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. 

Dear listeners: Film Club is closing its doors. We don’t have the tea, but we’re investigating the death of Sydney’s last DVD rental store (outside Jen’s Balinese drawers stacked full of Blu Rays). We discuss the films we bought on our (hopefully-not) last visit - 17 films to be exact. We also discuss Style Wars and The Pleasure of Being Robbed, two rare finds we were able to snatch. Film Club forever…is a lame thing to say because really ‘DVDs forever!’ as we need customers to buy our upcoming art. To Film Club: Love and Trust.

Inland Empire + Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity To belatedly celebrate the release of another exciting book by our heroes at Fireflies press we are reviewing one of our all time favourite films David Lynch and Laura Dern's Inland Empire and Melissa Anderson's monograph about the film. We also spotlight the generous video art curation on offer at AGNSW Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity featuring work by John Akomfrah, Garrett Bradley, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Arthur Jafa, Kahlil Joseph, Isaac Julien, Steve McQueen and Carrie Mae Weems. It's so fun being back in the studio getting corrected on our botched (Łódź) Polish pronunciation by Maia. Do widzenia i dziękuję!

Scream + And Just Like That For our first show of 2022 we analyse Che and Scream, We give away tickets and t-shirts to a polarising film we haven't seen, Jen pretends to know enough about film history and industrial action and suggests an anti-trust hearing to solve Hollywood. Andj is just happy to be back. 

Whichever side of the curtain you’re on we’ve got Red Scare podc-artist Dasha Nekrasova discussing her new feature The Scary of Sixty-First on MMM. She directed it, and plays the lead Jeffrey Epstein conspirator who drags some New Yorkers into a semi-supernatural possession problem - we’re NOT saying Giallo -  and in something of an obsessive poem about high profile baddies.  In the interview we discuss the death of Queen E, making independent films, honoring Stanley Kubrick, on set health, cheeseburgers, and horror as feminist affect. Dasha is actually really sweet and not as scary as we thought she’d be. Please enjoy but also - trigger warning - we discuss some heavy topics so would like to warn listeners before they engage. The Scary of Sixty First hits cinemas nationally from December 16! Giallo.

"Objective: I don't like the word!" André chats with Romanian pravda-vocateur Radu Jude whose film Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn hits Australian cinemas November 25. In this funny and nervous Zoom ramble, the two discuss BLBOLP, which follows a Romanian school teacher whose sex tape is leaked. Radu and André cover male nudity in film, being a teenager at the cinemathèque, queer liberation, the need to work out before a shoot, and Radu's motivation behind filmmaking. Surprisingly, Soda Jerk comes up in the chat.  EDIT/CW: Contrapoints is not 'fully' a PHD student. André also reveals an appreciation for problematic film Blue is The Warmest Colour.

2021 marks the 10th year of Nashen Moodley's Sydney film festival directorship. We catch up with him over zoom to discuss whether we are in/coming out of a Dark Age of cinema, current trends in film festivals, and how SFF is staying relevant. We also spotlight Real by Aki Omoshaybi (which is screening at SFF) and discuss the hard sells of the festival. Listen till the end to hear about André's personal beef with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Is Memoria a lame-stream sell out film? To note: Nashen likes Rashomon (1950), for any critics out there...  

How does a cinematographer think about image making? Are iPhone cameras as good as 16mm film stock? Jen catches up (over zoom) with future Oscar nominated cinematographer Ari Wegner who's shot two films at SFF 2021. They are Zola and The Power of the Dog. The two discuss aesthetic and ‘information’; soulful beauty; the journey towards seeing; watching a director work (in this case Jane Campion); the dance aspect of cinematography; the landscape of faces and more while Tempe based birds sing outside. Also, why do cameras have intimidating names like WEAPON and SPIDER and DRAGON? This means we discuss hyper-masculinity in film. Tickets to Zola and The Power of the Dog can be bought at www.sff.org.  ALSO: The intro features a snippet of The Beguiled instead of a snipper of The Power of the Dog. This is a joke.  

