studio. We celebrate the release of her memoir 'Datsun Angel' by putting everyone in the hot seat. Sydney, to North Korea, to New York, to Tokyo, back to Sydney University and ultimately to Canberra - we talk subjects as vehicles, driving as site of debate, ugly A*stralian guys, Jen's nerves, vocabulary, delivering film masters on a skateboard, and how creativity is mothering. So many parallel mothers. Taste is vulnerability. One execrable hazing dorm. Datsun Angel is available in soft back through Hachette described as a Wake In Fright for Chicks. 

Ain't no valley low; here is part 2 of our interview with Stelly G featuring special guest director/writer Rachel House, talking about the sublime power of filmmaking with family both young and old. Inspiration and motivations going into the prod: we talk about the most impassioned parts of doing the job. It's about costumes and acting and ageing and knowing when the time is right. You can't see but we have wide eyes looking towards Rachel. 

"Was it a ritual, or were you just sleeping in a park in Canberra?" asks guest Stelly G (artist/director behind Mood Ring). In the lead up to The Mountain dropping in Australian cinemas (June 27th 2024) MMM's tiny desk hosts three big mouths coming down. They've just met Rachel House, the film's director/writer. The three discuss meeting Rachel on a level, then the microphone levels peak as they argue over camping fashion, actors being scarier than models, The Mountain's three child stars, Stelly's process, the KFC in Alice Springs and playing to your strengths. Full conversation, no bleeps, tears were cried, I put this moment here. Full Rachel House interview dropping next week, The Mountain comes to cinemas Thursday June 27th. 

Thank J it's Friday. Director/writer Johnathan Lo is in conversation with Jen and André in the lead up to his food-movie Bong Xi Fa Cai screening at SFF (CW: short film but it's tender). JLo's first time being MMM's 3rd inspires honesty. Is my film camp? Are comedy people sad? Did you rip off Smiley Face? Is Family Guy poetic? Did you like my movie? Johnathan defends production quality while Jen defends Alan Cumming (who remembers that filmmaker from Spice World?) while special mentions are thrown at the ensemble of diners Priya Leigh, Priscilla Cui, Fergus Wilson and David Ma who do lunchtime-acting perfectly. The easiest question we ask: which Girl is John?  Bong Xi Fa Cai is trophy-worthy on June 15th at SFF 2024, 3:00PM as part of the Dendy Awards. We highly recommend. 

Movies, Movies, Movies gets all the meat off the bone talking to Theda Hammel, director/writer/co-editor/composer and star of Stress Positions. On the occasion of its screening at SFF they discuss people having problems with each other, and "horrifying American indie comedy". Saluting first timers Jen and André pry about taking your house everywhere you go, John Early, debuts, the Eye of the Duck, torture (seeing chicken on a floor), going naturalistic, Christopher Hitchens, a date where a man threatens to tell Jen's future but instead monologues after orgasm, and how Theda's 15 page birthday present became Brooklyn millennial folklore. People lie for a living then we get the nicest cameras possible and point them at ourselves. Movies, Movies, Movies is not about being gay hype girlies. Stress Positions is playing at SFF Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June. 

Movies, Movies, Movies goes nocturnal in a deeply PM conversation for sleepwalkers. One film about the day (The Taste of Things), against a film about the night (The Strangers: Chapter 1) with eating in common. The night-talkers play 'what's the definition of mise-en-scene', discuss objects of optimism, André is afraid to bring up Sciamma, and the 2 agree on 2 films that 'nobody is craving at the moment' until they're saved by the wise words of Oregon filmmaker Theda Hammel. Spoiler alert: there's talk about Martin + Thelma and how carriages are movies and organising disordered thoughts. We live in a time of cruel art. 

Cannes is the sister city of Beverly Hills which makes it a moving target for MMM. Jen and André have a conversation about a film festival 16,746 km away from FBi Radio. It's an Andrea year, not a Lynne year, and all about showing up to work but not in a Reichardt way. Directors do their job, budget cuts become jump cuts, and we try to figure out what Megalopolis says about our past friendships. Noticing patterns J+A discuss The Strangers (all 3 of them), Straub-Huillet, Liv Tyler's sliding door acting, what's starring Junglepussy, a treatise on the Sydney film movement of stylists becoming directors, debunking Fever Ray and Jen's discovery of Haile Gerima. Eora. Fedora. Sean Baker. Anora.  

MMM dressed as motorbikes to attend the premiere of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller, a director who at 79 years old still has it. Afterwards, the duo gather in studio to discuss the biggest talkie of the year. Jen conjures the experience of Mel Gibson eating steak on set barehanded, running in circles as feminine storytelling, Noah and the Whale, what happens when wives edit together, how Byron Bay is in NSW, and  both Chris Hemsworth and John Howard's big bloodied nipples - all composite parts of Furiosa's whole. André admits to craving continuity, Jen discusses the news of a Mousetrap film produced by Margot, and between reflections on Moulin Rouge J+A pay respect to the mastermind Tina Turner. The windmill continues to spin. Vrrrrrrr vrrrrrrrrrr vrooom roar.

Movies, Movies, Movies hosts a conversation with documentary filmmaker Lucie McMahon on her film Things Will Be Different - which is being released nationally in cinemas with special QandA screenings. An ode to the Walker Street Public Housing Estate in Melbourne as it heads to demolition, Things Will Be Different is a bittersweet document of Walker Street's last two residents, living with the uncertainty of eventual displacement. One of the film's subjects - William Gwyne - joins the zoom, sharing his experience working in Factual, collaboration, what it took to depict the housing crisis, surviving notices to vacate, and their hopes for the film's educational power. 

Sydney Film Festival is a full menu; J and A wishlist their dream-directors, films, play dates, crew members, friends (aka peers), memories (real and false) and anticipated tiny meals coming ground-under for this year's friendly SFF. They discuss the lineup; looking for films that go ‘boo’, mix-bag curation, Rachel House, Theda coming over to my house, arbitrary choices, wee/poo and high/low selectivity, the word 'anachronistic' to describe the French New Wave "thinking they discovered something new but it was actually just India" and the Beatlemania of Stress Positions. Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd holds down a shrinking shack Flux: Art + Film section, Jen explains how to religiously read the jumbo schedule (and Bible dip), then J and A special-mention the precarious French strikers, the cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and 93 year old documentary filmmakers not-wasting time at Opera Quays.

Cream suits and clover honey: MMM is joined by filmmaker/union photographer Lily Bennett to discuss the dissociative power of guns, cameras, career insurrection, and bokeh. In an abundance of spoilers we strip La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), learn photography in Civil War (Alex Garland), and use tennis as a position through Challengers (Luca Guadagnino). The holy T take us to the court of love, death, and tennis, finishing with an interview featuring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor (25:10 for the sprinters). This rare megalopolis comeback covers Fellini’s Roma, eyes of duck in film, spirits, Jen clocking 14 fedoras at the cinema and finding the answer. Here are three films about being good at your job. How do people ever pick between options? Go Steelers. 

Episode title: The Sound of Gus'. Gus enters the studio to unearth the Sydney Underground Film Festival, while spotlighting the unspotlightable film Sound of Freedom. Expect deep truths about propaganda, Gus' appreciation of the holy trinity (Harmony Korine, Yorgos Lanthimos, and André Shannon) and also Gus' first take on the deep fake this is Mel Gibson's movie world.

Gus and André come into the studio and have their breath stolen from them (a term coined by critic Priya Leigh) to discuss celebrity sightings including Jacob Elordi, Troye Sivan, and Jane Campion. Why are they all so...just like us? The two Buffs then enter a pitching contest between "Gangas" and "Etc Etc Etc..." - two compelling productions set deep inside the Nation's hole. Gus protects his right to not have a favourite Canberra song, while André celebrates Cate Shortland's 35mm screening of Somersault (2004) at the Australian Fyshwick, Telopea, and Roundabout School. Fights break out but the love games win.

Priya + Enoch introduce a new segment called Pitch Off where they compete for the best Sam Kerr Stan Original, do we love a blood soaked football rehearsal or are we headering in the direction of a bended love story? We wonder who will answer the call to be Lars Von Trier's new girlfriend, and who Florence Pugh gets her legal advice from before picketing.  In Spotlight Gus interviews Al Cossar, the artistic director of MIFF and gets some recs for MIFF Play, the festival's streaming service available now. 

Talk To Me + The Sweet East  Enoch and Priya take on two British-core indie adventure films that navigate the cultural cringe of the world's most infamous colonies. Bruce interviews Nick Pinkerton, the uncompromising writer who could have just called his film Sweet East but started it with The, and Jen and André acknowledge some of the people we've loved and lost over the past few weeks. 

Bruce Koussaba sits down with Nick Pinkerton to talk about The Sweet East, having its Australian premiere at MIFF this weekend. 

Gus McGrath sits down with Simon Miraudo, author of the new book about Australian censorship: Book of the Banned: devilish movies, dastardly censors and the scenes that made Australia sweat. 

Priya and Enoch are in the studio, and it's "Barbenheimer Pt 2. - The Grande Finale"! You'll hear everything from  "The School of Rock" being the epicentre of movies & music, news on the newly announced "Polly Pocket Movie", and what Enoch's mum's reaction to the infamous Barbie quote, "We mothers stand still so our daughter can look back to see how far they've come" was.  PLUS, Gus shares his interview with author Simon Miraudo about his upcoming release "Book of The Banned: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors and the Scenes that Made Australia Sweat". Not only does this interview detail the ridiculous history of film censorship in Australia but where we are now and how censorship is getting...worse. 