Draw. And then judge later. This week, Jen catches up with SFF 2021 filmmaker Dash Shaw (My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, 2016) who is returning to SFF with Cryptozoo - an animated bonanza featuring cryptids, pop art collages, Fantagraphics splendour, Dungeon & Dragons inspo, and all your favourite New York City voices (ie just Alex Karpovsky from Girls). In the chat over zoom the two discuss Laurie Anderson's metric for completing a film, and the unusual cinema that inspired Shaw. Oh, and André fell asleep in Power of the Dog. The film Cryptozoo is playing SFF 2021; go to www.sff.org.au to buy tickets.

Filmmakers ahoy! On Movies, Movies, Movies Jen catches up with the legendary Clara Law who's showing deux films at Sydney Film Festival. An Australian/Hong Kong Second Wave director (Floating Life, Drifting Petals) Law bares her soul in one of our most honest chats. Over zoom, Jen and her discuss DIYing it, resourcefulness, Andrei Tarkovsky, playing the long game, filmmaking partners, Dostoevsky, commitments to art, Hong Kong, and the allure of images. This is an interview for the filmmakers out there.  Her films Floating Life (1996) and Drifting Petals (2021) are on sale now; go to www.sff.org.au to buy tickets.

Grant Jonathon aka HTMLflowers chats to us about how hard it is to have friends that don't know how to torrent and what to do when you get over explaining: start a pirate stream. Sickovision is the mindbaby of our Art Idol Grant Jonathon, an online biweekly curated movie stream that started as a way to explore disability representation in cinema, the good and the h8watches. 

Annette + NYC Epicenters: 9 11 -> 2021 1/2. How is Francis Ford C independently funding his new 100 million dollar film? What male directed wall puncher is Adam Driver in now? Is Spike Lee a Truther? What's making Arca a Film Lorde this week?  Why won't Screen Australia fund films anymore? We whisper in from the kitchen bench another episode of Movies, Movies... Movies!

All My Friends Are Racist + Pig. All My Friends Are Racist star Davey Thompson joins us to talk about cancellations, apologies and working with Enoch Mailangi (he gushes) then Seattle-based voice of the intro Lily Bennet calls up to rave about Nicolas Cage's new movie Pig. 

White Lotus + Nine Perfect Strangers. Bonus Lockdown Episode: Voice of the Movies Movies Movies intro Lily Bennett called up Jen to talk about Pig and NOT The The White Lotus, but we did anyway. We tie the obvious links between The White Lotus, Survivor and Nine Perfect Strangers, and the not so obvious epiphany that Mike White was the lone wolf in The Stepford Wives who shot at Nicole Kidman because she produced a Love Island game show called 'I Can Do Better'. Oh and spoiler alert. 

Babylon + Four Roads. Finally we have good sound and we aren't wasting it galaxy braining bad, sad, industry films. Babylon (1980) finds the reggae underground through the visor of British kitchen sink realism, but the music keeps the harrowing experiences chill. On the other hand Alice Rohrwacher's lockdown movie is a sparkling gem of Varda-esque corniness about neighbours and the countryside that is transportive and inspiring in all the right ways. 

Zola + Samara Weaving. Andj chats with Samara Weaving about Canberra and we enter another week in lockdown watching Abbas D.L. Kiarostami. Sydney Film Festival remains a mystery to us while Melbourne, always one step ahead, goes entirely online. Butch film icon Jenni Olson wins a Teddy Award, Cannes finishes, Black Widow has come and gone, Michaela Cole joins the MCU and Lynne Ramsay is smothered with work... but mostly we care about Zola, and the relationship between it's editor and writer/director Joi McMillon and Janicza Bravo. 

Lockdown again and we're actually into movies this time around after probably a full twelve months of indifference. What to watch in iso, our thoughts on Gaspar Noe's new short film and Ilana Glazer's Get Out (Of My Uterus).  Also please slide into our dms if there's anything you want to know from the director of the Sydney Film Festival, we are, hopefully, going to grill him as he enters his tenth year in the role. 

The Father + Ecstatic Static, We wonder what The Father is and recommend an incredible online film resource for people who want to skip film school. It's also time to congratulate the team behind In My Blood It Runs and the impact it's seemingly had on the new change in the curriculum to include truth-telling and Indigenous learning and new work from AFTRS grads and teachers: Bloodshot Heart and Brown Lake on youaretheprototype.art