Barbie + Oppenheimer Bruce Koussaba and Jenna Parker declare war on the cultural phenomenon of Barbenheimer. In a spiteful episode of Movies Movies Movies featuring a hateline, a casting call for Bruce's mysterious film project, a capsule review in limerick form, and some Franism (not Drescher but Lebowitz) the two hosts outline why everyone's got it wrong. Then, Bruce asks some insightful questions to Sam Twyford-Moore about his recently published book 'Cast Mates' - it's fantastic!

Rush + You Hurt My Feelings + What Was I Made For? Priya and Enoch come for the twinks and the dolls this week as Billie Eilish and Troye Sivan cross the picket lines. Jane Birkin has died and Priya is yet to find the perfect picture to post to her stories and Barbenheimer inspires a trip down memory lame to look at all the other release date clashes. 

No Hard Feelings + The Stroll, behold Jen and André are hard and have feelings, answering what makes a comedy work (hint: it needs to be funny). And then there’s a Barbie premiere that demands attendance, and André is nowhere to be found because they’re in the bathroom stuck in P town. Also the Tw-hulks chat authentic artificiality, Jacques Demy, Chris Lilley comedy - the two do some shit talking - and land on some beautiful ways to respect a Barbie. Business as usual.

The Idol + And Just Like That Priya interviews SFF short film winner Dave Ma about his award winning romantic short The Dancing Girl and The Balloon Man. But not before Jen recaps the entirety of Movies Movies Movies and cinema from 2018 - 2023. The journeys of Margot, Warwick, Kylie, Sia, Fran Drescher and Nat Randall. Will the actors strike? Is Hollywood over? Was Amy Siemetz robbed or just average? Is the Australian film industry a race to the middle with everyone paid to say no?

“I am really more and more certain that it’s all about energy and flow - how creativity works: that it really is a power”. Filmmaker Jane Campion joins Jen and André for a deeply revealing discussion about her enduring approach to creating the images that so many of us know from her powerful oeuvre. Jane is being honoured at the 70th SFF, which runs until June 18th. The three discuss whether Jane is an experimental filmmaker, the power of flow vs frequency, her pop-up film school in Aotearoa, and surprisingly the genius of George Lucas. Stay tuned for the moment the zoom conversation cuts out. The ultimate cut. This episode was made possible thanks to Emerson Ray Rosenthal, Baby Sam, and Laura Jean. Thank you so much for supporting Movies, Movies, Movies. 

Priya and Enoch discuss the cultural impact of the spiderverse, why watch movies when you can practice psychic remote viewing and are Eric Rohmer films still deeply riveting or Pinterest screen grabs for white women

The Bedheaded Boys bicker 'bout Barbie and beyond

A feature length conversation with Bruce Koussaba and Alena Lodkina. Chatting about her new film Petrol, currently trotting the globe one screening at a time. The two filmmakers chat all things from smoking on set, to Richard Brody, and possibly having ADHD – in a dialogue charting Lodkina's journey with Petrol, from inception to The New Yorker.

This week hooligans Priya and Enoch review Fast X and Petrol. Introduce new film theory: Goosebumps and Shoes Off. Why people leave the cinema early and ponder on why when Johnny Depp smiled like a Cheshire Cat at Cannes what the hell was wrong with his teeth?

Maps To The Stars + The Met gala. Priya and Enoch question whether they need media training. Did cronenberg invent spiritual bimboism and is Opening Night the catalyst for the birth of every inner west sharehouse?

Bruce and Gus cast out their forebears — Jen and André — to bring an all new, chopped and screwed approach to Movies Movies Movies. Bruce lets out a primal scream as impersonation, Gus says movie news is dead, Rihanna is Smurfette, and everyone makes their ode to fresh French cinema. Gus talks Saint Omer and Bruce talks De Humani Corporis Fabrica, which both rocked their socks J’adore!

Nü host Gus McGrath hits the Randwick Ritz to talk with Vera Drew — director, writer, star, and editor of An Untitled and Perfectly-Legal Coming-Of-Age Parody Film (which, c’mon y’all, is really The People’s Joker). We get down to the important nitty-gritty of being legally pursued by Warner Bros, and who you’d fuck/marry/kill out of every Joker.

What’s her name again? Priya Leigh and multiple award winning screenwriter Enoch Mailangi come together to discuss Ari (Yuh!) Aster’s film Beau Is Afraid and add a divine feminine touch to the show. Finally!

The film Lordes are back and melodramatic with the State of Cinema and an announcement: the show is moving into the steadier hands of Bruce, Gus, Enoch and Priya and it's back to weekly editions. Here to rep blunderground cinema, sensory arthouse and bitchy movie gossip are Sydney's best writers and filmmakers who are here to ask: is Cinema buff or buffering?  xxxo

Inspirational cinéaste and permanently dressed-for-Diane-Keaton-dinner Ruby Arroswmith-Todd (film curator for AGNSW) joins Jen on Movies, Movies, Movies to discuss her selection of films in the arthouse section of SFF 2022 aka FLUX: ART + FILM. You still have the chance to see The United States of America by James Benning and Dry Ground Burning by Adirley Queirós + Joana Pimenta: go to work. Ruby and Jen talk rituals for pre/post/during arthouse: maybe it's going to Timezone gaming and/or knowing when to press pause for a scroll and snack. Then a breakdown of capturing America, bullshit Bolsonaro, and did you know Ruby's schtick began with a love for Vaginal Davis? This episode is not about formalism. Ruby doesn't need a script.

Jen is joined by Craig Boreham, Sydney cinema gaybysitter, writer/director, muse and mentor, and SFF 2022 participant whose feature film Lonesome starring Josh Lavery and Daniel Gabriel is playing the State Theatre. The two talk finding Josh on Instagram, and the beautiful challenges of working with small-ass budgets. What ever happened to the 90s? Why don't we see films like in the Greg-old days of Araki and formative Wong Kar-Wai date nights? The two land on bad gays in movies, and how important Hannah H*orvath is for learning. Jen claims they're reading about how 'nobody is making good erotic thrillers anymore' and Craig drops the 'c' word (connection) a few times. Gay pedagogy.  

Movies, Movies, Movies is joined by Ripper Gently, film programmer of Pink Flamingo Cinema Marrickville to talk their co-curation 'Outlaws' which starts June 15th so chop chop chickens. Films/discussion includes Lizzie Borden, Abel Ferrera (s/o Dasha), whether Juliette Binoche in Chocolat is an outlaw, Baz Luhrmann's francophile security at Cannes, that sexy Kathryn Bigelow movie 'Vampire Bikers' and how to pronounce 'Andrezj Wajda'. This episode was recording during reconciliation week on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, the traditional custodians of the land on which we recorded our intro. Movies, Movies, Movies operates on unceded Aboriginal land, including the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Always was, always will be.

Caprisongs + Friends and Strangers + Fantastic Breasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Jen and André get on their knees for the colony reviewing 3 British works. Is everything actually about London? The headline is British sink horror. They talk Harry Potter politics, struggling white filmmakers - struggling with Australianism - and how the UK is dogs. The two also announce their film festival Garden Reflexxx Presents, snag your tickets if you're in Eora (Sydney).

We've turned: Cinema Reborn hooked Jennifer + Andj this year with screenings of Sambizanga (1972) and Return Home (1989), which proves transport is...in. Claire Denis being boring: out. We talk living female cinematographers (Mandy Walker), the downstairs State Theatre bar, Kylie Minogue's track from Holy Motors, Jen's favourite David Stratton rant, and capital P period films in an interview with director Leah Purcell. Leah describes dreaming of trees and finding them irl which is just right: films make dreams come true. Her feature The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is in cinemas. 

The Lost City + Memoria On opposite sides of the Innerwest Jen and André do Movies, Movies, Movies (through FaceTime and studio, featuring diegetic plane sounds). They try to understand David Cronenberg’s new Kristen Stewart film, then there’s discussion about The Lost City, Memoria, Bullock; is-there-such-thing-as-an-experimental blockbuster?; director Nietzchka Keene, the cuteness of pirating films, and why Apichatpong is so easy to watch. Björk is on the red carpet demanding better films: us too.  

Pre-Oscars predictions: all correct. While no one watches the Oscars they actually get messy, and artist Kalanjay Dhir (featured on the lineup for Soft Centre: Arc) talks to us about filmmaking. We get into his recommendations (Voices of a Distant Star), Soft Centre's event, working with his Mum Sri, and what it's like making work for a movie screen. We also discuss 3 Women i.e the hosts of the Academy Awards. 

The Batman + Kimi: welcome back from Covid-19 two Filmlordes once said. Jen and André discuss the niche (hate that word) release of Memoria in Sydney, Zoë Kravitz doing the work, and their Jean Cocteau marathon (it was only one movie) they had during their Covid isolation. Also; who really is the muse? And what is The Batman? (Spoiler: we don't care)

Benedetta + Somebody Somewhere. Behind every JC is a Video Store Owner with cute suggestions. We controversially reveal Academy Award winner Jane Campion's Film Club rental history live on air. Andj reviews Bridgett Everett in Somebody Somewhere and gushes over Charlotte Rampling in Benedetta. The Europa! Film Festival is looming and so is a new Souvenir movie starring André's cousins. Jenny calls in for Valentine's Day and recites Charlotte's advice on grief from And Just Like That.